Low Grounds - The Portal

Synopsis

Genre: Thriller | Fantasy

Darkly handsome and intense Delany Maynhardt appears to be the typical rebellious high school dropout on the verge of obscurity. Bucking the system, he shuns a comfortable, albeit dysfunctional, existence at home with his alcoholic mother, for an abandoned dilapidated factory inhabited by squatters and drug addicts. His only salvation from life on the fringe is his internship at the old grand theater, and a consuming obsession with the beautiful and untouchable actress Beatrice. Eccentric director Edwina decides to eschew warnings and mount a production of "Orpheus in the Underworld" a play that was banned since the time an actress died on stage during a run of the show. From the utterance of the first words in archaic Greek on opening night, superstition becomes horrific reality when a portal to a parallel dimension, the Low Grounds, is torn open. Delany's obsession, Beatrice, is the first to fall victim to this supernatural occurence, when her soul is separated from her body and 'drawn under' to the Low Grounds before a horrified opening night crowd. With the help of ex-occultist Richard, Delany is provided the mystical tools needed to restore Beatrice's soul to her body. Haunted by the creatures from the Low Grounds and seen as delusional by many, Delany must brave his darkest fears to repair the rupture between dimensions. LOW GROUNDS is a music driven, mythological thriller that chronicles Delany and his quest to save his town from other-worldly destruction. Filming will take place in Poland. Full of texture, atmosphere, Poland is the ideal backdrop for a story in which time is an illusion, and the concrete world we perceive is only a diaphanous layer away from The Low Grounds