After watching this concept trailer for "Sunday Billy Sunday," you may think twice about going camping again. Shot by indie director Morna Ciraki, the footage draws frights from sexual and religious imagery. Ciraki enlisted Emmy-winning makeup artist Dean Jones, and stunt coordinators from "True Blood," to help her get the on-screen gore right and prove that Mark Wheaton's ebook would make a good horror film. Presumably the footage is being shopped around to investors before a feature film adaptation goes into production. The plot of Wheaton's book concerns a priest who gets...
- 6/15/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
This morning...a little something different to share. Shock doesn't do this often, but I was impressed with what I saw.
First time filmmaker Morna Ciraki e-mailed me a bit ago asking if I'd like to see her proof of concept trailer for a possible screen adaptation of Mark Wheaton's novel Sunday Billy Sunday. Ciraki announced her intentions to direct a feature film last year.
"Sunday Billy Sunday is a sort of Friday the 13th meets Lord of the Flies story involving a priest who, upon witnessing a miracle, is driven mad by his attempts to divine its meaning," she tells us. "In hopes of sparking Divine Intervention, he goes to his East Texas summer camp and begins to kill 99 kids - and make them turn on one another - to force God’s hand. In the midst of this, four teenagers – Mark, Todd, Faith, and Maia – fall in and out of love,...
First time filmmaker Morna Ciraki e-mailed me a bit ago asking if I'd like to see her proof of concept trailer for a possible screen adaptation of Mark Wheaton's novel Sunday Billy Sunday. Ciraki announced her intentions to direct a feature film last year.
"Sunday Billy Sunday is a sort of Friday the 13th meets Lord of the Flies story involving a priest who, upon witnessing a miracle, is driven mad by his attempts to divine its meaning," she tells us. "In hopes of sparking Divine Intervention, he goes to his East Texas summer camp and begins to kill 99 kids - and make them turn on one another - to force God’s hand. In the midst of this, four teenagers – Mark, Todd, Faith, and Maia – fall in and out of love,...
- 6/14/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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