It's a good day to die (film)
The film It's a good day to die tells of 2 newlyweds, Aya and Daniel Geller, who live in an isolated community and slowly discover the secrets buried within the walls of the house well. The film is based on a true story.
Filming began in 2007, at the original house where the killings occurred. In the early Eighties, in a godforsaken village in the Negev of Israel, Mordechai Mendelson built a house, into which he moved in with his daughter and her partner. After a few days he killed the two and committed [...] by hanging in the attic.
Development
This independent film, a low-budget, was made after the real event that happened in the Negev of Israel. Filming began in September 2007 with the principals, Jonathan Vaknin and Michal Lerner as Daniel and Aya Geller, a married couple. Filming took place at the original house built by Mordechai Mendelson, found in a small community in the Negev. Production was allowed to film for 4 days and then continuously on a made set. Actors performed the stunts themselves. A first trailer in Hebrew was released on December 6, 2007 on YouTube. In November 2009, a trailer in English, also parallel to the film's MySpace page.
Plot
Aya and Daniel Geller are leaving the city for a quiet village. They are trying to start a family, find work and live a simple life. But while her husband is at work, she is beginning to get inside the house and expose its terrible secrets. Haunted by visions and bad dreams, Aya tries to convince her husband that the house is haunted. When everything starts to crumble around them, she is trying to salvage what they can.
The real story versus film
In the early '80s the house was built in one of the seats in the Negev, by Mordechai Mendelson (57) into which he moved, along with his daughter (21) and her partner (23). During the first week in the house, Mordechai murdered his daughter's partner, and his daughter by [...] her throat. He locked himself in for a few days and finally hanged himself in the attic. The cops arrived at the house after eight days, after a neighbor complained. They found the boyfriend dead in the bath, from a severe head injury, and the daughter at the stairway, her neck slit and a huge kitchen kniife beside her body. It took them more than an hour to realize it wasn't a love fight gone wrong, as they found Mendelson hanging in the attic with a short letter saying he killed them.
The house stood abandoned until 1996, when a new couple, the Gur's, went to live there, but died after a week. The ghost story spread quickly and the seat tried to calm the waters as much as possible to PReVENT a non-tourist boost for residents. After an investigation, it turned out the Gur's died from a gas leak and not by a murderous ghost.
Both of these stories are mentioned in the film, the first serving as a main plot and the other is the prologue presented by newscasters. But the Geller couple never moved into the Mendelssohn house. A short-term interest in early 2001 was shown by a couple named Geller (first names unknown) in purchasing the house but after a landlady showed them the house, they disappeared. Marder and no one ever heard from them. They probably live somewhere in Israel.
theatrical release
The film was screened at various festivals held in Israel in 2008 including the Student Film Festival, Festival of Science Fiction & Fantasy. Also in Kfar Saba Auditorium. Although no impairment company bought the film rights to release in big theatre. DVD will be distributed prior to prudecer decision, somehwere in 2010. Given that the film is an independent film, he received little attention from the crowd, although the Council of the Negev, intriguing film because the residents of those residents in one sitting where supposly the true story happened. they screened it in the council auditorium for free at augost 2008.