PSORO - Follow the making of mental gore

EXCLUSIVE Sneak look at Psoro’s REAL makeup FX Part 2

Psoro — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:21:36 +0000

With the second and final Psoro trailer looming closer we would like to give the gore fans another taste of the real makeup FX created by our own Paul While ( Graphic Delusions ). Again this shot was deemed to graphic and so has had to be censored for the site BUT it will not be in the finished feature! We can assure you of that.

ENJOY!

EXCLUSIVE Sneak look at Psoro’s REAL makeup FX

Psoro — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:05:27 +0000

This is a very exclusive look for all you horror and gore fans out there. Here is a single frame of our gory effects, deemed too graphic to show right now and so has had to be censored for this site …….of course there will be no censoring in the actual movie!

We hope this wets your appetite for real gore.

All makeup FX created by Paul While owner of Graphic Delusions makeup FX Studios in the UK.

Psoro UK crew interviewed for podcast on Zombie Cast

Psoro — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:01:03 +0000

We were honored to be asked to be interviewed for a horror podcast yesterday. Above is the interview. Wayne Daniells and Paul While talk Psoro, gore and Zombies!

Episode 12.5

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=492647899

Many thanks @ZombieHarold

Production stills Nigerian Psoro shoot!

Psoro — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:51:49 +0000

As Psoro grows and moves on to its ultimate completion in post production, we are still hard at work shooting even more scenes to add a depth and richness to the story.

On the 24th of March the UK based film crew shot the Nigerian scene aka “The Security Guard”. This shoot was a long and challenging one, however both actor and crew showed their talents and indie fight as we canned the scene later that day.

Dialect coach Azeez Jinadu was on hand to make sure that returning talented actor Edd Muruako performed his lines with great accuracy.

Edd’s performance was both terrifying and brilliant.

Graphic Delusions, Paul While, DOP Adam Mann , Director Wayne Daniells all made a welcomed return to sculpt a haunting piece to this project.

We also welcomed Dan Cross, our new and talented 1st AD

Greg Page chosen as narrator for Psoro’s epic beginning!

Psoro — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:14:08 +0000

After much deliberation the Psoro team were very pleased to cast veteran stage, screen and voice actor Greg Page as the narrator of Psoro’s epic beginnings.

We chose Greg because of his amazing versatility, immense flair for detail charisma which fit the part perfectly.

Greg spent much time touring and acting in the theatre with roles in Shakespeare and Van Helsing in Bram Stokers Dracula.

A lot of his time is now spent as a voice actor where he works from his private recording studio.

Steve Simmons announced to create animation for Psoro introduction

Psoro — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:02:26 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that our good friend and brilliantly creative concept artist Steve Simmons will be animating an element in Psoro’s epic introduction/title sequence.

Steve has worked on many animation projects and was able to bring our retro 80′s box art poster to life.

He is currently extremely busy working on a graphic novel and also as a concept artist for the Hollywood remake of Les Misérables starring Hugh Jackman, Helena Bonham Carter and Russell Crowe. This hasn’t stopped him agreeing to work on Psoro!

Watch this space as rough concepts will be uploaded soon but without too much given away.

What is the Hellish Psoro Sickness?

Psoro — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:42:43 +0000

What is the hellish Psoro sickness? A U.K. and U.S. indie film production between LiarDice Films, Graphic Delusions and Slice of Americana Films. Here’s our pitch to movie viewers that want to see an indie film produced to prey on your fears and phobias using mental horror and bloody gore.
Imagine experiencing wickedly intense chronic itch over your entire body 24 hours a day. The torturous itch slowly feels likes it’s spreading from your outer skin down into your body organs seeping layer by layer into unscratchable depths.
There are no doctors or medication that can stop the hellish Psoro sickness from ravaging your body and sanity. You’re alone to suffer in a private hell from a mysterious sickness.
Desperation, anguish, and excruciating pain become your constant tormentors as you feel a complete lack of control over your body and mind. The chronic itch is indescribable torment.
The hellish psoro sickness impacts the afflicted in different ways, but it all starts with that first itch after coming in contact with the sinister virus. At first people that become infected with Psoro think it’s a case of severe psoriasis.
In Late Latin psoriasis translates to “mange or scurvy”, which originated from Greek psoriasis “being itchy”; from psorian, “to have the itch”; from psora, “itch.” The hellish Psoro sickness is none of these. There no visible itchy dry reddish orange patches of skin covered with scales.
The hellish Psoro sickness is an unseen itch that is only felt by the victim that causes them to desperately scratch themselves for relief. The unfortunate ones experience a slow and painful death that can only be described as physically horrific.
The scratching becomes more intense and more intense until the unthinkable happens. They begin to tear their own bodies apart digging deeper to get at the maddening itch deep below the skin. It’s a bloody orgy of gore caused by self-mutilation.
Not all die this gruesomely. The lucky ones find death comes quickly at the hands of others that want to control the hellish Psoro sickness and become its new master. Death claims them in many terrible ways, but none as repulsive as being in the full grasp of the hellish Psoro sickness.
Then there is the one special Psoro damned who is chosen for a period of time to become demonic possessed and the sole deliverer of the hellish Psoro sickness. They transform into soulless empty vessels in possessed human bodies that spread the hellish Psoro sickness to others until they infect their replacement.
Whispers of the hellish Psoro sickness only circulate within a small well-connected 2012 secret society of power brokers that believe in curses, demonic possession and practicing the darks arts to become global puppet masters. They are on a hunt for Psoro.
The only written knowledge of the Psoro virus comes from a few torn out pages from an old obscure Latin tome written by an unknown author. The pages are believed to be one of a kind and the secret society has them. The rest of the tome is lost to history except for what is written on these few pages.

"The Ancient Legend of the Hellish Psoro Sickness
An ancient Egyptian alchemist was forced to live as an outcast in a remote cave when he developed a severe case of psoriasis (PRP or Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris) over his entire body.
A group of priests, soldiers and powerful citizens saw his skin disease as a curse for worshipping the evil god Apep. The alchemist was spit on, cursed at and driven from his home leaving behind his wife and children who were quickly sold into slavery.
The alchemist continued to worship Apep and carry on with his life’s work of turning lead (Galena) into gold while plotting his revenge against the priests that banished him from society and cursed his beloved family. One evening Apep appeared to the alchemist as a snake to grant the alchemist’s bloodlust for revenge.
The torn pages from the tome do not share what prayers and rituals the alchemist was given by Apep to achieve his revenge on the priests except for one. The evil god Apep allowed the alchemist to milk its fangs for poisonous venom.
After which time Apep in snake form slithered back to the desert with a demonic laugh that sounded human. The alchemist performed a series of prayers and dark rituals every night for 6 days in a row. Always stopping before the sun rose.
On the 6th night the alchemist cut off a large piece of his reddish orange discolored scaling skin with a knife letting it fall from his body into a smoldering copper bowl. He placed his hand in front of him and cut off his left pinky finger to feed the copper bowl. The alchemist closed the wound of his cut off finger by pressing it against the copper pot.
The last two ingredients to go into the copper bowl were lead and the poisonous venom milked from Apep. The next morning all traces of the skin disease had vanished from the alchemist. From the copper pot the alchemist draws a cup of a luminous green liquid and drinks it.
The alchemist physically and mentally transformed into a deliverer of the hellish Psoro sickness. Revenge was handed out to those priests and soldiers with vengeance. Dead bodies with torn and mutilated skin were being discovered in ancient Egypt for many years. Egyptians had never heard of a sickness or plague that made people tear their bodies apart by their own hands.....".to be continued

Psoro teaser trailer number 1 (click on 1080p)

Psoro — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:53:19 +0000

ARE YOU READY?

Psoro — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:42:18 +0000

A message from our Psoro Producer Sid Kali

Psoro — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:57:26 +0000

Psoro, Wayne Daniells, Paul While, Slice of Americana Films, Sid Kali, bloody gore, real SFX, Tim Dax, Jennifer Day, scenes from Psoro, Graphic Delusions, phobias of movie viewers, Lucas Hansen, Edd Muruako

Psoro Enters Post Production
Imagine having an itch that no amount of scratching could ever satisfy. The itch constantly has to be fed until it eventually consumes you from within. Psoro is a movie that is being produced to prey on the fears and phobias of movie viewers. It’s for viewers that want to watch dark mental horror and bloody gore that pays homage to real SFX used in classic 80s and 90s films in the same genre.
Psoro – “Don’t Scratch It…It Will Tear You Apart!” comes from the sharp creative minds of U.K. based writer/director Wayne Daniells (LiarDice Films) and visual artist/prosthetics creator Paul While (Graphic Delusions).
How did a filmmaker from Southern California like me get involved with being part of the Psoro creative team as a writer and producer? I got the itch after hearing the origins of the Psoro story.
Hell, that itch even led to scenes from Psoro being shot under the eye of Slice of Americana Films right here in Southern California. Now the real itch begins to deliver to viewers a story that fully entertains them.
Psoro has moved into post production hell where movies either escape or die. I know many fellow indie filmmakers that have been crushed in post production. They’ve either underestimated the cost of post production and ran out of money or their movie wouldn’t cut for different reasons. I’ve been in post production battles and know it can happen to any indie film.
A major factor I think will help is we’ve produced Psoro with in-house money out of our own pockets, so this will make us think creatively in post production to solve problems. We’re not going to have to back to film investors with hats in hand (I’ve been there before) or seek crowd funding (not been there yet).
There are always problems in post production to deal with. Slice of Americana Films coproducer Tim “Timbo” Beachum has dealt with all kinds of post production hiccups. We’re pulling resources with LiarDice Films and Graphic Delusions to keep Psoro true to what writer/director Wayne Daniells wants. Wayne and I have creatively clicked working on Psoro from script to this point of post production.
Every filmmaker says it. I’ll say this. The actors that were cast for Psoro in the U.K. that include Lucas Hansen, Edd Muruako and newcomer Celeste Webb were outstanding. I wasn’t there for U.K. filming, but saw raw footage that was badass. Paul While delivered SFX that looked great.
Lucas Hansen had to sit through hours of being molded. Each prosthetic was custom created to fit. Edd Muruako was transformed as well through the Paul’s visual talents. The time and effort taken to do it this way isn’t normally what other indie budget films can enjoy.
The Southern California filming cast delivered all we could ask from them with patience. Indie film shoots don’t always run on schedule and I was glad these actors stuck with me.
Actor Jennifer Day I’ve worked with before on another movie. Jennifer Day brings a fantastic attitude to set. Keeping in that in mind I suggested her to Wayne to consider for Psoro Scream Queen Juliette. We have no regrets. Jennifer delivered a powerful performance in scene that is hard to make work. It had to be sexy, but at the same tragic. She made it happen on camera.
Actor Tim Dax is a really good soul. There was a communication glitch (I rarely get a signal where I live now) and he could have said F Psoro. Tim Dax is a dynamite human and professional. He brought intensity to the role of Badass Biker. Tim is one of the actors even when we are baking out under the desert sun he’ll do another take no problem. No quit is in this actor.
Actor Ruben “Hollywood” Navarro has been in two of Slice of Americana Films features that have been released worldwide. He’s a childhood friend that I write certain movie roles for. I’ve never had a problem casting friends in roles if the role fit. Sometimes a role needs real edge that can’t be taught. Ruben was cast as the Man in the Panama Hat playing opposite Tim Dax. Very cool

This is indie filmmaker Sid Kali typing FADE TO BLACK