Sculptor Mason Jackson has come to the manor to make a final, all-or-nothing attempt at success before giving up his dreams. When he becomes obsessed with carving Ephram Korban's form out of wood, he is swept into a destructive frenzy that even Anna can't pull him from.

The manor itself has secrets, with fires that blaze constantly in the hearths, portraits of Korban in every room, and deceptive mirrors on the walls. With an October blue moon looming, both the living and the dead learn the true power of their dreams.

Toby Venable brings over a decade of experience in the video installation and experimental film worlds to his first narrative feature, this artful take on growing up dead. His influences for the film are drawn more from literature and music than film and he feels that atmosphere, tone, and mood are as important to a film as story and characterization. As such he plans on bringing the "slow aesthetic" of directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr and Robert Bresson to the horror film.

Joriah Goad has directed nearly twenty short films, character essays, documentaries and music videos in the last two years alone and is a promising director of photography already making a name for himself in both gallery and commercial circles with among other projects his recent "The Life Infinato", a short film piece for the Nine Inch Nails omnibus film "Ghosts I-IV". His unique eye and mind will be integral in realizing Moderngrumble's visual style, a chalky technicolor of lush, opulent rot.

Marcus Koch has over ten years of experience in the film industry, cutting his teeth on Troma's "Citizen Toxie" before moving on to such upcoming feautres as Lions Gate's Psychic Experiment and the highly anticipated The Theater Bizarre. He has also worked extensively on underground horror festival faves such as Herschell Gordon Lewis's "The Uh-Oh Show", "Sweatshop", "Ghost Lake", "Imago", "Sinners and Saints", "Bloody, Bloody Bible Camp" and the upcoming "Through the Eye." Currently he's working on "Christmas with the Dead", produced by genre icon Joe R. Lansdale (BUBBA HO-TEP, INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD) and based on one of Lansdale's fantastically twisted stories. Marcus is also a director, having helmed the films "Fell" and "100 Tears" of which Cult Flicks opined; "100 Tears' true brilliance shines through in the quite believable and disgusting special effects and make up." Marcus' ingenuity and craftsmanship will be needed for several of Moderngrumble's set pieces that have no parallel in the modern horror film including the hatching of a blue bird from a character's head.

Amelia Raley completes the core visual team for Moderngrumble with her ultra modern and period designs that have been featured everywhere from Bust Magazine, and The Museum of Sex, to Time Out New York and recently were selected for feature in Helmut Lang's show during NYC Fashion Week.