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W g w g , and locations in a positive light.” WhenTheron first came to Flint from California, he was an artist with a humanitarian agenda. “I had never visited the city or much of Michigan until arriving in 2017,” he remembers. I came to help highlight the water crisis that I felt was being overlooked by most of the country.” Since then, he has been back frequently doing art and murals for the Flint Public Art Project.While visiting, he made the acquaintance of Flint Public Art Project Executive Director, Joe Schipani. “I was staying at his house – it was old and creaky with three storie and a basement,” he says. “It definitely had a horror movie vibe. It had weird, unexplainable noises and we joked about it. I thought it would be a good set for a horror movie.”With the seed planted, Theron got to thinking that maybe he really should make a movie. He acquired a copy of Schipani’s book, Haunted Flin and read it on the flight back to CA. A script soon followed. “There is one

y r has the horror come to life on the big screen – until now. Filmed in Flint, the new movie “Half-Dead Fred” promises to bring chills, mystery and a new image for the city as a place separate from unflattering media attention. “Flint is tired of being portrayed negatively and ;

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element from the book that I threw into the ‘Half-Dead Fred’ script,” he adds. The movie tells the story of Freddy Nash. An alcoholic gumshoe, Nash was in a horrific automobile accident that took the life of his nine-year-old son and left Nash “half ” alive. Ever since the accident, Nash has been cursed with the ability to see and communicate with the spirits of the dead. “I am a big fan of the noir film genre and the movie reads as

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