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Cemetery Gates
Promotional release poster
Directed by	Roy Knyrim
Screenplay by	Brian Patrick O'Toole
Story by	Pat Coburn J. Victor Renaud
Produced by	David E. Allen
Starring	Reggie Bannister Peter Stickles Aime Wolf
Cinematography	Steve Adcock
Edited by	Christopher Roth
Music by	Ben Cooper Marcus Andexler
Release date	May 30, 2006 (2006-05-30)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$600,000 (est.)[1]

Cemetery Gates is a 2006 American horror film directed by Roy Knyrim and starring Reggie Bannister, Peter Stickles, and Aime Wolf. The film's plot concerns a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil that stalks a cemetery.^[2]

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After breaking into a laboratory facility in order to free the animals kept there for experiments, two environmental activists unleash a genetically mutated Tasmanian devil from its cage. Fleeing from the facility, the creature begins hunting in a nearby cemetery, killing anyone and anything it comes across.

Over ten years before Cemetery Gates was filmed, screenwriter Brian Patrick O'Toole, received a script for the film from Pat Coburn and J. Victor Renauld.^[3] O'Toole, who was working as a literary agent at the time, "loved" the idea of a Tasmanian devil as an antagonist, stating: "My feeling was, 'Why hasn't anybody thought of this before—a mutant Tasmanian devil?' It's the most pissed-off, vicious creature on the planet."^[3] O'Toole noted that a close childhood friend of his, Michael Beck, died one day before O'Toole received the script, and said that, "most importantly, this was a movie Michael and I would have loved."^[3]

Throughout the next decade, the script for Cemetery Gates went through a number of different drafts and storylines.^[3] The final draft of the script was written in four days over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2003.^[4] Filming took place over a period of 13 days; shooting locations included the Bronson Caves in Los Angeles, California.^[5]

On May 30, 2006, Cemetery Gates was released on DVD by Kismet Entertainment, Graveyard Filmworks, and Ventura.^[6][7][8]

• Shapiro, Marc (May 2006). "Cemetery Gates of Gore". Fangoria. No. 253. Starlog Group, Inc. ISSN 0164-2111. Retrieved January 28, 2020.

• Cemetery Gates at IMDb
• Cemetery Gates at Rotten Tomatoes