Horror film ‘Skagit’ has Washington roots

Mount Vernon — A movie filmed in 2018 in Skagit County is now available on Amazon.

The horror film “Skagit” debuted on Amazon on May 6. It has since become available on other streaming platforms, including Google and Apple TV, according to a news release from the film’s writer and director, Nick Thompson.

The release states that “Skagit” is about four friends who leave Seattle for a weekend in the Skagit Valley. The foreboding October landscape warps their minds, plunging them into alternate realities where they must grapple with personal demons, sexual tensions, and a sinister natural world as they claw their way back to sanity.

According to the release, “Skagit” won Best Feature at Bellingham’s Bleedingham Film Festival and at Hastings Rocks in England.

“Skagit” also won Best Director at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature at First Hermetic International Film Festival and Best Editing at Hastings Rocks.

Thompson, 32, was born and raised in southeast Seattle and is a graduate of Garfield High School and The Evergreen State College.

The lead actors — Taigé Lauren, Allen Miller III, Rheanna Atendido and Keenan Ward — have been seen on many Seattle stages. Nearly all of the producers, executive producers and production crew also have local roots.

“What I hope to achieve with “Skagit” is broader recognition of the cinematic potential of the Pacific Northwest,” Thompson said in the release. “Climate change and development are impacting our region, dramatically altering our psyche and culture, which gives the movie’s environmental approach to the horror genre topical resonance.”