Nebraska filmmaker scores nationwide release with 'The Gallows'

[Omaha Steve]

Paul Barlow
Chris Lofing, left, and Travis Cluff, writer/directors of “The Gallows.”

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POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015 12:45 AM
By Micah Mertes / World-Herald 
staff writer

The Gallows

What: A found-footage horror movie set at Beatrice High School and co-directed by Beatrice, Nebraska, native Chris Lofing. The film follows four students trapped in their high school, terrorized by an angry spirit.
Cast: Reese Mishler, Pfeifer Brown, Ryan Shoos, Cassidy Gifford (at top)
Release: Opens Friday
Rating: R for disturbing violent content and terror

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This isn’t normal.

Movies aren’t set in Beatrice, Nebraska, and YouTube videos made for $250 don’t become major motion pictures that score summer release dates to be shown on thousands of screens across the world.

But filmmakers Chris Lofing, 24, of Beatrice and Travis Cluff of Southern California didn’t know all that. So they just did it.

The two served as writers, directors and producers of the micro-budgeted horror movie “The Gallows,” opening in more than 2,700 theaters nationwide Friday. Given its impossible origin story and found footage format, the movie recalls such bolts from the blue as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity.” This is by design.

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