Mysophobia 30 Second Teaser Trailer

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This is the next film from the indie horror team at Resurrection Films UK Limited. The plot is as follows: "A city is in the grip of a brutal murderer. During one night whilst drunk, Johnny Kerr stumbles upon the aftermath of one of these murders. The police question Johnny believing to be involved as he is unable to remember the exact details of the night. As the investigation continues so do the murders, and in order to clear himself, Johnny tries to work out who the killer is. However his investigations reveal a darker web of secrets. This is a story of sex, corruption and murder." The film is a heavily stylised thriller with its roots firmly within the work of Dario Argento. Expected festival release is early 2005.

"Mysophobia" is an anxiety disorder characterized by an overreaction to the slightest uncleanliness or an abnormal, irrational, and intense fear of dirt, contamination, or defilement through touching familiar objects. Defilement means to make unclean or unpure. Mysophobia is also known as rhypophobia. Mysophobia comes from the Greek word "mysos" meaning "defilement," and the Greek word "phobos" meaning "fear." Put the two words together and you have "fear (of) defilement."

The film is influenced by 'Giallo' movies of the 70â€™s and 80â€™s. These films were produced throughout Europe with Italy being the dominant country of creative origin, mainly because of its large and established production facilities and strong tradition of craft going back to the silent era.

Sexy, psychedelic, hyper-violent and often surreal, the films offer a fascinating glimpse into the state of low budget European cult filmmaking from the late 1960's on. The films real heyday extended from roughly the late sixties to late seventies, although production has continued sporadically up to the present day. These films, whose total number could be put at several hundred, have long been cherished by aficionados for their highly stylized look and trafficking in thematic elements pitched at the cutting edge: graphic sex and violence, drug abuse, fetishism, insanity, sadism, and often and most importantly a general tone of amorality. It's this tone that gives these films their continued relevance and disturbance beyond their exploitative elements.

'Giallo' is Italian for yellow. In the decades after WWII, pulp crime thrillers in Italy were churned out in paperbacks with yellow covers.

The popular books became known as Giallo; as more and more films were made based on the same material the name stuck to the films as well. The antecedents of the Giallo film can be traced further back to the crime novels of the English writer Edgar Wallace. Almost forgotten now, Wallace wrote his hugely popular series of novels in the 1910's and 1920's. In Germany starting in the late 1950's, a series of several dozen films were produced based on Wallace's stories. They were immensely popular in Europe and contained many visual and thematic motifs that would become distinguishing characteristics of the Giallo films.

The German films dwelt in the fog shrouded mysteries of dark London streets, where most of Wallace's stories take place. Borrowing elements of earlier German cinema such as Fritz Lang's M and Dr. Maubse films, as well as American film noir, these films added to their detective stories a sinister patina of horror, an exploration of the irrational, a visual sense that violence and paranoia lie in every dark corner of the modern city.

You can check out the trailer right here.

Visit the official site here: http://www.mysophobia.co.uk/

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