Gutterballs to shoot

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

Those crafty mofos over at Fangoria got word from director Ryan Nicholson that he is about to shoot his second picture, GUTTERBALLS. Nicholson is planning for a three week shoot of the film and intends on having a fall release…geez this man works quickly.

GUTTERBALLS will revolve around one of America’s favorite pastimes, Bowling. The film will have a midnight disco bowl-a-rama feel to it, and oh yeah…expect lots of gore. ““Like Justin Timberlake taking sexy back, I’m taking horror back to the balls-out stalk-and-slash gorefests of the ’80s,” Nicholson explains to Fangoria. “We’re filming in a blacklight enviroment with insane kill scenes that will give LIVE FEED’s infamous snake-down-the-throat scene a run for its money!”

In case you were wondering, LIVE FEED was Davis’ first directorial effort, and he explained how he wants GUTTERBALLS to be different. “I’m going over the top with the sex and violence, but where LIVE FEED was more cartoony and campy, GUTTERBALLS is completely serious, and only via shooting it as such will any dark comedy come out of it. I have homages to HALLOWEEN, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, MANIAC and a few other groundbreaking horror masterpieces, as well as keeping within the black-gloved/masked-killer whodunit theme of the Italian gialli. The difference is that our villain wears a bowling bag as headgear and uses balls and pins delivered via by a black-bowling-gloved hand in his frenzied attacks. My new makeup effects company Life to Death FX is handling all the gruesome death scenes, and Michelle Grady, my partner in life and work, is in charge of killing off the cast in the most brutal ways I’ve conjured up. I have a great young cast of Vancouver actors that have been champing at the bit to bowl some GUTTERBALLS and kill or be killed. Do you have the balls to watch it?”