Formerly directed by Wrong Turn‘s Rob Schmidt
2008 was not a good year for Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn) or his film Bad Meat, starring Elisabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pelegrino, Tahj Mowry, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Joe Dinicol and Samantha Hill.
You see, the company backing the film financially shut down and shooting came to a halt. An estimated 2/3 of the project was said to have been in the can. Since then, Schmidt has apparently pulled the film from his IMDb page and so has screenwriter Paul Gerstenberger and many others.
But we stumbled over some news that may indicate the film was completed.
Jinga Films is selling the project at the American Film Market in November. The company’s listing says the film is now completed and directed by “Lulu Jarmen.” Of course, there is no record of a Lulu Jarmen on IMDb and I couldn’t find much more about this person; it could be a pseudonym.
In the film, a group of so-called problem teens are sent by their parents to a repressive Boot Camp in the middle of nowhere, in the hope that the strict regime will transform them into youthful model citizens that their parents can be proud of. However the kids refuse to play ball, and tensions emerge between them as they try to resist the guards’ sadistic methods. Meanwhile, the camp’s down-trodden cook has also tired of the abuse meted out to him by the guards, and fixes them a meal of illegal, diseased meat…a final “screw you!” before he abandons the camp. But he doesn’t know that the meat is infected with a virus, which instead of simply making the guards ill as he intended, transforms them into flesh-crazed maniacs!
If our heroes are to make it to morning and survive the carnage, they must put aside their differences and work together. They’re going to learn the lessons of maturity and responsibility – the hard way…
We’ll keep you posted if we hear anything more!
Source: Ryan Turek, Managing Editor
