EXCLUSIVE SHOGUN FILMS UNLEASHES THE HARBINGER ON GREENLIT

SHOGUN FILMS UNLEASHES THE HARBINGER,
STARRING BRITISH TV FAVOURITES, ON GREENLIT.COM

UK indie genre studio Shogun Films have launched their first crowd funder, for their ‘instant
cult’ horror movie Harbinger, as well as releasing the epic one sheet key artwork.

Boasting a cast packed with much-loved genre favourites headlined by Carole Ann Ford
(Doctor Who), Gary Webster (Minder), Tony Sands (Moondial) and Peter Woodward
(Crusade) the film is inspired by the classic British Hammer and Amicus horror films.
Harbinger tells the story of Julia, the sole survivor of maniacal satanic serial killer Henry
Decker, living with PTSD 5 years after he was shot dead by the police while trying to kill her.

Julia is approached by TV ghost show producer/presenter Mike Craggs (Gary Webster) with
an offer to return to Decker’s deserted home for a new episode of his show Spectre
Investigates. Convinced by her mum (Carole Ann Ford) that it could be cathartic, Julia agrees
and travels with Mike and his Crew to Decker’s imposing home. Once there the team,
including psychic Neal (Tony Sands) uncover Decker’s prized possession: a fairground
fortune telling machine known as The Harbinger, which dispenses fates via Tarot style cards.

What the group don’t know, however, is that with his dying breath, Decker used an ancient
incantation to transfer his soul into the Harbinger, and now uses it to plot murderous ends
for the TV crew, taking the six souls he needs to be reincarnated. Preying on them one by
one he exploits their deepest fears and begins his murderous journey back to corporeal
existence.

Harbinger was filmed in East Susssex and London and is now in post production.
The crowd funding campaign is raising finishing and promotion monies to get the movie to
market and to raise awareness of a new and exciting horror character in an age of repetition
and familiarity.

Shogun Films founder Jonathan Sothcott explains “having resisted the lure of crowdfunding
our previous movies, Harbinger seems like the perfect project with which to embrace the
huge value it offers filmmakers. Not only do we want to raise some money to really get the
film out there in an increasingly oversaturated market but we want to use this exercise to
really raise awareness for the film. I grew up watching all the great British horror movies of
the 60s and 70s, they’re in my blood you might say, but it isn’t the kind of film I’m really
associated with (yet!) so we want to get this movie out there as far and as wide as possible.
If you love Hammer and Amicus and all those kind of films, I’m sure you’ll like this!”

The film will be released by Trinity Content worldwide later in the year, both digitally, on Blu
Ray and in selected cinemas but before that Shogun has teamed up with greenlit.com to
offer audiences the opportunity to get involved at a grass roots level. Shogun Films are vocal
advocates for physical media and are offering Blu Rays and soundtrack CDs to backers, as
well as posters and unique screen-used tarot cards from the Harbinger machine itself.

Harbinger was created by producer Jonathan Sothcott (Helloween) with a story by Harry
Boxley and the screenplay was written by Simon Cluett (We Still Kill The Old Way). It is
directed by James Crow (Nemesis).
The Harbinger box’s malevolent occupant was designed by special effects wizard Stuart
Webb.
The campaign can be found at www.greenlit.com/project/harbinger

About Shogun Films
Founded in 2020 by veteran indie producer Jonathan Sothcott, Shogun Films has rapidly
become one of the UK’s main creators of quality low budget indie genre movies with
productions including Nemesis, Renegades, Doctor Plague and Helloween featuring stars
such as Lee Majors, Ian Ogilvy, Patsy Kensit and Martin Kemp. The company’s next film is the
spy thriller Knightfall starring Sir Roger Moore’s son Geoffrey.
www.shogunfilms.com