Next week is Halloween, and fitting with the spooky nature of this show these past few weeks I now turn your attention to another chiller that's in the spotlight on this pre-All Hallow's Eve edition of the Viewfinder Podcast: writer/director Chris Maes’ suspenseful, scary and sometimes silly horror/thriller mash-up, Air Shift.
The movie stars Ashlee Lawhorn as Lisa Richmond, a lonely, struggling overnight DJ at a failing community radio station managed by her overbearing jerk of a boss, Dwight Abbottson (played by Alex Diehl).
Lisa’s enthusiasm for indie rock and her love of radio keeps her going on the air while her romantic and job problems escalate off of it, but one night, she suddenly detours from spinning records to venting about her troubles, earning the attention of a new and ultimately dangerous listener in handsome John Bowen (played by Patrick Andrew Jones).
Little does Lisa know that John is also a suspected serial killer, and when he sweet-talks his way into the station and onto the airwaves, he suddenly holds Lisa and her otherwise free-wheeling show hostage.
As the night progresses, Lisa tries to escape from her captor, but she and John discover that they are both targeted by a flesh-hungry, manic group of formerly normal nuclear waste excavators-turned zombies! Oh...did I mention that the station they’re trapped in was also built on top of an underground nuclear storage facility?
Even as Lisa and John fight for their own survival, sleazy record promoter Lonnie Rappalopoulis (played by Donald Imm, who also worked as one of the film’s art directors) unexpectedly demands a live on-air concert for his young pop star client, Sophie Severeid (played by Margarita Gamarnik).
Will her dulcet tones be enough to keep the zombies at bay? Will John’s reign of terror end with his well-deserved arrest? Will Lisa’s fortunes improve? Most of all…will these trapped characters survive the night?
I’m honored to welcome Chris Maes and Ashlee Lawhorn to talk about this incredible film on this week’s Viewfinder Podcast.
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