Sophie Monk Signs on to Blood Feast Remake; First Teaser Released
Marcel Walz’s upcoming Blood Feast remake just got a lot better looking with the addition of British actress Sophie Monk (The Hills Run Red) in a lead role.
Walz dropped us a line today to let us know that Monk (pictured below) will be playing Penny Ramses in the reboot. In addition, the film’s Indiegogo campaign has kicked off so if you’d like to help out, be sure to hit the link.
Shooting of the U.S. production will take place from September 1-25, 2015, in the United States, France, and Germany. Robert Rusler, Caroline Williams, and Sadie Katz co-star; and Ryan Nicholson is heading up the makeup department.
Below you’ll find the first teaser along with a pitch video for the campaign.
Synopsis:
Fuad Ramses (Rusler) and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long, lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess Ishtar (Katz). He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.
After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual feast to honor his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with blood, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness until he is no more than the goddess’ puppet; and she thirsts for the blood of Fuad’s wife and daughter too…
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