Chop Chop

A murderous psychopath gets more than he bargained for when he targets a loving young couple, who may not be as innocent as they first appear. A night of bloody, violent chaos ensues as they cross paths with an overzealous detective, a gang of hardened criminals and a reclusive sociopath with a taste for power tools. This feature debut from director Rony Patel starts out as a home invasion thriller but soon turns into a bloody, adrenaline-fuelled action horror film that is the perfect addition to this year’s Night-in of the Dead programme.

‘With Chop Chop, we always knew we wanted to do a genre mash-up. And I think along the way somewhere my own taste in movies spilled into the mix. I’m a huge Pulp Fiction, Breaking Bad, Guy Ritchie, and [Steven] Soderbergh fan. And I particularly love crime thrillers with dark humour. [We were influenced by] a lot of industry self-starters and their DIY films; Duplass Brothers, Adam Wingard’s A Horrible Way To Die (this was a big one for me)(LIFF 2010), Sean Baker, etc. We did not have a clear path or any real connections in ‘the business’, plain and simple. All we had was this idea that ‘we want to make a feature film, so let’s write something up and find a way to shoot it.’ Hence began our Chop Chop journey.’

Taken from a Rue Morgue interview with Director, Rony Patel