A new indie horror film named Unholy has been building up some decent buzz recently, mainly because of it's simplistic, but extremely creppy website.

http://www.unholymovie.com/

Now, taken at face value it seems pretty boring. However, if you highlight the entire website, you start to get a little bit of an idea as to what kind of film this may be. The hidden text is...

"Lester Kraus is alive. The Witch is alive."

"Don't let your babies join the army. They don't know what they're fighting for."

"Hitler is on our side."

".stnemele eerht eht swonk ehS . edurtreG dniF."

Now, the last sentence is written backwards. Reversing it, it reads "Find Gertrude. She knows the three elements."

Pretty interesting, i'd say. The writer/director are first timers, and Adrienne Barbeau and Nicholas Brendan are starring. Dread Central recently did a set visit, and they were able to get some solid information about the plot of the film.

http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/modu ... =0&thold=0

"With its bizarre mix of conspiracy theory, science fiction, occultism, Nazi mythology and domestic drama, Unholy may be that rare movie that incorporates aspects of many different genres into what its creators hope will be a unique and completely original experience."

"Barbeau plays Martha, a widow living in rural Pennsylvania with her son Lucas (Brendan) and daughter Hope (Siri Baruc), who comes home to find her daughter about to blow her own head off with a shotgun in the basement of their house. Martha doesn’t succeed in stopping her child’s horrific demise, but the girl’s death gradually leads the grieving mother to investigate a conspiracy that involves a legendary local witch, Nazi dabbling with the occult, and secret government experiments, with the plot even referencing the fabled Philadelphia Experiment."

"I was reading through paranormal and conspiracy websites - I find they serve as good inspirations for the foundation of horror movies," says the 24-year-old Freeman, whose Sky Whisper production company (which he runs with partner Joshua Blumenfeld) counts Unholy as its first in-house feature. "I came across this interesting article about a classified military document that was found in Pennsylvania that indicated that after World War II, our own U.S. government smuggled in Nazi technology to continue experiments right here that the Nazis were conducting in Germany. They believed that Hitler was onto something with this study of witchcraft and the occult that the Nazis were working with. This document suggested that we actually took these experiments and continued them on our home soil."

Intrigued, Freeman began exploring these theories more, and also began thinking about the legendary Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged 1943 government experiment in which an electromagnetic field was thrown around a Navy ship to determine if it could be rendered invisible. According to the myth, the experiment left many of the men on board insane, suffering from severe radiation burns, partially embedded in the decks or walls, and possibly projected through time. The existence of the Philadelphia Experiment has never been proven, but it fit nicely into the scenario that Freeman was cooking up."

"Visually, Goldberg wanted to differentiate his film from typical indie thrillers as well. "As far as cinematography, it’s very moody, very contrasty, very surreal -- not trying to make things look natural," he explains. "There’s a constant feeling of oddity, a constant feeling of unusualness, so even in a scene that seems very tame, visually there’s something odd, even if it’s working on a subconscious level. The colors aren’t right. There’s props jagging into the frame. We’re just trying to keep up that constant (off-kilter) mood...I always see these movies that are made for not a lot of money, and they’re struggling to look like a big-budget film, and they fail every time. Why struggle and fail when instead, you can try and make your movie look totally distinct and unique? We can make it look like something people haven’t seen before, and that’s been our approach all along."

Yeah, so I really think this is one to keep an eye on. I guess a rough cut is in the can, so hopefully we'll be hearing more about possible distribution soon. Should be interesting.