Grave Tales

Grave Tales (2011)

Four tales of terror dying to be told.

A young genealogist whiles-away her afternoon in an eerie graveyard to identify graves but stumbles upon an elderly gravedigger anxious to share horror stories with her. The gravedigger delights in telling her four, ghoulish stories.

Date of release
2011-04-30
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Horror
Director
Don Fearney

Casting

Interesting facts

Grave Tales is a British anthology horror film made in 2011 at Pinewood Studios by FGS Productions and Ivory Tower Entertainment. It was directed by Don Fearney. It premiered on 30 April 2011 at Southend on Sea Film Festival, however an earlier premiere took place on 30 October 2010 at Cine Lumiere in South Kensington, London SW7. The film was released as a DVD in August 2012.

Production

Brian Murphy is the best known of the cast due to his longevity in British TV roles such as George and Mildred and Last of the Summer Wine. Due to the low budget nature of the project, friends and associates of the director and production crew also starred in minor roles and extras.

Conceived originally as a three-story anthology in the style of British Amicus horror movies, during production a fourth story was added. The films were shot and edited at Pinewood Studios and filmed in Iver Heath, Windsor and the London area.

The original script ideas came from horror comics published in 1991

Footage of Christopher Lee as himself appeared in the story "Dead Kittens" in the original cut shown at Cine Lumiere and Southend Film Festival and was shown in the original cast list. The footage was removed from the final cut and DVD release.

Cameo appearance by British Horror Film Director Norman J. Warren as a music video director in "Dead Kittens".

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