Friday, June 29, 2007
By: MrDisgusting
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The other day B-D has the distinct pleasure of chatting with Peter Koller, the writer-director of the Austrian horror film On Evil Grounds, which will be playing at this year's FanTasia Film Festival. Read on for the story! Romeo and Juliet - a couple that has a very odd perception of their relationship. They decide to buy a loft situated in a run-down factory. Somenone already lives there. The deranged owner of the factory, and his buddy, the real-estate agent, have been living an exciting life of capturing and torturing young and innocent couples. Too bad Romeo and Juliet are everything but docile victims!
On Evil Grounds
One film we’re really looking forward to is Peter Koller’s indie feature from Germany entitled ON EVIL GROUNDS. We caught up with the director to talk about the film and to try and find out WHY we’re so freakin excited.
Before we can dive into the more serious question, Koller gave us a more details on the story, which involves a quick twist, “
The plot is about a couple who wants to buy a loft in a desolated factory only to find out that the owner and his real estate broker are demented serial killers, but it soon turns out that the couple is way more deranged than the two killers.” Being that nearly everything has been done before, Koller explains to B-D that this is nothing new, but he did try to play with the rules a bit, “
It doesn’t sound really new, right? If you take something like this serious you’d just have another bad-guy-with-an-ax-chasing-the-chick-around-a-rotten-house-movie,” he tells us, “
I wanted to play with the rules of the horror/slasher genre and not have the victims act like the ones you are used to from a normal slasher movie.” In the film everyone is a bad guy, and it’s not to be taken too seriously, “
In this one they [Romeo and Juliet] are just as bad as the bad guys. Basically everyone in the movie is an amoral asshole or just plain stupid… nobody behaves according to the expectations the audience have from watching countless slasher movies. Let’s say it is satire that you can enjoy with popcorn, pizza and a six-pack of beer.”
Koller also explained to us that the film is
sadistic, yet not to be taken seriously. He goes as far as to say people were laughing at a rape scene, “
The violence comes more in a form of a sadistic joker. These people have fun hurting each other or play sadistic games to each other. If the story would have been handled in a serious way it would make a really mean movie, but I made it all so over-the-top to make the audience laugh in moments where they are not sure whether they are even allowed to laugh - because your moral code would forbid you to do so.” He continues, “
If the movie works, people will even be laughing at rape. At the premiere in Austria even women found that certain scene extremely funny. [They were] a bit hesitant and shy at the first moment, but when the ice was broken the whole audience was cheering at a rape scene!
In the film one of the leads is buried up to his next, Koller had an interesting story about filming the movie with him, “
The good guy is buried up to his neck in dirt most of the movie. That was real. Of course he could move under the soil but he could not be in there longer than two hours because his body began to hurt. That was fun, because you could tease him just to the brink of going postal and he couldn’t do anything about. After [all] that time his behavior deteriorated, he just went crazy… that was really fun.” but what if he had to pee? Do what the tuckers do, use a bottle, “
If he had to pee... he had a bottle or two with him underground.”
Koller also reveals that the film has one juicy kill and that the film is “
just as bloody as PULP FICTION. Otherwise it is mostly meaningless violence without justification. In other words: pure fun.” So if it’s violent and fun, what exactly could it be compared to? Koller’s answer got me extremely excited, “
It’s TOM & JERRY for adults. People are mean to each other, hurt each other and hunt the hell out of each other. There is no suspense as you would expect it in a horror film and it is not as serious as a thriller. What’s funny about it is that some of the shooting crew thought it [was going] to be a really tough slasher-thriller only to find out during the shoot that I was going in a direction that was more like ‘a horror movie directed by Monty Python and Tex Avery’ ”
Bring on the cartoon violence! Check out the film at the FanTasia Film Festival in Montreal this July.
- Mr. Disgusting
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
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