Roddy Piper Must Close The PORTAL TO HELL!!!

An entertainment icon returns to the screen in this classically styled horror comedy short film!

***FINAL WEEK REFERRAL CONTEST (Jan 9-14)***

"WIN THE SHIRT OFF JACK'S BACK"!!

From now until the end of the campaign on January 14th, whoever refers the most people to our Indiegogo campaign, will win the ACTUAL JANITOR'S SHIRT that Roddy Piper will wear as "JACK" in PORTAL TO HELL!!! And man, will it ever be bloody.

In a nutshell, all you have to do is spread the word about Portal to Hell using your unique Indiegogo code (otherwise we can't track it) and you could win this awesome one-of-a-kind piece of Portal to Hell memorabilia!!! 

You need to be signed into Indiegogo for this to happen, so get cracking!! (see example below) And here's a further Indiegogo link to explain if you need 'splainin: 

https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203660683-How-To-Participate-In-A-Referral-Contest

Thanks, and MAY THE BEST REFERRAL REFERRER REFER THEMSELVES INTO REFERRING LEGENDARY STATUS (and an awesome piece of soon-to-be legendary wardrobe)!!!

***CAMPAIGN UPDATE***

WE DID IT!!! YOU DID IT!!! WE ALL DID IT!!!

We just hit our funding goal of $21,000 and we're so grateful! Thanks to you, we'll all get to see Roddy vs. Cthulhu duke it out. But we still have 10 days left in the campaign, and want even more people to be a part of the fun that will be PORTAL TO HELL!!!

So we're announcing our new STRETCH GOAL. 

For our stretch goal, we want to include a scene from an earlier draft of the script that we couldn't afford to shoot (because of the additional location/schedule constraints/new effects). But with your help we can make it happen. And this scene would put more of the horror into our horror-comedy. If we can get to $30,000, then we'll add THE HALLWAY scene!!!  You can read the full scene at the bottom of this page. If you want to see Jack (Roddy Piper) in an additional cool and crazy nightmarish sequence, vote with perks and spread the word!!!

***CHECK OUT OUR UPDATE TAB ABOVE TO READ FULL SCENE***

*Now, back to our original pitch*

Imagine, if you will, that the Great Old One, Cthulhu himself, had a secret soft spot for Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in Overboard and convinced the great John Carpenter to return to Lovecraft mode to write him a part in it. We’d like to think the result would be very much like Portal To Hell!!!

Jack is a simple man with simple needs. Mostly he just needs to be left alone to read his book. It’s a good book and he likes it, or at least he would if the tenants of the building he manages weren’t so damn needy themselves. And it’s not just blown fuses and clogged toilets here ... no, when the building power goes out the culprit is a pair of tenants opening a portal to hell in the basement. Does this count as building maintenance? Is battling the supernatural part of Jack’s job description? Maybe not, but if Jack can’t close the portal the entire building and – let’s face it – the whole world is screwed.      

Portal To Hell!!! is a short film born out of the love that director Vivieno Caldinelli (Picnicface, This Hour Has 22 Minutes) and writer Matt Watts (Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays) share for the genre-mashing films of the late 1980’s and specifically the performance of WWF (it wasn’t always the WWE, kids) superstar Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live. “Why didn't Piper ever really do another film like that? We should write something.” And so they did. And then Piper himself read it and liked it. And so what started as an idle wish is now becoming reality.

Yes, we really have Roddy Piper on board to play the lead role of Jack!!! 

And we’ve got an amazing team that starts with Caldinelli and Watts and continues on to include the producer of cult hit Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil, the executive producer of The Raid, the mad effects genius behind Manborg and the aural synth-maniacs Voyag3r. Heck, Portal To Hell!!! already has the support of the Harold Greenberg Fund’s Shorts-To-Features program, which gives us some funds to make this short film version of the Portal to Hell!!! story while we write and PLAN FOR THE FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION.

So why are we coming to you?

With help from the Harold Greenberg Fund, we have support to make a basic version of Portal To Hell!!! as a short film. It means we're calling in a ton of favours and a lot of people donating their time for the love of the project. But we want to make the most kick-ass version of Portal to Hell!!! that we possibly can. We want this to be the return to form that Roddy deserves! 

We want to make such an amazing short film, that the feature film version cannot be denied.

So the money we raise will go towards better locations, more stunts, and more time to create more complicated special effects ... more of a lot of things that we just can’t get for free.

Check out the list of perks on the side and be a part of the Portal to Hell!!! team.

***Every shipped perk includes a high quality removable-vinyl sticker of the main logo FREE OF CHARGE!!!***

If you’re able to chip in we’ll love you for it and we’ll shower you with stuff. If you’re not able to contribute we’d still love you to help spread the word, keep in touch about what we’re up to and enjoy the finished film.

We're aiming to shoot the short film in March, and when it's finished we'll use it to pitch the feature film, starting in Fall 2015. With this campaign, you're in on the ground floor and along for the whole ride of Portal to Hell!!!'s production from short to feature film.

1 . Thanks, Bub!!!

Your name will be listed in the "THANKS" section of our website! It's a nice light perk to show all your friends that you were in on Portal to Hell!!! before it was cool.

2. No Thanks!!!

You'll ONLY get an exclusive HD download of the short film when it's ready. But you will receive NO THANKS from us! Zero. Nothing.

3. The Short Round!!! 

You'll get an exclusive HD download of the short film when it's ready, and we'll give you a nice bloody "THANKS" in the END CREDITS of the short film. 

4. The Photo Op!!! 

What other film can unite Horror Comedy Diehards, Lovecraftians, Wrestling Fanatics, Synth Junkies and, uh, Superintendent Worshippers? This is the one, people!!

Contribute to Portal to Hell!!! and help us make one seriously badass horror-comedy short while laying the groundwork for an even more seriouslier badderasser feature film!

Who we are:

Roddy Piper (Jack): One of the biggest stars in the history of sports entertainment, Roddy Piper was one of the leading attractions of the World Wrestling Foundation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) throughout the 1980s and gained a loyal audience of global film fans with his leading part in John Carpenter’s They Live in 1988. Piper has played scores of supporting roles since but we’re putting him back in the lead, where he belongs.

Vivieno Caldinelli (Director)
: One of Canada’s most in-demand comedy directors, Viv is a graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre. Viv directed the critically acclaimed sketch series Picnicface and the most recent seasons of long running political satire series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He’s not allowed to use as much blood as he would like on Canadian television.

Matt Watts (Writer): 
An actor with credits ranging from Scott Pilgrim vs The World to Ken Finkleman’s iconic comedy The Newsroom and Don McKellar’s Twitch City, Watts is also the accomplished writer and star of Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays and the CBC radio dramas Steve, The First and Canadia: 2056.

Steve Kostanski (Special Visual Effects): 
One of the founding members of gonzo filmmaking collective Astron-6, Kostanski is best known for his micro budget feature film Manborg while in his boring day job he sculpts creatures and prosthetic visual effects for little movies like Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak. Steve brings the blood that Viv’s not allowed to use on TV.

Voyag3r (Soundtrack): 
 Voyag3r are a synth based instrumental rock band that draws inspiration from sci-fi, horror, action soundtrack music from the 70's & 80's. Voyag3r have set out to create dynamic, epics, moody and atmospheric sounds intended to inspire. 

Todd Brown (Executive Producer)
: Founder and editor of international film website TwitchFilm.com and Director Of International Programming at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Brown is also partnered with XYZ Films where he served as an executive producer on international action hits The Raid and The Raid 2 and recent festival (and hopefully soon to be public) hit Spring.

Andrew Rosen (Executive Producer): 
One of Canada’s craziest producers, Rosen cut his teeth working on the likes of Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, eXistenZ and Dawn of the Dead before launching Aircraft Pictures, where he produced the international cult hit television series Todd & The Book of Pure Evil.

Lori Fischburg (Producer):
 A rising Canadian producer and female film mentor, Fischburg’s credits already include work with established producer Daniel Bekerman (Bang Bang Baby), Bruce McDonald (Hardcore Logo, Pontypool) as well as up and comers such as Matt Johnson (The Dirties) and work on CBS’ Beauty & The Beast.

Ryan Reaney (Producer): 
Another young star on the Canadian production scene, Reaney’s work spans television and features as a line producer, production manager and various other roles. He does the unglamorous things that keep the whole ship running, basically. He's the true hero of this story!

***STRETCH GOAL SCENE: THE HALLWAY***