Projects
STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION
Lovita Cinema is excited to announce production on the feature-length film, Valenti House. Inspired by the British style and aesthetic of Hammer and Amicus horror films of the early 1970s - the story is brought up to date with modernized storytelling and characters to make for a deliciously grisly cocktail of horror that tastefully blends the decades behind it with the present, and those yet to come.
Plot Summary: Once the crown jewel of a wealthy hotel empire, The Valenti House now sits in eerie seclusion, ruled by its last mistress—Viktoria Valenti, a beautiful and glamorous recluse stricken by illness and desperate to preserve her dynasty.
Decades earlier, Viktoria’s black-sheep sister died under tragic circumstances, and her three infant children were adopted away into separate families; erased from the Valenti legacy. Now grown and strangers to one another, each sibling receives a mysterious invitation from Viktoria, promising both a chance for reunion, and a share in her vast inheritance.
As soon as they enter past its velvet curtains, the guests are quickly unsettled not only by the hotel’s decaying grandeur, but also it’s peculiar staff and ghoulish townsfolk who haunt the candle-lit hallways. As the night falls and the guests begin to suspect that Viktoria’s intentions may be much more sinister, one thing becomes certain - the Valenti legacy is preserved by the bloodline, and the hunger for it is insatiable!
Written and Produced by:
Emerson James
STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION
Plot Summary: In the dead of night, four strangers are drawn into a smoky club, where a hauntingly beautiful singer exposes the sins of their sordid pasts through four revealing songs. But as each melody ends in a brutal prophecy of death, they begin to suspect the terrible truth: these are not warnings of what is to come, but echoes of fates already sealed, and the club itself may be the threshold of Hell.
Among the four strangers are Camille, a vain and beautiful wife, terrified of age and driven by greed, will stop at nothing to preserve her fading allure and claim the fortune of the wealthy spouse she despises. Paris, a once-celebrated actor who seizes upon his greatest role yet: impersonating the beloved dead son of a senile old woman in a sinister plot to steal the fortune locked within her family safe. Scott, a rising politician tainted by scandal, who enters into a seedy bargain behind closed doors - only to discover that corruption always demands a far deadlier price. And then there is Siobhan, an ambitious aspiring influencer who worms her way into the lives of a deeply dysfunctional family, intending to expose their bizarre private proclivities into online notoriety and viral fame.
In the end, each of them is destroyed by the very vice that brought them there. Their own greed, lies, and cruelty leading them toward the brutal deaths awaiting them in the singer’s final act.
Written and Produced by:
Emerson James
Pretty (Short, 2018)
Our very first project, Pretty follows a town searching desperately for a local missing teenager. Little do they know, the teen is being held captive by a popular peer to satisfy their sadistic sexual fantasies.
The film stars Emerson James and Caterina Augimeri. The duo also produced the film, alongside the film’s director, Carlee Bandoian.