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Get Ready For Some Hard-‘R’ Gore in ‘Drive Angry’!
During his recent visit to the set of Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry 3-D starring Nicolas Cage, B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen was happy to find out that not only will the action/thriller/horror/road movie not be watered down to a ‘PG-13’ rating, but that we can expect the levels of 3-D gore to be up there with Lussier’s My Bloody Valentine. Read on for more.
As we chatted with director Patrick Lussier on the set of his My Bloody Valentine follow-up – the intense supernatural action/thriller Drive Angry 3-D – it became pretty apparent that fans of hard-‘R’ violence will be in for a real treat when he recounted a conversation he had with his wife over one particularly disturbing scene featuring Billy Burke’s villainous Satanic cult leader:
“I was sitting there describing a scene, one of the early scenes in the movie that involved Billy Burke’s character and described it to her in detail and she’s like just like ‘oh my God. How did you shoot that?’…it was sort of mortifying to realize, ‘oh my God this is what we’re actually doing.’ But it gives justification for Nick’s character’s journey.”
While he didn’t dish out any specific details on this particular tidbit, he did give an indication of the type of gore we could expect throughout the film, which he described as being different – if no less gruesome – than that featured in Valentine:
“It’s a little different. There’s some extreme stuff in it, you know? It’s a very different kind of story so it’s not about ripping people’s jaws off and things like that…it’s much more of an action thriller. So by virtue of that there [is] extreme violence…A lot of [it] though is gun violence and things like that. There’s a lot more of that kind of thing than some of the mayhem we got up to in ‘Valentine’.”
Todd Farmer, Lussier’s co-scripter on both Drive Angry 3-D and Valentine, also spoke a bit about the gore quotient, telling us about one specific blood-drenched shot:
“I think that it was more or less an accident but it’s the kind of thing that when you have somebody like [stereographer] Max Penner who’s here and working with [the] 3-D, he saw it and pulled in on it and so suddenly the audience is watching the drip through the back window, all around them.”
He summed it up pretty well by saying that they essentially pulled no punches with the violent content:
“It’s as violent as you can get and still get an ‘R’, I think. We start and the moment the movie opens it’s in your face. All the stuff that you guys are going to see, it’s fun.”
DRIVE ANGRY hits theaters February 11, 2011.
Director Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks, V/H/S/Halloween) is back with another twisted vision this year, with his new movie Buddy coming to theaters from Saban on August 28.
Buddy centers on the titular unicorn mascot — a beloved children’s TV host with a squeaky-clean persona that belies his true nature as a dark and violent force of nature.
Watch the brand new official teaser trailer below to begin the nightmare.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Inside the colorful world of It’s Buddy!, a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and helping Buddy spread happiness. But when one child refuses to play along, Buddy is not pleased and cracks begin to appear in this seemingly perfect world.”
Cristin Milioti stars as Grace, a suburban mother inadvertently drawn into Buddy’s nightmare world, with Delaney Quinn as Freddy, a brave girl who begins to fight back against Buddy when he shows his true self. Keegan-Michael Key voices Buddy. The horror movie’s cast also includes Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt.
Casper Kelly co-wrote the movie with Jamie King (“Jessica Jones”).
“It’s an honor to be partnering with Roadside Attractions and Saban Films, two companies that have built reputations for championing bold films,” commented Kelly. “The theatrical experience means so much to me personally, and I made Buddy to be experienced in a theater. I’m thrilled that audiences will get the chance to see the movie in theaters everywhere.”
“Casper Kelly is one of the most wildly inventive and audacious filmmakers working today, and Buddy is a testament to his singular genius,” said Saban co-presidents Jonathan Saba and Shanan Becker. “He possesses a rare aptitude for taking the wholesome nostalgia of our childhoods and flipping it into a brilliantly unhinged, laugh-out-loud nightmare.”
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Casper Kelly drops viewers straight into the world of a kids’ show with a high-concept horror comedy that dials up the absurdities of kids’ television programming to a lethal degree. Those on board with an experimental structure and Kelly’s darkly playful sense of humor will find this raucous midnighter highly entertaining.”
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