Carolyn Bracken, who plays the blind protagonist of Damian McCarthy’s recent chiller “Oddity,” and veteran character actress Caroline Goodall (“Schindler’s List,” “The Fabelmans”) are set to star in Italian director Andrea Corsini’s psychological horror film “Beasts of Prey.”
Cameras recently started rolling in Italy’s northern regions of Lombardy and Piedmont on the English-language “Beasts of Prey,” which is being described as a “complex and thrilling story about the never-ending struggle between the rational and the animal side of human nature” in promotional materials.
“Beasts of Prey,” which is Corsini’s first feature, expands on the director’s short by the same title — about a strange woman who lives in an abandoned villa on the edge of a wild forest — that launched from the 2019 Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
“The life of a rich art collector is shattered by a tragic event. Destroyed by this unbearable pain, an instinctive and primordial nature awakens in her that will lead her to destroy her privileged life and build a new idea of family,” says the feature film’s provided synopsis.
Interestingly, “Beasts of Prey” (which is titled “Ferine” in Italian) is being lead-produced by Francesco Grisi and Giorgia Priolo for EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani, the effects company that just won an Emmy in the outstanding special visual effects in a single episode category for Steven Zaillian’s series “Ripley.”
“With ‘Ferine’ we break the mold of canonical film production by redesigning it starting from visual effects,” Grisi said in a statement. “It will be a film with important digital contributions with the creation of full CGI creatures,” he added, noting that the top notch cast will give “Beasts of Prey” built-in international appeal.
Additional potential production value is given by the fact that veteran composer Pino Donaggio, who worked with Brian De Palma on such films as “Carrie,” “Dressed to Kill” and “Blow Out,” will be scoring “Beasts of Prey” while Fabrizio La Palombara (“Another End”) serves as cinematographer.
Marco Colombo, CEO of Adler Entertainment, which is the film’s Italian distributor, called “Beasts of Prey” an “ambitious and deeply personal film that represents a new stage in Adler’s exploration of genre filmmaking.”
Pictured below: Carolyn Bracken and Andrea Corsini on the “Beasts of Prey” set
Courtesy EDI
Source Agencies
