Say Goodbye To Your Flesh With Trailer For South African Serial Killer Film The Awakening
Released in its native South Africa last month, The Awakening (original title: Die Ontwaking) is a nasty serial killer film based on the novel The Skin Collector by Chris Karsten. The film’s deranged serial killer, known as Abel, was influenced by a bunch of famous fictional mass murderers, as stated in the synopsis below, whilst his grisly mission to create a real life skin suit is based on the sadly non-fictional killer Ed Gein. As one would expect, the trailer below’s also pretty damn nasty
It marks the directional debut of Johnny Breedt, who worked as a production designer on films such as Death Race 2, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Last House on the Left, and Hotel Rwanda, and stars Gys de Villiers, Armand Aucamp, and Juanita de Villiers.
There’s no word on an international release date, but it’s got a Facebook page set up, although it’s in Afrikaans.
Synopsis:
Die Ontwaking is based on the first book of the Abel trilogy, Abel se Ontwaking (in English – The Skin Collector), by well-known crime writer Chris Karsten. Abel’s deranged mind is an imaginary composite of the minds of some of the most notorious fictional serial killers, including Norman Bates, Sweeney Todd, Dexter, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger and, Jame Gumb, the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, who stalks females and skins them in an attempt to create a female skin suit. The primary inspiration for Abel, however, comes from real-life American murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. Gein exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
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