CW: Brief Sirens, Loud Static

It's finally here! Please enjoy the trailer/prologue for Season One of The Holmwood Foundation. Starring Rebecca Root, Seán Carlsen and Attila Puskas.

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.

TRAILER CAST AND CREW:

Madeline Townsend: Rebecca Root

Jeremy Larkin/Jonathan Harker: Seán Carlsen

Dracula: Attila Puskás

Sound Engineer/Design: Benji Clifford

Director: Samuel Clemens

Writer/Producer: Fio Trethewey

Writer/Producer: Georgia Cook

Theme Composer: Duncan Muggleton

You can find a transcript for this trailer in the "Transcript" section on our website.

Please like and share if you enjoy, and keep an eye on our socials (you can find us on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok and Facebook) in the coming weeks for both our Pilot Episode and our official Season One Kickstarter!

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Content Warning: swearing, threat, loud static, brief emergency sirens, themes of possession/removal of bodily autonomy, and depictions of violence. Listener discretion is advised.

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast, a modern-day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula.

We follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula for the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a nightmare road trip, carrying Dracula's severed head across the UK, in an effort to stop him once and for all.

EPISODE CAST AND CREW:

Madeline Townsend/Mina Harker: Rebecca Root

Jeremy Larkin/Jonathan Harker: Seán Carlsen

Arthur Jones: Samuel Clemens

Thralls/Foundation Phone Voice: Becky Wright

Newsreader: Jessica Carroll

Robert Swales: Luke Kondor

Dracula: Attila Puskás

The episode was produced and written by Fio Trethewey and Georgia Cook.

Directing by Samuel Clemens.

Script Editing by Katharine Armitage.

Sound Design and Engineering by Benji Clifford

The Theme music was composed and produced by Duncan Muggleton, and the episode art was produced by Georgia Cook

For more information, as well as transcripts and further Cast and Crew details, please visit our official website:

The Holmwood Foundation Podcast © 2024 by Georgia Cook and Fio Trethewey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Hi all,

This is Georgia, one half of the Holmwood Foundation writing team, just posting a quick update regarding the Holmwood Foundation.

As you may or may not have heard, our Kickstarter for season one ended last week, after successfully reaching our funding goal of 23 thousand pounds, which means we are now full steam ahead on production!

We just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us up to this point, whether monetarily, by listening and sharing our pilot, enthusing about us on social media, or giving us your time and experience to help make this show possible, we have been blown away by the support. We wouldn’t be here without your help, and we are so so grateful.

So, what comes next?

Right now we are hard at work editing and locking off our season one scripts, wrangling our actors and finalising our recording schedule. We hope to release the rest of season one in Spring or early summer 2025, but we will keep you updated as we go, via our socials and this feed.

In the meantime, we are also working hard to begin fulfilling the tier rewards for our Kickstarter backers! Please remember; if you don’t fill out your backer survey, we will not be able to get your rewards to you, so please take a moment to do that now, if you haven’t already!

If you missed the Kickstarter window, we do have late pledges open for a short time, in case you would like access to our private Discord server, access to episodes a day early when they drop, or a shout out on our website. If that interests you, do check out our Kickstarter link in the show notes!

We will continue to release art, character extracts, script snippets and other goodies over on our socials, as we gear up for the rest of season one, so please do follow us if that interests you! We regularly answer questions and interact with our followers. Links also in the show notes.

That’s all from me for now! Please do reach out to us if you have any questions, comments or concerns. A huge thank you again. We can’t wait to show you the horrors we have in store!

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: https://www.theholmwoodfoundation.com/

KICKSTARTER LINK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georgiacook/the-holmwood-foundation

You can find us as @theholmwoodfoundation on all socials except twitter and bluesky, where we are theholmwoodfnd. You can also contact us by email at theholmwoodfoundation@gmail.com

Thank you for listening!

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