To say that Abel Ferry's Ferrata has been flying beneath the radar is a bit of an understatement. Despite being a fan of his short films, despite having written about him in the past on Twitch, I quite simply had no clue that this film was even in development, never mind being most of the way through production. How quiet has this been kept? So quiet it's not even listed on the IMDB yet, but while at the AFM I quite literally stumbled across the sales promo for it and pretty much just stared in shock at what I was seeing. Yes, the footage looks very, very good.
The film is starts off as a man versus nature adventure picture, the story of a group of young mountain climbers who foolishly decide to take a route that has been long closed for safety reasons. This sort of foolish behavior is the classic starting point for survival film and is more than enough to drive the narrative forward but Ferry's got a little more up his sleeve. Before long the climbers realize that fraying cables and weak bridges may not be the only dangers up on the mountain, that they are in fact being hunted and then things get bloody and vicious and violent.
I'm hoping to have a trailer to share before too long but in the mean time we have just been passed the very first image to be released from the picture, a behind the scenes shot of cast and crew working on location in somewhat treacherous conditions. Safe to say that this one should be a little better than Cliffhanger ... sorry Sly, your mountain dominance is at an end.
