Live Evil (film)
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| Directed by | Jay Woelfel |
| Produced by | Mark Terry Elisabeth Busch Beau Unger |
| Written by | Jay Woelfel |
| Based on | a story by Lance Polland Lenny Lenox and Vito Trabucco |
| Starring |
Tim Thomerson Ken Foree Gregory Lee Kenyon Tiffany Shepis Chuck Williams |
| Music by | Austin Wintory |
| Cinematography | Kelly Richard Scott Spears |
| Edited by | Jonathan Ammon |
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Live Evil The Movie Enterprises
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| Distributed by |
Warner Brothers (United States VOD) 2009 Rivercoast Films (USA DVD 2010) |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $400,000 |
Live Evil is a 2009 independent action horror film directed by Jay Woelfel, produced by Mark Terry and starring Tim Thomerson, Ken Foree, Mark Hengst and Tiffany Shepis.
Vampires are finding their own undead bodies being mutated by the pollution of the host's blood, tainted with hard drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol, diabetes, anti-depressants, and cigarettes: substances that change the blood and makes it undrinkable for vampires. The scarcity of good blood has incited an underground civil war between various groups of vampires. A clique of 4 vampires, led by Benedict (Mark Hengst), struggle to find sustenance by seeking victims with untainted blood. The group is being stalked by a samurai sword-wielding vampire-killing Priest (Tim Thomerson), who leaves a note on the bodies of slain vampires in the form of a playing card inscribed with the words "Live Evil". In order to survive both their race's own fierce infighting and the biological pollution found in human blood, the group desperately seeks out Max (Ken Foree), a "blood pusher" who steals from hospital blood banks to offer the freshest and purest blood around. But they may not have time to enjoy it, because the vengeful Priest is hot on their trail.
When producer Mark Terry moved with friends to Los Angeles from Florida, he was contacted by an alleged investor wishing a film to be made and whose caveat was that the film had to be a vampire film. Terry and his friends wrote the first draft of the film and the original investor pulled out. After shooting the film's opening scenes in March 2006, and feeling the production would never be completed, the friends lost interest. When told by them that they wished to quit the production, Terry and another producer signed a script option for the screenplay and opening scene, found a new investor, had a script rewrite done by Jay Woelfel specifically with Tim Thomerson in mind. Principle filming on the feature began in November 2006, six months after the first scene was shot. Filming took place on weekends and lasted several months. The film was screened at various film festivals in order to attract the attention of potential distributors.
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