Steel Donkeys
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The film centres around three young, small-time crooks tasked with stealing a precious artefact of great power from a mysterious rock star at a huge music festival. The botched heist takes an apocalyptic turn as the three teenagers unwittingly unleash a malignant Afro-Caribbean entity, imprisoned for eons within the artifact that proceeds to party like a demon, wreaking havoc on the bank holiday revellers and threatening to bring the world as we know it to an end. As the night of high octane weirdness escalates out of control, the teenagers find their only hope is to recruit a team of unlikely heroes to battle the demon and restore balance to the universe.
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The movie will reportedly film "all exterior scenes at the UK’s biggest heavy metal festival Bloodstock Open Air, which takes place August 7 – 10 at Catton Park in Derbyshire, with the rest of the production shooting at K.K.’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton."
It's said that much of the film's cast will be "drawn from the world of rock and heavy metal."
Starring veteran martial artist Cynthia Rothrock (China O'Brien, Martial Law, Lady Dragon, The Last Kumite, Darkness of Man).
Written/directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Color Out of Space), who was quoted saying: "The stars have aligned to conjure this dream into manifestation, a perfect storm of metal, martial arts and cosmic horror, precision calibrated to burn its way into the brains of a whole new generation of metal fans. It makes me hugely happy to be back in the UK and to be returning to my cultural roots with this supernaturally charged psychedelic hand grenade, freely inspired by a real-life misadventure from my younger years. Given the current state of the nation, I firmly believe Steel Donkeys is exactly what Britain both needs and deserves…"
This is a privately-backed UK horror movie.