The roost

"The Roost is geared to make your Halloween nights all the more creepier...
like taking a long walk through a haunted maze on Halloween night."
Eric Campos, Filmthreat.com

"...its not an exaggeration to say that West here displays a raw talent reminiscent of early George Romero and Sam Raimi."
Michael Gingold, Fangoria

"A movie with bats in its belfry, "The Roost" celebrates and restores the 1970s B-horror pic with zero gloss and terrific rough-hewn craft."
Robert Koehler, Variety

A group of young people are enroute a friend's wedding in the remote countryside of Pennsylvania when they hit something unseen, lose control of the car and become stranded. The foursome reluctantly wander down the deserted road and into the eerie darkness. They come upon a farmhouse where they hope they can use the phone to call for help - but no one seems to be at home. It isn't long before they learn that the farm has been taken over by vampire bats that have already claimed the lives of the older couple (Richard Little, Barbara Wilhide) who lived there. But once bitten, the victims come back to life zombie-style and those still living have to not only dodge the bats, but the undead as well. The story is framed by a "Tales From The Crypt" style TV host played by Tom Noonan (director of the Sundance fare THE WIFE & WHAT HAPPENED WAS...).

Writer/director Ti West was a 23-year old recent film school grad when filmmaker Larry Fessenden (HABIT, WENDIGO), already impressed by West's student film short "The Wicked," agreed to executive produce his feature debut, THE ROOST. Fessenden, known for his own take on the horror genre, began mentoring young directors in 2003 through his company Glass Eye Pix.
Among other projects he produced James Felix McKenney's THE OFF SEASON, David Gebroe's ZOMBIE HONEYMOON, Jeff Winner's SATELLITE and THE ESCAPE ARTIST from Michael Laurence. THE ROOST is going out under his Scareflix banner. THE ROOST was an official selection of the 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival.


Ti West is the director/writer & Editor. Susan Leber is the producer. Larry Fessenden is the executive producer. James Felix McKenney & Peter Phok are the associate producers. Eric Robbins is the Cinematographer. Daniel J.
Mazikowski is the special effects make up artist. Jeff Grace composed the original music.

Actual siblings Wil and Vanessa Horneff play Allison and Elliott. Karl Jacob plays Trevor and Brian is played by Sean Reid.

THE ROOST will go out to theatres digitally through Digital Cinema Solutions, a company that acquires and delivers digital content to the leading art and specialty film cinemas in North America.

On November 15th 2002, Digital Cinema Solutions (DCS) built the first digital cinema network connecting 25 of the leading specialty movie theatres in America's top markets. The network was created for clients Microsoft & BMW to launch the groundbreaking BMW Digital Film Series. The BMW series represents the state of the art in blending corporate messaging with highly entertaining targeted film initiatives.

By leveraging existing technology and content relationships, and building alliances with marketing and promotional partners, DCS is developing an exciting and diverse catalogue of programming. DCS will enable clients to program content on demand in "real time" based on audience demographics, seating capacities and to reflect the market demand.