‘Key of Bones’ Premiere: Purple Carpet in Key West, Then Tampa

Key of Bones: Curse of the Ghost Pirate is coming house for its premiere. The horror-comedy, shot totally on location in Key West, holds its Key West Premiere Weekend October 2–3 on the Tennessee Williams Theatre, then heads up the coast for a one-night particular screening in Tampa on Tuesday, October 6, on the College of Tampa’s Charlene A. Gordon Theater within the Ferman Middle for the Arts. Tickets for each are on sale now.

Written and directed by Tony Armer, the movie follows a Key West waitress, a ghost tour information and an unfortunate vacationer who wake the vengeful ghost of the pirate Anne Bonny. Armer has described the movie in interviews as Shaun of the Useless meets The Goonies meets Pirates of the Caribbean. A premiere with a pirate sea battle on the schedule is the correct strategy to launch that film.

Friday: Purple Carpet, Q&A and a Half Shell After Get together

Opening night time is the total premiere remedy. The solid and filmmakers stroll the crimson carpet earlier than the primary screening, then keep afterward to reply questions. The night time ends at one of many island’s best-known waterfront bars.

• 6:30–8:00 PM — Purple carpet on the Tennessee Williams Theatre
• 8:00 PM — Screening of Key of Bones: Curse of the Ghost Pirate
• 9:30 PM — Forged and filmmaker Q&A
• 10:00 PM — Official after occasion at Half Shell Uncooked Bar

Saturday: A Tall Ship Sea Battle and a Pirate Get together

Day two leans all the way in which into the movie’s pirate spirit. It begins on the water with a Tall Ship Pirate Sea Battle between the Jolly II Rover and the Spirit of Independence, adopted by a second screening and Q&A. It closes with the Key of Bones Pirate Get together at Schooner Wharf Bar on the historic seaport.

• 1:00–2:30 PM — Tall Ship Pirate Sea Battle between the Jolly II Rover and Spirit of Independence
• 4:00 PM — Screening on the Tennessee Williams Theatre
• 5:30 PM — Q&A
• 7:00 PM — Key of Bones Pirate Get together at Schooner Wharf Bar

Tickets for the Key West Premiere Weekend can be found at KeysTix.

Actual Key West Legends, Woven Into the Story

A part of the enjoyable of seeing Key of Bones on the island is recognizing the native historical past. The pirate ghost story is invented, however locals will acknowledge a couple of actual Key West legends woven into it. The island’s folklore grew out of storms, shipwrecks and a whole lot of documented demise, and we went by means of its best-known legends in The True Horror Legends of Key West.

Anne Bonny and Mary Learn have been actual. The 2 sailed with Calico Jack Rackham within the Caribbean and have been captured collectively in 1720, they usually stay two of probably the most documented girls within the historical past of piracy. Within the movie, Melissa Chick performs Anne’s vengeful ghost, and Gina Vitori performs Mary, a waitress who learns she is descended from Mary Learn. For extra on why pirate treasure is one factor you need to by no means take house, learn The Actual Curse of Pirate Gold.

Barbara Mabrity is actual too. She stored the Key West Lighthouse for many years after her husband died of yellow fever in 1832. When the Nice Havana Hurricane hit in October 1846, the tower collapsed. Mabrity escaped with certainly one of her youngsters, and her different youngsters sheltering inside didn’t survive. The lighthouse was rebuilt, and guests have advised tales ever since of a lady climbing its stairs who vanishes earlier than the highest. In Key of Bones, Kitty Clements performs her ghost as one of many island’s oldest protectors, going through off towards Anne Bonny.

The movie’s areas carry their very own ghost tales too. Chad Newman performs Dave, a ghost tour operator, and his excursions run out of an actual haunted constructing: the Alex Vega Key West Firehouse Museum. The museum sits within the island’s outdated Hearth Station No. 3, which served Key West from 1907 to 1998. At this time it hosts haunted excursions and paranormal investigations and is billed as “America’s Most Haunted Firehouse,” with guests reporting apparitions and unusual exercise inside.

Locals will even acknowledge the setting when Anne Bonny and her ghostly crew shut in on Mary and Christie. That scene was shot at Fort East Martello Museum, a brick fort the U.S. Military started constructing in 1862 to defend Key West in the course of the Civil Struggle. It’s best identified now as the house of Robert the Doll, the island’s most infamous haunted object, who nonetheless will get letters of apology from guests satisfied he cursed them.

Dave’s huge exposition scene has a becoming backdrop too. The second the place he takes a more in-depth take a look at Mary’s cursed coin and explains the legend of Anne Bonny’s ghost was filmed on the Key West Shipwreck Treasure Museum, which ghost hunters know as a cease on the island’s Ghosts & Gravestones tour. After darkish, the tour leads guests down into the museum’s outdated cistern and previous a silver bar mentioned to be cursed, recovered from a 1656 shipwreck. A cursed coin defined a couple of steps from a cursed silver bar is a pleasant little bit of symmetry.

The scene the place Anne Bonny first finds Desiree, performed by Benjamin Healy as drag performer Jessica T. Deveraux, was shot at Aqua Nightclub, the place Deveraux has headlined since 2008. She advised iHorror about getting possessed at her personal bar.

Who Is in ‘Key of Bones’

The movie stars Gina Vitori, Melissa Chick (Landman, Lioness), Jeremy King (Scare Package deal, Unhealthy Monkey), Chad Newman, Benjamin Healy, Ty Spann, Kitty Clements and Vincent De Paul. Cinematography is by Brandon D. Hyde. The manufacturing shot totally in Key West beginning in January 2026 and screened on the Implausible Pavilion Gala in the course of the Marché du Movie at Cannes in Might.

After the premiere weekend, Key of Bones: Curse of the Ghost Pirate involves digital on November 10 on Vimeo. For full occasion particulars, go to KeyOfBonesMovie.com.