2 months ago we lashed you in the grill with a full two-minute opening sequence from Gabriel Cowan’s parasitic sci-fi gripper GROWTH. Well how’d you feel about taking in a cool 6 minute behind-the-scenes featurette?
Hopefully looking to mine the best of flicks like NIGHT OF THE CREEPS and SHIVERS (in their own way, of course), GROWTH picks up:
In 1989, as a breakthrough in advanced parasitic research on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising as subjects were experiencing heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But, something in the experiment went horribly wrong and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population. Jamie Akerman fled the outbreak, which took her mother’s life, twenty years ago.
She now returns with her boyfriend and step brother, to sell the family property. There, they uncover the key to Jamie’s disturbing past, and the horrifying secrets long suppressed by the town leader, Larkin. Now, a new strain of parasite has emerged, and threatens the island once again. Jamie struggles to survive and escape the obsessive pursuit of the local islanders who know that she has inherited more than she could ever have imagined.
In the clip below, get further acquainted with stars Mircea Monroe, Christopher Shand, Brian Krause, Nora Kirkpatrick, Richard Riehle, Alexi Wasser, and Ian Patrick Williams as they expound on the storyline of the film, how it originated, as well as some of the character motivations in the film, the use of CGI, budgetary constraints, etc. etc.
Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Robert Pike Daniel, Lou Richards, Jessica Dercks, Brad Culver, Brett Mann, and John Suits comprise the rest of the cast.
GROWTH premiers on DVD in Japan March 5th. More stateside dates as they roll in!
The unfairly good looking Mircea Monroe!
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