ALTER Release Intense Religious Horror Short THE DAUGHTERS OF VIRTUE on YouTube

ALTER is a genre channel on YouTube that aims to deliver two short horror movies a week from the “most provocative minds in horror”. There recent exclusive, The Daughters of Virtue is an intense religious chiller that writer/director Michael Escobedo says focuses “on a demographic rarely explored within the horror genre: the rural, midwestern housewife.”

You can watch the film in its entirety at the top of the article. Read the films synopsis and director’s statement below.

Synopsis:
Set in the 1980’s Alice, a lonely housewife and mother, hosts a local women’s prayer group. What begins as a routine meeting soon morphs into a fanatical intervention when the group confronts Alice over a dark secret she is hiding. When Betty, the group’s zealous leader, receives a vision from God that Alice is more than what she seems, the women become convinced a malevolent force is corrupting Alice and set out to rid her soul of evil.

The Daughters of Virtue stars Melanie Cruz, Maria Olsen, and Sylvia Panacione.

Director’s Statement:
As an American who grew up overseas, I experienced American culture from afar. Being raised in a Mexican/Vietnamese household and with my upbringing of exposure to various foreign cultures, I have always been drawn to tell stories of people and settings that are not of my own experience.

With this mindset, I wrote ‘The Daughters of Virtue’ because I wanted to focus on a demographic rarely explored within the horror genre: the rural, midwestern housewife. The seed of this story was planted with a feature script I wrote in the fall of 2009 and it has been an arduous process of refinement and shifting concepts to become what it is today: the story of woman who’s come to understand the sacrifices she’s made to live the life she has. A compromise we all make.

I would like to extend my gratitude to the cast and crew who worked so hard to make this film a reality. I am proud of the wonderfully diverse cast and crew we assembled to make this female driven horror film, a term we embrace. Every day working on this film was a pleasure and I hope that it shows on screen.

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