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‘Pinocchio Unleashed’ Teaser Trailer – The Enchanted Puppet Breaks Free in Practical Effects-Driven Indie Horror
Childhood innocence becomes a nightmare in the teaser trailer for Pinocchio Unleashed, in which a wooden puppet comes to life — but not in the way you remember.
The twisted reimagining of the timeless tale is written and directed by Carlo Bath, who promises an emphasis on practical effects.
When an enchanted puppet breaks free from his creator’s workshop, he enters a fractured world ruled by fear and facades. Each step toward humanity forces him to make choices that test his morality. Along the way, he confronts figures who embody the themes of temptation, betrayal, and redemption.
Blending psychological depth, visceral emotion, and contemporary stakes into a dark fairy tale, the indie film explores what it means to be human through the trials that forge one’s character.
James Wingate, Stephen Guy, Jerome Wise, and Katie Jarvis star in the fantastical horror movie.
Bath produces via his Film It VFX Studio alongside JNR Productions and Mad Angel Entertainment.
Currently in production in London, Pinocchio Unleashed is aiming for a release later this year.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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