Crowdfund This: Tony Ukpo's SciFi Horror THE HADES PIT

We've been covering Tony Ukpo's work here on ScreenAnarchy for years now, the UK based indie director having turned out a string of impressive micro budget features over the years. And while his plans for upcoming scifi horror picture The Hades Pit are certainly modestly budgeted by studio standards they do run well beyond what can be done with friends and favors and so Ukpo is turning to crowd funding to try and put the film together. Here's the pitch:

The story starts with a young woman and her dog on their way to the countryside with her father, on a regular annual father/daughter retreat where he works as a Park Ranger. On this trip however, something is not right, signaled by the smoke coming from behind the abandoned factory on the way to their home. They pay no heed to it, and things slowly start to get stranger and stranger in a suspenseful build up to the fathers abduction from their home in broad daylight by large masked figures. With all the communication posts down, and the nearby service station now manned by a fresh corpse, the daughter emerging from where she was hidden away by her father during the carnage, eventually takes matters into her own hands, heading with her dog towards the one place they must have taken him. She finds an underground facility filled with weird sinister scientists, experimental creatures and an unlikely ally in one of the test subjects, and is forced to put a lot of her gaming instincts (She's a gamer) to use in a real world situation.

Check out the full campaign here for trailers from Ukpo's previous work and more details on the film.