The Duppy Man's Walk - short horror film - Atlanta HorrorFest Spotlight
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18m
Directed by Gregory James Foxx Jr.
Upon failing to show proper respects at the edge of a mysterious marsh, two young men pay a horrific price for their encroachment, when a restless entity makes its displeasure known.
Following the 1920’s disappearance and assumed murder of Dirty Nat’s Father, he and his family were forced from their rural homestead. Now almost a century later, Nat has managed to orchestrate the reunification of the family’s land. He recruits his Great Nephew Vallon and his friend Byron to help him piece together the remains of his father’s fledgling black community, burned down during the racial animus of the Post Reconstruction South.
VALLON (20’s), after being warned by his GREAT UNCLE DIRTY NAT (102), to pay his proper respects at a centuries old Hanging Tree before entering a mysterious marsh, finds himself on the wrong side of history. Vallon, In brushing it off as superstition he is seen as a trespasser and incurs the wrath of a restless spirit known as the DUPPY MAN.
Vallon becomes psychically attached and possessed by the Entity and must be rescued by his friend BYRON (20’s) and flee the marsh before Sundown or incur the full wrath of the protective spirit.
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