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Creature Feature ‘Pacifico’ First Look Images Highlight Practical Effects
Filmmaker and VFX artist Gonzalo Gutierrez “G.G.” (El Conde, The Exorcism of God) is taking on practical effects with creature feature Pacifico, and first look images give a glimpse of the monster.
Pacifico follows “a group of young travelers are stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil alien presence that has been hidden from mankind for centuries.”
The first look images introduce a rather unique monster so far.
Manolo Cardona (Death’s Roulette), María Gabriela de Faría (Superman, The Exorcism of God), Ricardo Abarca (Miss Bala), Christopher Von Uckermann (“Demon”), Claudio Cataño (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”) and Maria Nela Sinisterra (Penumbra) star.
Pacifico is produced by Mauricio Brunetti of Patagonia Films and Guido Rud of FilmSharks. Florencia Lemoine executive produces. The film was shot in Bogota and is now in post-production.
“What I love so much about science fiction when bundled with genre,” says FilmSharks CEO/Founder Guido Rud, “when you can create a world that’s never been seen before, and naturally mix in layers of totally refreshing elements. Pacifico is about so much more than its monsters, it’s about how we understand that this is an old planet with so many hidden out this world stories. These are stories about how humanism evolved.”
Stay tuned for more on Pacifico as details arrive, including release announcements.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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