Iconic rock guitarist Slash (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver) recently launched a FanBacked fundraising page for his upcoming horror movie, The Hell Within.

Speaking with Shock Till You Drop, Slash opens up analogies between the music business and doing movies: “Oh, there’s tons. Well, especially in horror, yeah. I mean, because rock and roll and horror just seem to be sort of synonymous. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that neither one are what you would consider — they don’t have mainstream origins. They’re very much sort of people speaking artistically in a realm that commercial doesn’t really go to. Then, what happens is, something becomes so successful and crosses over that it opens the genre up to sort of a more wide demographic and more commercial sort of implementations, I guess you’d call it. I think rock and roll and horror are sort of like punk rock, you know? It’s just like people expressing themselves without worrying about what the status quo is going to think.”

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The Hell Within follows a woman from New York on a quest into the heart of the Brazilian jungle to save a missing girl, only to discover that the child was just the beginning. Marie and her husband David live a charmed life in Manhattan. He’s a successful environmental attorney and she’s built an international aid organization that helps families in need across South America. The only thing missing is a child.

When they start receiving disturbing phone calls from Teresa, a young girl in Brazil pleading for help, Marie can’t shake the feeling these calls are connected to her charity. She convinces David to travel with her to Rio to locate the missing girl and soon a series of strange events and a shocking suicide lead them into the heart of the jungle.

Marie and David find themselves isolated in Seringal, a village overrun with drug runners and lost souls, steeped in ritual and superstition. And as David falls ill to a mysterious disease, Marie begins to realize that the missing child was only the beginning of The Hell Within.

"I love creepy, haunting stuff," says Slash. "I don't go for psycho movies really. But I love monsters and scares that are more cerebral. I love practical effects that make those monsters seem more real on screen.  When I read the script for The Hell Within, I knew it was the right project for my taste. It spoke to my horror sensibilities. And a story I know horror fans will dig as well."