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- ↑ An Interview with Director Adam Stephen Kelly Archived 5 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine Influx Magazine, 7 April 2014
- ↑ Short Film Done In Finds Home Inside Eli Roth's Crypt TV Dread Central, 26 May 2015
- ↑ Vinnie Jones joins vigilante thriller Screen Daily, 16 March 2015
- ↑ Rolling Stone page on Adam Stephen Kelly ,
- ↑ British GQ page on Adam Stephen Kelly Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine