Scorn (film)

Scorn
GenreDrama
Based onSuch a Good Boy by Lisa Hobbs Birnie
Written byAndrew Rai Berzins
Directed bySturla Gunnarsson
StarringEric Johnson
Brendan Fletcher
Bill Switzer
Theme music composerJonathan Goldsmith
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersChristian Bruyère
Laszlo Barna
Maryke McEwen
CinematographyTony Westman
EditorJeff Warren
Running time96 minutes
Production companiesAlliance Atlantis
Barna-Alper Productions
Original release
NetworkCBC
ReleaseSeptember 24, 2000 (2000-09-24)
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Scorn is a Canadian dramatic television film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson.[1] It dramatizes the true story of Darren Huenemann, a gay teenager from Victoria, British Columbia, who manipulated his classmates Derik Lord and David Muir into murdering his mother Sharon and grandmother Doris in his grandmothers's Tsawwassen home in 1990.[2]

The film stars Eric Johnson as Huenemann, Brendan Fletcher as Lord, Bill Switzer as Muir, Kelly Rowan as Sharon and Pam Hyatt as Doris, as well as Emily Hampshire, Michael Hogan, Jesse Cadotte, Jerry Wasserman, Bill Dow and Hrothgar Mathews in supporting roles.

The film premiered theatrically at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival,[3] and received a followup theatrical screening at the 2001 Victoria Film Festival,[4] before being broadcast by CBC Television on March 18, 2001.[5]

  1. ^ Alison Cunningham-McMillan, "Bad boys: Scorn delivers an eerie, chilling tale of manipulation and murder". Edmonton Journal, March 16, 2001.
  2. ^ Cori Howard, "Director says he wanted to get inside teen killer's head: Scorn offers fictionalized account of the Huenemann murders". National Post, March 5, 2001.
  3. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Painful memories for B.C.". Vancouver Sun, September 24, 2000.
  4. ^ Michael D. Reid, "Huenemann case revisited". Victoria Times-Colonist, February 2, 2001.
  5. ^ John McKay, "Delving into the twisted psyche of a mother killer". Welland Tribune, March 17, 2001.