A Chronicle of Corpses

A Chronicle of Corpses belongs to the small but significant tradition of outsider art in American movies—films like Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls or George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead—that reflect powerful personalities formed outside any academic or professional tradition. That most of these are horror films is no coincidence; they are the films that haunt American cinema, pointing to paths that were never taken, to doors that remain firmly closed.

Dave Kehr
The New York Times

What’s most impressive about McElhinney’s highbrow period film is its ability to satisfy snobbish cultural aesthetes while simultaneously fulfilling slasher film conventions… It’s the art film from hell.

Jeremiah Kipp
Filmcritic.com

A Chronicle of Corpses is easily the most peculiar American indie to play New York theaters this year … [it’s] alternately flamboyant and minimal.

Dennis Lim
The Village Voice

A Bresson-meets-Bergman-meets-Wes Craven suspenser

Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer

McElhinney demonstrates a shocking degree of masterful control over the medium. Compositions are well chosen, the lighting is shadowy and absolutely stunning, and the film is intriguingly reminiscent of Barry Lyndon, Bergman’s The Silence and, well, Halloween all at once.

Matt Prigge
The Philadelphia Weekly

This is an uncommonly well-photographed film, remarkably lush and opulent in its lighting and shadow play. Try to imagine if some wise guy decided to combine the scripts for Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon with Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 and you may have an idea what A Chronicle of Corpses is all about. This stately gothic horror drama, filmed in the Philadelphia region by 21-year-old Andrew Repasky McElhinney combines Kubrick’s chilly and icily distinguished period piece with Coppola’s wild tale of an axe-murderer targeting an intensely dysfunctional family.

Phil Hall
Film Threat Magazine

CAST

Grandmother Elliot — MARJ DUSAY
Tyrone— HARRY CARNAHAN
Sara Elliot — RYAN FOLEY
Mr. Elliot — KEVIN MITCHELL MARTIN
Mrs. Elliot — SALLY MERCER
Father Jerome — JERRY PERNA
The Killer — MELISSA REX
Baby Elliot — LINDZIE CALABRESE RIVERA
Anna Swales — AMANDA SCHEINER
Unlce Grady — DAVID SEMONIN
Swales — GEORGE SPENCE
The Beggar-Slave — DAVID SCOTT TAYLOR
Bridgette — MARGOT WHITE
Thomas Elliot — OLIVER WYMAN

CREW

Cinematographer — ABE HOLTZ
Lighting Designer — JOHN DRAUS
Editor — RON KALISH
Costume designer — RHONDA BLESSING
Steadicam operator — MIKE O’SHEA
Make-up — DANA HUNT
Assistant cameraman — SEYMOUR LEVIN
Location sound mixers — DOUG KOCHENBACH, DAVE RAINEY
Key production assistants —  TED KNIGHTON, SARA McELHINNEY, BARBARA NOSKA, CLAUIDA SAYEN, DOROTHY STONE, CARL SPICER
Associate producers —  GEORGE S. McELHINNEY and SUZANNE REPASKY
Flute, Harpsichord, Drums — ERIK LICHACK
Writer/Producer/Director — ANDREW REPASKY McELHINNEY

 

20th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION

Original Mix Restored & Remastered — MATTHEW POLIS, SOUND SPACE (BOULDER, CO)
Music Supervisor — JORDAN McCLAIN
Production Audio Conform — CHAD KINSEY
Audio Transfer — MIKE & MONIQUE BRAND (DATs), GEORGES BLOOD, LP (DA-88s)
4K Negative Scan & Clean — COLORLAB (ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND)
Colorist — RYAN BABULA
Online Editor — DAVID GAUFF
Technical Consultant — STEPHEN KEEVER
Executive Producers —NICOLE ELIZABETH COOK, GREG GIOVANNI

 

A Chronicle of Corpses

A Chronicle of Corpses

A Chronicle of Corpses belongs to the small but significant tradition of outsider art in American movies—films like Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls or George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead—that reflect powerful personalities formed outside any academic or professional tradition. That most of these are horror films is no coincidence; they are the films that haunt American cinema, pointing to paths that were never taken, to doors that remain firmly closed.

Dave Kehr
The New York Times

What’s most impressive about McElhinney’s highbrow period film is its ability to satisfy snobbish cultural aesthetes while simultaneously fulfilling slasher film conventions… It’s the art film from hell.

Jeremiah Kipp
Filmcritic.com

A Chronicle of Corpses is easily the most peculiar American indie to play New York theaters this year … [it’s] alternately flamboyant and minimal.

Dennis Lim
The Village Voice

A Bresson-meets-Bergman-meets-Wes Craven suspenser

Steven Rea
The Philadelphia Inquirer

McElhinney demonstrates a shocking degree of masterful control over the medium. Compositions are well chosen, the lighting is shadowy and absolutely stunning, and the film is intriguingly reminiscent of Barry Lyndon, Bergman’s The Silence and, well, Halloween all at once.

Matt Prigge
The Philadelphia Weekly

This is an uncommonly well-photographed film, remarkably lush and opulent in its lighting and shadow play. Try to imagine if some wise guy decided to combine the scripts for Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon with Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 and you may have an idea what A Chronicle of Corpses is all about. This stately gothic horror drama, filmed in the Philadelphia region by 21-year-old Andrew Repasky McElhinney combines Kubrick’s chilly and icily distinguished period piece with Coppola’s wild tale of an axe-murderer targeting an intensely dysfunctional family.

Phil Hall
Film Threat Magazine

CAST

Grandmother Elliot — MARJ DUSAY
Tyrone— HARRY CARNAHAN
Sara Elliot — RYAN FOLEY
Mr. Elliot — KEVIN MITCHELL MARTIN
Mrs. Elliot — SALLY MERCER
Father Jerome — JERRY PERNA
The Killer — MELISSA REX
Baby Elliot — LINDZIE CALABRESE RIVERA
Anna Swales — AMANDA SCHEINER
Unlce Grady — DAVID SEMONIN
Swales — GEORGE SPENCE
The Beggar-Slave — DAVID SCOTT TAYLOR
Bridgette — MARGOT WHITE
Thomas Elliot — OLIVER WYMAN

CREW

Cinematographer — ABE HOLTZ
Lighting Designer — JOHN DRAUS
Editor — RON KALISH
Costume designer — RHONDA BLESSING
Steadicam operator — MIKE O’SHEA
Make-up — DANA HUNT
Assistant cameraman — SEYMOUR LEVIN
Location sound mixers — DOUG KOCHENBACH, DAVE RAINEY
Key production assistants —  TED KNIGHTON, SARA McELHINNEY, BARBARA NOSKA, CLAUIDA SAYEN, DOROTHY STONE, CARL SPICER
Associate producers —  GEORGE S. McELHINNEY and SUZANNE REPASKY
Flute, Harpsichord, Drums — ERIK LICHACK
Writer/Producer/Director — ANDREW REPASKY McELHINNEY

 

20th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION

Original Mix Restored & Remastered — MATTHEW POLIS, SOUND SPACE (BOULDER, CO)
Music Supervisor — JORDAN McCLAIN
Production Audio Conform — CHAD KINSEY
Audio Transfer — MIKE & MONIQUE BRAND (DATs), GEORGES BLOOD, LP (DA-88s)
4K Negative Scan & Clean — COLORLAB (ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND)
Colorist — RYAN BABULA
Online Editor — DAVID GAUFF
Technical Consultant — STEPHEN KEEVER
Executive Producers —NICOLE ELIZABETH COOK, GREG GIOVANNI

 

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