The Counting House
Byron Mann toplines the cast of The Counting House, an Italian horror film. The cast includes Giovanni Capalbo (THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST), Maggie Q ( MI3), Michael Wong, Daniella Kuhn, Cheng Pei Pei, Carl Ng, Eddy Ko and Christo Jivkov among others.
Directed by Carlo Guidice and Paolo Marcellini, aka Dipteros . Based on the novel Tristan da Cunha by Sabina Colloredo.
Script: Catherine Linstrum, Dipteros, Sabina Colloredo, Richard Lasser.
Filmed April - May, 2005, in the fishing village Tai'O (The Venice of Hong Kong) and Ma On Shan, New Territories, Hong Kong.
BC Magazine about Counting House - la spaventosa vita - the frightful life ......
SYNOPSIS
Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen, paranoid islanders who have good reason to be afraid.Soon after the arrival of the four, a mysterious force the islanders thought was chained forever in the dark basement of the foreboding old Counting House is once again on the loose, savagely killing its women.
Caught in a power struggle between rival island factions over how to stop the killing, the mainlanders are jailed. They manage to break out, but with a vigilante mob on their heels, can they reach the boat in time? They do, only to confront the mysterious, terrifying force.
Synopsis by screenwriter Richard Lasser.
IMAGES
"Often you would see Byron Mann preparing for a particularly intense scene, doing push ups on four
stools with one hand behind his back or actually cutting himself with a knife - real Stanislavsky style."
From "The Counting House" press release.
xImages used with permission - many thanks to producer Corrado Riccio.