BOX OF SHADOWS STARTED FILMING JUNE 29TH IN LOS ANGELES.
The edgy supernatural thriller, with screenplay written by Mauro Borrelli and Scott Svatos, marks visionary filmmaker Borrelli’s third feature.
The producing team includes film festival veteran Scott Rudolph, Ed Polgardy (Laid to rest, Dark House), Gabriella Stollenwerck (Dead End, Big Nothing) and Domiziano Arcangeli (Umberto Lenzi’s Black Demoms, Lucio Fulci’s The Gohst of Sodom, Werewolf in a Women’s Prison, Orgy of Blood).
BOX OF SHADOWS centers around a group of college friends who discover a 15th-century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the “box of shadows” soon brings out the group’s most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.
Borrelli, best known as a visual effect artist, was first brought to the U.S. from Italy by Francis Ford Coppola to work on BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA.
Since then, Borrelli has worked non-stop as a conceptual artist on some of the biggest Hollywood movies and with some of the most talented directors in town. His filmography includes GODZILLA, HULK, PLANET OF THE APES, PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN 2 & 3, TROPIC THUNDER, and THE WOLF MAN.
Borrelli is also an accomplished director. His first feature Goodbye Casanova, starring Flea (the Red Hot Chili Peppers), won several festival awards. Lionsgate Home Entertainment distributed Haunted Forest, completed in 2007.
“BOX OF SHADOWS is a chance to bring some of the big budget techniques I have learned to a smaller, edgier film,” says Borrelli. “It’s a very different kind of ghost story. Although you have classical elements like ghosts and hauntings, you also have a story that deals with addiction and uncontrolled desire in a very modern way. What would happen if you had a machine you knew was deadly but could help you get everything you ever wanted? Would you use it?”
I can’t wait to see boxof shadows. It sounds really cool. I even found a updated film blog. Boxofshadowshorror.blogspot.com. Awesome