The Cast
Nick Helm - Winner British Comedy Awards Breakthrough Artist 2014, Star of Uncle and Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment.
Gemma Whelan - Star of Game of Thrones, Mapp and Lucia, Wolfman and many more, Winner Funny Women 2010
John Kearns - Winner Fosters Comedy Award 2014, Winner Fosters Comedy Award Newcomer 2013, Star of upcoming Hot Cops.
Bec Hill - Time Outs Top 10 comedians. Star of Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner Russian Roulette
Pat Cahill - Star of Dave's One Night Stand, Channel 4 Blaps, Winner Chortle Best Newcomer 2012 and New Act of the Year
Stuart Laws - Star of Becoming Batman, 'Very Funny' New York Times
Joz Norris - BBC Radio 4's The Comedy Interviews, Award Nominee - Outstanding Supporting Actor, LA WebFest 2015
Bob Slayer - Malcolm Hardee Award Winner Edinburgh Fringe (Nominated 2010 & 2011 for Comic Originality)
and featuring the writer and director himself Matthew Highton
Santageddon was shot by the wonderful Dan Berg and edited and scored by the marvelous Al Clayton
Produced by Turtle Canyon Comedy, a dynamic and independent production company based at Pinewood Studios for the last 12 years. Established in 2012, they have become experts in delivering unique, passionate comedy that is finding a worldwide audience. They have achieved regular viral success, have featured consistently on The Poke, British Comedy Guide, Chortle, Upworthy, The Mirror, Evening Standard and The Daily Star, are closing in on 1 million views online and their short films have played at festivals around the world. They’ve produced pilots, short films and online shows with talent as talented and diverse as Robert Lindsay, Julia Davis, Dave Fulton, the sketch duo Toby, Nick Helm, James Acaster, David Trent, Sam Simmons, Nish Kumar, Joel Dommett and Annie McGrath.
You can watch more of their comedy work here.
The Location
Santageddon was shot in the depths of the old dilapidated Lyons: Throgmorton Restaurant in London. A crumbling hub that gave us an atmospheric playground to shoot in. You can read more about it here. Thanks to Paul Davies for letting us film there.
'Santageddon' harks back to the glory days of VHS when edits were rough and continuity was optional. Influenced by low budget horror films such as the Evil Dead and taking acting lessons from cult classics like Samurai Cop it brings together some of the best and freshest names within the UK comedy scene.
The plot sees a group of friends who decide to spend Christmas Eve in an old dilapidated department store. However, when on of them wanders off, after being reminded of past Christmas horrors, things start to go awry. Pursued by Christmas nasties and fighting for their lives, will this band of Kung-Fu experts make it through the night?
Santageddon is the perfect blend of comedy and lo-fi horror, playing for laughs, whilst lovingly using the conventions of horror, it has the makings of a cult classic.
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SANTAGEDDON
All Kung Fu is life and death. Especially at Christmas.
