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Horror film shot at West Bromwich museum

The finishing touches are being completed on a spooktacular movie that was filmed in the Black Country.

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Acclaimed actor Ian McNeice has starred in the film which was shot at the Manor House Museum in West Bromwich

Ian, who has starred in Doctor Who, When Nature Calls and Doc Martin, plays a mysterious character called The Architect in the film called The House of Screaming Death.

The movie, which takes its inspiration from the Hammer Horror pictures from the 1960 and 1970s, was filmed last year and this spring at the 12th-century building.

The film is currently in post production and is set to be released later this year.

It has been filmed in the Manor House and other locations across the Black Country included the Walsall Transport Museum.

The project is the joint brainchild of Walsall-based Lightbeam Productions and Pat the Bull Films.

Shot on a budget of just £4,000, it involved around 100 people, including cast and crew, all of whom provided their services free of charge.

Sandwell's visitor services officer at the Manor House Museum, Rachel Kinsella said: "I have seen a sneek peek of clips from the film and it looks brilliant.

"The Manor House looks so eerie – I cannot wait to see the finished production."

The house is an Grade I listed, medieval domestic building built by the de Marnham family in the late thirteenth century.

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