On October 24th 2020, we premiered Ravenstein here in the UK, and not long after, the film spread its wings across the Atlantic with a direct-to-DVD release in the United States. For us at Rusalka Pictures, this was a particularly fun one — a chance to revisit the monster movies we all grew up adoring and bring that spirit into the modern day.
James McClusky — who many will know from The Bastard Sword — plays David, joined by Nik Kaneti-Dimmer (The Granary) as Marky. They’re two best friends out exploring an abandoned glass warehouse, full of forgotten machinery. What they don’t expect is what’s waiting for them inside… because that factory just happens to be the nesting ground of a KILLER BIRDMAN. And once the creature takes notice, the story begins.
Now, the fun of Ravenstein is in how it embraces the creature-feature tradition.
We took inspiration from the classic monster films of the 1940s and 1950s, Our goal was to create something that felt like it belonged to that era, but set in modern day. While still telling an original story with an original monster that audiences hadn’t seen before.
The film was written by Eveshka Ghost and Tom Walters, and produced by Walters and myself. It became the third production under the Rusalka Pictures banner, and along the way it picked up two festival wins and two award nominations.
Looking back, Ravenstein remains one of those projects that captures the joy of filmmaking and is possibly the film I watch the most.
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