Fabrice Du Welz, co-writer and director of the French-language shocker CALVAIRE (pictured, and due for U.S. release next year from Palm Pictures as THE ORDEAL) has a new shocker set to shoot, based on current events and titled VINYAN. “That means ‘souls’ or ‘drifter’s souls’ in Thai,” Du Welz tells Fango. “The movie is a thriller set in Thailand, in English, and a post-tsunami film. VINYAN is straightforward in its storytelling and becomes supernatural as it develops. It begins in a very realistic view and drifts slowly into a strange world of madness, hallucination and horror. VINYAN is another horror experimentation. It won’t be an ‘easy’ viewing experience for moviegoers, but a very exciting and edgy one.”
According to Welz’s synopsis, ”VINYAN takes place in June 2006. Still not having accepted the loss of their son in the [tsunami] disaster, Janet and Paul Behlmer are back in Bangkok. Hanging onto the fact that his body has never been discovered, Janet desperately clings to the idea that pirates might have kidnapped their kid in the confusion that followed the catastrophe. Looking for someone to guide them in the Thai underworld, they bribe their way to a mysterious Mr. Gao, who takes them to Ranong, where a mercenary supplies them with a boat and crew to explore the pirate-infested shores of Burma. Slowly, they will lose themselves into a strange child-infested jungle and to their inner demons.”
Du Welz expects to shoot his thriller next year, depending on the cast. Unlike the Euro-cast ORDEAL, he plans on selecting either British or American actors. “VINYAN will be an independent film,” he says, “very violent and I hope very powerful.”
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