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THE FILM
"They say a guilty conscience can eat you alive..."
Chris, a paranoid and self-centered man, is happily avoiding all human contact, preferring to escape from reality in whatever's on TV. When a friend reaches out to him to confront him about his past promises, Chris has to decide what kind of person he is inside, or it may just eat him...alive.
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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Obtaining Hollywood quality on a shoe string budget
Challenges are part of my life, I never back down nor surrender to adversities. As I was choosing the best way possible to debut as a Director I was tormented by my lack of finances so I decided to try and do my best using the bare minimum.
What if I could shoot a movie with just one actor, set in just one location with an enemy that could not be seen? All while making it look amazing as a top Hollywood blockbuster and as shocking and funny as classics like "The Evil Dead" and "Dead Alive?
Keeping the story very small scale would allow me to shoot with a tiny budget and I could do most of the jobs on set myself. I embarked on this adventure with a talented team of friends and colleagues who trusted me to bring this vision to life.
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Teamwork and dedication lead to what "Escalation" is today. A short film which is the embodiment of that challenge that I decided to embark upon.
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Just one character, one room, one invisible villain. And if I can keep an audience glued to the screen with just such little things then my mission as a Director is accomplished.
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03
THE MISSION
From Short Film to Feature Film!
Life is a beautiful dream for some, while it is a daily nightmare for others. Few are lucky to find balance between the light and the darkness, being able to experience life at its fullest; many others are afraid to explore the divergent facets of the human existence.
Many resent people who live their dream lives; many are so afraid of looking into the abyss of pain and suffering that life can sometimes be, that they create a door to keep what they do not like at bay.
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As filmmakers, we hold the key to that door and we can never, ever be afraid to open it and allow darkness and light fight their eternal battle. With my short film, “Escalation", I wanted to kick that door down, once and for all. Now that the short film is complete, it is time to let "Escalation" shock the World by making it into a full length feature film.
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Body horror, nightmarish visions, cannibalizing guilt and a story that will throw out of the window all the tropes that people usually associate with horror movies.