By Oh My Gore ! on February 10, 2009
"BRAINCELL" new Joe Zaso movie
Having teamed up on camera for fright features in Germany ("BARRICADE", the upcoming "BEAST") and Italy ("DARKNESS SURROUNDS ROBERTA"), American actors Joe Zaso and Raine Brown are now wrapping up a new horror flick in England."BRAINCELL" is being lensed in Liverpool, as well as Naples, Italy, by Zaso's Cinema Image Productions in association with Studio Mare Nostrum LLC and Cryptkeeper Films.
Zaso stars here as “Dr. Cornwall, an unhinged university professor who is responsible for a wave of violence caused by the experiments he performs at the school,” he tells Fango. “Raine plays Hannah, his estranged niece who goes to live with her crazy uncle and then unravels a frightening mystery at the school. "[DARKNESS" co-star] Eileen Daly plays a wicked nurse named Nurse Audra who assists in the dark doings, and the cast also includes Billy Garberina from "NECROVILLE" and Eleanor James from Ivan Zuccon's "COLOUR FROM THE DAR"K. Also appearing are two names known well to British television viewers: "HOLLYOAKS"' Leon Lopez and "THE IT CROWD"'s Matt Berry.”
Zaso first met "BRAINCELL" director Alex Birrell when the latter served as "DARKNESS"' cinematographer; also encoring from the movie is composer Marco Werba, who was since tapped by Dario Argento to score his latest feature "GIALLO". The climatic and scheduling problems on this low-budget project are also familiar to Zaso, but he says, “While the weather in Liverpool might be freezing at the moment and the pace on the set hectic, the people here are amazingly kind, and the city itself has a very unique look and feel. It's a great place to make films. Alex is very meticulous in all departments, and his love of the Italian and Eurohorror styles has made the experience very positive.”
“The opportunity to film in England is so amazing; I'm in love with the country, the landscape and the people,” Brown adds. “"BRAINCELL" is such an artistic and atmospheric piece. My character is a big departure from the spunky leading ladies I usually play. She's lost, sad and trapped in a world that she does not understand. This film mixes the dream world into the already fantastical reality that Hannah is facing, so that one is never sure what the truth is.”
Birrell himself says, “This is a real rough-and-ready experience in microbudget filmmaking that will hopefully capture some of the demented anything-can-happen tone of a feverish nightmare.” It has clearly made an impression on Daly, who raves, “This has been the most exciting and chilling horror film that I've ever worked on. Alex is a true visionary. The gore effects are extraordinarily horrific!”
Zaso is looking toward completing "BRAINCELL" this summer, with release in both the U.S. and UK targeted for August.
"BEAST" from Cinema Image Productions (featuring Zaso, Brown, Daly and Timo Rose) will be on DVD on March 6.
Source : Oh My Gore !
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