It's Filipino Killer Robot Love In KILLDROID!

Following on the success of their first foray into production with Pakistani splatter flick Hell's Ground cult DVD label Mondo Macabro are jumping full bore into the production pool. We brought news last week about Karim Hussain's upcoming exploiter Filthy and today we got the first word on upcoming Filipino scifi splatter exploiter Killdroid. From director Rico Maria Ilarde the film tells the story of a high school girl who becomes the lover of an abandoned killer android, part of an abandoned military project.

Given that it's coming from Mondo I expect this one to be every bit as splattery as the recent Fever Dreams productions - Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police - with no opportunity to shock ignored. We've got a detailed project announcement below the break and you can check the first images at the link below.

KILLDROID Following on from the recent announcement of their collaboration with Canada's Karim Hussain, Mondo Macabro Movies have now given out more information about their next in-house production.

This is the intriguingly entitled KILLDROID, a collaboration with Philippines based writer-director Rico Maria Ilarde. The film, described as "a mechanical love affair", tells of a disturbed Goth schoolgirl who stumbles unwittingly across the remnants of a long abandoned military project designed to create an arny of android killers from the processed bodies of dead soldiers. The girl takes on the mysteriously beautiful Kildroid as a lover, only to discover, too late, that its insatiable sexual appettite is inexorably linked with a need for slaughter.

A teaser trailer has just been filmed and the project will be taken to this year’s Cannes Film Festival to complete its financing.

"In some ways it's a twisted take on the Sleepy Beauty story," says producer Pete Tombs. "In Perce Forest, the original version of that story, the king awoke the sleeping princess by having sex with her. So we've just gone back to the darker origins of the tale and brought it bang up to date with a dose of cybersex. There's some fairly full-on mayhem in the movie, but I hope people will also recognise that at heart it's a kind of love story."

Director/writer Ilarde is known in the Philippines for his original take on the horror genre. His first feature, Z-MAN, was released in 1989 and distributed by the Los Angeles-based outfit Overseas Filmgroup/Firstlook Pictures. Since then he has worked as director, writer and producer on a wide variety of projects including TV shows, music videos, commercials and features. His most recent films include WOMAN OF MUD (2001), which is about to be released on DVD in the US by Asian Edge; BENEATH THE COGON (2005) which won the prize for Best Foreign Feature at the Rojo Sangre Film Festival in Buenos Aires; and ALTAR, released theatrically in December 2007.

"KILLDROID IS A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THE DARK, THE SURREAL AND THE EXTREME IN A WAY THAT IS NOT REALLY POSSIBLE RIGHT NOW WITHIN THE COMMERCIAL MAINSTREAM IN THE PHILIPPINES," SAYS ILARDE. "SEVERAL OF MY PREVIOUS FEATURES MET WITH CENSORSHIP PROBLEMS HERE, AND I'M HAPPY THAT THIS WON'T HAPPEN WITH MONDO MACABRO. THEY'VE TOLD ME TO BE JUST AS WILD AS I WANT TO BE," HE ADDS, "AND I INTEND TO RISE TO THAT CHALLENGE."