The Bonds of Friendship Are Tested in Trailer for Friends Don’t Let Friends
David Gelmini
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All of us find ourselves wondering from time to time about how well we truly know our family and friends. Sure, they may be people with whom we spend most of our lives and feel like we know inside and out, but do we truly know them?
For all we know, they could be different people entirely. We’ll never be able to enter another person’s mind, so we’ll never truly know what they are.
The new film Friends Don’t Let Friends will explore this by having a group of so-called “friends” discovering that each of them is actually harboring an inner darkness when they come together to try to cover up a crime.
From the Press Release:
As a group of friends come together to cover up a murder, they end up stranded deep in the desert and have to band together to make it out alive. But the further they venture into the darkness, the closer they come to discovering that each one of them is more dangerous than anyone had ever realized. It’s only a matter of time before they understand… Four people can keep a secret, when three of them are dead.
The shooting style of Friends Don’t Let Friends keeps a fast-paced momentum and continually engages the audience in a voyeuristic way.
“We wanted a horror film that had the pacing of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – if that movie had started with her killing her husband and her dinner guests were manipulated into covering up the murder.”
Friends Don’t Let Friends stars Jake White (Syfy’s Children of the Corn, 2009), Brittany Anne Woodford (Special, 2014), Jenny Curtis (Any Bullet Will Do, 2016), Brendan McGowan (Sweet Darling, 2016), and Kanin Guntzelman (NBC’s “Southland,” 2013). Brownwell Entertainment is a husband-and-wife team helmed by Jamie and Lyndee Brown. Lyndee is a reality TV co-executive producer whose career has spanned every style and genre of non-scripted television. Jamie is a writer, director, and cinematographer with a background in commercials, music videos, and documentaries. For the last few years Jamie has worked on the Travel Channel show “The Dead Files.” The combination of their unique points of view has turned Friends Don’t Let Friends into a raw, suspenseful, and psychologically twisted horror film that even in its wildest moments still feels grounded in reality.
John Stevens composed the score for Friends Don’t Let Friends; his unique style and cinematic soundscapes were something that Jamie was drawn to back in 2007 when a friend recommended John’s band, Ghost Machine. The style of music was unlike anything Jamie had heard before, and they have been working together for almost 10 years. Friends Don’t Let Friends is John Stevens and Brownwell Entertainment’s first feature collaboration.
“There are moments in John’s music where the music feels like another character, someone sinister and dangerous that’s watching the scene unfold with the audience. The soundtrack alone is a ride into darkness.” – Jamie Brown (Writer/Director)
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