\n Jonathan Sothcott, from Sussex, started production company Shogun Films with his wife Jeanine in 2020.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Sothcott\u2019s love for films was inspired by renting videos from a shop in Hailsham – one of his nearest towns when he was a child.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cWhat made me fall in love with films was renting them.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey had an old shop called Video Legend in Hailsham that I used to love.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Now we\u2019re making small indie movies. We\u2019re trying to work with older actors as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe decided to start the production company just before the pandemic.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The poster for Helloween(Image: Shogun Films)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy wife said \u2018you love action and horror, why don\u2019t you do that stuff?\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe make quite old-fashioned horror films. The kind people used to rent from Blockbuster.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe have found a nice niche. We\u2019re a small family run business.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cJeanine is an actress as well. It\u2019s the two of us and the dog.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Sothcott\u2019s latest film, Helloween, was released on BluRay on October 13 and is due to appear on the big screen at Hailsham Pavilion on Halloween.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s showing at a beautiful cinema in Hailsham\u201d, he said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic cinema, it\u2019s a charity. This is a different kind of Halloween event and something fun.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Jeanine Sothcott in the film Helloween(Image: Shogun Films)\n<\/p>\n
\n Helloween, described as \u201cThe Purge with clowns\u201d, was inspired by the killer clown trend in 2016.\n<\/p>\n
\n Directed by Phil Claydon, whose other works include Lesbian Vampire Killers starring Mathew Horne and James Cordon, the film follows a doctor, played by Mr Sothcott\u2019s wife Jeanine, and a journalist.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pair trace the source of a murderous craze back to a jailed serial killer, who they race to stop.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Actors include Michael Pare, known for Streets of Fire, and Ronan Summers, who has featured in Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Sothcott\u2019s other films include Nemesis, Renegades and Harbinger, for which filming has just finished outside Hailsham.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Tickets for Helloween at Hailsham Pavilion are available to purchase on its website. The film will show at 7.30pm on October 31 and appropriate fancy dress is encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Sothcott, from Sussex, started production company Shogun Films with his wife Jeanine in 2020. Mr Sothcott\u2019s love…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-215341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}