Asylum Press and Pretend For Real Studios have released a
trailer for their upcoming film and several comic book preview pages for their
latest horror franchise entitled Rough House.
Rough House is a gritty, action-packed horror movie and
comic book series that examines innocent victims thrown into a caged fighting
match with deranged serial killers where they fight to the death.
Rough House combines the brutal ruckus of Fight Club, the
twisted horror of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and drapes it under a cloak of a
government black ops conspiracy.
The story begins with an athletic young woman known only
as “The Girl” who is kidnapped and thrown into a bizarre world of masked serial
killers who torment their victims in brutal underground fights, backyard
wrestling matches and deadly mixed martial arts bouts. She soon proves herself able to hold her own
in death matches against colorful masked killers with names like “Bone Job”,
“Baby Fat, and “Skeeter the Devil Boy”. Once inside the Rough House ,“The Girl”
uncovers dark secrets that possibly link her to a secret government program and
to the fighters themselves. As “The Girl’s” psyche is worn down by brainwashing
and psychotropic drugs, she becomes more and more of a stone cold killer
herself. She must decide whether she will escape the Rough House or stay
focused on her true target, the ringleader called “Big Daddy.”
Rough House is based on a story idea and trailer created
by Mike L. Taylor of Pretend For Real Studios and a feature length screenplay
written by Elizabeth J. Musgrave (Farmhouse, Darwin’s Pâté).
The project will be released as a digital first 4-issue
comic book mini-series through Asylum Press and later in print as a graphic
novel.
“I have a long history as a comic book artist and I am
thrilled to see my movie concept brought to life on the comic book page,” says
creator Mike L. Taylor. “We put together a great teaser trailer, we have a
killer script and we’re in the process of doing storyboards and concept art for
the film.”
“Mike gave me an outline and together we were able to
create an interestingly warped world,” reveals writer Elizabeth J. Musgrave.
“Each member of “Big Daddy’s” crew is a trained killer, but I tried to inject a
tormented soul to each one.”
“We are excited to release this first glimpse into Rough
House,” explains publisher Frank Forte. “It’s a dark, twisted tale that delves
into what would happen if the victims in a slasher film were bad ass fighters
themselves that could give the killers a run for their money…and show the
viewer some brutal fight scenes in the process.
We also delve into MK-Ultra, The CIA, Black Ops and government
conspiracies, it's very twisted.”
The Rough House trailer was directed by Mike L. Taylor
based on a script by Elizabeth Fine and a story by Mike L. Taylor. It features Ramona Cast (Rad Girls) as “The
Girl”, David Yow (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard) as “Big Daddy”, Devyn Ashley
as “Baby Fat”, Noshir Dalal as “Bone Job”, Maria Kanellis (WWE DIVA, Playboy)
as “Trixxi”, Mike Bray as “Skeeter” and Carlos Cespedes as “Trixxi’s victim”,
Rob Czar and Ganesh Hennings as “Dead Heads”,
Nick Seone as “ear donor” and
Brandon Riley, Matt Fry, Joel Peterson, Brian Testa, Mike L. Taylor, Ganesh
Hennings as “Baby Fat’s fans”, Brandon
Riley was co-producer, Mike Spatola was make-up FX Supervisor, Anton David was
stylist, music by Fantasizer, sound design by Micah Johnson, Matte Paintings by
Brandon Riley.
Rough House the comic book will be available digitally on
iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle, Mac and PC via the following apps: Comixology,
ComicsPlus, Graphicly, My Digital Comics, iBooks, DriveThruComics, and AVE
Comics.
