Amwell Township barn is setting for horror film
Actor Andrew Zibritosky portrays a scary grandfather in a scene shot in an Amwell Township barn for a short horror film being created by fantasy artist Dorian Cleavenger.
A poster advertises the new short horror film “The Devil’s Halo,” being produced by fantasy artist Dorian Cleavenger. Portions of the movie were filmed in Amwell Township.
Dorian Cleavenger, upper right, an art instructor at Douglas Education Center in Monessen, directs a scene for a short horror film he shot in a barn in Amwell Township.
A man gazes into the sun through a window in his dusty, eclectic apartment as his grandson enters the room to sheepishly say he found the rainbow’s end. The man turns to his grandson, shocked to hear the boy’s announcement.
“I told you to stay away from that bloody thing. It’s evil. It’s cursed,” Burgettstown actor Andrew Zibritosky said, portraying the old man in a scene for “The Devil’s Halo,” portions of which were shot Oct. 11 in a barn in Amwell Township.
Audiences are going to need to find out what the scene represents in the theater, as filmmaker Dorian Cleavenger isn’t revealing many details of the horror film, which is part of a series of shorts he’s directing.
The series, “The Forbidden Fables,” takes viewers “on psychologically twisted journeys of the macabre and bizarre,” said Cleavenger, lead instructor of the illustration and fantasy art programs at Douglas Education Center in Monessen.
He also was commissioned by George Lucas to create artwork for the book “Visions,” and he has painted dozens of comic book covers.
Cleavenger said he selected Karen Jardine’s farm on Vankirk Ridge Road to shoot “The Devil’s Halo” “due to the rolling hills and isolated feel, which are key to the story.” Digital background augmentation will be added to complete the mood, he said.
Jardine, a co-owner of JK Musicians Workshop in Washington, said she served as set designer for the shoot, and that her barn added to the mood of the film, partly because its electrical lines are underground.
The movie is set in 1970 Ireland, and it reveals the “tragically true meaning of the rainbow’s end,” Cleavenger said.
The independent shorts are being produced by DorianArt Productions in affiliation with Douglas Education Center. The release date has yet to be announced.