Fans of the filmmakers behind that tremendous horror short The Legend of Beaver Dam have reason to cheer today. Beaver Dam's Jerome Sable and his ABCs of Death 2 segment producer Nicholas Musurca (Nicholas also edited Beaver Dam) are at it once again with a new thriller centered around extreme sports and internet fame.
Details about the plot, even the title, are being kept under wraps for now. Curses!
Gunpowder & Sky, the recently launched global studio, announced today that it has partnered with direct-to-consumer studio, SUPERGRAVITY Pictures and Jerome Sable & Nicholas Musurca to create a thriller set in the world of skaters and extreme street stunt performers desperate for internet fame. Sable is set to direct based on the script he is writing with Musurca.This is the new feature film from the genre writing/filmmaking team of Sable & Musurca, who are best known for the Sundance award-winning horror musical short “The Legend of Beaver Dam,” and their ABCs of Death anthology segment, “V is for Vacation,” about a wild boys’ trip that turns deadly over Skype, which Film Freak Central called, “nasty, dark, and representative proof that POV horror is alive and well.”“Twisted, talented and visually compelling directors like Jerome don’t pop up very often,” said Gunpowder & Sky CEO Van Toffler. “He’s a mash-up of Wes Craven, Justin Lin and John Carney in the best way possible, and we’re elated to be making his feature.”This will mark the first joint production with SUPERGRAVITY Pictures, a company that Gunpowder & Sky invested in early on, and who is leading the way with compelling digital long-form content. Plot details of this gory thriller are being kept under wraps, but the story follows a small-town skate crew whose obsession with becoming internet-famous leads them into a trap of unrelenting horror.“Van and Floris have been supporters of SUPERGRAVITY from day one,” said Max Benator, Founder of SUPERGRAVITY. “Jerome and Nick are brilliant storytellers. The fact that we get to collaborate with all of them on this truly demented film project is just a total treat.”“We’re thrilled to have found partners who are enabling our depravity as we try to push the boundaries of horror,” shared Sable. Added Musurca, “Honestly, when people see the movie we’re making, it will be great to have collaborators to share the blame with us.”
I personally felt Sable missed the mark with his musical slasher flick Stage Fright (which no one mentions in the release here) but we remain optimistic that this untitled extreme sport internet fame thriller will deliver the goods.