“The Hairy Hands, as daft or odd as the title may sound, is based on a Dartmoor ghost story,” Exeter-filmmaker Ashley Thorpe tells the iconic Fangoria.
“It tells the tale ostensibly of a haunted stretch of road that cuts straight across the moor. Travellers on this road have, since the early part of the last century, told of the sudden manifestation of a pair of disembodied spectral hands that suddenly seize the wheel and violently steer their vehicle off the road. It was a story that gained notoriety nationwide in Britain during the 1920s when a Dartmoor prison officer died on that road, and his surviving daughters reported ‘strange phenomena’ at the time of the crash.”
The film is due for completion at Halloween.
To find out more about Ashley Thorpe’s top 10 horror flicks pop over to the D+CFilm site, where you’ll also find out more about screenings and how you can get your hands on Ashley’s Scayrecrow and The Screaming Skull
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