Blood Deep World Premiere July 29th

We were invited to a private screening of Blood Deep a month ago and as a result we have an exclusive early review: Blood Deed Review, also if you would like you can watch the exclusive trailer

Sponsored by OfficeMax, Le Meridien Chicago, EatZi's, Discmakers, Cyclone Productions, IndieWIRE, Bexel, Ticketweb, Inktip, Indieclub.com, and others, Indiefest Chicago is a burgeoning new festival for creative writers and directors of fun and innovative films.  This year’s 2005 festival will included fifty films from ten around the world, including forty-nine Chicago premieres and 17 world premieres.

BLOOD DEEP will be Dead Horse Production's premiere feature length thriller about a reunion of childhood friends that turns deadly when one of the guests unwittingly admits to murder.  Not a gore-fest, but rather a thriller with elements of horror, Kniss has created a unique film that can’t be categorized—one part campfire story, one part thriller and one part horror. BLOOD DEEP is careful to introduce the viewer to the danger and the mystery within without revealing any secrets prematurely.  Kniss steps back from an all out blood bath to deliver a unique thriller with multidimensional characters, and sweeping cinematography that are akin to the styles of some of his favorite filmmakers today to create what is virtually a new style or genre of filmmaking.

BLOOD DEEP stars Jordan Belfi (HBO’s "Entourage"), Femi Emiola ("ER," "The Practice"), Jeridan Frye (NBC's "Profiler", ABC's "Two Guys and A Girl"), Gerald Hopkins ("General Hospital"), Ben McCain ("Lois & Clark," "Black Scorpion"), Amy Christine ( The Mortuary),   Bo Foxworth (Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys), Cameron Zeidler ("Oliver Beene"), Kelli Nordhus ("The George Lopez Show"), and newcomer Richie Cunningham; with Peter Onorati ("Cop Rock," Goodfellas), Nina Kaczorowski (The Rundown, Austin Powers in Goldmember), Suzy McCoppin (Playboy TV), and Kim Delgado (Life as a House).

Former member of the pop 80’s band Berlin ("The Metro," "Take My Breath Away"), Matt Reid Cohn, scores BLOOD DEEP as famous west coast radio DJ Richard Blade, best known for his work with the BBC, KROQ FM and STAR 98.7 FM, lends his own voice to that of the film’s radio DJ.

The film was created by the mind of Todd Kniss, a 2004 graduate of the world-renowned American Film Institute in Hollywood, CA.  BLOOD DEEP is Kniss’ first feature film as a writer and director.  No stranger to filmmaking, Todd once studied under the tutelage of industry veteran of special effects, Richard Miranda.  Together they worked on American Ninja 4, Shock ‘em Dead with Tracy Lords, Texas Chainsaw Hookers with Michael Berryman, and music videos such as The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon by the Cramps.  Credited as the Special Effects make-up Artist on BLOOD DEEP, Miranda’s other most recent projects include: Devil’s Ranch, starring Jason Connery, Christopher Walken, and Dean Cain; Down to the Bone, Ghost Ship; Lost Boys; and Friday The 13 Part VII: The New Blood.
 
Indiefest screens at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema located at 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL July 29 through August 7.  Catch BLOOD DEEP July 29 at 8pm; August 1 at 8pm; and August 5 at 10 pm. Tickets are $10. 

BLOOD DEEP also screens at Le Meridien August 3, 2005 at 9:00 PM.