Team Chameleon, the Nottingham based production company behind 6 Shooter, Magnets and Bloodworm, have a launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest horror short film project. Titled Lab Rats, it is the story of Kat and her eco-warrior friends, who embark on a mission to expose the international bio-chemistry company, Ring-Amnion, as liars after a tip-off that they ran an animal testing lab - despite their public profile claiming otherwise. The gang, and Kat's 20,000 followers, are eager to find out what Ring-Amnion have been hiding as they break into an old building, but they aren't prepared for what they find inside...
The Team are looking for £4,000 for production, which will help create the required practical and special effects. Jane Hyman and Steve Askey, the Special Makeup Effects and Practical FX Designer for Team Chameleon, intend to make the film as realistically gruesome as possible, with the Kickstarter bio stating that the team are “great believers in practical effects and want Lab Rats to be a real splatter showcase, featuring exploding bodies, melting faces, oozing wounds and blood. Buckets and buckets of blood! And practical effects combined with VFX means we can push these effects to their bloodiest potential. Steve and Jayne have collaborated on numerous films and have learned to design and plan effects together to produce the perfect balance between practical and CGI effects. With Steve we can make the impossible, possible.”
Lab Rats will be directed by Nottingham’s David Wyman and produced by Lauren Parker. The Kickstarter campaign is active now (link below) and ends on 19 March 2015. Rewards for donations include signed scripts, exclusive Lab Rats PDF comics, body-part prosthetics used in the film, the opportunity to appear in the film, and tickets to the premiere.
Lab Rats Kickstarter Page
Team Chameleon website
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