March 31: Murder is art as CHISELED cuts in
Director Nicholas Favorite and producers Jay Benton (who
also scripted) and Peter J. Abrahams gave Fango the first news
and photos (see more below) from their first feature, which
they promise will be (no pun intended) “a fan favorite—it’s
heavy in violence, blood and effects on a very convincing and
unsettling level.”
This film is called CHISELED, and it follows a group of
art-school classmates on their way to an industrial art
exhibition who end up lost and trapped in a desolate ghost
town. One by one, they are lured to the place where the
exhibit was supposed to be, but instead of finding paintings
or sculptures, they encounter an artist with a twisted plot:
to use them as his medium! The youths have to fight to survive
as this villain, his assistant and an art dealer try to hunt
them down and turn them into their next sick exhibit.
CHISELED is being produced by 1252 Films, a new independent
production company dedicated to making quality horror with 100
percent in-camera FX for brutal authenticity. Abrahams
describes CHISELED as a “meshing of the classic horror film
like TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with the new-wave gore types such
as HOSTEL,” and Benton is proud of its “high production
quality, crew skill level, solid cast, more structured story,
memorable characters and multiple bad guys, fantastic effects
and million-dollar location.” The cast of newcomers is headed
by Jessica Graves, William Waterson, Paul Cram, Gustavo Flores
and Lacey Bullard; other talents involved are visual FX
creator Eric Lusk, makeup artist Jen Raheb and director of
photography Peter Young.
CHISELED began lensing earlier this month in LA, and wraps
next week. —Audrey Quaranta
