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LOGLINE

A decade ago, a Hollywood Hills home was found burnt to the ground with the owner nowhere to be found. After all the leads became cold, the house was rebuilt and sold to a couple who encounters strange happenings around the property. After a hardened homicide detective gets involved, the story takes on an even more dangerous twist.

SYNOPSIS

Kyle and Sarah are starting a life together in a renovated house in Hollywood Hills, on the same property where the original house burned-down a decade earlier with its owner vanished. Despite certain rumors about the property, the couple decides to acquire the home of their dreams.

But they quickly encounter bizarre occurrences around the house. And when one of their friends disappears and the forensics expert assigned to the case is found murdered, they realize they’re being targeted in a twisted cat-and-mouse game.

Enter Detective Brills, a hard-boiled homicide detective who’s been trying to solve the riddle of the house ever since the fire. He’s more than determined to help the couple to find out what’s really going around the estate. But he too cannot stop the murderous rampage that begins to claim the couple’s friends and associates, one by one.

After finding human remains in the crawl space, Kyle and Sarah slowly learn about the unspeakable events that took place and realize the culprit is closer to them than they can ever imagine.

HISTORY OF THE FILM

Chris Tasara based his first feature length film on several unusual events that occurred in his Hollywood Hills home. He describes the events as follows:

“When they were excavating my backyard, they found bones and we had to call the police in. A forensics team was brought in and they determined the bones to be animal, but we weren’t so sure. A knee bone was found and the rest of the remains were cut into bizarre shaped pieces. Whatever they were, my feeling was they were so old that tracing them was going next to impossible, which is why the police probably let it go. I took that incident and ran with it, except I had the human remains found in the crawl space.

The second incident involved an apparition in the window. I don’t really believe in that sort of thing, but my workers were staying here and took a picture of what looked like an angry old man staring into the window here one night. They actually showed me the picture and it was spooky!

The third incident (and the only one that happened after I moved in) was the electric saw turning itself on one night. Other than that, I’ve had mostly good luck since I moved into this place.”

CHRIS TASARA (WRITER/DIRECTOR) BIOGRAPHY

Chris Tasara is a diverse up-and-coming director who has already helmed a feature-length award-winning supernatural crime thriller, a boxing documentary, and a music video. His first feature film “Deadline” (www.deadline-themovie.com) is currently being readied for worldwide distribution including video on demand and 3-D Blu-ray release in the spring of 2013 in the U.S. through Interactor Media.

Chris’ first feature film “Deadline” netted him 13 awards from the California Film Awards, the L.A. Movie Awards, the Lucerne International Film Festival, and the L.A. Cinema Fest of Hollywood among others. The film was an official selection in the 2012 Fright Night Film Fest and the 2012 Indie Horror Film Fest, where it was nominated for Best Director, Best Feature, Best Leading Actress, and Best Cinematography.

Chris’ work previous includes music video work for Atlantic Records and "Fortitude and Glory," a boxing documentary on the late, great trainer Angelo Dundee, featuring interviews with two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman and Manny Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach (www.fortitudeandglory.com). Fortitude won the Gold Remi Award for Best Sports Documentary from Houston Worldfest.

Chris holds a Master’s degree in film from the University of Miami. Before getting his start in directing, Chris did runway work for Nike, talent work for Pepsi and Heineken, and print work for Men’s Exercise and various other fitness catalogs. Chris currently resides in Southern California.

Chris’ directing reel can be viewed at www.tasaradirecting.com.