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Movie Synopsis

"The complex and tragic relationship between an eccentric Professor and a confused young woman."

After weeks of online communication Claudia and George are ready to meet face to face. What at first appears to be a simple innocent date quickly turns sinister and shockingly graphic. Tonight George's impeccable taste in women will pay off and Claudia will learn that the fastest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, literally.

Inspired by true events.

Consumption is an award winning short (30 minute film) that is being made into a Full Length Feature Film. Consumption is an Official selection at A Night of Horror International Film Festival in 2009.

Genre: Horror Rated: R Director: Richard Powell

About the Director

Richard Powell was born in Brampton, Ontario in 1983. He attended Trebas Film University for film and television, and is currently attending York U for Writing. He was raised watching horror films.

His grandmother would take him to the corner video store and let him choose anything he wanted. Being six or seven he was naturally drawn to the most appealing covers or box art. Even at age six he had a strong visual sense, if the film had a cool poster he rented it.

Richard has received awards from the New York International Independent Film Festival (Site) and the 2008 Best International Short Horror Film for Consumption.

Directors Influences:

I was raised on a diet of slasher films and other 80’s video nasties. I scoured the video stores looking for the most bizarre and disgusting titles and by the age of 13 I had seen just about everything. Some of my child hood favorites included THE HILLS HAVE EYES, DEMONS, SHOCK WAVES and HELLRAISER. Being exposed to such a volume of exploitation/gore films at a young age quickly left me desensitized and forced me to look elsewhere for deeper, truer expressions of horror. What is typically considered horror by the mainstream plays like a fun, schlocky joke to any real horror enthusiast. True horror lies in the darker recesses of human nature. I became aware of the difference with my first viewing of Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I became fascinated with the human monster because he/she was real and could be seen daily in the headlines and evening news. As evil as Jason Voorhees is, he’s a pussy cat compared to Andrei Chikatilo or Jeffery Dahmer. These guys are killers but they are also people with family, history and deep, complicated motivations. The exploration of dark characters is probably the best way to describe my ambitions in filmmaking.

I enjoy taking a character from a horror film universe and planting him/her in a plausible reality to allow a deeper examination of what they are. No body watches Friday the Thirteenth because they care about the nine anonymous teens up for slaughter, they watch because Jason is interesting, his presence, though shallow, is the most exciting aspect of the film. I agree and further more ask “why not make Jason the star, look at things from his point of view?” Villains bring the drama, so why not focus on a villain and get that much more drama? Films such as HAPPINESS and I STAND ALONE are dramatic in theme but deal with darker, more complicated anti-heroes. The main characters are shady and perverse, cruel and weak, a refreshing change from the simple, good natured antagonists of mainstream film. By combining the restraint and craft of drama with the themes and characters which typically haunt the horror genre you can arrive at something artistic, truthful and devastating.

List of Work: Consumption (short) and Worm.

 

The Director's Favorite's

Favorite Movies:

Salo (1975), Happiness (1998), I Stand Alone (1998), A Knife In The Water (1962) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Favorite Movie Quotes:

"Look. The bloke's been me best mate since 1975. We've had our fallouts from time to time, it's no big deal. Y'know, it's like... if ya mum stabs ya, whaddya do? Y-ya don't get upset. Ya don't get angry, ya go, "Shit, mum's stabbed me, I better get off to the hospital." -Mark "Chopper" Read, from the film Chopper
"If only I had been raped as a child! *Then* I would know authenticity!"-Helen Jordan, from the film Happiness
"Z-Man? There is no Z-Man, varlet. And indeed, it's not a game we play. I am Superwoman!"-Ronnie “Z man” Barzell from the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Favorite Movie Scenes:

Vincent Cassel searching for his wife’s rapist in the bowels of the night club. “The Rectum” -From Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible
Ronnie “Z-man” Barzell slaughtering his party guests after a drug fueled orgy at the end of Russ Myers Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. (Screenplay by Roger Ebert!)
Leather face chasing Sally through the pitch black country side after carving up her invalid brother Franklin. –From 1974’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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