English actress Chloe Farnworth is very nekkid (Full-Frontal) in The Devil's Bargain (2014)
Rental Review: The Devil’s Bargain (VOD/DVD Release Date:17 Jan 2014)
“NO MONEY. NO CLOTHES. NO FEAR!” trumpets the publicity blurb for Umbrage writer/director Drew Cullingham’s “full-frontal apocalypse nightmare” The Devil’s Bargain which does indeed feature more explicit nudity than you can waggle a semi at. But there’s more to Cullingham’s shoestring psychological horror than just copious tits and cocks.Still mourning the death of their young son, washed-up artist Adi (Jonnie Hurn) and his young hippy wife Ange (Chloe Farnworth) retreat to the rural idyll where they were happiest determined to get naked, get back to nature, make peace with their demons and each other, make love and face the end together.
Cullingham makes a virtue of his no-budget by keeping his crew small and shooting over just four Summer days, working with actors willing to bare their souls as well as their bodies, their performances raw, intimate, with Hurn and the gorgeous Farnworth particularly good while Burman makes a playfully malicious nemesis.
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Cullingham told us: “It was made on a shoestring budget in twenty-four hours over four days, using an experimental ‘pinhole’ technique to give it a unique look. Containing copious amounts of full frontal nudity, the mantra for this film has been: No money. No clothes. No fear”.
INTERVIEW: ‘The Devil’s Bargain’ Director, Co-Author Drew Cullingham
Q: There’s plenty of nudity in the film – did this make the casting of the film more challenging?
Drew Cullingham: Oddly enough, not really. But yes, there is a lot of nudity in the film, as necessitated by the story. And I think that’s the key point. It wasn’t gratuitous. There’s some in the first half, but from halfway onwards basically everyone is totally naked! I’ve worked with Jonnie Hurn several times, and knew that he was no prude when it came to doing what needed to be done. Dan Burman had come from being a link in the Human Centipede 2, so after that ignominy I think he was up for anything as long as it served the story. Chloe Farnworth is another dedicated actor, and wasn’t particularly shy about it. It’s to all their credit that they did such a great job with nowhere to hide.
I’m not sure they were quite prepared for the fact that using a pinhole (see more below) meant that because the angle of view is so wide the camera had to be extremely close to the actors, which is invasive at the best of times, but can only be more so when naked. But generally there were no hidden traps in the script – it was explicit where and when (most of the time) the characters had to be naked. I really can’t speak for them (and I’m sure they hid well the inherent challenges!) but it did seem to become ‘natural’ very quickly on set.
* Chloe ain't new to the nudity business. In fact, she is an old hand at T-and-A. Click HERE ; ) (scroll down)
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