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“I’ve been a cameraman on a lot of these adventure TV shows for over 16 years now and ‘Ghost Hunters’ was my first real job on a TV show,” Whelpton said. Before it hits the ground for the general public, we wanted to do this premiere for the paranormal community.”įilms such as “Sleepless Unrest” are a labor of love for Whelpton, who has a special connection to “Ghost Hunters.” “We’re starting to get some worldwide press, which is pretty amazing. “We make these movies for our community and this has gotten a lot more traction than we could ever imagine. “We love the paranormal community and we want to celebrate it,” Whelpton said. The premiere of “Sleepless Unrest” is a way for Whelpton to acknowledge that audience.

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The success of “Ghost Hunters” and other television shows and the success of the “The Conjuring Universe” series of movies, which have spawned eight films with at least two more on the way, shows that there is a big audience for stories about ghosts and haunted building. He’s such a good dude and everything just kind of clicked.” “As soon as I talked to Al Canal on the phone, I knew it was the right place for us. “We wanted something that could potentially be haunted, and the Wildey Theatre has a history to it and it’s very old. “Brian Murray and Richel Stratton are from the Edwardsville area and we were looking for a very historic theater to launch the film,” Whelpton said. We lived with the homeowners, Jen and Cory Heinzen and the caretaker, John Huntington, and lived as they do in the most haunted house in the world.”įor Whelpton, the Wildey Theatre was a natural location for the premiere. “Brian, Richel, Vera and I spent two weeks there and documented everything and had cameras on us 24 hours a day. “It’s the house that started it all,” Whelpton said.

It gave paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren their start in the paranormal field. The documentary is inspired by the real-life house that inspired “The Conjuring” films. “Through COVID, we were looking for our next documentary and we got a call to go to the real-life Conjuring home by our friends (paranormal investigators) Brian Murray and Richel Stratton and a documentary was born.” 1 on iTunes and was the top documentary across multiple platforms,” Whelpton said. The first one was called “The House in Between,” which was released last year and quickly became No. Kendall Whelpton is known for his work on “The House in Between,” “Ghost Hunters,” “Wicked Tuna” and “Battlefish.”Īs a filmmaker, director, director of photography, photographer, and business owner, Whelpton has his signature work on a vast range of networks including Netflix, Nat Geo, SYFY, Lifetime, A&E, Discovery, Travel, Destination America, CMT, and Animal Planet. With special access, a small group of filmmakers and paranormal investigators was allowed to move into the famously haunted home for two weeks in hopes of capturing evidence. The house that inspired “The Conjuring” has recently been sold and is now open to paranormal investigations. They’re going to have some equipment here to see if there is any paranormal activity at the Wildey.”

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With some of the cast members from the documentary here plus a couple of cast members from ‘Ghost Hunters’ and the new owners of the house (paranormal investigators Cory and Jennifer Heinzen), it sounds very cool. “He has some impressive credits and it’s great that he chose the Wildey Theatre for an event like this. “But the more I talked to him and found out about him and this project, I realized this was a big deal.

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“Kendall Whelpton called me out of the blue to ask if he would be able to rent out the theatre to premiere his documentary and I get calls all the time from people who say they made a movie on their cell phone,” Wildey manager Al Canal said, laughing. Cast members Brian Murray and Richel Stratton from Edwardsville, who are from “Ghost Hunters” on A & E, will attend the premiere as will directors/subjects Kendall and Vera Whelpton. “The Sleepless Unrest” will open in theaters and on-demand on July 16 from Gravitas Ventures. The event is sold out, but people can arrive 15 minutes before the movie to see if there are any no-shows. The premiere is open to the public and is free.