South of Sanity

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| director = Mathew Edwards
Kirk Watson

| writer = Matthew Edwards

| starring = Matthew Edwards
Kirk Watson

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| distributor = Plue Entertainment Inc

| released = {{Film date|2012|10|31|df=yes}}

| runtime = 91 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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South of Sanity is a 2012 British horror film directed, filmed, edited and produced by Kirk F. Watson and written and co-directed by Matthew Edwards, both of whom star in the film.{{cite web|title=Reel South Pole adventure for Kirk|url=http://www.donsidepiper.co.uk/news/local-headlines/reel-south-pole-adventure-for-kirk-1-2584062|publisher=Donside Piper and Herald|accessdate=21 October 2012}} The film was released on 31 October 2012 and is the first full-length fictional film to have been shot in Antarctica.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19980602 |title=Scot shoots first fictional feature in Antarctica |accessdate=18 October 2012 |work=BBC News|date=17 October 2012 }}

Plot

The film takes place in Antarctica, centering around a rescue team that was sent to the Routledge research station to investigate a research team's lack of communication with the outside world. Once there, the team discovers no survivors in the research station but finds a diary that describes the research team's last days. The diary goes over the research team's growing malcontent and paranoia as the team is picked off one by one by a mysterious killer.{{cite web|title=Le premier film tourné en Antarctique|date=18 October 2012 |url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2012/10/18/le-premier-film-tourne-en-antarctique|publisher=Journal de Montreal|accessdate=21 October 2012}}

Cast

Mathew Edwards as Rob
Kirk Watson as Gaz
Melissa Langridge as Katrina
Daniel Edmunds as Sam
Matt Von Tersch as Frank
Tony McLaughlan as Phil
Shaun Scopes as Joe
Riet Van de Velde as Luke
James Wake as Nicolas
Jonathon Yates as Doug
Dave Routledge as Mike
Mike Shortt
Terri Souster as Sharon
Paul Craske as Matt

Development

Watson began working on the film while working for the British Antarctic Survey, seeing the film as a way to pass time and "hone his film-making". Matt Edwards initially wrote the script as a short story, but chose to adapt it into a screenplay.{{cite web|title=How an Aviemore mountaineer fought off boredom on Antarctica mission ... by making a chilling horror movie|date=21 October 2012 |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/how-an-aviemore-mountaineer-fought-off-boredom-on-antarctica-mission-by-making-a-chilling-horror-movie.19193403|publisher=Herald Scotland|accessdate=21 October 2012}} Fellow staff members made up the cast and crew, with Edwards and Watson both starring in the film. The crew used a children's face painting kit for makeup and utilized food coloring and syrup for fake blood.{{cite web|title=First horror movie shot in Antarctica|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/20/antarctica-horror-movie|publisher=Wired UK|accessdate=21 October 2012}}

Reception

Joseph Wade of Something Awful panned the film, writing, "South of Sanity is packed to the gills with every slasher cliché in the book, and it rarely uses any of them well".{{cite web|url = https://somethingawful.com/current-movie-reviews/internship-vhs2-iceman/5/|title = The Internship; V/H/S/2; The Iceman; Frances Ha; South of Sanity|last = Wade|first = Joseph|publisher = Something Awful|date = 13 June 2013|website = somethingawful.com|accessdate = 15 July 2014}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|2243151|South of Sanity}}

Category:2012 films

Category:2012 horror films

Category:2010s slasher films

Category:British slasher films

Category:Films set in Antarctica

Category:Films shot in Antarctica

Category:2010s English-language films

Category:2010s British films

Category:English-language horror films