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Clip from Image’s ‘Fall Down Dead’ Features David Carradine
Police are on the trail of a serial killer – following clues that are as barbaric as they are “artistic”. They have called the criminal the “Picasso Killer”: death is his inspiration, the carved bodies of his victims are his works of art.
Now on DVD from Image Entertainment is Fall Down Dead, a terrifying journey through a city caught in the grips of a madman and his misdirected “skills.”
Check out an exclusive clip inside!
“Christie (Dominique Swain – Alpha Dog) does not know it, but she is being stalked…by someone who doesn’t know her, yet is obsessed with her. His name is Aaron Garvey, known as the “Picasso Killer” (Udo Kier – Blade, Halloween): a madman whose victims are just sketches, as he prepares to make Christie his bloody masterpiece. One Christmas Eve, he discovers his ultimate prey, as Christie is heading home from work. Most businesses have already closed, but she is able to take refuge as she persuades a security guard (Golden Globe® nominee David Carradine – Kill Bill 1&2) to let her into an office building. Fueled by his maniacal creativity, the killer follows…and the game of cat-and-mouse begins.
A cold-blooded serial killer…a police force with nothing to go by but his shocking handiwork…a body count that is climbing…what can Christie do before she becomes the next victim to Fall Down Dead?“
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.
The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.
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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