There’s a promising looking new genre pic on the horizon, and since they sent us a nice press release on the flick it seems like as good a time as any to prop it. The title is SIN-JIN SMYTH and it tells a tale that goes a little something like this:
[S]et against a Halloween legend that warns of a midnight appearance of the Devil in a quiet Kansas cemetery, the story follows two Federal Marshals as they report to the small town of Shin Bone, Kansas (moments after a tornado warning) for the midnight prisoner transfer of a man with no past and no identity. He is known only as…SIN-JIN SMYTH!
The Official Site is very sweet with bios, concept art, storyboards and all sorts of other goodness. The best part is these guys clearly have a sense of humor which always helps when putting together genre work.
The other element that has me excited is the fact that director Ethan Dettenmaier apparently had a chance to sell the script outright, but held onto the rights and produced it independently to keep his vision intact. A little taste of how that went down follows:
The script got quite a bit of heat earlier in the year when it was on the sales block but different Studio and Production Company Executives wanted to make “Hollywood changes” like: casting kids off the Warner Bros. Network or…a feel good ending! One Exec even suggested tacking on an exorcism because “that’s big right now!”
So props to Dettenmaier for resisting the allure of wads o’cash to make the movie he wanted to make. Good luck dude!