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New Sci-fi/Horror film “WILDFIRES” launches Indiegogo campaign

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Set in the near future, WILDFIRES is about one man who must save the Earth… by killing 90% of the people on it…

In the near future, the Earth has become an overpopulated and polluted wasteland. As it heads towards destruction, mankind is ravaged by a devastating plague that is spreading like wildfire, turning 90% of the population into near dead, rotting, walking corpses who eventually die a very slow and painful death after becoming aggressive and deadly mutants.

When a cure for the disease is discovered, an underground group of radical intellectuals and militant environmentalists decide that putting out the wildfire isn’t the way to save humanity. They believe that just like a wildfire in nature, the disease is the Earth’s way of healing itself.

BEN (played by horror regular Damian Maffei), one of the lucky few who has the genetic immunity to the disease, is recruited to travel back in time to eliminate the scientist before he can develop the cure. When Ben comes face to face with the man he must kill, he has to decide what is more important: the lives of the billions of people he’ll be condemning to a horrific death, or the future of Earth.

LOS ANGELES – Wildfires will begin shooting in April, and will star Damian Maffei, a stalwart in genre films. Maffei’s latest credit is a starring role in “Christmas With The Dead”, the much anticipated feature based on a short story by Edgar Award-winning novelist and Bubba Hotep creator JOE LANSDALE.

Wildfires also stars veteran actor R.D. Call. Call’s career, which has spanned three decades, includes starring roles in over forty feature films, including Babel, Into The Wild, Last Man Standing and Waterworld. He was also a series regular on Stephen King’s Golden Years.

Wildfires was written by Writer/Producer/Director Jon D. Wagner. He will also direct. Wagner’s directing credits include the horror feature “The Anniversary at Shallow Creek”, and numerous shorts, web series, commercials, and music videos.

The film will be produced by Sam Ingraffia. Ingraffia’s numerous producing credits include feature films, episodic television and HBO comedy specials.

“I’ve been a sci-fi/horror fan since as long as I can remember. With WILDFIRES, I set out to write something that was classic genre… something dark, entertaining, and visually exciting… but that wasn’t a gimmick. I feel like a lot of sci-fi and horror nowadays relies on nothing but special effects and over the top action. While I like that as much as the next guy, I wanted to also get back to the roots of sci-fi/horror: telling a compelling and haunting story that comments on a social issue of today, even though the story is set in the future”. – JON D. WAGNER

“ I think WILDFIRES will appeal to a lot of genre fans because on one level it’s a big movie that deals with the future and with plagues that are spreading across the world… but in other ways it’s a very small, intimate movie that deals with one person having to make very difficult choices.” – SAM INGRAFFIA

“It’s exciting to be seriously looking forward to working on something, and my instincts tell me that it’s only the beginning. WILDFIRES has the potential to grow into something much grander…It’s a project that I think H.G. Wells, one of my favorite authors, would seriously dig.” – DAMIAN MAFFEI

For more information about Wildfires & the Indiegogo campaign:
www.indiegogo.com/projects/wildfires
www.facebook.com/wildfiresthemovie
www.twitter.com/Wildfires_Movie

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Mitchell Wells

Founder and Editor in Chief of Horror Society. Self proclaimed Horror Movie Freak, Tech Geek, love indie films and all around nice kinda guy!!

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