Black Veil: Dan Myrick, Tom McLoughlin, Jeffrey Reddick team for anthology

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

The Blair Witch Project co-director Dan Myrick, Final Destination screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick, Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI writer/director Tom McLoughlin, Underworld franchise writer Danny McBride (a different Danny McBride than the comedic actor who co-wrote Halloween 2018), and visual effects artists Chris Pickenpaugh and Alex Popov are teaming up for an anthology web series called Black Veil: Tales from the Southern Gothic. The first season of the show will consist of six short-form episodes, expected to be in the 15 to 18 minute range.

Details on four of the six episodes are already available: 

Episode One – CAMERA OBSCURA
Written by – Chris Pickenpaugh
Directed by – Daniel Myrick
Produced by – Daniel Myrick, Doug Fox, Kristian Krempel

At a Southern art exhibit, Josette McCallum discovers a photo seemingly taken from a horrific memory she had long suppressed. Soon, she is stricken with an ailment and nightmarish visions. She seeks out the photographer to solve this mystery and its unnatural affliction.

Episode Two – THE HANGING TREE
Written/Directed by – Tom McLoughlin
Produced by – Daniel Myrick, Doug Fox, Kristian Krempel

An East Coast liberal college grad is in denial of her deep-seeded racism.  On a long drive from New York to Florida, she spends the night at The Hanging Tree Inn. This 1870s southern gothic house is cared for by wise, elderly black gentleman who she doesn’t trust. Showing her the 150 year old oak tree, the inn’s namesake, she harshly confronts him with trying to push the ‘guilty white person’ button. For the rest of the night her no longer covert racism is confronted by the grotesque occurrences on The Hanging Tree.  Having witnessed what pure hate for no reason can do, she’s given the chance to change her heart. But even the dead can’t change her. So she’s chosen her fate.

Episode Three – WISTERIA
Written/Directed by – Chris Pickenpaugh
Produced by – Daniel Myrick, Doug Fox, Kristian Krempel

Morgue worker Fenton Boyd preps an abandoned, dead toddler for morning cremation — until he glimpses a flash sign of life. At his wife’s behest, he abducts the body. The intent: to resurrect and claim the child as their own. A long night's journey into misery, madness, and lost souls.

Episode Four – REJUVENATION
Written/Directed by – Danny McBride and Alex Popov
Produced by – Daniel Myrick, Doug Fox, Kristian Krempel

A string of mysterious deaths at a Florida nursing home prompts Claudette Dubois, a troubled young employee, to dig into the shadowy past of the facility and its owner. Along the way she unearths a disturbing, preternatural secret stretching back centuries.

Myrick's episode Camera Obscura was already filmed in early 2020, but the COVID pandemic shut down production for over a year. The cast of Camera Obscura includes Sally Kirkland.

Black Veil was originally expected to be streaming last September, but the world had other plans. Hopefully things will go smoothly from here on out, because I'm looking forward to watching this – especially since it marks McLoughlin's return to directing horror. It's been way too long since we got a Tom McLoughlin horror movie.