''Sin-Jin Smyth'' is an unreleased

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written and directed by Ethan Dettenmaier, based on an old legend inspired by the Kansas Stull Cemetery. The story involves the Devil simultaneously appearing in two places, the high plains of

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and one cemetery in Kansas every

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at midnight. The film stars

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, Jonathan Davis (vocalist of the

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), Richard Tyson, Don Stroud, and

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and also features Kevin Gage,

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, Billy Duffy (guitarist of the

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band The Cult), and

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Synopsis

''Sin-Jin Smyth'' takes place over the weekend of Halloween in an America that has become a police state. On November 2 (

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) two federal marshals report to a jail in Shinbone, Kansas, to transfer a prisoner, known as Sin Jin Smyth, during the tornado warning.

Release problems

The film was slated for release in late 2006 but was delayed. There was speculation as to whether the movie will ever be released, but

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revised the project status in January 2007 to “post-production”, even though principal photography had yet to be completed. The original page on IMDb was subsequently deleted and a new one created with the title ''Sin-Jin'' and a release date of 2009. As of , the film has yet to complete principal photography, with some online sources citing a lack of funding. One of the actresses in the film,

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, remarked in 2008 that the film was “never coming out”.

, talking to ''Fangoria'' in 2008, said: “They keep hyping it like it’s gonna come out, and it’s just not finished, and I don’t like the fact that they’re using my name. I was talking to Richard Tyson about it, saying ‘You know, I’m just gonna pull it off the market’, but he said ‘Leave it out there, because you never know — they might come around’. So, we decided to see what the director, and his people can do to get it back up. They spent all their money, and they didn’t have a completion bond — so I hear, anyway.”

References

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External links

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