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Greg McLean on ‘Wolf Creek 2’ Script Development
It was confirmed last night that Aussie director Greg McLean would be getting back behind the camera for his long-gestured sequel to Wolf Creek, the Sundance Film Festival selection made for less than $2 million that centered on a group of backpackers who have a run in with a loopy stranger named Mick Taylor (John Jarratt). We caught up with McLean who talked a bit about the progress and what we can expect from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-esque sequel.
“I can confirm we are working on a sequel to ‘Wolf Creek,’” McLean tells Bloody Disgusting. “We’ve got a way to go but we’re hoping to get into production next year. It’s been on the drawing board for a few years now and we’ve finally cracked a killer script (excuse the pun),” he jokes. “I really felt we had to wait to get that right, in order to find a way into the story, and at the same time maintain the rules and logic of the first movie. It’s important for the film I think that it’s link to reality and the true crime genre is never lost, as that’s what it’s all about. And that’s what we’re focusing on – capturing the realism behind these kind of horrific events and crimes that have actually taken place in the Outback.
“It’s a massive canvas for terror out there – and the new movie will be taking full advantage of that scope and terrifying, epic scale,” he continues. “That, and of course, Mick Taylor scaring the living s*&# out of the audience!”
We’ll keep you guys in the loop as production gets underway in 2011.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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