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New ‘Offspring’ Image, Behind-the-Scenes Video!
B-D stringer JM wrote in with an exclusive pic from Offspring, along with a little word from director Andrew Van Den Houten. As an added bonus, over at BDTV you’ll find the first of a series of webisodes of behind-the-scenes footage of the making of OFFSPRING. In the film survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan are chowing their way through the locals. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire’s despicable husband, Steven, gives an opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives.
Andrew van den Houten, Director of OFFSPRING, chats a bit with JM about the cave scenes and how he approached filming this adaptation. Click the image to see it much larger.
“Upon reading Jack Ketchum’s book OFFSPRING, although ultra-violent and dealing with cannibalism, I realized that the story is not as far fetched as most horror yarns.
Thematically and developmentally, the characters and world by which OFFSPRING takes place are very real.
While doing research for the film, I found it interesting that in some South American Amazonian rainforests there are still cannibalistic head-hunting tribes in exsistence. With deforestation and other disastrous ecological encroachments, the separation between the two worlds is continuing to decline. I enjoyed filming Ketchum’s story and screenplay, as I found it really allowed for a true exploration of a tribalistic people – desperate to survive and maintain their rituals – all while having to deal with the modern world at its front door step.
The violence in the film is scary to me because it comes from a very basic animalistic need for survival. I guided myself after calling action everytime, to commit to the belief that there was no other moment – no last chance – to save this this fading species, this clan, in each filmed frame. After motivating the action in the cave scenes I found myself pushing the actors to experience the pain, take after take, in order to get the intensity relayed to the screen as believable as possible. We made every effort to maintain the intensity, as we did with Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door – never giving the viewer a moment to regather themselves, until the film itself is immersed in the depths of true horror.“
Director Sébastien Vaniček has been set to helm the next Evil Dead movie, but up first from the filmmaker is the creepy crawly spider horror movie Infested. An exclusive new clip gives a discomfiting closer look at the spider terror, and it’ll make you intensely afraid of all bathroom drains and fixtures.
Infested will induce a new wave of arachnophobia this week; the spider horror film arrives on Shudder on April 26, 2024.
If you’re brave enough to face your fears, watch the new clip below to get a feel for the unrelenting wave of spiders that the characters (and the audience) will face in the film.
In the film, “An underprivileged suburb has been thrown into chaos following an invasion of venomous spiders. Ordered to be placed in quarantine, the project sees inhabitants living on lockdown alongside terrifying spiders that are becoming bigger and bigger.
“The story revolves around Kaleb, who’s about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He’s fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend.
“Passionate about exotic animals, he comes home one day with a venomous spider and accidentally lets it slip away.”
Théo Christine (“Suprêmes”), Finnegan Oldfield (“Final Cut”), Jérôme Niel (“Smoking Causes Coughing”), Sofia Lesaffre (“Les Misérables”) and Lisa Nyarko star.
Florent Bernard co-wrote the script.
In his review out of Fantastic Fest last year, Bloody Disgusting’s Trace Thurman raved that Infested (aka Vermines) is “one of the best spider attack movies in years,” noting in his 4-star review that the creature feature uses practical spiders – REAL SPIDERS – as much as possible. Thurman also wrote that the spider horror movie is “full of moments that will get under your skin (I kicked my legs up more than a few times in my screening).”
The spiders will be everywhere in Infested, are you ready?
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