http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/9-film-news/2617-nightmare-star-enters-houses-imago.htmlFango got the scoop from Mel House, the Texas-based director of CLOSET SPACE and the upcoming fright feature WALKING DISTANCE, that NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET sequels star Lisa Wilcox (pictured below) has joined the cast of IMAGO, the latest from his Upstart Filmworks company. “Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge fan of the ELM STREET series,” House tells us, “so you can imagine how excited I am to have Lisa be a part of our team.”
Wilcox (pictured), who toplined the fourth and fifth Freddy flicks, joins a cast also including WALKING DISTANCE castmates Natali Jones, Omar Adam, Sean Brison, Melanie Donihoo, Eryn Brooke and Danielle Jones, plus Parrish Randall from such Lone Star State fear fare as THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD and THE FLESH KEEPER. “DREAM MASTER and DREAM CHILD are pretty much branded on my psyche,” continues House, who wrote IMAGO with director Christopher Warren and will produce. “I’m especially stoked to see Lisa sink her teeth into the role of Christine, which will allow her to play on both the sympathetic and antagonistic sides of the fence.”
In IMAGO, Jones plays Jennifer, a woman who’s trying to track down her missing brother and harbors some dark secrets of her own. She ultimately finds that there’s an otherworldly presence behind her sibling’s disappearance. Wilcox’s Christine is Jennifer’s aunt, who “is there to lend her support,” House says, “but she’s also keeping a watchful eye trained on Jenn…because there have been some, let’s say, ‘issues’ with Jenn’s grasp on reality in the past. Of course, things go horribly wrong in a terribly weird way, as is the case with our movies.”
Creating this weirdness will be Marcus Koch of Oddtopsy FX, who contributed to both SPACE and DISTANCE as well as the upcoming Texas bloodbath SWEATSHOP and Herschell Gordon Lewis’ GRIM FAIRY TALE. “I can’t wait to see what crazy, sick and twisted things Marcus has to throw at this film,” Warren says. “Marcus has a gift for taking anything you throw his way, and turning it into something even more horrific than you imagined!”
Warren, making his feature debut after several short films and set work on DISTANCE, begins lensing IMAGO August 1 in the Houston, TX area. Keep your eyes here for updates, and also on the movie’s
MySpace page and
Facebook page; an official website will open soon
here. You can meet House and some of his DISTANCE cast at the New York Fango
Weekend of Horrors, running June 5-7.