From the get go you can tell the production of Phobia might be just the play on words you’re looking for. With an antagonist named Val Drakul, Romania and vampirism in the synopsis, we shall see.
Erica Leerhsen (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wrong Turn 2) will star in PHOBIA, a horror/murder-mystery to be directed by Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare, Living & Dying) and produced by Blake Calhoun (Killing Down, Pink) from a screenplay by Anne Gibson.
Trailer for Wrong Turn 2 to wet your palette:
Synopsis:
Victorian era Paris 1885… The city is on edge as an elusive serial killer drains victims of their blood. Upon finishing her studies at a revolutionary French medical school teaching hypnosis, Dr. Lesley Parker (Leerhsen), prepares for her long journey home to San Francisco to open her own psychiatric practice. But her plans are interrupted when she meets Val Drakul, a young Romanian man traumatized by his family’s tragic and mysterious past. He needs help, and so at the urging of her new-found colleague, Dr. Sigmund Freud, Lesley takes Val to San Francisco – making him part of a new group of patients suffering from phobias. But when the patients start dying one by one, it seems the Parisian killer might be among them – and Val – he might be a vampire.
Rounding out the cast are Chase Jeffery (Exposed, American Virgin) as Val Drakul, the man tormented by a family curse; Matthew Tompkins (Killing Down, Missionary Man) as I.M. Casey, a mysterious stranger tracking Val; Jonathan Brooks (The Next Door Neighbor, Seasons of Gray) and Nicole Leigh (Small Timers, Karma Police) as Guy and Marcia Krusek, Val’s cousins and owners of the Theatre du Macabres; and Matt Moore (Super, Premonition) as a young Sigmund Freud.
Combining gothic horror and an Agatha Christie style murder mystery, PHOBIA will be produced by a seasoned genre crew including Director of Photography Richard Clabaugh (The Prophecy, Phantoms), Production Designer Eric Whitney (The Final, Fall Down Dead) and FX Make-up Artist Joshua Fread (The Mechanical Grave, After Sundown).
Dr. Jimmy Terror, more commonly known as James P. Harris, has been “writing your eyes” shut since 2010 with his horror themed blog Dr. Terror’s Blog of Horrors (whose name is a play on words derived from the Amicus film, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors). In the early 2000’s he fronted the band The Vaudeville Vampires, a short-lived Horrorabilly band which saw the creation of a catalog of horror related songs before disbanding (with only one, six song demo ever being produced and distributed). He has had only one on screen appearance to date in the horror/suspense short, Ocean Parkway, as maniacal, gloved killer with a hair fetish. Having done some un-credited, behind the scenes work in some low budget genre pictures, he is currently working on his first foray into screenwriting with a demonic, retro gore entry that pays homage to Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento as well as other Italian masters of the genre.
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