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Murder Song

A soldier shattered by poverty and gripped by a hallucinatory madness murders the only person in the world he loves.

  • Dan Horrigan
    Director
    Devotion, Skinjacker, Hudi, Read to Me, Seine, Never your Hand in Mine
  • Georg Buchner
    Writer
    Woyzeck, Lens, Leonce and Lena
  • Dan Horrigan
    Writer
    Devotion, Populace, Skinjacker, Hudi, The Separation, Read to Me, Seine, Never your Hand in Mine
  • Covert Firmament
    Producer
    The Separation, Read to Me, Seine, Never your Hand in Mine
  • Nicholas Anscombe
    Key Cast
    "Franz Woyzeck"
    Merv Pumpkin Head (Body) - The Sandman S1 & S2 Netflix/Warner Bros. TV The Creature - Requiem - BBC/Netflix/New Pictures William Harrington - 1 in 200 - First Take Productions Client 2 - Memory Man - Encounter Films Doctor Clarke - The Jack in the Box: Awakening - Fowler Media
  • Nathalia Campbell-Smith
    Key Cast
    "Marie"
    The Separation, Read to Me, Never your Hand in Mine
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, Drama, Thriller, Experimental
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Dan Horrigan

Dan Horrigan is a writer-director with screenings at over 100 festivals worldwide. Murder Song is his return to the horror genre, adapting an avant-garde experimental aesthetic inspired by the play that influenced Mernau's Nosferatu. The sense of paranoia and creeping dread of the original source material is as potent as ever. And it proves poverty catalyses tragedy.

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Director Statement

Murder Song is a corruscating line of flight along a psychosis wrapped in a horror skin with an avant-garde blood stream. Adapted from Buchner's seminal play Woyzeck, it is an auditory and oracular barrage held fast by the visceral performances of Nick and Nathalia.