We live for weird cinema at UTG. Marvel films are fun, sure, but there is no cinematic thrill like the excitement that comes from seeing something truly original brought to life in a highly entertaining way from a relatively unknown voice. It’s like stumbling across buried treasure, only for people who hate the idea of actually spelunking because The Descent scarred them for life.

With that in mind, we must urge every one of our like-minded readers to join us in helping director David Muñoz and producer Simon Brading in bringing a feature length version of their beloved 2012 horror short, Fist Of Jesus, to life.

What’s Fist Of Jesus? Think of a cross between Dead Alive and Army Of Darkness, with comical amounts of gore built into an over-the-top story designed to entertain fans of horror-comedy’s golden era, then add Jesus. And zombies.

If you’re not completely pissed off at this point, click below to enjoy the teaser for Once Upon A Time In Jerusalem, which will hopefully become the full-length version of the madness Fist could only tease.

Want more? We do too.

Muñoz and Brading recently launched a Kickstarter to fund the world’s first feature length ‘badass Jesus’ movie. A portion of the messaging on the official funding page reads:

We want to make our 90 minute Feature Film in the style of the 80’s B movies, avoiding computer FX at all costs – we do not want digital effects. We want our monsters to be entirely physical, and when a corpse bursts open it looks real and spatters the actors! This means that most of our budget will go towards the creation of physical FX – makeup, characterization, animatronics… The Kickstarter Video has been specifically recorded for the campaign, the images do not form part of the film which will be MUCH more spectacular!

The funding goal for Once Upon A Time In Jerusalem is $150,000. At the time of the post over $25,000 has been raised, with 25 days remaining in the campaign.

Come on, internet. Do your part. You know you want to see this movie come to life.

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James Shotwell is the founder of Under The Gun Review. He loves writing about music and movies almost as much as he loves his two fat cats. He's also the co-founder of Antique Records and the Marketing Coordinator for Haulix. You should probably follow him on Twitter.

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