Just a few days until their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for short film No Touching comes to an end, the creators of the film, Will Pilgrim and Adam Davis, sat down with ComicBook.com to share details about the hopefully upcoming action/horror flick.
According to the website, Pilgrim and Davis helped create Marvel blockbusters such as The Avengers, Iron Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy. The duo knows a thing or two about crafting action-packed spectacles with actually relatable characters. They want to inject that type of experience into their very own film.
While discussing No Touching’s plot, Davis stated,“No Touching is an action/horror hybrid short about two girls that are dragged into this traveling haunted house attraction by their friend. So his two female friends, played by Zoe Bell and Heidi Moneymaker, decide to come along. They’re not too thrilled about it, but they’re going to support their friend. They get to this house that has potential history of 80’s occult activity, but they’re not sure if it’s all an urban legend or actually true. They hear all these stories and feel a little freaked out, but they’re going to go in anyway.
“And in the performing haunted house, we have the fledgling house performers. They are really trying to make a statement and get some viral press on their attraction, so they decided to that they’re going to start assaulting people. They start on Zoe and Heidi because the friend became separated from them, and that’s the kickoff for the action portion of the story. So they get in there, they are assaulted, and a huge brawl occurs throughout the entire haunted house. We’ll see if they survive.”
Revealing details about the film’s set location, Pilgrim shared, “We’re currently location shopping for a haunted house. Obviously not a real haunted house, but a house construct that would evoke that haunted house feel. A big thing down here in LA, which is actually the film’s inspiration, is that they have a lot of these traveling haunted house ‘plays.’ They’re like walkthrough tours where you’re part of the story. And the performers can touch you, but you can’t touch them back. Hence, our title of No Touching. We currently have a slew of them around right now because it’s Halloween season, so we’re shopping around at those types of locations.”
Noting their collaboration, Davis said, “Will and I have been writing together for a while now, about five or six years. Through our writing, we were connected to Heidi Moneymaker. She was interested in breaking out of the stunt world and getting her face on camera more, and was looking for somebody to write a starring action role for her. So we were brought in, and we wrote an action feature for her, which we’re still trying to get off the ground. But in the meanwhile, we thought, ‘Ok, let’s see what else we can do with you.’
“We then found out that Heidi [Moneymaker] is a great friend of Zoe Bell. And the both of us are huge Tarantino fans and Zoe Bell fans from Death Proof. So we thought, “How do we get these two together?” We thought that the obvious answer is to watch them both fight, but then we thought it would be even cooler to have them team-up and kick ass together. So a buddy of mine had a kernel of an idea for a haunted house story that we developed, and it turned into this great horror action mash-up. We pitched it to Zoe and Heidi, and they both signed on. They were super excited about it. So here we are, trying to raise funds and awareness on it.”
In regards to the film’s production, Pilgrim added, “When you say, ‘horror,’ you have a certain expectation for your look, and when you say, ‘action,’ you add to your expectations. Then when you Zoe and Heidi in the mix, you have a lot. Our expectations have risen for every new fold we’ve added to this. This isn’t the first project that Adam and I have directed, but it’s definitely our first project of this scale. It’s been fun to bring in the people that we’ve been working with for the better part of a decade, and then branch out with people they’ve worked with. It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, let’s all get together and make a movie over the weekend.’
“But when you say, “We’ve got this really strong idea and we want to create it at a certain level,” entirely different walks of life become engaged and involved. We were so fortunate to get our Director of Photography, Nancy Schreiber, on board, and have her be so positive about the whole thing. Before we even met her, she read the script and said it was fantastic. It made us stop for a second and thank our lucky stars for the response that we were getting. Even internally, as Adam was saying, Heidi and Zoe’s takeaways have been great. So many people have said so many positive things.
Starring in No Touching with Moneymaker and Bell are co-host of The Adam Carolla Show Alison M. Rosen, and stunt performer Jeremy Marinas. The film’s campaign is set to close on the crowdfunding platform October 15th.
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