"Two strangers are about to meet. In one hour, one of them will be dead." Ripe with paranoia, the new thriller If There's a Hell Below comes out on Digital HD and DVD today from Dark Sky Films, and we had the chance to catch up with writer/director Nathan Williams to discuss the making of his first feature film, including shooting in seclusion, cinematic influences, and a bean bag chair named Joe.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Nathan. When and how did you originally come up with the story for If There’s a Hell Below?
Nathan Williams: I conceived the film with my brother in the summer of 2013. We had talked for years about a chamber piece thriller set entirely in a single car. We didn't end up precisely there, but we used that impulse and gave ourselves hard restrictions (two vehicles,...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Nathan. When and how did you originally come up with the story for If There’s a Hell Below?
Nathan Williams: I conceived the film with my brother in the summer of 2013. We had talked for years about a chamber piece thriller set entirely in a single car. We didn't end up precisely there, but we used that impulse and gave ourselves hard restrictions (two vehicles,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Abe will do almost anything to break a big story that could propel his journalism career to the next level, but even he's wary of his enigmatic contact's demands in our exclusive clip from If There's a Hell Below, coming out on Digital HD and DVD on December 6th from Dark Sky Films.
Below, we have our exclusive clip and a press release with full details on the film. Check back tomorrow for our Q&A with If There's a Hell Below writer/director Nathan Williams.
Press Release: Deception, lies and secret encounters fuel the gripping paranoid thriller If There's A Hell Below, about a fateful meeting between a journalist and a whistleblower. The powerful debut by director Nathan Williams comes to Digital HD and DVD on December 6, 2016.
Abe is an ambitious young journalist at an independent Chicago weekly. He has a lead on a story that could make his career.
Below, we have our exclusive clip and a press release with full details on the film. Check back tomorrow for our Q&A with If There's a Hell Below writer/director Nathan Williams.
Press Release: Deception, lies and secret encounters fuel the gripping paranoid thriller If There's A Hell Below, about a fateful meeting between a journalist and a whistleblower. The powerful debut by director Nathan Williams comes to Digital HD and DVD on December 6, 2016.
Abe is an ambitious young journalist at an independent Chicago weekly. He has a lead on a story that could make his career.
- 12/5/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Fright Rags travels to a place that is deceptively "so wholesome, so squeaky clean you could only find it on TV" with their new collection of shirts based on the cult ’90s series Eerie, Indiana. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have a look at trailers and release details for Dave Parker's It Watches and Nathan Williams' If There's a Hell Below.
Eerie, Indiana Shirts from Fright Rags: Press Release: "Despite only airing for a single season, Eerie, Indiana made an impact on a generation who grew up in the '90s. Alongside shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps, it served as a gateway into the horror genre for many kids. Journey back to the center of weirdness with Fright-Rags' Eerie, Indiana collection.
Artist Matt Ryan Tobin created three designs: "Eerie, Indiana" features the familiar town sign that greeted viewers at the top of...
Eerie, Indiana Shirts from Fright Rags: Press Release: "Despite only airing for a single season, Eerie, Indiana made an impact on a generation who grew up in the '90s. Alongside shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps, it served as a gateway into the horror genre for many kids. Journey back to the center of weirdness with Fright-Rags' Eerie, Indiana collection.
Artist Matt Ryan Tobin created three designs: "Eerie, Indiana" features the familiar town sign that greeted viewers at the top of...
- 11/9/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Nathan Williams' debut feature steps onto the independent film stage with the calm, steady aim of a confident marksman ready to make the shot. A meticulously crafted tale of government secrets and whistle blowers in a post Edward Snowden world, If There's A Hell Below suffers in one department only, in that its title is a little too broad in its foreboding to truly clue you into the political and existential intrigue that unfolds over the course of this Diy gem.Conner Marx stars as Abe, an upstart journalist at a small Chicago weekly who is contacted by Debra (Carol Roscoe), a supposed national security specialist with some major secrets to spill. They rendezvous in the great eastern plains of Washington state, a golden sun blasted...
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- 1/31/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Looking back at Wavves’ career, I can’t help but feel a little sorry for Nathan Williams. There’s a long list of reasons to hate Wavves beginning with Williams’ well-documented petulance, which may have contributed to Wavves’ revolving door of bandmates—which definitely contributed to a period of inconsistency and false-starts between 2009’s Wavvves and 2010’s King of the Beach. And that’s to say nothing of that famous meltdown at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival in 2009, when then-drummer Ryan Ulsh (now of Virginia’s excellent Super Vacations) dumped a well-deserved beer on Williams’ head and stormed off stage....
- 9/26/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
This week has been insanely busy for Wavves and lead singer Nathan Williams. First, he announced that he would be composing music for MTV's new show "I Just Want My Pants Back", then Wavves performed with Gza on Fuel TV and he even "celebrated Tyler, The Creator's victory at the Vma's with Tyler's mom":http://lockerz.com/s/133908543. Now Wavves can also add to the list a new single and tour.
- 8/29/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Getty Ben Sollee
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, one of the world’s great rock events, kicks off its 10th annual gala on today in Manchester, Tn. By the time it ends in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, some 170 artists will have performed including Arcade Fire, the Black Keys, Buffalo Springfield, Eminem, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lil Wayne, Loretta Lynn, My Morning Jacket, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, and the Strokes. Vevo will stream video of many sets...
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, one of the world’s great rock events, kicks off its 10th annual gala on today in Manchester, Tn. By the time it ends in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, some 170 artists will have performed including Arcade Fire, the Black Keys, Buffalo Springfield, Eminem, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Lil Wayne, Loretta Lynn, My Morning Jacket, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, and the Strokes. Vevo will stream video of many sets...
- 6/8/2011
- by Jim Fusilli
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Thanks to Jay-z and Beyoncé repping for Grizzly Bear and hanging out at Coachella to see some Pitchfork-approved acts, indie rock and hip-hop have been having a very public love affair lately. Sometimes it's a late night hook-up that is walk-of-shame worthy in the morning (paging Weezer and Lil Wayne) and other times it's so seamless you wonder why nobody thought of it before. Kid Cudi rolled out the carpe for Ratatat and Mgmt on his studio debut, Ghostface Killah has admitted to loving Vampire Weekend and the Black Keys chopped it up with everyone from Mos Def to RZA and Raekwon on the Blakroc album.
In the most recent example, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon revealed that he spent a couple days earlier this year in Hawaii with Kanye West, laying down some of his patented hushed, pastoral vocals for 10 songs that might appear on West's upcoming CD. That...
In the most recent example, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon revealed that he spent a couple days earlier this year in Hawaii with Kanye West, laying down some of his patented hushed, pastoral vocals for 10 songs that might appear on West's upcoming CD. That...
- 8/16/2010
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
Though some audiences loved how Wavves’ sun-bleached falsetto vocals and buzzsaw guitar communicated the idea of adolescent ennui and Thc-infused sturm und drang, they seemed less impressed with actual scrapped tours and childish feuding with other bands. King Of The Beach benefits from a timely team-up with Jay Reatard’s former rhythm section and scrubbed-down vocals courtesy of Modest Mouse producer Dennis Herring, who provided just the push into the deep end that Nathan Williams needed to hone his interpersonal skills and sharpen the weather-damaged hooks of his lopsided sophomore effort, Wavvves. Williams’ often tin-eared warbling is toned down in ...
- 8/3/2010
- avclub.com
Nathan Williams is sitting in a bar on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, nursing a summer ale and listening to the bartender talk about snorting Ambien with her roommates. His dark bangs shield his eyes and tattoos cover his arms. When his band mates—the former rhythm section of the late Memphis punk rocker Jay Reatard—arrive, they look exactly as you’d expect: long hair, big smiles, bigger beards. “Every time you open your eyes in New York, you see a weird guy or a beautiful woman,” Williams says. It’s three in the afternoon on a Tuesday.
- 7/13/2010
- Vanity Fair
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