Tersa Fahs's 'Haunting Kira' casts Rachel Grubb

We recently told you about Teresa Fahs' horror film Haunting Kira which will shoot in Las Vegas, Nevada USA in early 2010. Actress Rachel Grubb (Terror Overload, Tales of the Dead) has just been cast and had a few words to say about the female-helmed supernatural movie.

"I love the script," Grubb said. "It's funny and original with lots of gorey goodness... Seriously, it's nothing like the majority of zombie movies. Most zombie movies are about the world being chased by animated corpses, and the living having to fight to stay alive..."

"This is only about one zombie, and it's not an epidemic. Instead, it's about a spirit who's discovered a way to infiltrate a corpse. It's a zombie, but this time, the audience has this relationship with his mind. He feels what's happening to him in the rotting vessel and we experience that along with him."

Fahs, a special FX makeup artist for the past decade, has said the script was partly inspired by the works of Stanley Kubrick, Wes Craven and George Romero. Grubb said, she can definitely see that. "The gore is oozing from every page, and it keeps getting weirder," Grubb said. "The whole time I was reading it, I was imagining the awesome FX work (Fahs) could do on it."

Fahs owns Gorify.com, a one-stop special effects make-up resource for the do-it-yourself zombie. She is currently seeking funds for Haunting Kira, which she plans to direct in January and release theatrically on Mother's Day.

"I'm excited about working with a female director on a horror feature," Grubb said. "There needs to be more of that." Grubb will be co-producing the film in association with Fahs' Gorified Films and Chad Clinton Freeman's Polly Staffle Films.

"I had the pleasure of working with Rachel on a short project a few months ago, and I'm thrilled to have such a talented horror actress as my lead," Fahs said. Fahs has described her film as a ghost story, a zombie film, a gorefest, and a strange trip that is like Being John Malkovich meets The Shining meets Night of the Living Dead. She has also promised the film will be filled with paranormal activity, re-animated and decaying corpses, painfully realistic gore, frenzied and meaningful kills, thought-provoking nudity and an ending that she hopes will make audiences want to see it all again.