AKRON, Ohio – After six months of renovations, Goodyear Heights’ historic Linda Theatre will reopen on Halloween night with the premiere of indie film “The Mephistophiliac.”
The film is part horror movie, part psychological thriller and all local. Akron independent film actor Kevin Winstead co-wrote it with fellow Ohio actor Tim Novotny. Though they aren’t new to the movie scene, the film is the first writing credit for both.
“Tim and I have been acting in the independent film scene for roughly 14 years or so. So we had a concept for a character for a horror film that we haven’t seen on a big screen, ever. The film’s protagonist portrays the devil, but he doesn’t have any supernatural abilities–he’s a guy dealing with a lot of different personal traumas who self-medicates with alcohol until he blacks out. And he has dissociative identity disorder, so when he blacks out, he paints himself up like the devil and punishes people for what he believes their contributions to the downfall of society are,” Winstead told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer…