Following the success of That Sugar Film, Madman Production is co-producing Spookers, its second feature documentary which examines the characters who inhabit Australasia.s only haunted theme park. Berlin-born, New Zealand-based director Florian Habicht is shooting Spookers at the eponymous .scream park. in a converted hospital located near Karaka, a 50 minute drive from Auckland.
The attraction was created 10 years ago by a sheep farming family, which has transformed their lives and employed hundreds of aspiring horror performers.
The New Zealand Film Commission is co-funding the doc, produced by Kiwi Lani-Rain Feltham and Madman Production.s Nick Batzias and Suzanne Walker. Madman Entertainment co-founder Paul Wiegard has been to the park and marvelled at the crazy characters including zombies, clowns, a blood-curdling butcher and a guy in a baseball mask wielding a chainsaw.
"We follow the hopes, dreams and fears of key characters as they face unchartered territory," Wiegard tells If.
The attraction was created 10 years ago by a sheep farming family, which has transformed their lives and employed hundreds of aspiring horror performers.
The New Zealand Film Commission is co-funding the doc, produced by Kiwi Lani-Rain Feltham and Madman Production.s Nick Batzias and Suzanne Walker. Madman Entertainment co-founder Paul Wiegard has been to the park and marvelled at the crazy characters including zombies, clowns, a blood-curdling butcher and a guy in a baseball mask wielding a chainsaw.
"We follow the hopes, dreams and fears of key characters as they face unchartered territory," Wiegard tells If.
- 10/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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- 4/25/2010
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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