So Hammer Horror is back.
Well not really. Some Dutch producer who apparently created the Big Brother reality show is trying to capitalise on the name of the classic British studio by producing straight-to-Internet content (thought it will eventually see a DVD transfer apparently), the first being Beyond the Rave which we have the first look of below.
The film stars Nora-Jane Noone, Jamie Dornan, Tamer Hassan, Sebastian Knapp, Les Simpson, Lois Winstone, Steve Sweeney, INGRID PITT, Sadie Frost and Phil Bush. Matthias Hoene makes his directorial debut from a screenplay by Tom Grass.
Official plot synopsis below and then the image which Bloody Disgusting have provided us. This is not how I remember Hammer Horror at all and I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like another Hostel to me…
Beyond the Rave, a vampire story set in England’s underground party scene, is a combination of traditional horror themes and contemporary setting and characters. The movie follows the last hours of freedom of local soldier Ed, who is flying out to Iraq the following morning. With the help of his best friend Necro, he spends his last night in the UK tracking down his missing girlfriend Jen, last seen partying with a bizarre group of hardcore night-time ravers led by the mysterious Melech. But as he catches up with Jen at a party in a remote forest, Ed discovers that Melech’s crowd, who are hosting the event, are looking for more than a night of fun, and that not everyone will make it through to dawn…
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Oh woe. I associate Hammer Horror with classic githicism and suchlike. “Beyond the Rave” sounds too much like a manifested vision of modern party culture and the crappy Hollywood teen scream movies that we’ve been peleted with since studios realised in the wake of Halloween that such products made a massive profit.
Maybe I’m being closed minded here, bu I was more hoping that hemmer would come back with schlocky, old-school horror instead of going into territory that sounds all-too-familiar in today’s horror movies.