Although his influences are on full display throughout, Panos Cosmatos’ films are still singular works of art, which may be why he has a hard time getting them financed in today’s algorithm-driven industry. The Mandy director’s films tend to sit for a while and then come together quickly, and that certainly seems to be the case with his latest project, a vampire movie called Flesh of the Gods.
Deadline reported early this morning that, two long years after it was first announced, Flesh of the Gods is finally moving forward. The movie has already started filming on the sun-drenched Canary Islands, and will move to Cologne, Germany in a few weeks for the second half of the shoot. Although it’s being shot in Europe, the film takes place in 1980s L.A., which will almost certainly be transformed into a dizzying swirl of neon and mirrors under Cosmatos’ psychedelic lens.
