Writer-director Karen Lam has turned her lens to the dark comedy feature Armageddon Road.

The film is now in production in B.C., with Lam producing under her banner Opiate Pictures alongside Kate Kroll of Vancouver’s Black Moon Media.

Armageddon Road is set in 1976 Las Vegas and follows an ex-con who comes face to face with the end of the world when the person he is hired to chauffeur is taken over by one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The feature stars Natalie Grace (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Brian McCaig (Supernatural), Landon Liboiron (Hemlock Grove), April Telek (Hell on Wheels) and Willie Aames (Bottle Monster).

Vancouver-based Lam is best known for her work in horror and genre with feature film credits that include Stained, Evangeline and The Curse of Willow Song. In television, Lam has directed a true-crime documentary series for Investigation Discovery (U.S.), and has written television scripts for Syfy and Netflix.

Armageddon Road is making extensive use of the expertise of acclaimed sculptor and miniaturist, Gary Young, whose credits include Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Predator and Godzilla.

“This film combines traditional filmmaking techniques with cutting edge technology, much like the story itself. This is 1976, but seen through a 2024 lens,” said Lam in a statement. “Meeting Gary Young and working with miniatures reminds me of why we all wanted to be filmmakers in the first place. We are featuring the coolest hot rods from the 1960s and ’70s, and we have period sets that are created on a 1/18 scale that we’ll be projecting into life sized versions. It’s a bit like falling in a real-life dollhouse.”

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