It’s been, frankly, far too long since Tommy Lee Wallace got behind a camera, so we’re delighted to report that he’s signed on to direct low-budget horror, Helliversity.
In case you hadn’t guessed, it’s a horror set in a university, with a group of American exchange students trapped inside a foreign uni by a vengeful spirit, so it wins points for originality of locale. It loses them again for the dreadful title, but you can’t have everything.
But we’re just glad to see Wallace back behind the camera. While nobody would really call the man a Master of Horror, he’s contributed to some of the greatest horror films of all time, thanks to his long friendship with John Carpenter.
He was production designer on Halloween and The Fog, and second unit director on Big Trouble In Little China (not a horror, we know, but it scared us as a young magazine) and, of course, directed the massively under-rated, Michael Myers-free Halloween III: Season Of The Witch in 1982.
That didn’t work out, more’s the pity, and Wallace has directed two substandard horror sequels since – **Fright Night Part II **and Vampires: Los Muertos (there’s the Carpenter connection again). But now he’s back back back, with a film he co-wrote (along with Steve Langford), and we wish him well.
Helliversity (can’t they change that title?) is the first film in FarCor Studios and Indusa Global's new joint venture which aims to produce low-budget indie features. Filming is set to start in LA in March.