Karen Lam

Canadian filmmaker Karen Lam, with Angel Entertainment and Goonworks Films, has begun production on her feature psychological horror film Stained. It features Tinsel Korey (Twilight: New Moon, Rabbit Fall), Sonja Bennett (Battlestar Galactica, Masters of Horror), Tim Fellingham (Truly Blessed, Life on Top), and Stephen Huszar (Corner Gas, Paradise Falls).

Stained is an intense thriller about a lonely bookseller’s obsessive love affair and her protective best friend, who alone knows the horrible truth about her obsession. Karen’s first short horror film, The Cabinet, was selected for the National Canadian Screen Institute – Drama Prize in 2006.

Karen Lam, director of 2007's amazing short horror film The Cabinet, has just secured financing for her first feature film, a psycho-thriller to be called Stained.

"We're just going into official prep and the shoot starts on October 19," says Lam. "It's about a crazy cat lady who actually is crazy."

Lam says the Canadian Stained will remind us of Repulsion and Audition. We can't wait!

Directed by Karen Lam
Produced by Karen Wong
Featuring Sonja Bennett, Julius Chapple
12 minutes, 2007

This National Screen Institute Drama Prize winning film was shot on a decent budget and is a prime example of the awesome horror filmmaking coming from Canadian female directors in the short film arena (Izabel Grondin and Ashley Fester are others). Basically, it’s a re-telling of the story of Bluebeard, it’s a very grisly fairy tale- nay – fable about why you should never ever look through your boyfriend’s stuff while he’s gone. Seriously...