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Midnight

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United States202695 minEnglish
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A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.

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A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.

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MidnightAll FeaturesFirst-Time FeaturesAnimationExperimentalFictionHorrorClosed CaptionOpen CaptionU.S. Only- less

Credits

  • Director(s)

    Casper Kelly

  • Screenwriters

    Casper Kelly

    Jamie King

  • Producers

    Tyler Davidson

    Drew Sykes

    Raphael Margules

    J.D. Lifshitz

    Tracy Rosenblum

  • Executive Producers

    Kevin Flanigan

    Dexter Braff

    Roberto Linck

    Nathan McAuley

    Emilio Schenker

    Gideon Tadmor

    Adam J. Wilde

    Geoff Yaw

    Ryan J. Kelly

  • Casting by

    Chelsea Ellis Bloch, CSA

    Marisol Roncali, CSA

  • Director of Photography

    Zach Kuperstein

  • Production Designer

    Anna Kathleen

  • Editor

    Josh Ethier, ACE

  • Costume Designer

    Shawna-Nova Foley

  • Music by

    Michael Yezerski

  • Principal Cast

    Cristin Milioti

    Delaney Quinn

    Topher Grace

    Keegan-Michael Key

    Michael Shannon

    Patton Oswalt

  • Production Companies

    BoulderLight Pictures

    Low Spark Films

  • Contact

    Katie Sanders

    Worrywellproductions@gmail.com

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Casper Kelly

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Casper Kelly is a writer-director best known for the viral short Too Many Cooks, the Emmy-nominated TV show Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, the movies Adult Swim Yule Log and V/H/S/Halloween, and the “Cheddar Goblin” sequence in the film Mandy (Sundance Film Festival, 2018).

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