SRS Cinema is excited to bring the gore/monster movie “Root of Darkness” to horror fans for the first time as part of a triple feature limited edition 2-Disc set. The release will include “Root” on a Bluray with a bonus DVD that features the motion pictures “Die Zombiejäger” and “Dragonetti: The Ruthless Contract Killer”. These are three of the goriest movies you’ll find, from Swedish producer Jonas Wolcher. Jonas also directed “Die Zombiejäger” and “Dragonetti”, with “Root” directed by Gustav Ljungdahl and Jesper Danielsson.
Presales start Friday night, 2/10/17 at 7pm EST and will show as out of stock until then. The release is limited to just 100 Blurays, and separate DVD releases will follow later this year. GRAB THE BLURAY HERE once available.
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Keep on reading and please do check out our concept artist Guido Salto.
STORYLINE
The story takes place in Neo-Berlin, 2079. A dark, rain-soaked city held by mega corporations where the only enjoyment in life is connecting to cyberspace and taking “Binary Trip” a cyber drug that fries your neurons but promises a feeling better than a hundred orgasms at once. In this setting, a team of crack cyberspace detectives are investigating a new menace: an army of cyber octopuses that are terrorizing the city.
Pete at the phone is looking Neo Berlin
Maverick returns home while John and Tina are into cyberspace
Dimitri the hacker is attacked by a Cyber Octopus
Maverick is chasing the Master of Octopuses
THE INFLUENCES
The director Nicola describes the project:
"The film is inspired by William Gibson's cyberpunk landmark Neuromancer as well as some of the most awesome sci-fi products of the 80s era, like Blade Runner, Terminator, Escape from New York, Aliens, Akira and many more. "In the last few years there have been some other 80s style projects, but what sets "Attack Of The Cyber Octopuses" apart, is that we are not aiming to make a cheesy movie. Instead it will be made very seriously. However, it will likely have some involuntary funny moments". The aim of “Attack of the Cyber Octopuses” is to re-create the look and feel of an eighties sci-fi classic, without using CGI. Therefore it will be shot in real locations and use various miniature models and handmade props.
Nicola with his miniature of the parking space.
MUSIC SCORE
The original soundtrack is composed by Andrea Ragusa, a member of the band Mothell, and it’s almost entirely made with analog synthetizers. At the moment two tracks are ready, the synth-wave one you hear in the teaser, and “Join the Cyber Octopus”, a truly post-punk track, recalling Billy Idol and Joy Division. All together there will be 8 tracks, available for the backers on a vintage audiocassette (as well as in high quality mp3 files)!
Jonas:
"When my dear friend and prop maker Gustav Ljungdahl sent me a link and I saw thetrailer I instantly knew I couldn't just let it go. It was way too important. I contacted the director and we were on the same level. To be part of a Cyberpunk movie with retro wave music is like a dream comes true.
My heart beats for Cyberpunk. It's a genre I dedicated my life to for almost 15 years. In 1990 I heard about the role playing game Cyberpunk 2020 from R. Talsorian Games. I grabbed the game when it came out and I remembering playing this game day and night through my years in college with my friends". Cyberpunk was not just a game. It became more of a lifestyle. I've always loved Body and Synth music such as Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy but also Billy Idol and KMFDM. That kind of music combined with the game was a perfect blend.
Recently Jonas Wolcher has been involved in several projects and helped other independent film makers to fulfill their dreams of distribution and finding platforms for screening.
Jonas explains:
"I've always love the genre of low budget film making. Every time you are making a movie you have to be very creative and inventive. When you are working on a production with a proper budget it's more like a huge machinery and you are just one off the cogs. The last 2 years I've made it possible for several directors to get their movie onto various platforms and distributions channels.
Jonas continues:
"It's not often a project like "Attack Of The Cyber Octopuses" emerges from an idea to an actual production. Nicola really has done his homework with cool retro digital effects and stop motion animations. Just check out this poster and of course the trailer with retro cars and 80s like digital animations.
It's amazing what you are able to do with some scrap plastics, a lava lamp and some lights. Nicola proves he's capable of making his dream come true. The high quality miniatures and the stop motion animations gives the movie a retro look and a boost into the right direction actual traditional film making. Today we are completely drowned by CGI monsters, backgrounds, effects and characters who interacts with the real actors. I immediately understood what Nicola wanted to achieve by "Attack Of The Cyber Octopuses". It's a "#toppen means #awesome in English project"
Please support this project on Kickstarter! At the moment on "Attack Of The Cyber Octopuses" Kickstarter more than half (€10,441) of the pledged goal of €18.000 is reached with 359 backers. Thank you all for believing in our project. If you like the first real Cyberpunk movie to be made up North join our facebook, Twitter, website and other social media. Over and out - Jonas Wolcher Horror producer Jonas Wolcher known for strange titles such as Die Zombiejäger and Cannibal Fog directs his first music video since 2007, ten years ago. The song for the music video is called"Caravan" by Octolab. The band who consist of Arielle Andersson and Fredrik Lundwall Kindsäter. Fredrik is more known for one of the band members in the cult electro duo Presto Fervant. - Well, I've been producing movies since 2014, but never directed since. I was asked by the band and they wanted to have a music video made. I offered me the job because I loved the song. It's very 80s and catchy. It reminds me of all the videos we watched during the era of MTV, says Jonas Wolcher. Because Caravan is very slow I thought I also should make the video slow. The theme of cenobites in the video was something Jonas Wolcher came up with just days before the 2 days of shooting. Jonas continues: - I've always loved Italian horror and Clive Barkers "Hellraiser". I wanted Caravan to be like a fairy tale and at the same time a dark gothic horror story. It's about a woman played by actress Ida Karolin Johansson who finds herself stuck in between two dimensions while two cenobite-looking creatures are chasing her through a large barn just by the sea. Deep in the darkness she finds a little girl played by Emelie Andersson who wants to help her... Jonas: - The video contains many elements from the classic Italian horror movies. I used many different layers and transitions to make it very dark and gritty. The picture you see below is my homage to both Dario Argento and the video "Living Daylights" with the Norwegian act AHA from 1987. The crew faced windy, snow, rain and sunny weather while the band had to learn how to act Jonas: - Neither Arielle or Fredrik had any experience in acting but I gave them a try. I Helped them with the makeup and special effects. Suddenly both Arielle played the good guys as the band and the cenobites. They had such a great time during shooting. Ida and Emelie were troopers all the way. It was freezing cold and quite windy. Sometimes it snowed and changed into very sunny weather. I believe I wore the best clothing of them all. Laugh! Currently Jonas Wolcher is working on Precision - The Child Drug Trafficking. Additional two more movies produced by Jonas will be premirered this year Den gamle och monstret aka Hermit: Monster Killer and Root of Darkness.
Both titles are really something to look forward to. The song Caravan is Octolab's first real music video and later this year another is planned. One question remains. Will Jonas Wolcher directs that video too..? You can follow Jonas Wolcher on various social media and his blog By: Rick B Laseter |