Filmmakers eye area for Monster Brawl.

Some of the area's most beautiful natural attractions, including Inglis Falls, could be taken over by blood, gore and death this spring and summer.

A production company has picked the area to film some scenes for their upcoming horror films.

Foresight Features, based in Collingwood, plans to shoot 10 films over the next five years, with Simcoe and Grey counties as the backdrop for much of their work.

Jesse Cook, the writer and director of the production company's upcoming film, Monster Brawl, said he hopes to use Inglis Falls for a film to be shot this summer and possibly for Monster Brawl in the spring.

"We are actually shooting 10 films in the local area, two this year," said Cook. "The first one, called Monster Brawl, will be gearing up in May."

Monster Brawl will be a horror comedy mockumentary about a monster fighting tournament including classic monsters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, the mummy and the zombie.

Canadian actor Art Hindle has signed with Foresight for Monster Brawl. Hindle is perhaps best know for his role in the movie Porky's, but has also appeared in other movies and television shows, including Dallas, Beverly Hills 90210 and Murder She Wrote.

"The bread and butter for the genre stuff is to enlist household names," said John Geddes, another writer, director and producer with Foresight.

The second film of 2010 will be shot sometime over the summer and will be a zombie film in the wilderness.

"We will be doing a good percentage of the shooting in and around the Grey County area," said Cook. "We want to use some of the stunning landscapes Grey County has to offer. Inglis Falls is one of the areas we are looking at."

Cook said there is a chance he could use the Inglis Falls area for scenes for Monster Brawl as well.

Cook said they are still raising the money needed to produce their films this year. So far they are about halfway to the $600,000 needed for the two films. They sell $5,000 units to individual investors.

"We can break even on a film in Canada just based on our broadcast deal, our DVD deal and our tax credit," said Cook.

Investors also get perks such as coming to the set, getting their names in the credits and invitations to the premiers and parties.

Geddes said they would also like to tap the local area for extra actors and crew positions such as production assistants.

Cook and Geddes, who are both Collingwood natives, said Foresight Features has been in the works for about a year, following up on the success they had with their first film, Scarce, which was taken to the Cannes Film Festival in France where it was sold to over a dozen territories. Scarce also appeared on the Super Channel.

Geddes and Cook began making short films together in 2004 and went to Los Angeles trying to raise money for a feature, but nothing materialized so they returned to the area to try to ply their trade locally. They managed to raise about $250,000 mostly from the Collingwood and The Blue Mountains area for Scarce, which was shot in the winter of 2007 at Metcalfe Rock in the Blue Mountains.

"We are hoping theatrical. We are hoping we can get the next indy hit and bring some press up to the area and maybe develop a local film festival or something like that," said Cook.

Geddes said the idea is to set up a studio in Collingwood and shoot all their films in the area, where it is a lot cheaper to produce movies, both logistically for the duo and because the Canadian government provides a tax credit for doing work outside of Toronto.

"We have the four seasons here. We have water, we have mountains, we have woods, we have town settings so it is a good place to shoot," said Cook. "There is a lot of infrastructure up here and a lot of talent up here and it is our home."

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