Projects
InbetweeningFormat: Dark Comedic Feature, shot in March 2022. Currently in post production.
Director: Mel House Writer: Mel House Producers: Mel House, Chris Warren, Brittany Miles Stars: Brandon Cole, Angelo Moore, Debbie Rochon, Tye Blue, Chelsea McCurdy, Jill Brumer Synopsis: Inbetweening is a semi autobiographical feature length darkly comedic film that revolves around my last two decades operating as a multiracial filmmaker. We completed principal photography in the Spring of 2022. The film includes other mixed media approaches, such as animation, puppetry, and musical theatre. Co-starring Angelo Moore of Fishbone!!! It's gonna be a wild ride. Status: World Premiere Sept 2024 at Amazing Fantasy Fest. Award winner there, currently on the festival circuit 2024-2025 Web: Official Site Facebook (Official Site coming soon) |
Mystery Spot
Format: Horror/Suspense/Thriller Feature, shot in September 2019. Premiered August 2021. Worldwide Release October 2022.
Director: Mel House
Writer: Mel House
Producers: Caroline Metz, Audrey Wasilewski, Lyle Kanouse, Mel House, Chris Warren, Brittany Miles
Stars: Graham Skipper, Lisa Wilcox, Debbie Rochon, Bobby Simpson II, Rachael Logue, Jill Brumer
Synopsis: A number of lost souls find refuge in a small motel in the middle of nowhere, its only distinguishing characteristic being the ruins of an old Mystery Spot—a long-dead roadside attraction with strange metaphysical powers. Nathan [Skipper] and Rachel [Wilcox] find solace in one another, both attempting to escape dark pasts that seem to be using the Mystery Spot to go from being painful shadows of their lives to very real entities of the present. Everyone at the Mystery Spot will be affected by its unique properties, but only some will survive its reality-shattering implications.
Status: Premiered at Arrow Video FrightFest, London UK, August 2021. Released worldwide via Terror Films on October 7, 2022.
Web: Official Site Facebook
Director: Mel House
Writer: Mel House
Producers: Caroline Metz, Audrey Wasilewski, Lyle Kanouse, Mel House, Chris Warren, Brittany Miles
Stars: Graham Skipper, Lisa Wilcox, Debbie Rochon, Bobby Simpson II, Rachael Logue, Jill Brumer
Synopsis: A number of lost souls find refuge in a small motel in the middle of nowhere, its only distinguishing characteristic being the ruins of an old Mystery Spot—a long-dead roadside attraction with strange metaphysical powers. Nathan [Skipper] and Rachel [Wilcox] find solace in one another, both attempting to escape dark pasts that seem to be using the Mystery Spot to go from being painful shadows of their lives to very real entities of the present. Everyone at the Mystery Spot will be affected by its unique properties, but only some will survive its reality-shattering implications.
Status: Premiered at Arrow Video FrightFest, London UK, August 2021. Released worldwide via Terror Films on October 7, 2022.
Web: Official Site Facebook
Dark Ritual (formerly In The Blood ((formerly Imago))
Format: 92 minute feature film, shot in Texas in 2009. Reedited and repackaged - completed in late 2019. Screening in 2020, releasing in 2021.
Director: Chris Warren
Writer: Mel House & Chris Warren
Producers: Mel House, Melanie Donihoo, Tim Wrobel, Brittany Miles, Amy LaFavers, Jonah Matranga, Ted Geoghegan, Lynn Michaels
Stars: Natali Jones, Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Debbie Rochon (American Nightmare), Omar Adam, Sean Brison, Danielle Jones, Brandan Kankel, Sadie Brook, Mason Aiken, and Melanie Donihoo.
Synopsis: Imago follows Jennifer, a young woman with a dark past, as she goes on a search for her missing brother. Jennifer soon discovers that her brother's disappearance was anything but planned...and related to something not of this world.
Status: Releasing Fall 2021 from Summer Hill Films
Web: Official Site Facebook
Director: Chris Warren
Writer: Mel House & Chris Warren
Producers: Mel House, Melanie Donihoo, Tim Wrobel, Brittany Miles, Amy LaFavers, Jonah Matranga, Ted Geoghegan, Lynn Michaels
Stars: Natali Jones, Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5), Debbie Rochon (American Nightmare), Omar Adam, Sean Brison, Danielle Jones, Brandan Kankel, Sadie Brook, Mason Aiken, and Melanie Donihoo.
Synopsis: Imago follows Jennifer, a young woman with a dark past, as she goes on a search for her missing brother. Jennifer soon discovers that her brother's disappearance was anything but planned...and related to something not of this world.
Status: Releasing Fall 2021 from Summer Hill Films
Web: Official Site Facebook
Clinger
Format: Comedy Horror Feature Film
Director: Michael Steves
Writer: Michael Steves, Gabi Chennisi, Bubba Fish
Producers: Bubba Fish, Mel House
Stars: Vincent Martella, Jennifer Laporte, Debbie Rochon, Lisa Wilcox, Jeffrey Bean, Julia Aks, Alicia Monet
Synopsis: Fern Petersen, a driven high school senior, has her life turned upside down when her overly affectionate boyfriend, Robert Klingher, dies in an embarrassing accident. When Robert returns from the dead as a love-sick ghost, he tries to reunite with Fern - only to have his heart broken. As Robert plots to kill Fern so they can be together forever, Fern will have to fight to stay in the world of the living. Clinger is a blood-soaked coming of age story about the horrors of first love.
Status: World Premiere at Slamdance 2015! Theatrical/VOD Oct 23rd, 2015!
Web: Official Site Facebook
Director: Michael Steves
Writer: Michael Steves, Gabi Chennisi, Bubba Fish
Producers: Bubba Fish, Mel House
Stars: Vincent Martella, Jennifer Laporte, Debbie Rochon, Lisa Wilcox, Jeffrey Bean, Julia Aks, Alicia Monet
Synopsis: Fern Petersen, a driven high school senior, has her life turned upside down when her overly affectionate boyfriend, Robert Klingher, dies in an embarrassing accident. When Robert returns from the dead as a love-sick ghost, he tries to reunite with Fern - only to have his heart broken. As Robert plots to kill Fern so they can be together forever, Fern will have to fight to stay in the world of the living. Clinger is a blood-soaked coming of age story about the horrors of first love.
Status: World Premiere at Slamdance 2015! Theatrical/VOD Oct 23rd, 2015!
Web: Official Site Facebook
Walking Distance (a/k/a Psychic Experiment)
Format: 119 minute (Director's Cut), 94 minute (Psychic Experiment version) feature film, shot in Texas in 2008
Director: Mel House
Writer: Mel House
Producers: Mel House, James LaMarr
Stars: Denton Blane Everett, Glenn Morshower (24, Transformers 1-3), Kathy Lamkin (TCM Remake, Staunton Hill), Katie Featherston (Paranormal Activity), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th 1 & 2), Reggie Bannister (Phantasm series), Debbie Rochon (Fangoria Radio, Terror Firmer) Brad Maule (General Hospital)
Synopsis: An idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
Status: Red-Carpet Premiered at 2010 Dallas International Film Festival. Private screening in Houston Spring 2010. Screenings in Fall 2010 - Hallowscreen (Sarasota, FL), South Africa Horrorfest (Cape Town, ZA - WD won "Best Special Effects"), Blood Bath 2 (Dallas), Vermont Int'l Film Festival (Burlington). Retitled Psychic Experiment, to be distributed by Lionsgate. Street date: 12/6/2011 (USA/CA), 01/2012 (UK), Late 2012 Saudi Arabia, Japan, & Thailand, more territories in 2013! Currently airing on FearNET in regular rotation and via VOD. Check your local listings or the FearNET site here!
Web: Official Site Facebook
Director: Mel House
Writer: Mel House
Producers: Mel House, James LaMarr
Stars: Denton Blane Everett, Glenn Morshower (24, Transformers 1-3), Kathy Lamkin (TCM Remake, Staunton Hill), Katie Featherston (Paranormal Activity), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th 1 & 2), Reggie Bannister (Phantasm series), Debbie Rochon (Fangoria Radio, Terror Firmer) Brad Maule (General Hospital)
Synopsis: An idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But...the pastoral exterior conceals a dark past and an even darker secret. As a group of individuals-each with their own ties and agendas with the town and each other-converges on the enclave, strange things begin to happen. Very strange things. Strange enough to test- and then break-the very fabric of reality itself.
Status: Red-Carpet Premiered at 2010 Dallas International Film Festival. Private screening in Houston Spring 2010. Screenings in Fall 2010 - Hallowscreen (Sarasota, FL), South Africa Horrorfest (Cape Town, ZA - WD won "Best Special Effects"), Blood Bath 2 (Dallas), Vermont Int'l Film Festival (Burlington). Retitled Psychic Experiment, to be distributed by Lionsgate. Street date: 12/6/2011 (USA/CA), 01/2012 (UK), Late 2012 Saudi Arabia, Japan, & Thailand, more territories in 2013! Currently airing on FearNET in regular rotation and via VOD. Check your local listings or the FearNET site here!
Web: Official Site Facebook
Placeholders
Format: Short-form new media comedy series, shooting in Houston TX, Fall 2011.
Directors: Mel House, Robert Luke, Chris Warren, Carlos Tovar, Jerry Ochoa, James LaMarr, Cliff Holverson, and Brittany Miles.
Writers: Mel House, Robert Luke, Brittany Miles
Producers: Mel House, Melanie Donihoo, Brittany Djie, Nick Mills, Tim Wrobel, Brandon Scott Peters, William Basinger, and Chris Warren.
Stars: Nicholas Mills, Melanie Donihoo, Bobby Simpson II, Rev. Bart Stewart, Holland Vavra Peters, Brandon Scott Peters, Bobby Haworth, Tommy Bo, Jordan Coleman, Shawna Rencher, and more.
Synopsis: Public access. Or is that "excess"? "Placeholders" focuses on the producers providing content to Channel 19, the (fictional) local public access station.
Status: Season 1 debuted on Comedy Central's Atom.com website in 2011/2012. Season 2 to go into production early 2013. Nationwide syndication begins Summer 2015
Web: Official Site Facebook
Directors: Mel House, Robert Luke, Chris Warren, Carlos Tovar, Jerry Ochoa, James LaMarr, Cliff Holverson, and Brittany Miles.
Writers: Mel House, Robert Luke, Brittany Miles
Producers: Mel House, Melanie Donihoo, Brittany Djie, Nick Mills, Tim Wrobel, Brandon Scott Peters, William Basinger, and Chris Warren.
Stars: Nicholas Mills, Melanie Donihoo, Bobby Simpson II, Rev. Bart Stewart, Holland Vavra Peters, Brandon Scott Peters, Bobby Haworth, Tommy Bo, Jordan Coleman, Shawna Rencher, and more.
Synopsis: Public access. Or is that "excess"? "Placeholders" focuses on the producers providing content to Channel 19, the (fictional) local public access station.
Status: Season 1 debuted on Comedy Central's Atom.com website in 2011/2012. Season 2 to go into production early 2013. Nationwide syndication begins Summer 2015
Web: Official Site Facebook
Closet Space
Format: 98 minute feature film, shot in Texas in 2007
Director: Mel House
Writer: Jason Stewart
Producers: Mel House, Chelsea Viles, Carlyn Burton, Bree Perrin, Domingo Baragan III
Stars: Melanie Donihoo, James LaMarr, Jovan Jackson, Peyton Wetzel, Evan Scott, Morgan McCarthy
Synopsis: A college professor has gone inexplicably missing, and as six graduate students set out to uncover what strange fate has befallen their mentor, they discover a secret so foul and unnatural that it threatens to alter the very fabric of humankind. As the thin layers of reality are slowly peeled back to reveal an incomprehensible horror, the determined group pushes on in an attempt to solve an ancient mystery which seems to defy the very laws of nature and physics. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Status: Several festival screenings (RIOFAN, BUTFF, Week of Terror, Weekend of Horrors). Released on DVD in Germany as Between Two Worlds in 2008. Released on DVD in Japan as Alien Gate in 2012. Released domestically under original title on September 14, 2010 via R-Squared Films. Limited theatrical screenings throughout 2010. Television airings scheduled through 2013. Re-released as part of the R-Squared Films "Extreme Monsters 8 DVD Pack" on Sept. 11, 2012.
Web: Official Site Facebook
Director: Mel House
Writer: Jason Stewart
Producers: Mel House, Chelsea Viles, Carlyn Burton, Bree Perrin, Domingo Baragan III
Stars: Melanie Donihoo, James LaMarr, Jovan Jackson, Peyton Wetzel, Evan Scott, Morgan McCarthy
Synopsis: A college professor has gone inexplicably missing, and as six graduate students set out to uncover what strange fate has befallen their mentor, they discover a secret so foul and unnatural that it threatens to alter the very fabric of humankind. As the thin layers of reality are slowly peeled back to reveal an incomprehensible horror, the determined group pushes on in an attempt to solve an ancient mystery which seems to defy the very laws of nature and physics. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Status: Several festival screenings (RIOFAN, BUTFF, Week of Terror, Weekend of Horrors). Released on DVD in Germany as Between Two Worlds in 2008. Released on DVD in Japan as Alien Gate in 2012. Released domestically under original title on September 14, 2010 via R-Squared Films. Limited theatrical screenings throughout 2010. Television airings scheduled through 2013. Re-released as part of the R-Squared Films "Extreme Monsters 8 DVD Pack" on Sept. 11, 2012.
Web: Official Site Facebook