- First official clip of ‘illustrated film’ now available for viewing online -

Los Angeles, CA, April 23, 2009 - Genre heroines Danielle Harris (”HALLOWEEN” 4 & 5, Rob Zombie’s “HALLOWEEN” 1 & 2) and Tiffany Shepis (”NIGHT OF THE DEMONS”) joined award-winning writer-director Matt Pizzolo (”THREAT”) and animator Brian Giberson for a GODKILLER panel at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors last Saturday, where they unveiled a GODKILLER preview clip that is now viewable online at Fangoria.com.

The ‘illustrated film,’ which also features voice performances by Lance Henriksen (”AVP: ALIEN VS PREDATOR”), Bill Moseley (”THE DEVIL’S REJECTS”), Justin Pierre (singer of MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK), Katie Nisa (”THREAT”), Nicki Clyne (”BATTLESTAR GALACTICA”), and Davey Havok (singer of A.F.I.), is based on the comic book Pizzolo created with illustrator Anna Muckcracker. The film is currently in production and slated for a festival run and theatrical release in Fall 2009.

About the GODKILLER ‘illustrated film’
The ‘illustrated film’ Pizzolo is creating for the adaption mixes elements of anime, radio drama, video games, and motion comics. Utilizing the original artwork from the comic book, the ‘illustrated film’ adds motion animation, visual effects, elaborate sound design, music, and voice-acting performances.

Pizzolo explained “when we decided to make an anime adaptation of the comic book, I couldn’t see how a traditional animated approach would do justice to Anna’s incredibly lush and detailed illustrations. It made perfect sense to adapt the medium to suit her art, rather than vice versa.”

GODKILLER takes place in a dark-future after economic collapse, after nuclear holy war, and after Earth is colonized by alien races. Tommy and his kid sister Lucy live in an orphanage in one of the few remaining city-states, but Lucy is critically ill and desperately in need of a new heart. Tommy’s odyssey to find a new heart for his sister begins when he follows an organ-stealing prostitute named Halfpipe out of the city-state and into the savage borderland known as Outer City. GODKILLER mixes unforgiving brutality, quantum physics, conspiracy theory, and secret history for an iconoclastic hero’s journey like none before it.

Pizzolo and Halo-8 are currently putting together a team for the ‘illustrated film’ based on his comic book “HOW I LOST MY VIRGINITY -BY ALEXANDRA JONES,” as well as other titles Halo-8 has in development.

Artwork and web-previews of the comics are available by request.

About Halo-8 Entertainment
Halo-8 Entertainment (www.halo8.tv) is a Hollywood-2.0 movie studio using bleeding-edge strategies to create and distribute daring new films and alternative-culture lifestyle videos. Recent and upcoming releases include the megapopular animated series XOMBIE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL (which Bloody Disgusting called “one of the best online animated series to date”), the controversial documentary YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS (which Variety called “a miraculously evenhanded treatment of a snarlingly divisive debate”), the award-winning hardcore-punk thriller THREAT (which Urb Magazine said “makes KIDS look like an after-school special”), and the legendary NY hardcore documentary N.Y.H.C. (which Cinematical called “smashing… a terrific, well-told, engaging story”).

www.halo8.tv

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