The multi volume, made for TV horror anthology is undergoing a bit of a boom right now. Masters of Horror is the obvious example on these shores but Spain also just ran their Six Stories To Keep You Awake series and now France is looking to get into the mix with the independently produced Terror Project Six. Described as a horror sitcom with zombies by the producer, the project brings together French speaking film makers from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec under the support and oversight of series "godfathers" Xavier Gens and Fabrice Du Welz - the directors of Frontiere(s) and Calvaire, respectively - along with notable guest stars such as Alysson Paradis (Inside), regular Fulci star Catriona MacColl, Troma's Lloyd Kauffman and more.
I'm told the first official teaser will become available sometime in May but in the mean time we've got stills plus episode synopses and the like for your perusal.
Lorie contre les Bactéries (English Title : Lorie the Bacteria Slayer)
Directed and Written by François Simard (Bagman : Profession Meurtrier).
Guests starring: Lloyd Kaufman and Anouk Whissell (Bagman: Profession Meurtrier)
Plot: A young french canadian couple quarrels violently in their lounge while outside proliferates a strange flu epidemic which eat from the inside the patients. Nothing was goriest since Street Trash & Brain Dead (Dead Alive).
Spécialité du Chef (English Title : Chefs speciality)
Directed by Grégory Sacré, from a story of Côme Peguet.
Plot: A man wakes up chained and hanged by the jaw in a cold room beside other mutilated bodies. He is far from imagining that he will be the element of a delicious asian gourmet named chef's speciality.
Corps vivants (English Title : Dead Alive)
Directed and Written by Julio Mendez.
Guest starring: Stéphanie H. Kohler and Catriona MacColl (City of the Living Dead, The Beyond)
Plot : In the glimmer of some lampposts enlighting cemetary entry, a figure appears. It limp, approaches slowly. Except this strange person, the street is deserted. It's a young lady... A living dead woman...
The Dead Pussy (English Title : The Dead Pussy)
Directed and Written by Fred Cambon
Plot : Audrey and two of her friends flee of the city. Chaos reigns ever all around them, the living dead return to earth. The group of young ladies goes always towards the forest. Armed hunters will try to help them...but the evil gets closer...
Elles (English Title : Them)
(in production)
From a story of Colin Vettier.
Plot: In a close future, a sexually transmissible disease affects the human race. If all the beings are potential virus carriers, only women develop it. Symptoms are visible and violent : physical degeneration, violent drive and anthropophagy. The french government is thus going to establish a state of emergency and to proceed to the progressive, but systematic, women elimination. XXX is a girl affected by this disease, aware of her condition, she try to survive in this collapsing society.
Survivant(s) (English Title : Survivor(s) )
Directed by Vincent Lecrocq.
Written by Michael Abbate, Salem Kali and Vincent Lecrocq.
Guests starring : Alysson Paradis (Inside), Hélèna Soubeyrand (Taken with Liam Neeson), Salem Kali, Sarah-Laure Estragnat (Hell), Alaa Oumouzone (Traitor), Santi Sudaros (Danny The Dog)
Plot : A strange virus bring people, recently died, back to life. Epidemic has been checked, society has reconstructed itself and the last victims of the virus were parked in isolation and are used as new French massive weapon. 2014. The quite new extreme right government announces that it supports openly the organization of a real TV show in which a group of prisoners of foreign origins, is used as guinea-pigs to zombies. The one who survives will be exempt from any penalty and will become French.
It's nice to see the directors of Bagman pumping some stuff out. Lets hope we'll see some of these at this year's FANTASIA fest.
Is Bagman available on DVD yet?
These synopsis' sound great, Dead Pussy, genius.