Fund This: Heavy Metal Meets Horror In ‘Doom Town’

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Project Name: Doom Town

Asking For: $3,000 on Kickstarter

Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $2,020

Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 23

Description: An odd dose of horror is coming to the Pacific Northwest. Guthrie Taylor is the writer and director of Doom Town, which is currently seeking funds for the first of eight planned episodes.

On its Kickstarter page, Doom Town is described as “Portland’s own supernatural horror / heavy metal soap opera,” and the description fits a show that seems as if it will have a little bit of everything. Themes will include “sex, death, drugs, demonic possession, and a sinister cult with plans to bring the Hindu snake goddess Manasa to the physical plane,” and viewers have been promised plenty of “suspense, romance and terror” as well. The metal advertised in the series’ tagline seems like it will be sludgy stuff that fits the mood, if the Doom Town pitch video is any indication.

The entire cast and crew of Doom Town is Portland-based, so as you might expect, there will be plenty of weirdness involved here. The cast includes a ragtag collection of actors, improvisers, and rock-n-roll clowns, so this doesn’t seem as if it will be your typical horror fare.

Creator Bio: According to a 2015 blog post, Taylor has moved nine times. He is a Portland State University student.

Best Perk: Taylor will treat anyone who pitches in at least $30 to a cup of coffee. He didn’t say it necessarily has to be Stumptown, but this is Portland, so…

Why You Should Fund It: As with the project I featured in last week’s Fund This column, there are very few hard facts about Doom Town that tell us for sure it will be a strong series. Instead, I am encouraged by the clear passion of Taylor and his team, by the moody and tense nature of the short clips featured in the pitch video, and by the sufficiently weird spin provided by the Portland-based cast. Doom Town may not end up as the best series on the web, but it will certainly be different, and when parsing the exciting crowdfunding campaigns from all the rest, that’s a big selling point.

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