Discover the mystery of the Red Lines

Young Schoolgirl Emily has been caught running in the hallway again. She is kept in detention and is forced to write lines by her teacher (Doug Bradley). All alone in the eerily quiet classroom, Emily's night becomes a nightmare when she discovers the mystery of ‘Red Lines’.…

Doug Bradley, who starred as 'Pinhead' in the Hellraiser series of movies and Doctor Matthews in On Edge, stars as a Teacher.

Doug Bradley says "I was in the states doing my one-man theatre show An Evening with Death when I received the screenplay for Red Lines from (writer/director) Frazer Lee. I like Frazer's ideas and am always happy to work with him. I flew back to London on Saturday 2 November, discussed the project with Frazer on Monday and we were shooting on Tuesday 5 November!

Shooting on Bonfire Night proved less problematic than the filmmakers anticipated, and on set Doug Bradley pointed out that the shoot coincided with the anniversary of the first night's filming on Clive Barker's original Hellraiser. After wrapping Red Lines, Doug flew out to Budapest to shoot Hellraiser: Deader, the seventh movie in the series.

Red Lines marks the second collaboration between Bradley and Lee - the first being On Edge, winner of Best Short at Halloween Filmfest Germany 2001. "I refer to these films as the service industry horrors," laughs Doug, "In On Edge, I played a homicidal dentist and in Red Lines I'm a school teacher..."

"I love the short film format," says Bradley, "You can do things in a short space of time that you just can't do in a full-length film. It is a challenge to tell a horror story in such a short amount of time."

Lee says: "The challenge with Red Lines was to tell a horror story in just five minutes - quite tough. I got all inspired after re-watching Robert Wise's The Haunting and the original Ring. I have been very impressed with Japanese horror films of late, and wanted to show that us Brits can still do it too! Red Lines is a classic ghost story with a modern twist. And having been appalled by the crass media coverage of schoolgirl murders recently, I really needed to get a schoolgirl horror film out of my system! Again I was delighted to work with Doug in the film - and lucky too - I managed to get Doug on his one day off before shooting Hellraiser: Deader In Romania!"

Frazer Lee is developing further projects with Doug Bradley, including a horror feature film and graphic novel Urbane.

from Bite Me Magazine, August 2003