"Nocturne"

Synopsis

In a rented bed & breakfast in quiet Lynchburg, VA, three researchers and two female test subjects conduct groundbreaking experiments in psychokinesis. As the tests continue, the house begins to manifest strange and frightening paranormal activity…echoing one girl’s haunted past.

Based on years of research into poltergeist and PK phenomena, quantum mechanics, and field consciousness studies, Nocturne is also a retelling of that most classic of haunted house stories, George Gordon, Lord Byron’s famous summer of 1816:

The volcano Tambura had exploded cataclysmically that year, causing the world to darken with epic plumes of ash. In Switzerland, at the Villa Diodati, Byron, his physician John William Polidori, and fellow guests Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Shelly, and Claire Claremont, told each other ghost stories to while away the cold and wet summer. From these gothic tales came Frankenstein and "The Vampyre," by some accounts the basis for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Multimedia
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Nocturne trailer : 33.3 mb, 2:58
Footage: Nocturne
(Byronic Eye Entertianment, 2003)



Nocturne intro (roughcut) : 115.4 mb, 15:34
Footage: Nocturne
(Byronic Eye Entertainment, Inc., 2005)



Nocturne (scene 33) : 27.2 mb, 2:56
Music: "Sonata No.14, Op.27/2 "Sonata quasi una fantasia," Beethoven
Footage: Nocturne
(Byronic Eye Entertainment, Inc., 2005)



Nocturne promo : 50.4 mb, 4:01
Music: "Invisible," Switchblade Symphony
(from "Three Calamities," Cleopatra Records, 1999)
Footage: Nocturne
(Byronic Eye Entertainment, 2003)

Cast

Ashley Davis: Young Kasia
Wendy Donigian: Kasia
Bethany Lyn Latham: Chris
Ryan Link: Billy
Carl Randolph: Gordon
Justin M. Timpane: Paul

Credits

Written & Directed by Martin Higareda
Produced by Martin Higareda and Jaime Morgan
Associate Producer: Diane Leigh Davison
Co-Producer: Kim Davis
Edited by: Martin Higareda
Sound Recording: Jaime Morgan
Production Manager: Andrew Lare Boles
Make-up Effects: Carl Boles

Parapsychology Consultant: Dean Radin, Ph.D

Production

Shot November 4-17, 2001 in Bethesda MD, Washington DC,
and at the Federal Crest Inn in Lynchburg, VA. Posted on Final Cut Pro.

Budget: $35,000
Camera: Canon XL1-s
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sound: 16/48 digital stereo
Format: NTSC DV, B&W and Color, 16:9