I sense some potential with this flick!
FANGORIA:
http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2128:monster-brawl-exclusive-pics-comments-producers-next-film&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167Creature fans look like they’re in for a real treat with MONSTER BRAWL, a Canadian feature that wrapped shooting last month. Writer/director Jesse Thomas Cook sent along a few exclusive pics sporting some impressive makeup work and let us know a little about the movie, and we also got the goods on production company Foresight Features’ next flick, EXIT HUMANITY.
MONSTER BRAWL is a horror/comedy set in an abandoned, cursed graveyard, which hosts the televised wrestling TV show of the title. The contestants are assorted classic fiends divided into two leagues—The Undead and The Creatures—and include Frankenstein’s monster (Robert Maillet, 1st photo) and the Mummy (R.J. Skinner, 2nd photo). Seen in the 3rd photo are (left to right) Dave Foley as play-by-play announcer Buzz Chambers, Jason Brown as graveyard owner and prophetic doomsayer Cyril Haggard and THE BROOD’s Art Hindle as former champ and color commentator Sasquatch Sid Tucker. The matches are intercut with flashbacks to the fiends’ origins; the cast also includes real-life grappler Kevin Nash, manager Jimmy Hart and referee Herb Dean, along with Fango fave Lance Henriksen.
“Fans will want to see monsters fighting, as the title implies,” Cook (who wrote and directed Foresight’s first flick, the cannibalism shocker SCARCE, with John Geddes) tells us. “But it was important to inject a dark and powerful storyline behind each creature. After all, they’re the main characters, and we want to know where they came from, how they got involved in this tournament and, for some, how they came back to life. The fight sequences will speak for themselves—especially the grisly final showdown—but at the end of the day, the movie is about the story behind each fighter, much like in real wrestling. Betrayals, heels, babyfaces, pre-fight trash-talking—otherwise, it would be pure carnage. You can have all the moves you want, but without the story you have nothing. It’s essentially good vs. evil. I wanted to make a film that I would watch over and over again with friends when I was 16. Everyone can cheer for their favorite monster and experience the highs and lows that come with defeat and victory.”
Editing on MONSTER BRAWL, which sports makeup FX by The Gore Brothers (Jeff and Jason Derushie) will begin later this year—but first, Foresight will get rolling on EXIT HUMANITY, which Matt Wiele and Cook are producing with Geddes at the helm. Hindle’s in this one too, joined by genre stalwarts Bill Moseley and Dee Wallace, with shooting scheduled to begin October 18 north of Toronto. It’s an undead opus set during the Civil War, and Geddes says, “I wanted to bring something new to the zombie genre that I grew up watching. EXIT HUMANITY explores the powerful theme of survival amidst catastrophe.” Keep your eyes here for more on both BRAWL and EXIT in the near future!
