Uwe Boll to tackle jail torture, genocide

May 23, 2008 Notorious genre director Uwe Boll is striking back at his critics with two improvised films aimed straight at the arthouse crowd: "Stoic," the true story of a prison rape starring Edward Furlong, Shaun Sipos and Sam Levinson, and the Sudan genocide drama "Janjaweed." Boll says he had confidence in his cast, who all slept in the cell on the Vancouver set for a month, and especially Sipos ("The Grudge 2"), who Boll says actually ate a tube of toothpaste, though the vomit he ate from the floor was artificial. Boll will shop the movie at the American Film Market in November and submit the films for next year's Sundance and Berlin fests, producing the project through his Boll AG outfit with Dan Clark.

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