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Cemetery Gates is a 2006 American horror film directed by Roy Knyrim and starring Reggie Bannister, Peter Stickles, and Aime Wolf. The film's plot concerns a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil that stalks a cemetery.[2]
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| Cemetery Gates | |
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| Directed by | Roy Knyrim |
| Screenplay by | Brian Patrick O'Toole |
| Story by | Pat Coburn J. Victor Renaud |
| Produced by | David E. Allen |
| Starring | Reggie Bannister Peter Stickles Aime Wolf |
| Cinematography | Steve Adcock |
| Edited by | Christopher Roth |
| Music by | Ben Cooper Marcus Andexler |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $600,000 (est.)[1] |
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After breaking into a laboratory facility in order to free the animals kept there for experiments, two environmental activists unleash a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil from its cage. Fleeing from the facility, the creature begins hunting in a nearby cemetery, killing anyone and anything it comes across.
Over ten years before Cemetery Gates was filmed, screenwriter Brian Patrick O'Toole, received a script for the film from Pat Coburn and J. Victor Renauld.[3] O'Toole, who was working as a literary agent at the time, "loved" the idea of a Tasmanian devil as an antagonist, stating: "My feeling was, 'Why hasn't anybody thought of this before—a mutant Tasmanian devil?' It's the most pissed-off, vicious creature on the planet."[3] O'Toole noted that a close childhood friend of his, Michael Beck, died one day before O'Toole received the script, and said that, "most importantly, this was a movie Michael and I would have loved."[3]
Throughout the next decade, the script for Cemetery Gates went through a number of different drafts and storylines.[3] The final draft of the script was written in four days over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2003.[4] Filming took place over a period of 13 days; shooting locations included the Bronson Caves in Los Angeles, California.[5]
On May 30, 2006, Cemetery Gates was released on DVD by Kismet Entertainment, Graveyard Filmworks, and Ventura.[6][7][8]
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