Serial killer mystery SURVEILLED has been selected for Australia’s premier Smartphone Film Festival.
RAYA FILMS are thrilled to announce that their smartphone-shot thriller, SURVEILLED, has been selected as Feature Film Finalist at the SF3 Flickfest in Sydney, Australia.
Shot just before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, SURVEILLED is a creepy horror/mystery that embraces the surge in demand for ‘smart horror’ films: less gore with more humour and story originality mixed with fascinatingly complex characters.
“There’s already a great deal of interest in SURVEILLED due to its unique premise,” explains producer and screenwriter, Caroline Spence. “The screenplay has echoes of David Fincher’s Zodiac, which just is one of the real-life serial killers and events that inspired the story.”
Logline: Inspired by popular crime novels depicting a violent serial killer, a copycat murderer emerges to terrorize the town of Clairmont.
Synopsis: Joe Brooke has dark interests. As well as working under the radar for low-level criminals as a surveillance operative, he also has a fascination with serial killers - his bookshelf is filled with biographies on the most notorious murderers of modern times.
Ironically, however, Joe’s hometown of Clairmont is the home of the country’s latest serial killer. Three local women have been brutally murdered by an attacker dubbed The Clairmont Murderer, a copycat killer who re-enacts the sickening murders depicted in a series of violent crime novels, the fanatical popularity of which is sweeping through the country.
Having recently watched a TV crime show highlighting the case, Joe finds himself embroiled in the world of The Clairmont Murderer when he witnesses some disturbing behaviour in the course of his work.
SURVEILLED is a compelling blend of psychological horror and visceral thriller that will draw you into the world of an unempathic serial killer and a volatile nemesis. A sophisticated and disturbing character study with cutting narrative…
