Exclusive Trailer! Fear goes viral in HALL, film to premiere at FrightFest

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Director Francesco Giannini's pandemic horror thriller HALL is set to have its World Premiere at FrightFest, the UK's leading genre film festival, and today we have the EXCLUSIVE first look at the film's trailer, which is embedded above. The FrightFest screening of HALL is scheduled to happen at 6pm on Sunday, August 30th.

Giannini wrote the screenplay with Derrick Adams and Adam Kolodny, crafting a story that is said to blend mystery, suspense, and sci-fi elements. The synopsis!

When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she wants to escape but is forced to crawl her way through other helpless and scattered victims. In the room next door stays Val, a mother trapped in a toxic marriage. Val must also navigate her way out of the hotel and walk through the long and narrow stretch of isolated carnage, all while desperately looking for her young daughter Kelly and keeping out of sight of the remaining contagious sufferers. Will these two women get out of there alive?

HALL stars Yumiko Shaku as Naomi, Carolina Bartczak as Val, Mark Gibson as Branden, Julian Richings as Julian, and Bailey Thain as Kelly. The film is part of a new horror franchise that is now in development at Franky Films.

Graham Guertin Santerre was the cinematographer, Gillian Nasser was the production designer, Michael Vignola composed the score while Arrow in the Head founder John Fallon was the Stunt Coordinator on the picture.

A Franky Films production, HALL was produced by Francesco Giannini, Tamara Dupuis, and Daniel Roy.

Giannini had this to say about his film: 

It’s a strange coincidence that our film is coming out at the same time as the devastating Covid-19 crisis. I never thought that the fictional story of virus contagion we’ve created in HALL would become a reflection of reality within such a close time frame between the release of the film and the pandemic occurring right now. However, the ideas and themes explored in the movie have been in my thought process for a while due to the previous virus outbreaks I’ve had witnessed."

Check out the trailer above, then take a look at the poster and images featured below. If you'd like to know more about HALL you can head over to its official website here and its Facebook Page here! The film's hashtags are: #HallFilm and #FearGoesViral.