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Found Footage ‘Safari’ Starts Shooting Next Week In South Africa!

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Movies
Posted by EvanDickson on October 08, 2012 @ 5:31pm
Category: Movies / Indie

A new project on the horizon that has the potential to be pretty cool is Safari, a found-footage thriller gearing up to start shooting on October 15th in Johannesburg, South Africa. Directed by Academy Award nominee Darrell Roodt (Little One, Yesterday) and written by Dark Was The Night scribe Tyler Hisel, the pedigree is right for this one to be a cut above.

The film “centers on a band of American tourists, stranded and hunted in the heart of the South African wilderness. Their struggle to survive the elements and the vicious predators lurking the African plain is documented by the video cameras meant to record their vacation.” Rocky Myers (Vamp U) and Kim Argetsinger (Foreign Exchange) are set to star.

I recently spent some time on the set of Hisel’s Dark Was The Night and that film, directed by Jack Heller, looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. So fingers crossed on this one!

Treminatryx’s ‘Virus’ Shows What A REAL Werewolf Can Do

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Music
Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 12, 2011 @ 11:47pm
Category: Music / News

In 2009, Paul Blom and Sonja Ruppersberg filmed a short clip of a werewolf transformation for their South African Horror Festival. The clip garnered so much praise and accolades (Director John Landis even gave it his thumbs up), that the two decided to expand on the premise even more. They took the opportunity to use some of the footage (along with newly shot material) to make a music video for their band, Terminatryx.

On top of creating this music video, they shot a short film, ‘Marked’, that utilized the help of Clinton Smith and many other at Cosmesis Prosthetics (the people behind Laconia, Death Race 2, and The Last House On The Left remake). The debut of ‘Marked’ won them the Audience Choice Award as well as the Best Special Make-Up FX award at the South African Horrorfest. The short movie will be up featured HERE.
The duo are currently gearing up to write a feature length screenplay.

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