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Horror Fantasy Film ‘King Ripple’ Releases Several New Posters

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Synopsis – In 1968 Detroit, an unhappy superbeing is born. Forget why he’s unhappy. The baby wants to be alone. Lucky for him, anything he imagines comes to be. So he imagines away the doctors, the nurses, and then… the entire population of the city. The result? King Ripple lives alone in the city, the tarantula in its den, imagining whatever he wants, creating new skylines daily, roaming the empty streets upon his faming throne, situated inside a bathtub on wheels.

‘King Ripple’ is an adaptation of the original idea by award-winning writer Josh Malerman. Its vision of a monstrous evil being roaming the empty streets above a decrepit city in his levitating bathtub is quite magical. It’s an insanely twisted, yet bone-chilling story that centers on a mystical city that’s been haunted by it’s own mysterious being. Think David Lynch meets Terrence Malick.

Statement from the director, Luke Jaden – This production has been a labor of love, passion, and a never-ending amount of favors I could not be more grateful for, the result of over fourteen months. A story flled with emptiness and despair. A question that leaves the audience asking…. What remains? It’s the kind of idea that grabs you by the spine and doesn’t let go. It’s a story that feels like you’re being trapped in a soul-sucking wasteland; a story where everyone within it feels out of place and lost in a broken puzzle trying to put themselves back together. In this dark and twisted modern-day fairy tale, I wanted a character that nobody could understand. A character that would allow us to explore it’s inner-wickedness, but also get near its twisted state of mind. My goal was to make sure that King Ripple’s universe played the central character throughout the telling of this story. I wanted a story that had few, if any, characters leading us up to something that was an unknown discovery. My hope was to get these curious teenagers to sneak out of their suburbia homes and see if this urban legend haunting them was truly real or not. I haven’t seen many flms that have deeply explored what that connection may be beneath the surface. I don’t want to tell people what the flm should be. Even fnding a genre to describe it is difcult. King Ripple is not only a mesmerizing odyssey of a deep seated death-wish but also a story that I felt inspired to tell. From exploring the classic TV series The Twilight Zone and 80’s fantasy flms and stories from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, I’ve felt inspired by the likes of The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Secret of Nimh, American Grafti, The Outsiders, Blade Runner, Pan’s Labyrinth, Gummo, and Donnie Darko, I wanted to capture the raw feeling of sadness I called the “translation of desolation” as we explored this unknown super being and his vision growing up escaping from his own monsters. In the end, my intention was making sure that I portrayed a haunting landscape that once had hope left in the dust painted within a portrait of four teenagers struggling to realize if King Ripple really does exist. I wanted to do justice to the story, but I wanted our audience to feel stuck inside King Ripple’s perspective. I wanted the viewer to feel the misery and terror spinning within the mind of this wretched being and its entire empty city. I wanted to capture the outside of the border like it was just another day at the ofce, but once you cross this fenced of border you entered a nightmare. I had to make sure to tell this story in the right way, so our audience could see what King Ripple has done to this city and it’s people. So what will happen to the four teens in the year 2032 who decide to fnd out if King Ripple is still alive in the empty city? Well, hopefully for them, he’s dead. But what fun would that be?

Blacktooth

(Staff Writer) Lover of all things horror and metal. Also likes boobs and booze.

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