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Movie from director with Union County roots to stream on Shudder
By DICK MASON
The Observer
LONDON — A 15-year
journey and a single word.
Each have helped create
what might be a Halloween
hit this autumn for Chris
Hatton, a successful movie
director and writer with deep
Union County roots. Hatton
is the director and cowriter of
“Raven’s Hollow,” a fiction-
alized story of legendary
writer Edgar Allan Poe that
is receiving positive reviews.
The film is about Poe’s
days as a cadet at at United
States Mili-
tary Acad-
emy in West
Point, New
York, which
he attended
in the 1830s
before myste-
riously drop-
Hatton
ping out.
The streaming service
Shudder is carrying “Raven’s
Hollow” starting in late
September. This week, the
film is debuting in London
at FrightFest, an annual film
festival at Cineworld Leices-
ter Square, where movie-
goers view dozens of the
world’s latest horror films.
TimeOut, a London-based
digital magazine, rates
Hatton’s work as one of five
“must-see’’ films at Fright-
Fest, which ruins though
Monday, Aug. 29.
Chris Hatton/Contributed Photo
William Mosley and Melanie Zanetti are two of the stars in the new movie “Raven’s Hollow,”
which starts streaming in September 2022 on Shudder. Chris Hatton, the movie’s director
and cowriter, is a 1986 graduate of Imbler High School.
“If you like your chills to
come clad in period garb and
with a gothic vibes this Shud-
der-produced reimagining of
the life of Edgar Allan Poe
will be for you,” writes Time
Out’s global film editor Phil
de Semlyen.
Hatton’s film opens with
Poe and four other cadets on
a training exercise in upstate
New York when they are
drawn by a gruesome discov-
ery — the sight of a young
man who has been beaten and
tied to an upright board. Poe,
played by William Moseley,
approaches the dying man
and asks what happened.
He responds with one barely
audible word — “Raven’’ and
then dies.
The utterance sparks a
search by Poe and the four
cadets that takes them into a
forgotten community where
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indictment against a potential
defendant in cases of serious
felonies.
Spalinger, Demus Montez,
36, of Hermiston, and Ashtin
Romine, 26, of Clarkston,
Washington, were arrested
during July in connection to
a burglary at Muzzleloader’s
and More and subsequent
car chase out of Island City.
According to law enforce-
ment, the trio fled from the
parking lot in a car driven by
Spalinger, injuring the busi-
ness owner’s daughter, Randi
Shafer. They were pursued
in a high-speed chase where
shots were fired at Oregon
State Police. The chase
ended in Elgin with all three
suspects fleeing on foot into
the underbrush near Indian
Creek.
Earlier this month Montez
also pleaded not guilty on all
charges against him. He has
been charged with attempted
murder, first-degree attempted
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states, including Oregon, has agreed to pay $1.5
million to settle allegations by the United States
relating to the May 2014 Powerline and August
2015 Lime Hill fires in Baker County.
The Powerline Fire ignited on May 31, 2014,
and burned approximately 5 acres of federal
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a weapon, possession of a
firearm as a felon, criminal
mischief, reckless endanger-
ing and misdemeanor fleeing.
The court appointed La
Grande attorney J. Logan
Joseph to represent Montez,
who will be back in court on
Sept. 14 for a status check.
Romine, who is repre-
sented by court appointed
counsel Kathleen Dunn of
Canyon City, has waived his
right to have his case brought
to trial within 60 days of
arrest. The court moved his
plea hearing from Aug. 24 to
Sept. 7.
Romine was arrested for
reckless endangering and
for misdemeanor and felony
fleeing. He was also indicted
by the grand jury. His new
charges are first-degree
attempted burglary, reckless
driving, and misdemeanor
and felony fleeing
Spalinger will be back in
court for a pretrial conference
hearing on Sept. 6 and her
trial is set to begin on Sept. 14.
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LA GRANDE — The
second suspect arrested in
connection with a burglary
and high-speed car chase
in July out of Island City
pleaded not guilty on Tues-
day, Aug. 23, in Union County
Circuit Court to all charges
against her.
Jessica Spalinger, 31, of
Walla Walla, was arrested
on charges of first-degree
assault, hit-and-run with
injury, recklessly endanger-
ing and misdemeanor flee-
ing from police. The court
appointed La Grande attor-
ney James Schaeffer as her
counsel.
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Hatton said what Poe
experiences in “Raven’s
Hollow” is totally fiction and
is not meant to suggest what
really happened to him.
Hatton said he sees Poe
as a fascinating historical
figure. He said Poe, best
known for his 1845 poem
“The Raven,” one of the
most popular ever written, is
a tragic figure.
Poe received little money
for his works, including “The
Raven,” because laws that
fully protected artists’ rights
to money from their works
were not fully in place in the
United States.
“At one point, he may have
been the best known writer in
the world but he had holes in
his shoes,” Hatton said. “He
always struggled to pay his
bills.”
Hatton said his film is
meant to recognize Poe
in many ways, includ-
ing elements of horror and
detective fiction. Poe wrote
many works of horror and
was among the first to write
detective fiction. His 1841
short story, “The Murders in
the Rue Morgue,” is consid-
ered to be one of the first
pieces of detective fiction.
Hatton said that as a writer
himself, he has long been
inspired artistically by East-
ern Oregon’s landscape.
“The vastness and the
scale of the beauty,” he said.
“I love it there.”
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they find a township guard-
ing a frightening secret,
Hatton said.
A 1986 graduate of Imbler
High School and 1991 grad-
uate of Eastern Oregon
University, La Grande,
Hatton said he believes
viewers will be mystified by
“Raven’s Hollow” until the
end.
“I would be surprised
if anyone gets ahead of
the story,” he said.
Hatton, who now lives
in Singapore, said he began
working on the script of
“Raven’s Hollow” 15 years
ago. In this span he also
directed and wrote scripts
for “Battle of the Damned,”
which stars Dolph Lundgren
and was released in 2013, and
“Robotropolist,” released in
2011. One of Hatton’s earliest
movies was “Sammyville,”
whose fictitious story is
based in the small commu-
nity near Elgin, which the
movie is named for.
“Raven’s Hollow” was
filmed in 2020 Latvia, a
country on the Baltic Sea,
during a 30-day period in
autumn at the height of the
pandemic. The cast had to
stay in a confined area near
the movie set throughout the
film’s shooting due to the
coronavirus. This meant the
cast spent much more time
together.
“It d rew us closer
together,” he said. “It felt like
family.”
Hatton made “Raven’s
Hollow” after becoming
intrigued with Poe’s story
and his time at West Point,
which he attended after
serving in the Army. He was
at West Point for only seven
months before he left follow-
ing a court martial when
he was tried on charges of
gross neglect of duty and
disobeying orders.
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