The great special effects, makeup and animatronics expert, Robert Kurtzman, has teamed with Oswego-based Scott Licina multimedia horror and music network, Kik Axe, to produce to produce and direct “Bump,” the film version of Mark Kidwell’s “Bump” comic book mini-series.
Also coming up are a continuing web series, some graphic novels from subsidiary Scream Factory and a roll-out line of music videogame controllers.
“It all stems from my entrepreneurial spirit and love of innovative production, marketing and promotion,” Licina says.
Tobin Bell (“Saw”) is attached to star in “Bump” as a small-town sheriff haunted by a serial killer he buried alive 30 years before. With Ashley Laurence (“Hellraiser”) and Sean Patrick Flanery (“The Boondock Saints”).
Among Kurtzman’s more than 100 mostly horror movie credits are “From Dawn Till Dusk,” “Hulk,” “Hostel,” 2001 Maniacs,” “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” “Pulp Fiction” a couple of “A Nightmare on Elm Streets,” “Buried Alive” and Julian Grant’s “The Defiled.”
In 2003, Kurtzman moved back from L.A. to his hometown of Crestline, Ohio, where he converted a bowling alley into his SFX studio and production company, Precinct 13 Entertainment.
On Nov. 5, Kurtzman and Kik Axe premiered episode 13 of the web series “Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Core”: “The FX of HISSS Part 3,” about Kurtzman and company’s work on Jennifer Lynch’s new Bollywood monster movie.
