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STAR WARS: HAND OF THE EMPIRE (2019)
This non-profit fan film was made by Arts For A Cause in the Summer of 2017 in loving memory a Phillip Parks, a young boy who passed away from brain cancer in 2016.  Wanting to help, producer Ken Daniels along with members of a local charity cosplaying group gathered up filmmakers wanting to help out to produce this feature length tribute to raise money for Norton Children's Hospital in Phil's memory.  

Nathan Thomas Milliner was brought in and served as Director, Writer, Editor, Sound Designer, Art Director, Poster artist and various other duties.  

The film stars John Wells, Krystabelle Dawn, Darrin Dickerson, Don West, Chad Zigmund, Clark Spalding, Jonathan Garlinghouse. Clint Land, Anthony Sevins, Warren Ray and Gary Collins.  David P. Bonnell served as Director of Cinematography with Alex Hall and Jimmy Sanders pulling second unit DP duties.  The film was composed by Joe Stockton.  Costumes by Barbie Clark.  VFX by Nick Taylor.  Make-up by Autumn Barefoot. 

The film premiered in Louisville, KY in January 2019 to a packed house with a second screening the following week.  The screenings helped raise $3,600 for Norton Children's Hospital who was presented the check in March 2019.
Set 6 years before the Battle of Yavin, 2 seasoned Stormtroopers (Dickerson and West) along with their Mandalorian guide Loto Tane (Garlinghouse and voiced by Sevins) find themselves lost and beaten on the forest planet of Cilpar on a mission to locate a young girl (Dawn) and return her to Emperor Palpatine on Coursant.  Only a Jedi Knight (Wells) is also on the planet along with a waring tribe of locals who will fight to protect the runaway.  
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FILMOGRAPHY
ON A DARK AND BLOODY GROUND (2020)
Writer/Director/Producer

SCREAM QUEEN: MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2019)
Self

ONE MUST FALL (2019)
Actor (Cameo

STAR WARS: HAND OF THE EMPIRE (2019)
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/Art Director/Sound Designer

VOLUMES OF BLOOD: HORROR STORIES (2016)
Segments: FEAR, FOR SINNERS HERE and MURDER DEATH KILLER
Writer/Director/Co-Producer/Actor

THE CONFESSION OF FRED KRUEGER (2015)
Writer/Director/Executive Producer 


VOLUMES OF BLOOD (2015)
Segment:  THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SATANICA
Writer/Director

A WISH FOR THE DEAD (2012)
Writer/Director

GIRL NUMBER THREE (2009)
Writer/Producer/Actor

THE NECROVILLE PICTURE SHOW (2008)
Writer/Actor

DEAD MOON RISING (2006)
Actor (Extra)
MURDER DEATH KILLER (2016)
A segment from the film VOLUMES OF BLOOD: HORROR STORIES
For the follow up to 2015's indie horror anthology film "Volumes of Blood", Nathan Thomas Milliner was brought back to write and direct two new stories for the sequel.  

The first story Nathan wrote was a "remake" of a fake slasher film teased at in the opening of the original VOB.  "Murder Death Killer" was a Friday the 13th ripoff that exists in the universe of Volumes of Blood.  In VOB: HS, Milliner gives us his faux remake of this 80's b-movie new and improved with a Rock-A-Billy flare!  Filmed in September of 2016 and released only one month later in October, Nate would serve as writer, director, editor and sound designer on the short.  He also wrote and starred in the epilogue to the segment later given the title of "Haters" in which Nate joins Kevin Roach and Gerimmy Keifer in a Kevin Smith-esque meta scene where he and Roach hate on this remake of the classic.

The film stars Barbie Clark (who also did costumes for Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories), Warren Ray, Aric Stanish and Thomas Dunbar.  Johnny Holt and Austin Madding were the Directors of Photography.  The score was by Rocky Gray. The Atticus Crow mask was made by Trick-Or-Treat Studios's Justin Mabry.  Make-up FX by Cassandra Baker.  
Meant to be the opening sequence of a modern day remake of a faux 1980's slasher classic, "MURDER DEATH KILLER" introduces us to rock-a-billy outlaws Dick (Ray) and Vallie (Clark) who are teaming up with Vallie's boss Mr. Dawson (Dunbar) to steal valuable goods from the warehouse they both worked for that is going out of business.  Only thing is it's going out of business because of mysterious deaths that have occurred overnight.  It's rumored that when the sun goes down, a malevolent sprit called Atticus Crow (Stanish) will appear and seek vengeance for his wrongful murder.  
FEAR, FOR SINNERS HERE (2016)
A segment from the film VOLUMES OF BLOOD: HORROR STORIES
When another writer left the project, Nathan took the task of writing a second segment for the follow up to 2015's Volumes of Blood in writing the Christmas story "FEAR, FOR SINNERS HERE."  A home invasion thriller.

Nathan fell so in love with the story that he insisted he also direct it.  Nathan would serve as Writer/Director/Editor/Art Director on the short which was shot in March of 2016.

The film stars Jessica Schroeder, Julie Streble, Troy Davis and Zander Kaufer.  The films Director of Photography was John William Holt along with Austin Madding as cameraman.  Costumes were by Barbie Clark.  Make-up and FX by Lisa Duvall.  Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories was produced by Eric Husskison and PJ Starks.  The score for Fear, For Sinners here was by Rocky Gray with additional music from Lito Velasco and Dan Redfield.  
It is Christmas Eve and Carol (Schroeder) is playing Santa Claus for her son who is fast asleep upstairs.  But there is something wrong with Carol.  As she gulps down glass after glass of wine and begins to have dark and violent day dreams her night is interrupted by a group of Christmas Carolers at her door who bring her comfort and joy if only briefly.  Because one of the carolers (Streble) hasn't moved on to the next house.  This mysterious woman has business to tend to and it involves Carol.  
Watch the trailer for VOLUMES OF BLOOD: HORROR STORIES featuring Murder Death Killer and Fear, For Sinners Here.
THE CONFESSION OF FRED KRUEGER (2015)
After working with the team of David Bonnell, Kevin Roach, Roman Chimienti, Lisa Duvall and Todd Reynolds on "The Encyclopedia Satanica", Nathan and this group of artists decided to do it again immediately so when Milliner presented to them a project he'd written in 2012 everyone was eager to get started,  

The Confession of Fred Krueger began after an online chat about the Nightmare on Elm Street prequel that never happened but was often rumored.  Nathan felt that the character and story that he first fell in love with in 1988 after seeing the first four films and reading Jeffrey Cooper's prequel from the novelization "The Life and Death of Freddy Krueger", had been lost and forgotten.  With a desire to tell the story he felt Wes and Jeffrey gave him as a young kid, he wrote the script in early 2012 and it sat on a shelf for 3 years. 

With Nathan serving as Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Art Director he joined forces with his cinematographer and editor David Bonnell, composer Lito Velasco, make-up artist Lisa Duvall, Sound Designer Roman Chimienti and glove builder Brian Sills.  The film stars Kevin Roach, Thomas Dunbar, Todd Reynolds, Eric Huskisson, Zander Kaufer, Kharley Redmon and others.  
Set in 1973 on the night he is arrested by the Springwood Police Department, child killer Fred Krueger (Roach) is brought into an interrogation room to be questioned by senior Lieutenant Russell (Dunbar).  Over the course of the night, Krueger will reveal a past filled with abuse, suffering, poverty, death and depravity.  Russell will get into the mind of one of the sickest men to ever live and learn of his crimes.  From the birth of his sinister glove to the first murder of a child, The Confession of Fred Krueger is a non-profit fan film dedicated to Wes Craven and the story he gave the world.  It currently has over 560,000 views on Youtube.  
Watch the full film here on youtube.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SATANICA (2015)
A segment from the horror anthology film VOLUMES OF  BLOOD
In 2014, Producer PJ Starks asked Nathan Thomas Milliner if he wanted to direct a segment for his forthcoming horror anthology project "VOLUMES OF BLOOD."  Eager to get back into the director's chair for a second opportunity he agreed to read the three scripts available.  

Nathan only connected with one of the three scripts, a demonic based tale written by screenwriter Todd Martin.  Nathan agreed to direct the segment but only if he could re-write the script and make it his own.  Starks agreed. 

Taking a detail from the wrap around story, Milliner moved the story to be set on Halloween night and tried to make it a little scarier, a little more exciting and not so campy.  It was a risk as the rest of the anthology was filled with funny tales.  Justifying that his story is being told by a psychopath he thought humor would be out.  

The film was shot in October of 2014 in just 10 hours and would star Kristine Renee Farley, Kevin Roach and Todd Reynolds.  It was shot and edited by David Bonnell.  The make-up was by Lisa Duvall.  The score was by Tony McKeee and the sound design and mix by Roman Chimienti.  The devil mask was sculpted by Trick Or Treat Studios's Justin Mabry.  The mask is available from the company.
Paige (Farley) is closing the library on Halloween night.  After receiving a nasty phone call from the mother of his ex-boyfriend Derek (Roach) who killed himself due to the breakup and depression discovers a mysterious book with her boss (Reynolds) called The Encyclopedia Satanica.  The book says it has the power to allow the living to speak with the dead which becomes too tempting for Paige.
Watch the trailer for The Encyclopedia Satanica on Youtube: