Scott Benzie
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It’s already creating its own little festival buzz; in 2009 it played at fifteen film festivals and was awarded ‘Most Original Horror Film’ at the 28 Hours Later movie marathon. In December it hot-footed across the pond and played at the Zero Film Festival held at New York’s Invisible Dog Art Gallery.​
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Among their influences , the team cites Hellboy and X-Files, although I felt a strong sense of the Max Payne movie and its sinister winged demons as well as a touch of Men in Black. Director Sean Candon has a great eye for a shot and the post production has given the film a gritty, film-noir sepia look. The story ends completely open and set up for further episodes, so I'm really hoping that further funding can be secured on the strength of the first. I don't think we've seen the last of Mark Macready.​

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The opening track from the film, featuring Mac & Christina's theme
Mark Macready
When Macready wakes from a coma he was brutally put into by an unseen enemy, he is met with the unsettling news that his wife Christina is missing and a mass murdering monster has been on the rampage, which the press has affectionately dubbed 'The Archangel'.

Realizing there is a connection between his wife's disappearance and the arrival of 'The Archangel' the intrepid detective descends into a paranoid, frenzied search through Manchester's dark supernatural underbelly. It is up to Mac, and Mac alone, to find his missing wife, solve the case and bring the merciless Archangel to cold blooded justice.
Mark Macready and the Archangel Murders is very well shot with a dark and gritty film style. It doesn't detract but in fact adds to the overall suspense of the film. It's beautiful and you can see the care that each scene was staged so that nothing is lost to the viewer. Each shot is carefully planned and having been in independent films myself I know how tough that can be but this was wonderfully filmed.

The music is incredible and sounds just as great or better than what you would see in any mainstream film. It's subtle yet very effective and helps draw you into this seedy paranormal under world. As the film progresses you are drawn deeper and deeper in the mystery of the Archangel Murders and what has happened to Mark Macready's wife. The music helps build the tension all the way through without coming off as cheesy or overdone. It's perfect in that you notice it when you should and yet plays beautifully in the background when it's prominence is not needed.
The acting can be over the top at times but it's intentional and helps lighten the mood in some high tension scenes. The comedy they provide is appropriate in all the right places and are sure to illicit a laugh out of anybody. While comedy and horror do not always work well together it fits perfectly together in this short film. Each only serves to compliment the other. No easy feat for sure but it works and holds up quite well here. Overall the acting is splendid and helps to really propel the film along while giving the audience plenty of people to cheer for. I would not suspect to see a Texas accent in a UK film but boy did I laugh when I heard it and loved every bit of that character. The lead, Mark Macready, is a simple and yet complex.
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You can really feel his pain and how he finds the strength to carry on to find his lost wife. You hope and pray for her safety and he rushes around to solve this mystery that threatens to turn his life upside down.
At only a little over 30 minutes in length the movie leaves you hanging for more and I doubt this is the last we have seen of Mark Marcready. As is the custom with horror movies there is plenty of room for a sequel, but before that happens we will be treated to this film being made into a feature length. I eagerly anticipate it as I have so many questions and curiosity's that this film has left to satisfy. As the popular adage goes though...always leave them hanging.

Mark Macready - The Animated Case files​
Written and executive produced by Paul Feeney and Ryan McDermott, and directed and animated by Gavin Johnson,
MAC IS BACK!!!
When the short spoof slasher movie, Mark Macready and the Archangel Murders came out last year it literally blew the cult horror scene away with its skits of every scream-laden B movie in Hollywood history. It played everywhere, from the Salford Film Festival to New York,
