Chicago red

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Movie
German title Chicago red
Original title Chicago red
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Dorian Wine Room
script Brant McCrea ,
Dorian Wine Room
production Jeremy Vranich
music Brant McCrea,
Joe Scott
camera Ryan Berena
cut Ryan Berena,
Dorian Wine Room
occupation

Chicago Red is an American Independent - Horror of Dorian wine room from the year 2016. The turned over several years splatter film mixed motives of the slasher film with science fiction elements.

action

Les, also known as the "Ghoul", is released from prison after several years in prison. He was wrongly serving a longer prison term when a person was cruelly killed in a police operation. Detective Dave Simmons, who was in charge of the case at the time and covered up evidence, is after Les. But already on the drive from prison to the supposed freedom, Les is attacked, but is able to free himself from the predicament in an extremely brutal way.

While Les saves himself badly injured to his girlfriend Alex, who is patching him up, Det. Simmons follows another lead. He goes to Les friends and tries to squeeze information out of them. But the plan goes wrong. Simmons is overwhelmed, threatened and loses his service weapon. Meanwhile, Det. Kyle Cooper is also investigating him.

Meanwhile, Les fights his way through the streets of Chicago in search of his mother's killers. This does not go unnoticed. Eventually, he is targeted by the murderers and when Alex is threatened, he forges a plan. Simmons is forced to take care of Alex while he goes on alone. He becomes the folk hero of Chicago until he is ambushed by one of his opponents. He is overwhelmed and beaten to death.

Shortly before he dies, he is kidnapped by aliens and turned into a supernatural being. For this he should kill his mother's murderer, who is also an alien monster. He finally succeeds in doing this, while his girlfriend is murdered on earth. He finally succeeds in sacrificing his own life, which brings her back to life.

background

The independent film was shot over several years. Director Dorian Weinzimmer and screenwriter Brant McCrea met at the Chicago Film School. In May 2010, a year after graduating, the two decided to work on a McCrea script together. Eleven months later, a campaign was launched on Kickstarter.com to fund the film. Filming began on November 1, 2011, but had to be canceled on December 20, 2011 because the production ran out of money. About 60% of the film was shot by this point.

A first trailer was created from the previously wacky material in order to attract new donors. A new sponsor was found in Steven Nanberg and filming was resumed. But problems arose due to the trailer. The property and business owners felt betrayed because they initially made their property available as filming locations free of charge. However, the trailer suggested a higher budget, so they renegotiated the rents.

The film was finally completed in July 2012. Only a piano scene was missing. In September 2012, however, Weinzimmer's father died suddenly and unexpectedly and the director felt unable to turn the scene off. In April 2013, he finally managed to film the scene on Lake Shore Drive.

Then the post-production began, which turned out to be tedious due to a lack of budget. In the meantime, a sound engineer also died unexpectedly.

The film was finally presented to the public for the first time on October 23, 2015. The premiere took place in the Chicago cinema The Vic in front of 800 people. The official world premiere took place on June 24, 2016 at the US film festival FilmQuest Cthulhu . In German-speaking countries, the premiere took place on October 29, 2017 at the Obscura Film Festival in Berlin.

In German-speaking countries, the film was released on May 4, 2018 on the Dutch uncut label Extreme as a DVD in a limited edition media book.

reception

At the Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio, the film was named "Best Thriller (Feature)" in 2016. Brent McCrea was also nominated for Best Actor.

Daniel Baldwin from the US horror film website Bloody Disgusting described the film as an "ambitious genre mix" that challenges its viewers with the sudden plot twist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nando Rohner: Chronicle of a film production. A look at the Chicago Red movie . Booklet of the DVD. Extreme 2018
  2. ^ Chicago Red in the online film database
  3. ^ The Nightmares Film Festival 2016 Winners. Horror Society, October 23, 2016, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Daniel Baldwin: 'Chicago Rot' Is An Ambitious, Genre-Bending Debut. Bloody-disgusting.com, October 26, 2016, accessed June 22, 2019 .