Pitchfork

This disturbing, intense horror film explores the struggle a mind endures as it seeks to learn the concepts of love. The way these concepts are taught from parents can have profound results and spin sanity into an endless maze. The trauma of this maze is confusion and uncertain at its beginning. Lost before the end, it buries the mind and soul into the coldest, darkest shadows of insanity. The story is held together through the trauma and disturbance of the most insane results when love goes awry.

It begins when a student living in NYC brings his friends home to meet his parents. He has a secret to share with his very conservative parents and recruits the support of his best friends. They quickly learn that sometimes older secrets are more deadly. There is a history between his family and the neighbors. That history started when a boy's last thread to all care from life was snapped. He became captive to his brutal family's twisted views on family, love, and life. Their view is a dark, disturbing, and terrorizing view that causes a voracious detachment.

  • Glenn Douglas Packard
    Director
    Pitchfork
  • Rey Gutierrez, Director of Photography
    Director
    Naughty
  • Darryl F. Gariglio
    Writer
    Pitchfork
  • Glenn Douglas Packard
    Writer
    Move
  • Darryl F. Gariglio
    Producer
    Pitchfork
  • Glenn Douglas Packard
    Producer
    E!-Men of the Strip
  • Noreen Marriott
    Producer
    Pitchfork
  • Daniel Wilkinson as Ben Holister/Pitchfork
    Key Cast
    The Paper Boat (2016)
  • Celina Beach as Lenox
    Key Cast
    Rock of Ages (2012)
  • Brian Raetz as Hunter Killian
    Key Cast
    Life as an Exchange Student (2015)
  • Ryan T. Moore as Matt
    Key Cast
    1313: Night of the Widow (2012)
  • Nicole Dambro as Flo
    Key Cast
    Con (2015-2016)
  • Keith Webb as Rocky
    Key Cast
    MTV & Taco Bell (2016)
  • Sheila Leason as Janelle
    Key Cast
    Pitchfork
  • Rachel Carter as Ma Holister
    Key Cast
    Horizontal Accidents (2011)
  • Andrew Dawe-Collins as Pa Holister
    Key Cast
    Deceitful (2016)
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Horror
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 34 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 3, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    185,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
    Los Angeles, California
    United States
    July 30, 2016
    Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Produced Screenplay Feature
Director Biography - Glenn Douglas Packard, Rey Gutierrez, Director of Photography

This multi-dimensional, Emmy nominated Artistic Director/Choreographer who the New York Times once dubbed a “dancing entrepreneur” is tapping into his creative horror mind and releasing his slasher horror independent film PITCHFORK. After moving over to film with the overseas Bollywood film 'Rhythm' and being featured as one of the who's who in the choreography industry documentary 'Move' (along side Paula Abdul, Kenny Ortega, Debbie Allen, & Adam Shankman) His innovated work makes him an international commanding force in the entertainment industry. Providing a wide spectrum of styles, he has been celebrated in creative direction, casting & choreographing such iconic projects for over 40 stage shows, creating some of the biggest stage and music video performances including 2015 Latin Grammys, Pink, Usher, Liza Minnelli, Ricky Martin, Whitney Houston’s All Star Gala, The GLADD Media Awards, Prince Royce, American Cinema Awards,Timbaland, NFL Halftime Event and Marc Anthony. Glenn receive his Emmy Award Nomination for best choreography working along side the late King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, on his 30th Anniversary Special. Glenn was featured as the breakout performance on all seasons of VH1’s hit show "Brooke Knows Best", along with creating and working with the E! network to star, choreograph and produce the TV event Men of the Strip in 2015. He also is iHorror.com Creative Director since conception, and has built the media outlet to becoming one of the leading sources in the horror genre.

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Director Statement

The character of Pitchfork has been building in my creative imagination for over 8 years. He’s been evolving there and it finally came time to release him. That is what we’ve done in part one of “Pitchfork: Every Generation Has Its Monster.” The series will be a trilogy but has the ability to expand up to numerous chapters. I’ve always loved the horror genre and the belief that I could terrorize an audience has been with me as far as I can remember. I just love that in 90 minutes you can genuinely scare an audience and provoke such great emotion from them.

I didn’t have the funds to make a feature length film, but as luck would have it my work brought me to Las Vegas, where I reconnected with a close childhood friend of mine, Darryl F. Gariglio. I reached out to him because when we were young, we spent our summers making movies on a really heavy VHS camcorder. We’d dream of going to college: he would write screenplays and I would direct and choreograph them. We both knew that our best chances were on the creative/visual side of filmmaking, or the production side. My keys to success are to always follow our passions, understand anything is possible, work hard, and that if we whittle hard enough on our dreams, anything can happen. This film is a culmination of 35 years of hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and most importantly, a dream that I could do it.

Pitchfork is a passion project written for the audience. I believe that passion is the most important part of filmmaking. This is a franchise idea built on the horror genre with the goal of endearing itself to the audience for the next generation. Horror fans are sharp, clever, and almost have an acute sixth sense about fear and terror. I knew how difficult and yet important it is to bring a classic horror character to life. You always want background and history into why this character is who they are and so I’ve done that here. Pitchfork (played with amazing depth and integrity by Daniel Wilkinson) was abused, bullied, molested, and lonely. Hunter Killian, (portrayed by Brian Raetz with smoldering intensity) is grappling with his conservative father’s feelings towards him. The story of Pitchfork is one of relationships between parents and children and the stress love puts on those relationships. To some, it causes confusion and doubt. For others, it creates darkness and insanity.

This is the story of Pitchfork …

- Glenn Douglas Packard