GAME OF DEATH: THE SIX DOORS TO HELL: A Look At Timo Rose’s Psychedelic New Fantasy Martial Arts Indie Thriller [EXCLUSIVE]
German filmmaker and musician Timo “Norris” Rose’s resumé might stand familiar for anyone in the niche who regularly consumes indie horror. He’s got thirty years in the field and his latest now comes primed with martial arts fan fare in English-language indie fantasy actioner, Game Of Death: The Six Doors To Hell.
Rose is directing the film from a script he wrote with Asian film expert Nando Rohner, who birthed the idea. It features actor and martial arts master David Ruessel (The Last Kumite), Deena Unverzagt (SOKO Hamburg), Carlos Nikolai (Gunpowder Milkshake), Maya Trojanowski (Death Wish Zero), Annelie Harner, and Li Yan-Long of 1984’s South Shaolin Master fame.
Touting a blend of elements from “Dante’s Inferno” and Bruce Lee’s seminal final film, Game Of Death, Rose’s film is billed as a love letter to Hong Kong cinema and manga/anime nods like Story Of Ricky and Fist Of The North Star.
Rose’s Game Of Death: The Six Doors To Hell is a dystopian future-set tale where ‘The Regime’ rules all, oppressing, torturing and killing the weak with its global grip. Ruessel plays Ken Shiro, a warrior mourning the death of his daughter at her grave site when an apparition emerges, telling him his daughter is in hell. Determined, he journeys to the gates of hell to save his daughter, no matter what it takes.
The cast also lists Golden Globe-winning actress Irene Miracle (Midnight Express, Dario Argento’s Inferno). In addition, the film will feature over a hundred cameos among a who’s who of Hong Kong cinema laureates and stars such as Richard Norton, Robert Samuels, Bruce Fontaine, Mark King, Jamie Luk, Lester Chan, and Turbo Kong. Voice over casting includes Simon Broad, Andy Chworowsky, and Warwick Paul Evans, as well as Ric Meyers and hip-hop artist Cryptik Soul.
Principal photography wrapped in Hamburg last month on the pic and as it stands, post-production is well underway. Early screening plans are in motion for June while for now, a teaser is already online with an official trailer in toe by May.
Alas, Film Combat Syndicate can share some exclusive stills from the upcoming film to proffer a closer look. Check out a fresh raft of stills below, and to gaze at even more photos, click here over at my Buy Me A Coffee page. For good measure, be sure to follow the movie on Facebook and Instagram as well.
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