Brief I Sell the Dead production report
from indieWIRE.com - including a new image from the film featuring Dom. Text and image at the link and behind the cut - no major spoilers.
"I Sell The Dead"
Writer-director Glenn McQuaid transforms New York City into the 18th century British Isles to tell this horror/comedy starring Dominic Monaghan and Larry Fessenden.
Based on his short, "The Resurrection Apprentice," "I Sell The Dead" expands on the characters from the short, Arthur Blake (Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Fessenden), a pair of grave robbers who are headed to the guillotine but first are given the opportunity to give their life stories to a priest (played by Ron Perlman). The film spans 15 years and recounts the hijinks the two got into. "It's a period horror/comedy, but it's also really a buddy movie meets some of the older British horror films made by studios like Hammer and Amicus," McQuaid says.
Having done visual effects on films Fessenden's produced like "The Last Winter," "The Roost" and "Liberty Kid," McQuaid immediately gave him the script after finishing it a year ago, and with the help of producer Peter Phok got Monaghan attached and found areas of New York that could pass for the 18th century.
"A lot of it was scouting locations and we found some great spaces," says McQuiad who shot most of the exteriors in Staten Island and the main interiors at an Irish pub in Manhattan's East Village.
Shot on 35mm by Rick Lopez, a majority of the shoot was done in May, but the film will do one week of shooting in November when Ron Perlman ends his commitment to Guillermo del Toro's "Hellboy" sequel.
[For more information, please visit http://isellthedead.com]
"I Sell The Dead"
Writer-director Glenn McQuaid transforms New York City into the 18th century British Isles to tell this horror/comedy starring Dominic Monaghan and Larry Fessenden.
Based on his short, "The Resurrection Apprentice," "I Sell The Dead" expands on the characters from the short, Arthur Blake (Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Fessenden), a pair of grave robbers who are headed to the guillotine but first are given the opportunity to give their life stories to a priest (played by Ron Perlman). The film spans 15 years and recounts the hijinks the two got into. "It's a period horror/comedy, but it's also really a buddy movie meets some of the older British horror films made by studios like Hammer and Amicus," McQuaid says.
Having done visual effects on films Fessenden's produced like "The Last Winter," "The Roost" and "Liberty Kid," McQuaid immediately gave him the script after finishing it a year ago, and with the help of producer Peter Phok got Monaghan attached and found areas of New York that could pass for the 18th century.
"A lot of it was scouting locations and we found some great spaces," says McQuiad who shot most of the exteriors in Staten Island and the main interiors at an Irish pub in Manhattan's East Village.
Shot on 35mm by Rick Lopez, a majority of the shoot was done in May, but the film will do one week of shooting in November when Ron Perlman ends his commitment to Guillermo del Toro's "Hellboy" sequel.
[For more information, please visit http://isellthedead.com]