Isaac Towell.
The commercial world and the genre world aren’t opposites. Both depend on a performer making an audience lean in, and believe what happens next. Canadian commercial icon Isaac Towell brings that screen experience into two very different Andromeda Studios features: the horror thriller Storm Warning and the cottage-country comedy Lake Patrol.
Towell is a Toronto-area actor whose screen credits span comedy, crime, thriller, action and horror. His work moves from a recurring comedy role to short films, crime drama and horror anthology television. Now he joins a pair of projects that take genre in sharply different directions: one pits a small Ontario town against the undead; the other sends an unlikely band of lakeside defenders into battle against greedy developers, with beavers in the resistance.
A comedy role with a sharp edge
In the Crave workplace comedy The Office Movers, Towell plays Grant, an insurance fraud investigator who recurs in the series. Set in Brampton, the show was created by brothers Jermaine and Trevaunn Richards and draws on their experiences working for their father’s moving company. The series premiered in 2024 and has earned Canadian Screen Award nominations, including Best Comedy Series.
Grant’s line of work brings a little crime-world tension into a workplace comedy. An arresting contrast in a series about the daily chaos of a moving business. It also places Towell in a recurring part within an ongoing ensemble, alongside his film and short-form work.
That range shows up across Towell’s other credits. In the 2024 comedy short Wolf Culture, he plays Isaac. In the 2025 thriller Last Known Backup, he plays Murphy; he also plays Murphy in Paternal, a 2025 crime-drama short. The 2026 comedy-romance Grace Period casts him as Ian, while the Canadian comedy short Mad About DC features him as Jerry.
Those projects keep the genres shifting and the roles distinct. Comedy can turn on timing; thriller and crime stories put pressure on what a character knows, risks or conceals. For an actor building a screen career across formats, each credit adds another kind of story to the reel.
From crime drama to horror
Towell’s credits reach into crime-based screen storytelling as well. In two episodes of the documentary-crime series The Torso Killer Confessions, he plays Young Richard Cottingham. His name appears there in the fuller credit form Isaac River Towell.
He also plays Jason in a 2022 episode of the horror-crime anthology Fear Thy Neighbor. Together with his work in comedy, thriller and action, that anthology credit places him in territory familiar to genre fans: a grounded situation pushed toward danger.
For independent filmmakers, range matters because production schedules are tight and stories don’t all ask for the same energy. A performer with credits across comedy and suspense brings experience in more than one storytelling mode. That flexibility can help an ensemble move between tones without slowing the story down.
Two Andromeda films. Two very different worlds.
Towell appears in both Storm Warning and Lake Patrol, two Andromeda Studios features with contrasting premises and distinct genre engines.
Storm Warning: Horror / Thriller
A hidden SS experiment unleashes undead Nazi stormtroopers on a small Ontario town. As the creatures lay siege to a church, a local constable, a doctor, a sergeant, a priest and the town’s residents must organize a desperate defence.
Written by Bill Dever, produced by Sam Dever and directed by Drew Antzis, Storm Warning completed principal production in Guelph, Ontario. The film pairs psychological tension with visceral horror and practical-effects craft, channelling the spirit of classic 1980s genre cinema. Towell is part of the ensemble, joining a cast led by Kate Mayhew and Marc Rico Ludwig, with Curtis Harrison, Eddie Curry, Lambros Bryan Demos, Jemilla Mills-Smith, and character actors Ross Mullan (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who) and Rick Bland (Star Wars, Doctor Who).
The story gives genre audiences a fast, legible threat: a community under siege, a church turned into a last line of defence, and an enemy that should not be walking. Storm Warning is being positioned for theatrical release as the studio finalizes distribution partnerships and festival strategies. Read the production announcement.
Lake Patrol: Comedy
The threat in Lake Patrol is a little different. Greedy developers target a beloved Ontario lake, and an unlikely militia of chronically inebriated beavers joins a cast of wacky lakeside inhabitants in defending home turf.
Directed by Drew Antzis, produced by Sam Dever and written by Bill Dever, the comedy filmed near Roseneath, Ontario, with production support from Alpine Resort. Towell appears in the film as part of its ensemble, alongside Izzy Carter, Matthew Gallagher Heakes, Eddie Curry and Lambros Bryan Demos.
The project is built for more than one screen: Lake Patrol is designed as both a feature-length theatrical release and an episodic television series. Its comic hook is unmistakable; underneath the beaver militia is a warm salute to cottage country, local traditions and the people who refuse to let their home turf go quietly. Principal photography wrapped in September 2026, and the film is in post-production. Read the completion release.
Why versatility fits independent film production
For an independent film production team, a strong ensemble is a practical advantage as well as a creative one. Genre features often need performers to make heightened premises feel immediate. Whether the story involves an insurance investigation, an unfolding crime or a lakeside showdown with developers, the audience has to connect with the people at the centre of it.
Towell’s credits bring several storytelling lanes into view: a recurring part in a Canadian workplace comedy, a thriller role, crime-drama work, a documentary-crime series and horror anthology television. His two Andromeda projects extend that mix into a feature comedy and a horror thriller. They also show how an indie film production company can build a slate around sharply different audience promises while bringing performers into more than one world.
That kind of range matters across digital media production, where stories can move between theatrical features, series and short-form work. It helps a studio develop projects with distinctive hooks, while giving audiences clear reasons to choose what they want next: scares, laughs, or a cottage-country showdown with an unusually furry militia.
Watch this space
Storm Warning and Lake Patrol give Towell two contrasting entries in Andromeda Studios’ growing slate of Canadian genre movies. One sends a town into a supernatural siege. The other turns lake life into a battle for home and community. Different tones, different stakes, and the same actor stepping into both.
Visit the Andromeda Studios slate to explore the projects, including Storm Warning and Lake Patrol. For distribution or industry enquiries, contact the studio.