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Astrann Media Group · Original Horror & Genre

She wanted him back.
Something else answered.

The Campus Witch

A horror feature from Astrann Media Group. In development.

The Label

Astrann Media Group is an independent horror and genre label built on a simple idea: the strongest stories are the ones nobody else could have written. We develop and own original intellectual property — features and series rooted in horror, science fiction, and the darker corners of human nature — and we build each one for the screen from the first page. We are based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we make films with teeth.

The Campus Witch

The Campus Witch

First love. Last rites.

Proof-of-concept reel. Turn the sound up.

Logline

A lonely first-year student with a half-learned gift for magic casts a love spell on the boy she's been watching all semester — not knowing he died the night before — and binds something back to campus that wears his face and wants far more than her heart.

Synopsis

Wendy has always been the girl at the edge of the room — too quiet, too strange, too easy to overlook. So when she finds the old rites hidden in her late grandmother's things, she does the one reckless thing a fledgling sorceress should never do: she reaches for the boy she can't stop thinking about, and she calls him to her.

He comes.

But the boy who walks back into Wendy's life died the night before her spell was cast, and the thing that answered her isn't love — it's Bellus, a hunger as old as the ground the campus was built on, wearing a dead boy's smile and learning, hour by hour, to pass for human. What Wendy summoned in loneliness she now has to unmake in blood, before it finishes what it came back to do. Her only hope is the one relic her grandmother warned her never to open: the Sanctum. And opening it may cost her everyone she was trying not to lose.

The Campus Witch is a horror feature about the oldest, most dangerous spell of all — the one you cast because you were lonely — and the price of getting exactly what you asked for.

Producer-facing

Why this film, why now

Contained. Contemporary. Castable.

The Campus Witch is elevated campus horror built for a disciplined budget — a single location, a young ensemble, and a hook that sells itself in one line. Beneath the standalone film sits an original mythology — Bellus, the Sanctum, the rites — engineered from the outset to extend into a franchise. This is a first film designed to become a first franchise.

The Slate

A catalog of owned worlds.

Old Zeke

Horror Western

Old Zeke

1860s Arizona Territory. A government surveyor's certainty about the world comes apart when he uncovers what really happened to the colleague who vanished on an ill-tempered widow's land.

Granny Snow

Supernatural Horror

Granny Snow

To save the people she failed, a Connecticut divorcée is pulled back into a life she left behind — joining her ex-husband, an exorcist, and a witch to face a demon loose in a remote township.

Birmingham

Supernatural Drama

Birmingham

Four church deacons are torn out of their own time and dropped into 1946 Alabama, on a collision course with the history they thought they understood.

The Legend of Bossman's Train

Historical Sci-Fi Horror

The Legend of Bossman's Train

1894 Saskatchewan. Old man Bossman rides into town from prospecting the way he always does. This time, when he leaves, he takes the whole town with him.

Adriana's Heart

Horror / Crime Series

Adriana's Heart

In Chicago's Fulton Park, the people who run the neighborhood keep their power the old way — and the price is always paid in blood.

A selection from a catalog of 30+ owned original properties.

The Campus Witch

Project Financial Potential Pack

Market context, budget models, and audience projections for The Campus Witch. All figures are for discussion only and do not constitute a securities offering.

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Market Signal

$33.55B

2025 Global Box Office

Gower Street Analytics

17%

Horror Share of N. American Tickets

Reuters / Comscore

$62.2B

U.S. Home Entertainment

DEG Year-End 2025

Market figures are planning context only and do not imply guaranteed performance for this project.

Budget Models

Lean Independent

$0.60M – $0.90M

Contained locations, emerging cast, tight schedule

Standard Independent

Recommended

$1.25M – $1.75M

Stronger package, production value, festival/digital push

Enhanced Independent

$2.00M – $3.00M

Recognizable elements, stronger effects, broader release support

Audience Model

Conservative

50K – 150K viewers

Festival + regional + small TVOD/AVOD

Targeted Genre

250K – 750K viewers

Festival + trailer + genre press + digital

Breakout

1M – 3M+ viewers

Distributor + strong reviews + platform reach

Planning ranges — not forecasts

Use of Funds

Production

50%

Pre-Production

15%

Post-Production

15%

Development / Legal

10%

Marketing / Release

10%

Illustrative allocation — final budget controls

This section is for discussion only and is not an offer to sell securities, a solicitation to buy securities, or legal, tax, or financial advice. No funds will be accepted until attorney-approved documents are in place. Investment in independent film is speculative and carries substantial risk of loss.

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Astrann

Media Group

Independent horror & genre label. Charlotte, North Carolina.

Founder

Astrann Media Group was founded by writer J. Thomas Stroud, Jr., whose path to storytelling ran through military cryptology, decades in technology and security, a lifetime in the martial arts, and the study of six languages. He has been writing for more than thirty years. He builds worlds the way he learned to break codes: patiently, and all the way down.

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