Monday, June 11, 2007
By: MrDisgusting
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Last week we visited the set of Black Gate Entertainment's upcoming Evilution, which is currently lensing in Los Angeles, CA. Inside you'll find all sorts of new details on the film, which stars Eric Peter-Kaiser in the heroic role of Captain Darren Hall, a young scientist who goes AWOL after stealing from the government a medicine bottle containing an alien intelligence in hopes of communicating with it.
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Last week we hit up the set of EVILUTION and took a few minutes to chat with writer-producer Brian Patrick O’Toole and his partner, actor-producer Eric Peter-Kaiser, about the film, which is currently filming in Los Angeles.
“[ EVILUTION] is not a zombie movie or a vampire movie… [those have been] done to death,” O’Toole tells us, “it’s more like a re-animator movie.” O’Toole tells us that Frankenstein is the best re-animator movie, which he tried to modernize, “EVILUTION is like a modern Frankenstein with a young guy who works for the military… I asked myself, ‘how can I turn that upside down?’ ”
If the movie isn’t a zombie film, then what is it? O’Toole tells B-D that it follows “a life form that possesses a person and then de-evolves them… brings them back to their pre-historic state… to eat (and reproduce).” The zombies, or as the crew calls them, APLs (Alien Possessed life-forms), are slow moving because “real zombies wouldn’t run, their ankles would break.” We are also told that APLs are created by attempting to re-animate dead soldiers so they can go back to battle and that these ‘zombies’ are flesh-eating, not rotting.
But this doesn’t mean EVILUTION won’t be bloody, Kaiser tells us that “the opening scene is loaded with carnage; it’s the escape from the military base.” Kaiser also made sure to avoid getting sprayed with blood, “As soon as I see a camera with a raincoat on… I get behind a door,“ he jokes.
The story, which is part of a trilogy, is built around an apartment building that’s haunted. The “Collector of Evil” (Nathan Bexton) is the manager. The second film, BASEMENT JACK, “reads scarier [than EVILUTION] because it’s a slasher film. This one reads more like an action film, the cast helped make is scary,” Kaiser continues, “The boo scares are more legitimate; it’s making me more excited.”
Kaiser and O’Toole both confirm plans for the third film will involve a gargoyle, “The third film is a creature feature and I’m a huge fan of both those and vampire [films] – right now the plan is to have a giant gargoyle as the monster in the final film.”
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