Watch "Trigger" - a new film by Richard Crook

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June 2, 2009

Richard invites you to  "check out my new short action film called "TRIGGER."  

Here is the trailer:

http://www.vimeo.com/4564349

Here is the link to the entire video

http://www.shortfilmtexas.com/2009/shortfilmtexas-presents-the-exclusive-online-premiere-of-dallas-ft-worth-director-richard-crooks-short-film-trigger/comment-page-1/

Also, here's a link to the film's website: www.trigger-movie.com

Ricahrd said, "We conceived, wrote, and shot this film in 6 days.  The challenge was to produce a quality film in a short amount of time...and I believe we pulled it off."

Here's a story written about us:

http://www.shortfilmtexas.com/2009/dfw-filmmaker-richard-crooks-short-film-trigger-mixes-mma-fighters-with-east-texas-filmmaking-talent/

Starring Brandon Sisson, Lance Eakright, and Darryl True.

Shot with the HVX-200 and Redrock lens adapter, edited on Adobe Premiere CS3, effects and grading done on Adobe After Effects.
 

A small group of soldiers stop to rest in the dense forest just north of a small Ukrainian Transcarpathian village.  As Wilson lights another cigarette, a conversation about the “triggers” that automatically cause someone to desire a smoke is brought up. The discussion
segways into an urban/military legend about a soldier who is trained from birth to snap out of a seemingly normal existence and into a lethal killing machine when someone utters a trigger word.

You are taken on a visual journey of the legend surrounding this soldier, whose knowledge of his internal fury is as dormant at the fury itself.  The story tells of a romantic day in the country with his beautiful wife.  They are brutally interrupted by a group of rednecks who kidnap, rape and kill his wife. But as she is dying, she whispers the something into her husband's ear that causes a chain reaction of events that leaves the rednecks in a heap of gore.  Only one of the
rednecks escape, the sole person guilty of putting a bullet into her chest.

With the fury now dormant and the heavy weight of grief upon him, the soldier searches for the man who took his wife from him.  

So is the legend true?

For this group of hardened military men listening to this fantastic story, the legend is about to get very real...

Story, Directed, Edited, and Cinematography by Richard Crook.

Screenplay by David Read.