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‘Flesh of the Void’ Aims to Visualize Death; Watch Unsettling Trailer
What would it feel like to die? This experimental feature hopes to answer that question.
Now in production, director James Quinn’s Flesh of the Void just got its first trailer, and it’s home to nearly two minutes of weird imagery that evokes the spirit of a video you’d find buried within the bowels of the deep web. Described as an experimental film, the feature will explore “what it could feel like if death really were the most horrible thing one can experience.”
Sodom & Chimera Productions explain that “the film was shot almost entirely on expired Super 8 film from the ’80s, and is intended as a trip through the deepest fears of human beings, exploring its subject in a highly grotesque, violent and extreme manner.” They also note that it’s “80-minutes of pure Hell,” playing out like a “non linear, psychedelic nightmare.”
“If you like your horror straight and rational, this is not for you,” they warn. But “if you’re a fan of surreal mindfuck like Begotten, Subconscious Cruelty or similar experimental films, you should have your fun with it. In the end, death has no story line. Death is a state.”
Sound like your cup of tea? Check out the Flesh of the Void trailer below!
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have toyed with the idea of making a sequel film to mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows for years with no forward movement, but that may soon be changing, according to Clement.
Speaking with Collider at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Clement not only reaffirmed the intention to make a We’re Wolves film, but also that he and Waititi have finally started the writing process.
“We’re writing it, actually. We started writing. For a long time, we were just talking about it. Now, we’ve started it. Very recently,” Clement told the outlet. Though, don’t expect it to be a swift process with their busy schedules.
When does Clement estimate the script will be completed? “At the pace we’re going, 2027, for sure. It helps to be in the same country, for Taika and I to be in the same country,” said the filmmaker.
Waititi has previously joked that “We’re Wolves is the film that Jemaine and I keep pretending that we’re making. Every couple of years we say, we’re making this new film called We’re Wolves, which follows the werewolves from the film.“
The 2014 film What We Do in the Shadows chronicles the lives of four vampire roommates, detailing their nightly routine as they bicker over household chores, cruise for victims, antagonize the local werewolf pack, struggle with modern technology, and more. It introduced a rival pack of werewolves led by Anton (Rhys Darby), the inspiration for the sequel.
While the long-gestating sequel set around the wolf pack is still in the early stage of development, the 2014 film has inspired two spinoff shows in the form of “Wellington Paranormal” and, well, FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”
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