Wolf's Museum of Mystery

Wolf's Museum of Mystery is a story about two people who run a Museum in St. Augustine Florida; their many quirky patrons and a house ghost named Mary. Like any good paranormal film, it encompasses unexplained phenomena and includes several grisly murders. However, it is also a story about its two occupants - Wolf and his wife "Lilly" and their struggles to maintain a normal relationship trying to live inside such an environment.

The film is designed to showcase the popular world of oddities and fear of haunted possessions yet simultaneously entertain through a humorous & frightening story (aka Dark Comedy) and almost all told within the walls of a place that actually exists and can be visited by fans after the film's release to see and handle props used in the film.

  • Keagan Anfuso
    Director
  • Wolfgang Von Mertz
    Writer
  • Trina Mason
    Executive Producer
  • Ali Mertz
    Producer
  • Adam W. Hill
    Production Manager
  • Drew Brown
    Art Director
  • Zane Hall
    Director of Photography
  • Drew Brown
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, horror-comedy, comedy
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 USD
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Panasonic GH4
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Spooky Empire
    Orlando, Florida
    United States
    December 2, 2016
    Florida Spotlight Film
Director Biography - Keagan Anfuso

A prior student of the Art Institute of Jacksonville, Keagan Anfuso is an award winning queer female filmmaker based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Her music video work, primarily focused on the emerging indie-queer musician scene, has been featured in several online publications including Homoground, Rookie Magazine and NOISEY.

In 2016, her first directed horror-short, Wolf’s Museum of Mystery, was given the Florida Spotlight Award at Orlando’s Spooky Empire Film Festival.

In 2015, her documentary short-film pitch for, The Grey Area, received the Art Juror’s Award for start up funding and was also awarded Jacksonville’s most anticipated film project by VOID magazine. Currently in production, Anfuso is co-directing and the main subject of the film, which focuses on the perspective of a masculine female battling society’s oppressive expectations placed on women.

MetroJacksonville.com recently described Anfuso as, “ a visionary film and video director doing stark explorations of alternative and emerging queer culture.”

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Director Statement

It was the aspiring documentary filmmaker in me that drew me to Wolf's Museum of Mystery in the beginning. Once I was introduced to the museum I immediately wanted to work with them to tell the story of the items, the place and the family behind it. Wolf began communicating with me creatively and we formed a very genuine friendship that caused him to put his trust in me with his dream of a narrative short film he had written and wanted produced. He promised me an experience I would never forget with characters I would also never forget and he delivered.

It was a project well out of my comfort zone and it was an obstacle course of a production. We shot twenty-five scenes in five days on a micro-budget with a cast that mostly had never been on camera before. We assembled an all local crew that relentlessly gave this project every creative molecule in their body.

My goal was to create a film with a personality as odd and charming as the museum itself and I'm very proud to say I think we achieved that.