After

After (2012)

When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

Date of release
2012-08-27
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (198)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Drama
Director
Ryan Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

After is a 2012 fantasy horror film written and directed by Ryan Whitaker and starring Steven Strait and Karolina Wydra. It premiered at the 43rd Annual Nashville Film Festival on April 19, 2012. Canadian distributor Mongrel Media acquired the North American rights to the film in June 2013.

Production

As best friends, director/scriptwriter Ryan Smith and producer Brandon Gregory agreed to take their time with production, which eventually took three years. Except for the actual filming, Smith told a Williamson Herald interviewer, pre-production and post-production were all created in their home base of Nashville, Tennessee: "Most of the film was made in house.

Smith spent a year of that time writing the script. He told the Williamson Herald, "The idea came out of a Twilight Zone episode. We like to say it's a Sci-fi thriller. Two people meet on a bus, strike up a conversation and realize they live on the same street."

Sabyn Mayfield, son of casting director Laray Mayfield, was an old friend of Steven Strait and invited him to read the script. Since Strait had liked Smith's 2009 short film Devil's Shoestring, he was intrigued. He told Collider, "I read it and I was just blown away by how original and intelligent and unpretentious the script and the story was, and how heartfelt yet philosophical it seemed to be.

Location filming began on November 26 and wrapped in December of 2010. Principal photography took place in the cities of Birmingham and Decatur, Alabama. Additional scenes were shot in the nearby towns of Bessemer and Clanton. Director Ryan Smith told an interviewer that he wanted "a quintessential, small American town" and originally planned to film in his home city of Franklin, Tennessee, where production company Seabourne Pictures is based.

He decided to shoot in Alabama after talking with Birmingham filmmaker Jon Erwin, who told Smith about Alabama's tax incentives. "The new film incentives were a huge draw for us... We had lunch with Jon, and by the end of lunch, he had talked us into shooting in Alabama."

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