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Full ‘Exorcismus’ Casting and Synopsis
With Rec 2 looking for a release, the next big Filmax movie to get underway is the English-language Exorcismus, which is currently being helmed by Manuel Carballo at several locations in Barcelona and will run until November 13th. Bloody Disgusting was contacted by Filmax this morning with not only the full cast listing, but also given the first ever synopsis. Read on for the skinny!
Sophie Vavasseur (Evelyn, Resident Evil: Apocalypse), Richard Felix (Perfume; Fragile), Douglas Bradley (Hellraiser) and Stephen Billington (Resident Evil), among others, have all joined the cast of EXORCISMUS.
Here’s the plot crunch: Emma is sick. Tired of studying at home instead of going to school, tired of baby-sitting his younger brother, tired of their parents. Emma’s parents are overprotective, agnostics and overly strict with their children’s education. Emma wants a different life, wants to be free … Inexplicably Emma begins to suffer strange attacks that parents attributed to psychological problems, but she knows that these attacks have a very different origin. Emma knows that something terrible inside that is gripping it. Emma wanted to be free … Some things are best ever wished absence thereof…
Manuel Carballo Filmax commitment to give way to a movie that has already been sold to more than half a dozen countries, including Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Poland, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
One of the main features of the film and be more innovative within the genre is to be shot with a very realistic tone, so that the fantasy theme of possession will be even more disturbing.
As for the technical team, signed script David Munoz (The Devil’s Backbone). In front of the Director of Photography is an experienced Javier Salmon (13 bells, Borgia, Romasanta). Josep Rosell (The Orphanage, Juana la Loca, Butterfly’s Tongue) is responsible for Art Direction. Another camera is the technical values Inchaustegui Yosu (Agora, The Oxford Murders, Chef’s Special).
Released by Eli Roth’s label The Horror Section last year, Joe Begos (VFW, Christmas Bloody Christmas) horror movie Jimmy and Stiggs is getting an official spinoff movie.
Variety reports that director Sebastián De Caro has acquired the Argentine spin-off rights to Jimmy and Stiggs from The Horror Section, and he’s not planning a straight up remake.
“The film will follow new characters facing the same extraterrestrial threat in Argentina, expanding the universe Begos created into new territory,” Variety details in their report.
Eli Roth and Joe Begos will Executive Produce the upcoming spinoff movie.
“Working with Eli Roth and Joe Begos is an incredibly exciting adventure,” De Caro said. “Jimmy and Stiggs struck me as a brilliant kind of madness — it blew my mind with its energy and humor — and the chance to expand that universe in my own country is the biggest creative challenge I’ve ever taken on.”
Eli Roth said in a statement shared by Variety this afternoon, “Horror is truly global, and any story can be applied to local culture. I cannot wait to see how this film honors and expands the universe of a wildly original film by the one and only Joe Begos.”
Meanwhile, you can watch Joe Begos’ Jimmy and Stiggs on Digital outlets now. The drug-fueled, neon-soaked alien invasion splatterfest is written and directed by Begos, who shot the film in his apartment during the pandemic.
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. Begos stars alongside Matt Mercer (Contracted), practical alien puppets, and a whole lot of gore captured on 16mm film.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “The world needs more playful, gonzo small-scale-yet-apocalyptic horror films like Jimmy and Stiggs. It’s a movie that has constant tricks on display and perpetually sprays blood in the audience’s face, but there’s an earnest center to it all.”
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