So Egypt may not be famous for its Horror Films, but here comes the rather amusingly titled 'Camp'.
'The plot is a very simple one revolving around a group of college students who go on vacation to a remote beach motel where strange things start to happen. At the resort they meet only four people living there: the owner and his wife, played by Lotfy Labib and Jehan Salama, their deaf daughter (Nesma) and the weird concierge played by co-producer Amr Abdel-Latif.'
The film that seems to have set off a chain effect of UK action movies is Displaced, Apparently 6 years in the making, The film is to be distributed worldwide and they even managed to get Ian McKellen onboard. The official sites details of the film read like this: 'The story behind `Displaced' follows Stel, a humanoid alien (Mark Strange), who teams up with a British soldier John Marrettie (Malcolm Hankey) to find a top secret file which holds information on advanced energy production, captured space crafts and their alien pilots including Stel's missing father, Arakawa (Geoff Coxhead), imprisoned on Earth by Core - a human paramilitary group. The displaced file falls into the hands of a renegade 'special forces’ leader, Wilson (Graham Brownsmith) whose plans are to sell the file to the highest bidder, leading to a deadly game of survival, combat, intrigue and deceit.
Mark, who has previously worked in action cinema with Jackie Chan (Shanghai Noon, Around the World in 80 Days) and Donnie Yen (Blade 2, Hero), said, “We had a tremendous response to Displaced at the American Film Market and many parties were seriously interested but US based company, Silverline Entertainment, Inc. were enthused by our work and offered a deal. This means that our debut feature will be distributed worldwide next year. It’s the news we’ve all been working so hard to hear and this will bring recognition to those who have been involved.”
The film recently also had its premier in Lancashire in March 07, hopefully we'll see this in UK cinemas sometime this year. Theres clearly a huge amount of effort and time being ploughed into this project, lets hope the film recieves good coverage.
The British version of Bloodspot? Hopefully! Another new UK Action film slated for 2007 is Mark Strange's film Underground, . No trailer has surfaced but the premise sounds very interesting. The UK seems to gearing up for a film of Action films this year what with 'Displaced','Tough Jutice' and Underground coming soon. Good times!.
Here comes a low budget UK action film, directoral debut from Peter Hallett and staring seasoned UK action man Mark Strange ( Jackie Chan's The medallion, the twins effect ( poor guy! ) )
The official site reads like this:
'Tough Justice is the first feature film project from Utopian Pictures featuring a cast of highly trained Martial Artists, Stunt Performers and Professional Wrestlers!
High octane martial arts, Hong Kong style choreography, quirky dialogue, and grindhouse gore scenes combine to create the best British low budget genre film ever!
