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Thumper's Revenge

“Screams echo in the meadow and blood will spill when hunters take aim at Bambi from the hill. They can run and they can plead, but Thumper is about to make them bleed.”

  • Sean Haitz
    Director
  • Sean Haitz
    Writer
  • Johnny Hoops
    Key Cast
    "Thumper"
    Babylon,House Of 1000 Corpses
  • Clair Brauer
    Key Cast
    "Bambi"
    AREA 5150
  • Aaron Prager
    Key Cast
    Cannibal Comedian, AREA 5150
  • Sean Haitz
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 29, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED, 5k, Blackmagic 3840 × 2160
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sean Haitz

Sean Haitz was born and raised in Sarasota, FL. He has been passionate about making movies since the age of ten when he picked up his first video camera. His first film with a production team was a twenty-minute short called Swamp Zombie. He rallied up friends and family to help be the actors and crew members. He was thirteen at the time. Growing up he's always been obsessed with Halloween. At age ten, Sean and friends put together their own haunted house. He dressed as Freddy Krueger used warm liquid latex on his face to make it more realistic. I got such a thrill from jumping out of the dark and scaring people. His first film to gain notoriety was Mangrove Slasher 2, a forty-seven-minute horror/shlock comedy. The budget was $600 and a bucket of blood. It sold out all three showings in the Sarasota Film Festival and received a cult following from tons of horror news coverage. His first feature film Big Top Evil had a thirty-thousand-dollar budget and was picked up by Gravitas Ventures Studios with a worldwide release late summer 2019. (Now available on demand and Blu-Ray.) In the film we have a cameo from horror icon Bill Moseley. Sean is also an established singer, musician songwriter with a SCI-FI surf punk band Cosmic Jetties playing venues, themed conventions all around L.A. Look out for Sean's new film Cannibal Comedian late 2020.

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Director Statement

“I was totally inspired by WINNIE-THE-POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY,” Haitz says, though he came up with a more plausible concept for his project. “I thought of an alternative route with the Disney characters: Let’s laser focus on Thumper, which I felt was a fun name for a title. I also thought, let’s have Bambi and Thumper as humans who are Disney freaks who cosplay in the forest dressing up like the characters. It was really fun to shoot, and I hope people get a kick out of it!”