After

After (2012)

Freddy und Ana begegnen einander während einer schicksalhaften Fahrt im Bus. Comiczeichner Freddy versucht Ana erfolglos in ein Gespräch zu verwickeln. Doch ehe er mit seinen Flirtversuchen einen Erfolg verbuchen kann, gerät der Bus von der Fahrbahn ab und es kommt zu einem verheerenden Sturz. Wenig später wachen Freddy und Ana mysteriöserweise in ihren eigenen Häusern wieder auf. Schon sehr bald müssen sie feststellen, dass sie die einzig noch verbliebenen Menschen in der ganzen Stadt sind. Sämtliche Außenbezirke sind vollständig von einer Wand aus einem geheimnisvollen, dunklen Nebel umgeben, der langsam aber sicher bis zum Stadtzentrum vordringt. Doch die beiden sind nicht ganz so allein, wie es anfangs scheint: Eine angekettete, knurrende Kreatur ist darauf aus ihnen endgültig den Garaus zu machen.

Erscheinungsdatum
2012-08-27
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (198)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 26 Min.
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Drama
Regie
Ryan Smith

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

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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