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Filmed in Travis County, Texas in digital 16:9 (widescreen) format, on a ten thousand dollar budget, The Abberdine County Conjuror is a unique work of fiction about some young campers who find themselves victims of a decadent back woods conjuror and her two sadistic apprentices who control a small army of zombies…

In the most remote area of the Texas Hill Country is a place called Abberdine County; a place rich with twisted folklore that seems to attract young adventurers, and people who are just trying to get away from it all. Many people disappear in Abberdine County, but after all, anybody could get lost in this vast wilderness where the few backwoods people who live here have been cut off from civilization for so long that they’ve developed some very bizarre behaviors.

But what is really happening to these people? Could the legends be true? Could there really be a 150 year old Conjuror living in the woods who controls a small army of zombies and uses the blood of young female captives to brew her life sustaining potions?

Meg (Teresa Deasey) and Mike (Ivan Sadowski) have come to Abberdine County to find their friend Bev (Charlemagne Domiana) who disappeared on a camping trip a couple of weeks earlier. It seems that poor Bev got lost in the woods, was attacked by a zombie, and was taken back to the Conjuror’s encampment where she was shackled naked to the ceremonial blood letting table, drained of blood and held prisoner to produce more blood for the Conjuror’s potions. But Meg and Mike only know that she is missing and they’ve come to find her.

After setting up camp, Meg decides to visit the local Fortune Teller, Jessie (Winter Wytchwood) who warns her about the Conjuror and advises her to leave Abberdine County. As soon as Meg leaves, Jessie is confronted by the Conjuror’s two minions, Edda (Natalie Geneva) and Raven (Ellen Keefer) who wreck her fortune telling stand and beat her to a bloody pulp.

Later that day, Mike discovers some human remains on some land near the campground, in a place that they’ve been warned to stay away from.

Meanwhile, Molly (Liz Goddard) who has been abducted and held captive at the encampment receives a severe bullwhip lashing by Edda for her lack of cooperation while being held captive, but later, when Edda passes out from drinking too much moonshine, Molly makes her escape into the wilderness where she wanders for days, avoiding zombies and trying to find a way out.

That night, a rain storm washes the main road out, leaving everyone trapped in the area, and Meg and Mike are also attacked by zombies. Mike is taken captive and placed in a coffin where he is to be transformed into a zombie, but Meg makes a narrow escape with the help of Zombie Hunter, Sean Steel, who takes Meg back to his camp.

Over the next few days, Meg and Jessie are both lured into the woods and taken captive by the Conjuror where they are drained of blood, abused, beaten and tortured. Raven decides to use Jessie as her personal play-toy, sometimes keeping her in her bedroom at night where she is ruthlessly abused.

Molly eventually finds a vacant campsite with some supplies, and un-knowingly drinks a bottle of Jessie’s hallucinogenic Potion which results in pretty wild trip.

Who will survive? Will they find Bev? Will Mike be transformed into a zombie? Will Molly find her way back to civilization, or will the Zombies find her first? Will any of them make it out alive?

To find out, you'll want to purchase your own copy of The Abberdine County Conjuror, available February 7th, 2006 in two Pendulum Pictures Bex Sets.

Available at retail outlets throughout the US including Best Buy and Hastings.

Pics from the set of
The Abberdine County Conjuror

On the set...

Jeff Cooper and Teresa Deasey

Winter...

Winter Wytchwood

Liz...

Liz Goddard

Zombie hug'n Teresa...

Teresa with an FX Zombie

Makeup!

Teresa and Natalie

Jeff Cooper

A Dead Zombie...

A Dead Zombie

Very focused...

Jeff Cooper filming a scene

Another zombie!

Another Zombie killed by Sean Steel!

Conjuror's Concoction!

Teresa sips on a Conjuror's Concoction...

Posing...

Liz and Teresa

Celebrating...

Natalie and Teresa

Hard at work...

Natalie and Teresa

More posing...

Liz and Teresa

Producer's Memoirs

July 11th, 2005

At long, long last, The Abberdine County Conjuror is officially complete. I sent the final 2 hour and 17 minute copy to the US Copyright Register today, marking its official completion. I’ll be sending copies to several distributors next, and will be settling a on a distribution agreement, hopefully, in the next few months.

In retrospect, I think that the film turned out pretty good, considering all of the setbacks that we had. After a year of preparation, we got off to a rocky start when one of our actresses was not working out and we had to let her go. After a couple of weeks we decided to eliminate that character from the film all together and moved on, which required some re-writing of the screenplay.

Next, I suffered a knee injury that caused a delay in filming for several weeks. We started up again as soon as we could, but then we lost another actress for economic reasons and had to find a replacement for her, which is how Edda, Raven’s cousin, was born into the film. We got them together for a few shoots and then Edda took over the scenes that Raven would have been in.

Then there were the weather problems; we were repeatedly rained out when we were hoping to shoot, and of course, most of the scenes were shot outdoors… but again, we eventually got through it.

In keeping things in perspective though, we really did get alot of very good film for all of the effort that went into this project.

By the time I finished editing the film, I was to the point of not really knowing if the film had turned out that good or not. I was familiar with every single frame of every scene; I knew where every glitch, every lighting problem, every glare, every audio problem, however well covered up, was on this film, and to me, they were problems that stood out like a painfully bruised sore thumb. I was also worried that the film might be too long.

When we did the first private screening of the film, the response was great. Nobody seemed to notice any of the "glitches" which, in retrospect, are pretty minor, and they were glued to the screen for the entire 2 hours and 17 minutes!

Now, I’m focusing on our next project; Demon Board, a film for which In have even greater expectations than the last…

Jeff Cooper
Producer, Director