The latest feature to be directed by special make-up and effects wizard Robert Kurtzman (director of Wishmaster, creator of From Dusk Till Dawn and co-founder of the award winning special effects studio, KNB EFX Group).
Andrew Divoff stars as Dr. Viktor Vasilienko, a once benevolent scientific genius whose greatest medical breakthrough was destroyed by corporate greed. Driven mad by his disillusionment, he has set about secretly creating the ultimate biological weapon – a virus designed to make people rage with anger. During the experimental phase of the still-to-be perfected virus, one of Vasilienko's test subjects is transformed into a savage, carnivorous killer and manages to escape from the doctor's remote laboratory into the nearby woods. After rampaging through the woods, the unfortunate carrier is attacked by a colony of vultures that, in turn, become newly infected flesh-eating carriers of the virus.
Harking back to the bloody spirit of low-budget B-movie horror classics such as the Phantasm, Re-Animator and The Evil Dead movies, THE RAGE delivers its entertainment on every level. With its buckets of full-on, in-your-face gore, plenty of stomach-churning shocks and a healthy does of comic moments, Kurtzman's latest is a midnight movie, horror cult classic in the making.
THE RAGE (cert. tbc) will be released on DVD (£15.99) by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 16th March 2009.
