Freshwater (film)

Freshwater
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrandeis Berry
Screenplay byBrandeis Berry
Story byBrandeis Berry
Produced by
  • Faisal Al-Saja
  • Thomas Beach
  • Omar Abunayyan
  • Christopher Biewer
Starring
CinematographyTravis Hoffman
Edited byKaren Broderick
Music byDeanna Lasker
Production
company
Granfalloon Productions
Distributed byMultiVisionnaire
Release date
  • February 26, 2016 (2016-02-26)
Running time
83 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Freshwater is a 2016 American thriller film written and directed by Brandeis Berry, starring Zoë Bell, Joe Lando, Amy Paffrath, and Alison Haislip. Dread Central likened the film's premise to the 2011 horror film Shark Night.[2]

Plot

Set in Louisiana,[2] the film centers around a group of young adults that are faced with a scary reality as they realize they are being hunted around their lake house by a giant alligator while a local reptile consultant teams up with the local law enforcement to find out what might be happening.[3]

Cast

  • Zoë Bell as Brenda Gray
  • Joe Lando as Sheriff Jones
  • Amy Paffrath as Kim Whitley
  • Alison Haislip as Claudia Mosley
  • Tom O'Connell as Agent Sam Colton
  • John Bobek as Matt Hanton
  • Christopher Biewer as Deputy Clyde
  • Derrick Redford as Jason Hightower
  • Donnabella Mortel as Jamie Castell
  • Michael St. Michaels as Bob
  • Faisal Al-Saja as Travis Beecher
  • Marti Hale as Mary
  • John V. Ward as John Castleberry
  • Kevin Wayne as Trooper Ford
  • Brian Waters as Agent Ray

Release

The film was released on DVD in the US on February 14, 2017. It was released in the UK on DVD on June 6, 2016.[4]

Novelization

A novelization of the film was released in July 2021 by novelist Julian Michael Carver.[5] In 2022, the novelization was nominated for the Scribe Award by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers for "Best Adapted Novel", alongside the novelizations of Alien 3 and Halloween Kills.[6]

References

  1. ^ "FRESHWATER". IMDb. Retrieved August 22, 2016. [better source needed]
  2. ^ a b unclecreepy (September 10, 2014). "Zoe Bell Becomes Gator Bait in Freshwater". Dread Central. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  3. ^ "Movie Review: Freshwater – The Poor Man's Lake Placid". Literary Homicide with TropicalMary. August 4, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  4. ^ "FRESHWATER (2016) Reviews and overview". MOVIES and MANIA. November 19, 2016.
  5. ^ Carver, Julian Michael (July 20, 2021). "Freshwater: The Adapted Movie Novelization". Severed Press – via Amazon.
  6. ^ "2022 Scribe Award Nominees". Locus Magazine. June 20, 2022. Retrieved September 12, 2022.


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