New Feature Horror Film “The Death Pledge” is set to be released on VOD services this winter. The first of Jeff Carroll’s independently produced horror films that he directed himself. The Death Pledge is Jeff Carroll’s third film and his first slasher. Jeff Carroll an award winning filmmaker created a unique story set to give Black horror fans a cosplayable monster they can enjoy.
“The Death
pledge" was a great opportunity not only to work with my brother but to
work on a horror film to which I have a whole new respect. There is an intensity with that level of
storytelling and filmmaking that pushes you to the edge creatively. The death
pledge is a wonderful project and speaks directly to the level of significance
of ethnic based horror stories and even has found its place recently in news
headlines with the continued discovery of Lost African American cemeteries
Across the state of Florida and beyond,” said Marvin Coleman. Marvin and his
twin brother Melvin were the cinematographers on this project. Known as the
Coleman twins they operate out of Tampa.
Based on an
original script by Jeff Carroll, the locally shot and edited “The Death Pledge” incorporates traditional narrative
story-telling, as well as numerous forms of pioneering technology, futuristic
look on fraternities and sororities, shot on location, hand-held cameras , and
a grossed-out monster costume created by special effects artist Omar Sfreddo (SyFy Channel Face Off), The Death
Pledge is a classic slasher film with a masked killer. It follows a group of
college students pledging four different fraternities and sororities as they
spend the night in a recently unearthed African Burial ground. All is fine
until they find that a serial killing slave was also buried there and this pledge
into a new life turns into a pledge of DEATH.
