The Garlock Incident

The Garlock Incident, the found footage horror/thriller feature film and online interactive audience experience we first told you about back in April, will premiere at this year's Shockfest Film Festival in Hollywood, California on November 17th.  And, in anticipation of this debut, we have an exclusive clip to share with you inside.

The team behind the film invites you to delve into the story via their interactive experience which unravels via The Families In Search of Truth page - you'll get a taste of one of the viral videos after the jump.

According to the interactive The Families In Search of Truth pages, the viral clip is a "newly found" short video made by Casey, a character in the film who "went missing" after leaving to film an indie movie called Napoleon in Las Vegas in December of 2011.  The audience can comment on the video, guess or report as to who she is speaking to in the video and post their own videos posing as a friend, family member, or citizen concerned about the missing characters.

It wasn’t enough for filmmaker Evan J. Cholfin and his producing partner and wife Ariana Farina to just make a movie.  They wanted to enhance the audience experience by immersing them in the world of the movie before ever seeing it.  So, they created an interactive online experience for the social media age - one entrenched in the world of Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, and Twitter, that could be a shared, communal experience for those who had the enthusiasm (and perhaps courage for some) to participate.

It was back in 2007 when Evan and Ariana, engaged at the time, were driving back from Las Vegas to their home in Los Angeles, when they started talking about ghost towns along the way, and what a creepy and unique place this would be to film a realistic horror-thriller film.

Cut to three years later, when Evan led eight actors and a crew of six out to a ghost town in a remote area in Kern County, CA to film the movie.

Then, on an unassuming afternoon in December 2011, Evan and Ariana quietly launched a website and a Facebook page which marked the beginning of what would become a brand new social media experience for the audience - a prologue to the movie.