Here’s your first look at Bloody Knuckles, a horror-comedy making its debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival this month. The film hails from Canada and was written and directed by Matt O’Mahoney.
The film is the story of Travis Warner, an underground comic book artist who revels in the profane. When his latest comic offends a Chinatown crime boss, the gangster removes his drawing hand as punishment. Travis abandons his comic, along with his ideals, and spirals into drunken misery. That is, until his hand returns from the grave. The lovable, decomposing appendage drags Travis through a seedy netherworld of dirty comics, contraband pesticides, and underground sex clubs on its quest for justice!
Adam Boys, Gabrielle Giraud, Kasey Ryne Mazak, Dwayne Bryshun, and Ken Tsui star.
Ive always been fiercely opposed to censorship. Mainly because my taste in art, books, movies, and music have always been the target of censors! I take it very personally,” says O’Mahoney. I was really disturbed by the embrace of selfcensorship following the Danish Muhammad cartoons controversy. It forecast such a bleak future for freedom of speech. So, I wanted to make a film that addressed that without being too heavyhanded. No pun intended!”
