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- Author:Katya de Becerra
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The House
Ghosts are memories; we carry them in our blood. And no place
taught me this lesson more clearly than Cashore House that summer
ve years ago, when my sister Layla made her amateur horror
movie Vermillion, using Cashore as the set.
Vermillion turned into an underground cult sensation. I was twelve
years old, and I became its star. There was no script—fans wrote
one later via crowdsourcing. There were no notes to follow.
Vermillion was a clever assembly of disturbing footage, bits and
pieces stitched together by my sister in post-production. Even
though I knew I was safe—while chandeliers swung and chairs
smashed into walls as the movie’s chilling nal sequence unfolded—
I was scared out of my mind. I still am.
My memories from that time may be hazy and disjointed, but one
thing I know for sure—it was all pretend. Special eects. Layla
explained it all to me. And I believed her, even if her eerily-moving
homemade props looked a little too impressive in the moonlit
hallways of Cashore House, the place that was our home that fateful
summer.
The place that’s haunted my nightmares for years.
Much has been written about my sister and her eerie creation in
the years following Vermillion‘s release. I used to keep a scrapbook
of clippings and printouts, but when the euphoria of “fame” wore
o, I threw away my collection. Still, some of the articles written
about Layla and Vermillion stuck with me, especially when the
writer asked questions that bothered me too. Take this one fanzine
review I screenshotted—
The young protagonist’s realistic fright imbues
Layla Galich’s macabre creation with verisimilitude,
while the titular ghost’s torments are sure to evoke
empathy as well as bone-deep terror … the director’s
resultant fame should come as no surprise to found
footage genre fans, sprouting countless amateur
investigations into the film’s enigmatic setting and
its complicated history.
Were young Sophia Galich’s blood-curdling
encounters with the film’s eponymous ghost real? Did
Layla Galich capture authentic ghost sightings on
camera? And does the dark lore surrounding the film
truly extend beyond the original footage, with fans—
or V-heads, as they call themselves—claiming to have
supernatural experiences after viewing the film, and
with clues allegedly showing up in freezeframes and
the grainy periphery? This reviewer is certain that
the main question every Galich fan out there wants
to ask our favorite director is: Will there be a
sequel?
—Esme Craig’s review of Vermillion for Basement
Ghosts, an online fanzine of indie horror cinema.
Or that other piece that likened Layla’s lm to a “monstrous
child” of David Lynch, Carmen Maria Machado, and all the found
footage horror classics as if Vermillion was some Frankenstein’s
monster made of pieces, ideas, and vibes.
Layla rarely did interviews or discussed her vision, with a few
exceptions. When cornered by a persistent reporter at the Saturn
Awards, she said perhaps her most famous words: Some believe the
house was haunted. Who am I to say otherwise? I was just a girl with a
camera.
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