Horror Favourites – Joshua Reale

Award-winning horror film Necropath, created with the thought of what happens to the movie monsters who wander freely during extreme pandemics, comes to digital from Gravitas Ventures and Kamikaze Dogfight and to celebrate we talked to the movies director Joshua Reale.

Encompassing many elements relating to issues happening in today’s world, the Grindhouse-style piece tells of a mysterious virus, plague, and pharmaceutical drug conspiracy that erupts over a city causing a pandemic. In the midst of the chaos, a mentally deranged maniac seeks to fulfill continuous addiction and vengeful murder, despite the imminent demise of society happening around him. The story leads to a family being destroyed leaving an abandoned little girl to save her baby sister.

Moe Isaac, Nathan Faudree,Cassandra Hayes, Lillian Colvin, Natalie Colvin and Shain Hence star in a Joshua Reale film. Reale, who is also the owner of a unique style horror attraction in Utica, NY, entitled Cayo Industrial Horror Realm, originally directed NECROPATH as a short film. The feature version releases this week on digital from Gravitas Ventures.

Below Necropath director Joshua Reale talks about his favorite horror film the fabulous Brainscan:

“Alexa, dial 1-800-555-FEAR… My childhood consisted of much time alone doing creative things in my room, whether drawing, writing, making artistic wall displays, or recording weird little short videos. It wasn’t any surprise that I grew attached to a film called Brainscan. The film starred Ed Furlong, who not long before Brainscan, starred in Terminator 2, another favorite film of mine. His character, Michael Brower, is a loner misfit who seems to retreat within his own mind and world he created for himself in his lofty type bedroom. Like myself, I could relate to this after dealing with various complications of life, retreating back into my own world of imagination and creativity.

Brainscan thoroughly encapsulates the 90’s with music, style, and even the old compact disk CD-ROM units to play games. The soundtrack contained many familiar artists of that era, like White Zombie and Primus. The film also seemed way ahead of it’s time with technology and gaming. The idea of gaming back in the 90’s was a bigger collection of Nintendo games. In Brainscan, Michael sat in a maneuvering chair and the game itself hypnotized the player into an alternate reality. This kind of almost seems similar to the VR we have today. He could also talk to his computer system, giving the computer bot a name, in this case “Igor”, while today we do the same and call it Alexa. Michael also had a love and background for horror as his escape, flipping through a Fangoria mag in the beginning, one that I was excited to realize I owned the same magazine as they referenced the Total Recall eyeball cover.

His room is riddled with various horror memorabilia that is indicated well throughout the film. For myself being a huge horror fan, this was another engaging point to the film. The film seems to draw you in right from the beginning, and especially so once Michael begins to start playing Brainscan. You can’t help but feel what Michael feels caught up in his situations after playing the game. Once you’re in, you can’t back out. A cyberpunk character seems to emerge from the game itself called “Trixter” that give the movie an entertaining playful feel to it’s dramatic tone, but even he has his dark side… This movie stood out to me because there is not really anything else like it and didn’t have some drawn out complicated plot to follow. It was fun interactive trip of a film, keeps you on edge, horror-oriented, and a wild ride sure to engage any horror fan. ”

Necropath IS ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL NOW