 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Two Kentucky natives will soon begin production on a horror film titled Pigs to Slaughter this September. Tuesday Mountain Top had the opportunity to speak with cast and crew about the film and when we can expect to see it. I was kind of at the core of all this. Kurt and I wrote it back, started talking about it back at the end of last year. I had written and just filmed two Western films that started out as one, but after we edited Vengeance Turns, it turned into Vengeance Turns Volume 1 and Vengeance Turns Volume 2. And they're actually premiering right now as Vengeance Turns Volume 1 in the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival 22nd Annual coming up in August. But Kurt drew the comic book, the companion comic book that goes with these movies. So there's Volume 1, Volume 2 in the movies, and then essentially Volume 3 is in a comic book called Explosions of Truth. And Kurt was the artist for that. And he did a lot of the concept art for me over about a five-year period while I was working on that Western. And so both of us are from Kentucky. We're both older than these guys. I'm 53. Kurt's in his 40s. And we were talking about slasher movies, and Kurt was asking me why I'd never done one. And just through the course of the conversation, we basically started writing one. Through passion, actors and cast have taken it upon themselves to create a piece that is satirical, political, and scary. Actors describe what they hope to achieve with the film. So fulfilling to be a part of something that not only we have influence in as producers, but also stands for something and has political beliefs that are so ingrained into the story itself that you can't take away from it. The thing that's different about this horror movie is I love horror movies, but historically, especially with the recent stuff, they have some pretty problematic undertones. You usually see these horror movies that you enjoy for the scares, but so often the female characters in it are treated as objects, the people of color kind of die off very, very quickly. And so the gratification of being part of a project where the coolest characters happen to be a lot of female characters. They're the ones that often don't need someone else to stand up for them, they stand up for themselves. To be able to not only be a part of such a big genre that we all love so much, but to possibly be something unique in such a huge genre that we all love is just, it's incredible. It's a really great thing that we're able to do. It's very gratifying and I think we're all very thankful to be able to even be in that position that we could be doing something genuinely unique in such a huge market. Afterward, Mountaintop spoke with co-writer and Eastern Kentucky native Kurt Belcher, who contributed himself to the film through the means of comic book writing. I think in a way, comics sort of prepares you for doing movies and doing live action stuff. Bobby may agree with me on that. But then in other ways, comics is a completely different medium. You know, it's completely unlike any other kind of medium. And the same with film. You know, film is a completely unique medium in the world. And I don't think anything can really prepare you to get involved in that. You just kind of have to jump into it and jump in with both feet. To learn more or if you would like to back the film, you can visit indiegogo.com keyword spread pigs to slaughter. From Mountaintop News, I'm Joel Porgyl.