By MICHAEL GINGOLD
He’s joined an ambitious independent slasher movie that rolls in September.
NKY Films and Mediatrix Films gave us the first word that controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll has come aboard their feature project RUN! as a producer. Ricky Glore will direct from a script he wrote with Gage Dailey and Eric M. Hunter, and the cast includes Andrew Thorp, Timmy Hart Barron, SNL veteran Gary Kroeger (also one of the executive producers), pro wrestlers Sean Stewart (a.k.a. Lord Crewe), Marti Belle, Larkan Danielle (Miss Lovely Larkan) and Aaron Williams, Nick Graystone, Marianna Barksdale, “knitted son” artist Marieke Voorsluijs and, in his first film in over 40 years, Giovanni Frezza, the child star of ’80s Italian horror cinema best known as Bob in THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, playing a giallo-inspired killer named Vespa.
The synopsis: “The film follows ‘Run,’ the ‘first-ever masked slasher,’ through the eras of his career—from the gritty ’70s homestead killings to the neon-soaked, merchandising-heavy ’80s, and into the quippy, self-aware ’90s. Follow the life of a pioneering masked slasher who has become a relic of the past. As the style of ‘horror’ shifts in pop culture, Run decides that you might not be able to ‘teach an old dog new tricks,’ but that there might be ‘more than one way to skin a cat!’ Hopefully metaphorically…”
“Our goal isn’t to make a meta-horror film like SCREAM or CABIN IN THE WOODS,” says Glore. “We’re exploring a world where slasher icons are real and treated like wrestling superstars or sports legends. What happens when the original masked killer retires? RUN! follows the evolution of horror through the eyes of Run, the original slasher, as he’s forced to confront a new generation determined to replace him. Think Rocky vs. Drago. Run vs. Run 2.0.”
“The audience is Run,” adds DP Nicholas Hiance, who also created the story with Dailey, Glore and Hunter. “With just a spark of motivation, you can become the best version of yourself again—or at least a version you respect.”
“I always try to help indie filmmakers as much as I can,” says Boll. “RUN! has the same title as my film RUN [starring Amanda Plummer] that was just released—what a coincidence. I hope the movie turns out kick-ass…and scary.”
RUN! is currently crowdfunding via Seed&Spark. Check out a video address from Boll and the poster by Marc Schoenbach of Sadist Art Designs below.
