SACRAMENTO, CA Horror Author Michael (Deep In The Darkness) Laimo
and writer/director Greg (This Hollow Sacrament) Stechman have
reached an agreement to bring Laimos short story Anxiety to the
silver screen. Stechman will write and direct the film. Laimo and
Stechmans frequent collaborators Jon Rogers, David Clough, Lacie
Oakley, and Meaghan Sinclair will produce the film under the banner
Burning Grounds Independent Media. Production has begun this week
in Northern California.
“I’ve been a huge fan of Michael’s work,” states Stechman, “and it’s a
honor to be bringing one of his very first stories to the screen.”
Laimo and Stechman have been collaborating since the beginning of
the year, when Stechman adapted three of Laimo’s novels into feature-
length screenplays, all of which are still in active development.
Anxiety concerns the workings of a semi-celebrity psychologist and
his controversial (non-medication) therapy for anxiety disorders.
Instead of nurturing his patients to cure them, he forces them to
face their worst fears. Stechman is no stranger to what scares us
his first feature, the controversial This Hollow Sacrament, has been
picked up for distribution by Unearthed Films, USA and it features
some of the most grueling torture sequences and frights ever put to
film. Critic Nickolas Cook states that Stechmans work drags you
kicking and screaming into the depths of hell and doesnt let you up
for air.
Stechman and Laimo have similar hopes for Anxiety. Stechman adapted
his screenplay from Michaels short story, meticulously studying the
nature of anxiety and the physical mechanisms of our fear.
Casting on the film has just begun. So far set to star in the film
are Matthew Donaldson, who starred in the romantic drama Michael and
Claire, Marcus D. Shelby of Hollow Sacrament, and actress Krystle
Ferrin. The film will be shot in Northern California between
November 2006 and January 2007. Post production on the film will
immediately follow, at which time Stechman and company plan on
releasing the film to all major festivals.
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