In the Matchbox

01 — Logline

In 1967, an old man tells his great-great-nephews a family secret kept for centuries — a truth that could infect the world.

02 — The Original Short Film

Shot in a Single Day. Awarded Fifteen Times.

Before the feature, there was the short — carried by the same voice, the same lamplight, the same secret.

15
Awards won
1
Day shoot
1967
Setting

03 — The Story

Deep in Catawba County, North Carolina, 1967.

An old man gathers his great-great-nephews in a room lit by a single lamp and begins to tell them something his family has carried, quietly, for centuries.

It is a truth with a shape, a history, and an appetite — and by the time the boys understand what has been handed to them, it has already begun to move.

What he tells them is not a legend.

Film still: a man in overalls beneath a framed landscape painting in a dim farmhouse
Still from the film · Catawba County, NC

Genre

Southern Gothic Horror

Setting

Catawba County, NC · 1967

Format

Feature Film

Status

In Post-Production

04 — Cast & Crew

Director

Mike Rae Anderson

Writers

Jermi Little
Mike Rae Anderson

Portrait of director Mike Rae Anderson

05 — Director / Co-Writer

Mike Rae Anderson

Born in Stuttgart, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina...

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06 — Production Inquiries

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