Horror Favourites – Anto Sharp

Get ready to confront your deepest fears, face every phobia you’ve experienced and every nightmare you’ve ever had, as Jitters takes control and invites you to play his truly twisted game, in a brand-new horror thriller that gets its premiere this March from Reel2Reel Films. We were lucky enough to grab one of the movies stars Anto Sharp to chat about the scary movies he loves the most.

From Aptitude, the film is written by George Willcox with Marc Zammit (Witch) as director and producer, James Fuller and Richard Oakes co-produce with lead actor Fabrizio Santino (Captain America: The First Avenger, Hollyoaks), who plays the world-weary Detective Collymore.

Long in the game Detective Collymore thought he’d seen it all, a single father who is haunted by his own failings, he puts his all into his work. But when he’s called in to investigate what appears to be a routine case alongside Detective Harding (Anto Sharp): the sudden, unexplained death of a young woman, that’s been officially ruled as “natural causes”, the detective soon finds himself faced with his strangest, most complicated case yet and is pulled deep into something truly sinister.

As Collymore is drawn deeper into the depths of an unknown online world, he soon learns that Jitters isn’t just depraved, it’s deadly… The only way he can survive and save his family, is to not only face the horrors coded into the system, but the darkness within himself.

Below Jitters star Anto Sharp talks about some of his favorite scary movies:

“The list is too long to just name one or two horrors… but a film I watched when I was about nine-years-old – because I was trying to act tough in-front of my older sisters’ friends – was The Sixth Sense and the tent scene traumatised me to say the least ha!

Another horror film that always stands out for its creativity and for the fact it set the benchmark for handheld self-shot style horror is The Blair Witch Project. To think of the number of films and games that were influenced by this film is incredible.

And it also features a tent… (I’m clearly traumatised) that I hated every moment of it. As a kid I thought it was real footage.

Another film that messed me up as a kid was The Exorcist, the 1973 original, it was marketed as being too scary and apparently got banned in loads of countries. This just made it one hundred times more scary to me ha. And it took me ages to finally pluck up the courage to watch it and I regretted watching that for about four years haha. I think it’s still listed today and the scariest horror ever.

28 Days Later is top 5 for me! Another horror that set the mark for zombie films. An absolute classic. The on the ground immersive element of this film has always fascinated me the fact that they walk into corner shops, petrol stations or supermarkets and to see what life would look like in a post apocalyptic situation.

I’ve been a horror fan for years and years and have even spent the last five years playing pretty much every indie horror game on the market live on stream.

I’ve worked on many horror films now and produced five of my own short horror films, that are available to watch on the ‘Anto Sharp’ YouTube channel.

And I’ve learned that when producing horror, there’s a fine line to perfecting the tension, fear and jump scares correctly, but when done right, in a simplistic way, it’s horror gold.”

Jitters is out now on digital (Reel2Reel Films)

Jitters trailer