Cryptic
Pictures receives
8 nominations
for Mortal Remains at the NOVA IFF: Film of the
Year, Screenplay of the Year, The NOVA Award for Film, The
NOVA Award for Screenplay, Best Screenplay - Feature Film, Best
Original Screenplay, Best Horror Film and
Best
Horror Screenplay.
"Mortal
Remains" is a docu-thriller which aims to unearth the details surrounding
the life, career, and mysterious death of Maryland filmmaker Karl Atticus,
referred to by some as a founder of "slasher film."
The film features interviews with various horror aficionados and
industry personalities including Eduardo Sanchez, co-director of "The
Blair Witch Project," who wondered in a 2008 interview: Why, for over 40
years, has Atticus' legacy been all but eradicated from the annals of horror
film history?
"Mortal
Remains" reveals much about this elusive figure; a man who inspired a
generation of filmmakers but has yet to receive due credit for his
contributions to the genre. Crew members who worked alongside Atticus detail
the puzzling circumstances under which his last film was created: missing cast
members, intimations of occult activity, and allegations of special effects
"too convincing" for their time among them. Was Atticus a true auteur
who challenged the industry and was silenced by his contemporaries? Or were his
films simply pretext; elaborate showpieces designed to glorify work of a far
more sinister nature...?
Filmed
on location in Maryland and Pennsylvania, the film hopes to finally confirm the
legends and establish once and for all the legacy of a man whose final film -
lost decades ago to vandalism - is considered by some to be the "Holy
Grail of horror."
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