Dominic Purcell, Viva Bianca and Robert Taylor are set to star in Turkey Shoot Reloaded, an action adventure set in the near future.
The director is Jon Hewitt (X, Acolytes, Bloodlust), who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, actress-writer Belinda McClory, with whom he collaborated on X and Acolytes.
Hewitt tells If the film is in the spirit of Brian Trenchard-Smith.s 1982 cult item Turkey Shoot but is not a reboot. .I loved Turkey Shoot but I did not want to remake it," he says. "This is a complete reinvention..
Principal photography starts in Melbourne on February 5. The Post Lounge is handling the visual effects and investing in the film. The producer is Antony I. Ginnane, who produced Turkey Shoot, with David Lightfoot as line producer and Lizzette Atkins as associate producer. Trenchard-Smith is an executive producer.
Turkey Shoot (also known outside Australia as Escape 2000 and Blood Camp Thatcher...
The director is Jon Hewitt (X, Acolytes, Bloodlust), who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, actress-writer Belinda McClory, with whom he collaborated on X and Acolytes.
Hewitt tells If the film is in the spirit of Brian Trenchard-Smith.s 1982 cult item Turkey Shoot but is not a reboot. .I loved Turkey Shoot but I did not want to remake it," he says. "This is a complete reinvention..
Principal photography starts in Melbourne on February 5. The Post Lounge is handling the visual effects and investing in the film. The producer is Antony I. Ginnane, who produced Turkey Shoot, with David Lightfoot as line producer and Lizzette Atkins as associate producer. Trenchard-Smith is an executive producer.
Turkey Shoot (also known outside Australia as Escape 2000 and Blood Camp Thatcher...
- 1/10/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Australian cult hit Bloodlust is hitting DVD in a bonus packed special edition!Directed by Jon Hewitt (Acolytes, X) and Richard Wolstencroft, the new DVD edition includes: All-New Audio Commentary, Cast Reunion, Behind-The-Scenes Featurette, Blooper Reel, Trailer, Limited Edition Slipcase and Poster.The notorious Australian Cult Classic Bloodlust arrives in a 21st Anniversary deluxe special edition! Available for the first time on DVD, this infamous genre gem focuses on a group of modern day vampires. Armed with an arsenal of weapons and a dangerous hunger, they prowl a twilight world of bizarre nightclubs and seedy streets looking for kicks - with an insatiable appetite for carnage. A blood drenched saga of epic proportions which features enough ammunition to blow the roof off, the film erupts into...
- 6/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Opening with a titillating full-frontal act of fornication in front of a group of champagne guzzling, celery-stick chomping upper-class lady types, X seemingly prepares you for the ensuing unflinching proceedings that lay ahead. But contrary to the beautifully blunt title this is no exposé of the seedy underworld of Sydney’s red light district – director Jon Hewitt is more interested in setting up some suspenseful surprises that give this film more of a instinctual killer thriller narrative thrust.
Not that we should be surprised. Hewitt is a film-maker infamous in Oz for smart serial killer thrillers like Redball and Acolytes and the sexually tinged Darklovestory. But before that there was his audacious Melbourne-set vampire killing, all-screwing and drug-taking 1992 debut Bloodlust. So there were always sordid hints in this film-maker’s make-up.
The narrative for his latest follows the final exploits of 30-year old upper-class call girl Holly (Viva Bianca) who,...
Opening with a titillating full-frontal act of fornication in front of a group of champagne guzzling, celery-stick chomping upper-class lady types, X seemingly prepares you for the ensuing unflinching proceedings that lay ahead. But contrary to the beautifully blunt title this is no exposé of the seedy underworld of Sydney’s red light district – director Jon Hewitt is more interested in setting up some suspenseful surprises that give this film more of a instinctual killer thriller narrative thrust.
Not that we should be surprised. Hewitt is a film-maker infamous in Oz for smart serial killer thrillers like Redball and Acolytes and the sexually tinged Darklovestory. But before that there was his audacious Melbourne-set vampire killing, all-screwing and drug-taking 1992 debut Bloodlust. So there were always sordid hints in this film-maker’s make-up.
The narrative for his latest follows the final exploits of 30-year old upper-class call girl Holly (Viva Bianca) who,...
- 11/7/2011
- by Oliver Pfeiffer
- Obsessed with Film
Australian feature film X will get a local cinematic release later this year.
Director Jon Hewitt told Encore, despite the film being finished for over a year the plan was always to give X the time to release internationally first.
The film will be distributed by Potential Films, beginning with November 24 in Melbourne and Adelaide before opening in Sydney December 1.
Hewitt, whose other films include Acolytes and Bloodlust, told Encore: “We always had distribution, but it was a matter of when it would get a release.”
“It’s tougher than it’s ever been to get a non-Hollywood or tentpole film out there, be it tentpole commercial or tentpole art house. X is a film that needs a careful and nurtured release. The one thing I wanted to do was release it internationally first. The fact it recently got to 14 on IMDBs movie metre (a week by week hottest search...
Director Jon Hewitt told Encore, despite the film being finished for over a year the plan was always to give X the time to release internationally first.
The film will be distributed by Potential Films, beginning with November 24 in Melbourne and Adelaide before opening in Sydney December 1.
Hewitt, whose other films include Acolytes and Bloodlust, told Encore: “We always had distribution, but it was a matter of when it would get a release.”
“It’s tougher than it’s ever been to get a non-Hollywood or tentpole film out there, be it tentpole commercial or tentpole art house. X is a film that needs a careful and nurtured release. The one thing I wanted to do was release it internationally first. The fact it recently got to 14 on IMDBs movie metre (a week by week hottest search...
- 10/28/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
IFC Midnight has a long, proud tradition of bringing its viewers B-rated, smutty drive-in fodder that borders on the unwatchable (The Human Centipede and Antichrist, for example) and now it's turned its eyes down under.
The Australian genre thriller X, directed by Jon Hewitt (who has directed four other films with names like Darklovestory and Bloodlust), follows two ladies of the night dealing with "love, chance, escape and the oldest profession in the world... as experienced by two beautiful women on one ugly night that will change their lives forever."
IMDb tagline? A jaded call-girl. A fledgling hooker. The night from hell. I'm sold.
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The Australian genre thriller X, directed by Jon Hewitt (who has directed four other films with names like Darklovestory and Bloodlust), follows two ladies of the night dealing with "love, chance, escape and the oldest profession in the world... as experienced by two beautiful women on one ugly night that will change their lives forever."
IMDb tagline? A jaded call-girl. A fledgling hooker. The night from hell. I'm sold.
read more...
- 12/29/2010
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
The Queensland sun beats down and dust blows up from the dirt track when Fango steps onto the first of several locations to witness the filming of the stylish new Australian serial-killer thriller Acolytes (out this week on Anchor Bay DVD following numerous festival appearances over the past year). Virtually entombed in concrete—beneath an overpass that supports a busy highway—one can still hear the traffic, but it’s virtually drowned out by the noise of a fly swarm—perhaps entirely fitting for a film that deals with the stench of rotting corpses and the people who cause them.
Fango freezes just before rounding a corner where a rehearsal is taking place; much shouting stops suddenly, and this writer takes a spot behind the monitors being fed the picture from the Viper camera—the hi-def rig of choice for the likes of David Fincher and Michael Mann. Director Jon Hewitt...
Fango freezes just before rounding a corner where a rehearsal is taking place; much shouting stops suddenly, and this writer takes a spot behind the monitors being fed the picture from the Viper camera—the hi-def rig of choice for the likes of David Fincher and Michael Mann. Director Jon Hewitt...
- 7/29/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Helms)
- Fangoria
As director Jon Hewitt looks over the bloody tableaux before him - his cast bloodied and bruised, a young girl manacled and lying on a blood-stained mattress, a teenage boy stabbed in the stomach - one can only imagine what's going through his mind. Maybe he took a moment to reflect, looking back at his debut feature, the ultra low budget slapstick vampire gore ‘classic' Bloodlust, co-directed with Richard Wolstencroft, founder of The Melbourne Underground Film Festival.
- 4/9/2009
- FilmInk.com.au
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