Nerdly joins British Gothic Horror ‘The Baby in the Basket’
Yes folks you read that title right…Nerdly has joined British Gothic Horror The Baby in the Basket, which stars Amber Doig-Thorne (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey), teaming with Shepka Productions and Flickering Myth on the production.
Some years back our Managing Editor Phil put together a project called Nerdly Presents. This was with the intention of getting more involved with our industry in a production and distribution capacity. The brand got off to an “interesting” start with Nerdly Presents’ first release, director James Cullen Bressack’s Hate Crime, getting banned by the BBFC! That was swiftly followed up with the VOD release of To Jennifer, another Bressack film, via the now-defunct UK-based TheHorrorShow.TV streaming service.
In short, yes we review and cover Films, TV, Comics, Games and Wrestling at every level, but we want to do more for independent creators. Hence Nerdly Presents. More recently we have been talking back and forth lately about the kind of projects and more importantly, the kind of people we want to be involved with. You will have seen over the years that Nerdly is all about supporting the lower budget and your more up-and-coming directors, actors, production houses and distributors; and we have amassed an extensive network of passionate creatives that just want to do just that… create.
With that in mind we are happy to announce that Nerdly have taken the plunge on a new project from director Nathan Shepka, a Gothic Horror by the name of The Baby in the Basket which, you’ll know if you’ve been reading our coverage, stars the aforementioned Amber Doig-Thorne, Michaela Longden and Paul Barber. Nate is a Scottish filmmaker that we have covered before, in particular his films When Darkness Falls and Holiday Monday (don’t ask Kev about this flick, he won’t shut up). And prolific screenwriter Tom Jolliffe (Firenado, Renegades) is re-teaming with Nate for this one, after the pair worked together on When Darkness Falls, and Tom is no stranger to Nerdly either!
This project seemed like the perfect project for Nerdly to run with and also gives us a chance to connect with a fellow Pop Culture website in Flickering Myth. That’s right, two heavyweight UK-based pop culture websites are jumping on board to help promote and get this movie made, when you get a load of this cast and crew, it’s clear to see why all of this is a natural fit. You can check out our interview with Nate and Tom over on our YouTube channel where we get the full story on the Kickstarter campaign.
Now we are fully aware that times are tough right now but we would be ever so great full if you checked out our Kickstarter campaign for more about what we are up to and a fantastic proof of concept trailer. If it is something that takes your fancy, then please by all means chip in (but ONLY if you can) and get some of our fantastic perks. If you can’t, no drama how about you tell a friend, just share on your socials, you never know you may be connected to someone with money to burn looking to get involved in something cool.
We are mega-excited to be involved with this project and feel like Shepka Productions, Flickering Myth and Nerdly is basically a Justice League level group that have something special up their sleeve… And we want you to be part of it too!
