Exclusive Images from The Wolf Family Treasure

David Gelmini |

Feb 8, 2016

Conrad Faraj is certainly a filmmaker to watch. His upcoming alien invasion film Fighting the Sky, which we’ve been covering, will soon be hitting the festival circuit, and he’s already hard at work on his next. The Wolf Family Treasure, which follows a group of friends trying to find treasure hidden in a malevolent family’s estate, has now almost completed filming.

We spoke to Conrad about how the film is progressing, and he told us the following:

First off, this film was directly inspired by the works of David Lynch, specifically “Twin Peaks.” It’s a show that I adore and recently discovered at the beginning of 2015. I fell in love instantaneously because Lynch wasn’t afraid to mix genres and get really weird while still maintaining full control of the story. “Twin Peaks” feels like a liberating show, and by that I mean that it’s self-aware. It knows it can be funny or scary or sometimes overly dramatic, and I LOVE that. I wanted to express similar themes with The Wolf Family Treasure.

My film revolves around a strange town named Carneville, and within it lies a great mystery. A murderous family rumored to be well-practiced in witchcraft left a treasure hidden somewhere in the town, shortly before their demise. Our main characters (played by CK Steele, Joe Gotschall, and Sean Keta) are your typical above-average, sort-of-broke, troublemaking teenagers in town that suddenly get wrapped up in trying to discover the truth about the treasure. Then things get weird and terrifying.

I wanted to take a conventional cliché in horror movies — “teens seeking something they shouldn’t be messing with, and all hell breaks loose” (like Evil Dead, Friday the 13th, etc.) — and give it my own crazy spin to it. Then twist it all around and make the story something insane. I wanted to invent a fresh new look and style to this film. I drew inspiration from so many different films, particularly French New Wave cinema, because of their innovative style and unique voice. FNW films broke all the rules in filmmaking, and they had an electrifying feeling to them that felt so modern and so personal. I used similar techniques when crafting The Wolf Family Treasure, and I hope it’s something that contemporary audiences find refreshing in an age where indie horror movies struggle to break format and rely on repetition in order to acquire success.

We are hoping to have The Wolf Family Treasure assembled for the fall festival circuit.

In addition, he also provided us with some exclusive images from the film, which you can check out below. In the meantime, head over to Facebook to stay updated.

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