Box of Shadows Starts Filming in LA

“Box of shadows” centers around a group of college friends who discover a 15th-century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the “box of shadows” soon brings out the group’s most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

Mauro Borrelli, best known as a visual effect artist, was first brought to the U.S. from Italy by Francis Ford Coppola to work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Since then, Borrelli has worked non-stop as a conceptual artist on some of the biggest Hollywood movies and with some of the most talented directors in town. His filmography includes Godzilla, The Hulk, Planet of the Apes, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3, Tropic Thunder, and the Wolf Man. Borrelli is also an accomplished director. His first feature Goodbye Casanova, starring Flea (the Red Hot Chili Peppers), won several festival awards. Lionsgate Home Entertainment distributed Haunted Forest, completed in 2007.

“Box of Shadows is a chance to bring some of the big budget techniques I have learned to a smaller, edgier film,” says Borrelli. “It’s a very different kind of ghost story. Although you have classical elements like ghosts and hauntings, you also have a story that deals with addiction and uncontrolled desire in a very modern way. What would happen if you had a machine you knew was deadly but could help you get everything you ever wanted? Would you use it?”

The edgy supernatural thriller, with screenplay written by Borrelli and Scott Svatos, marks visionary filmmaker Borrelli’s third feature. For updates follow them on Twitter at www.twitter.com/boxofshadows.