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.