The Tourist

Sometimes I come across an idea that fits a medium so well that they can’t be less than great. One of these is ‘The Tourist’, a short hor­ror film two bud­dies of mine are work­ing on. It is a simple short story  about how the fate of a young lib­rar­ian gets ‘con­tam­in­ated’ by a mys­ter­i­ous device he finds in an ancient book.

I began this post by writ­ting that some ideas can’t be less than great. I emphas­ize that by say­ing this film must be made. Truly great hor­ror films are scarce today and this pro­ject drinks from the great leg­acy of the 80s’ cult hor­ror movies — the crude real­ism. The crew is pas­sion­ate about their craft, excel­lent pro­fes­sion­als and… to top it off, they have good taste and itu­ition (not a com­mon thing these days).

The pro­ject is now gath­er­ing crowd fund­ing through the indieGoGO plat­form (sim­ilar to kick­starter but dir­ectly avail­able to the whole world). Read the descrip­tion at their indiegogo page to get a sense of the film.

The offi­cial tumblr page shows the film­mak­ing pro­cess with recent loc­a­tion scout­ing in the beau­ti­ful green moun­tains of Sintra. If you like the genre, help these guys out and you’ll play an import­ant part in reward­ing the short hor­ror format with what will be an award-winning film. Only a few days left on indiegogo.

This pro­ject has to hap­pen. I’ve read the script and I can tell you that this descrip­tion of ‘hor­ror’ by Robert McKee fits it perfectly: