Principle photography of the camp horror film Dead Squad has commenced in the Balinese jungle. Towering Aussie giant Conan Stevens, known for Game of Thrones, is on location to play the mysterious character called ‘Z-13.’ He is joined by the world’s tallest model Erika Ervin, aka Amazon Eve, from American Horror Story: Freak Show in the role of a ‘Zombie Queen.’ First time helmer Dominik Hauser, who co-wrote the script, describes the roles of the towering stars as being “The King and Queen of a weird Dantean underworld. We’re doing things with them you haven’t seen before.†Stevens and Ervin are supported by a wide array of bizarre creatures. Bigger ever than the stars are the giant stage sets constructed at Movie Studio Bali making the hellish underworld a reality. Hauser promises the film will be an epic zombie splatterfest. Orlando Bassi of Movie Studio Bali, and Christopher Hatton, producer and director of Battle of the Damned are producing. Dead Squad is a campy, splatter-filled, horror adventure that harkens back to classic films of the early 80s. It concerns a group of young people who become lost in the jungle during a river rafting trip and stumble upon a long lost ruin that is home to a host of mysterious monsters.
Paul Cardullo is a North Carolina indy filmmaker and horror fan. His tastes range from art-house horror to low-budget schlock to indie gems to Slovenia killer hillbilly flicks. When not watching films, he helps make them. From actor to boom operator to doughnut wrangler, he makes himself useful wherever he can. Paul believes it is sometimes necessary to suffer for one’s art. He has endured being covered in [censored], having [censored] thrown at him, and spending over a year with muttonchops and a 70’s-style mustache. When not being abused for the sake of his craft, Paul works on computers and watches as many obscure (and not so obscure) movies as he can fit in.
