DEMONS

Written By Haunting The Better

Finished the rewrite of THE DEMONS ARE HERE, originally written in 2024. Edwin Hershel Goat is a contract killer on the way down — slower, sloppier, running out of road — and the job that lands in his lap is the kind that used to be simple: recover a pile of stolen money from a young couple who don't know what they've stepped into. Drug dealers on one side, the end of the world creeping in on the other. The rewrite cleaned up a lot of what wasn't working in the original draft. Tighter, meaner, funnier in the places it needed to be. 

The plan is to produce and direct this in Charleston, provided I can raise the funding. The city has the texture I want — the heat, the marshes, the way the light falls — and I've spent enough time here now to shoot it as it should be shot. More on that as it develops.

Haunting The Better

Hill Rossin is an Independent writer, director, and producer with three decades of self-directed work across thriller, drama, and dark comedy. His filmmaking career started early; in high school, he took a college film course at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. In the summer of 1992, he shot his first 8mm film — a music video for Sonic Youth's "Sugar Kane," from their then-new album Dirty — for a contest on MTV's 120 Minutes. Although he didn't win, the project helped him get into film school. He studied at the College of Santa Fe and later trained again at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, gaining comprehensive skills in writing, directing, producing, cinematography, editing, and sound.

He founded Haunting The Better in 1996 and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1998, where the company is now based. Through it, he develops original feature screenplays and no-budget narrative films, and in the 2000s he directed two features, As He Fired Up the Drum Machine and Hey Android. Over thirty years, his work returns to the same concerns — place, voice, and the dark humor of ordinary life — shaped by roots in western Pennsylvania and a sensibility in which violence and tenderness sit at the same table.

https://hauntingthebetter.com
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