‘Bloody and Messy’: Fantasia’s Frontières Market Readies for Exploding Heads, New Zealand Monster Movie and Dark Pro-Birth Future
via Variety • by Marta Balaga
At Frontières Market and Forum, it’s all about the exploding heads.
“Big, bloody and messy explosions of heads. Old-school style explosions à la ‘Scanners’,” enthuses director Olivier Godin, who will bring neo-noir comedy “Anna Will Talk to Us” to its official selection, about a book that literally blows people’s minds.
The much-anticipated event, back for its 15th edition, is bound to satisfy the oddest of tastes, delivering the likes of “Animal Realm” – “Full on Wuxia. Total cyberpunk. Stop-motion animation in full action,” teases director Caochong Maing – or vampire story “Drawn” in which the bloodsuckers don’t actually drink blood.
Official Selection: Market Projects
“Prism Lake”
U.S.
Director: Carl W. Lucas
Genre: Cosmic Horror
EchoWolf Productions introduces a couple who set out for a weekend in the mountains, finding themselves embroiled in a secret society’s plot to resurrect a long-forgotten Mesopotamian god. “It’s a cosmic horror film broken up into three parts, playing with the ‘Groundhog Day’ trope. But one where the characters are not consciously reliving the same day and where each day starts the same, but devolves into a different subgenre of horror,” explains Lucas. “Part One is ‘a haunted house,’ Part Two is ‘a monster in the woods’ and part three is ‘the town with a secret,’ all connected to tell one complete story.”