RITES OF VENGEANCE
Teaser & Reviews
AWARDS
Nominated: Best Short Film; Rondo Awards 2017
Top 30 Film Fest Shorts; Horror Happens Radio 2018
WON: Best Editing, Women in Horror Film Festival 2018
WON: Best Short, Idaho Horror Film Festival 2017
WON: Second Place, Best New England Film, Boston Underground Film Festival 2017
Nominated: Minerva Award; FilmQuest 2017
Nominated: Le Femmes De Genre Award; GenreBlast 2017
Nominated: Best Female Writer/Director; GenreBlast 2017
Nominated: Best Score; GenreBlast 2017
Nominated: Best Micro Short Film; GenreBlast 2017
It ends here.
A trio of nuns take matters into their own hands when a priest commits a terrible sin..
Starring: Michael Thurber, Silvia Graziano
Additional cast: Heather Buckley, Stee McMorris, and introducing Thorben Stone and Ada Storey as The Children
Cinematography, editing & score: Jarret Blinkhorn
VFX: Eli Dorsey
FX: Izzy Lee
First Camera Assistant: Christopher Hallock
Production Assistants: Phil Healy, Christopher Hallock
Still Photography: Phil Healy, Stee McMorris, Christopher Hallock
Poster Art: Erik Wilson
Written by: Izzy Lee
Associate Producer: Skip Shea
Produced by Izzy Lee, Mary McDonagh, Paul J. Furio
Directed by Izzy Lee
Thank you: The MacLeods, The Snoonians, Christopher Golden, Barbie Wilde, Shayne Gryn, Justin McConnell, Skip Shea, Wicked Bird Media
“Izzy Lee's latest short film, RITES OF VENGEANGE, makes a stunning, hard-hitting statement with the kind of surgical economy that is her hallmark. Her talent for visual story telling is as wicked and precise as an assassin's favorite tool.”
— Bracken MacLeod, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of STRANDED and COME TO DUST
"What also makes this short so fascinating is that not a single word is uttered throughout the entire duration. Through the facial expressions and the actions of the priest and the nuns, the audience is able to put together the horrifying puzzles pieces that result in the ramifications of those actions. Though there is no spoken word, the musical score provides the right amount of ambiance and dread which fit perfectly into the unfolding story.
Overall, RITES OF VENGEANCE is a gut punch of a short film that expertly shines a light on an incredibly damaging subject that needs to be stopped. I applaud Izzy for tackling a subject that so many people would rather turn a blind eye to… this is director Izzy Lee's best work thus far and I would even go so far as to say that we need a feature length film that shows off these badass nuns doing the Lord's dirty work."
— Shannon McGrew Nightmarish Conurings
RITES OF VENGEANCE SCREENINGS
World Premiere
Boston Underground Film Festival
Cambridge, MA
March 26, 2017
Plays with Trinity
Bonebat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival
Seattle, WA
April 8, 2017
Little Terrors
Toronto, Canada
April 24, 2017
StokerCon's Final Frame Film Festival
Long Beach, CA
April 28, 2017
Etheria 2017 Tour
Various Cities
Dates TBA
Devilry! An Evening with Bracken MacLeod & Izzy Lee
Salem, MA
June 6, 2017
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
June 10, 2017
Sweet Revenge Block
Scares That Care
Williamsburg, VA
July 22, 2017
NecronomiCon
Providence, RI
August 19, 2017
GenreBlast
Alamo Drafthouse
Winchester, VA
September 8, 2017
Plays in Serious Horror Showcase
Horrible Imaginings
September 10, 2017
San Diego, CA
Plays in the Revenge block
FilmQuest
September 15, 2017
Provo, UT
Blood Over Texas presents Fright Gallery
September 16, 2017
Austin, TX
Salem Horror Fest
Salem, MA
October 5, 2017
Plays in Wicked Shorts
Idaho Horror Film Festival
Boise, ID
October 13, 2017
Rock and Shock
Worcester, MA
October 14, 2017
DEDFest
Edmonton, Canada
October 21, 2017
Plays with Tigers Are Not Afraid
Queer Horror Halloween
Portland, OR
October 27, 2017
Frightening Ass Film Festival
Chattanooga, TN
October 28, 2017
Death By Festival
October 28, 2017
Austin, TX
Twin Cities Horror Film Festival
Minneapolis, MN
October 30, 2017
Plays in Horror Show Hot Dog Shorts FF
Morbido
Mexico City, Mexico
October 31, 2017
Slaughter Movie House
November 6, 2017
Plays with 3 Dead Trick or Treaters
Year of Fear Presents: Prom Night Massacre
Burbank, CA
November 11, 2017
Plays in Etheria Block
Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
November 17, 2017
Plays with The Villianess
Ax Wound Film Festival
Brattleboro, VT
November 17, 2017
Buried Alive Film Festival
Atlanta, GA
November 18, 2017
Shorts Block 4
Days of the Dead
November 18, 2017
Chicago, IL
Etheria Block
Jekyll Island Comic Con
Jekyll Island, GA
December 9, 10, 2017
Lusca Fantastic Film Festival
(formerly Puerto Rico Horror FF)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
TBA
Mad Monster Party
Charlotte, NC
February 17 & 18, 2018
Cinedelphia
PhilaMOCA
Philadelphia, PA
April 22, 2018
Women in Horror Film Festival
Peachtree, GA
October 6, 2018
Reel Women
Cambridge, England
October 11, 2018
Nightmares Film Festival
Columbus, OH
October 20, 2018