Spellfury
| SPELLFURY | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Action |
| Created by | Travis Gordon |
| Written by | Travis Gordon |
| Directed by | Travis Gordon |
| Starring | Julie O'Halloran Robbie Drebitt Penu Chalykoff Ian Quick Matt Ficner |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jason Devlin |
| Release | |
| Original release | 2008 – current |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Spellfury is a web series. It is a "a comically low-budget fantasy series that gently mocks The Lord of the Rings genre with exploding monsters and bad wigs". Spellfury is written and directed by Travis Gordon and stars Julie O'Halloran as Druinia. Each webisode of Spellfury comes out roughly every two months.
Season one of the webseries Spellfury focuses on the adventures of an elf named Druinia and a magic sword. Druinia is being hunted by an evil sorcerer named Kruskull who claims the sword is his. Druinia is on a quest to avenge her father's death.
The Globe and Mail newspaper said that the webseries Spellfury has been watched 5 Million times. The first episode of Spellfury has been watched 256,780 times on YouTube Due to the amount of views of the show, YouTube awarded Spellfury its own special show page. As of June 20, 2010, Spellfury is the second most watched show on the Koldcast.tv network. In May 2009 Wired.com reviewed Spellfury and in an article called "7 webotainers worth watching" mentioned "Canadian writer-director Travis Gordon throws World Of Warcraft video games, Lord of the Rings pomposity and Buffy The Vampire Slayer snark into the blender for this live-action series" The webseries was also reviewed by Tubefilter on July 8, 2009 in an article called "‘Spellfury’ is Low Budget, High Fantasy".Ain't It Cool News also reviewed the show as well. Spellfury the webseries (as of June 20, 2010) is the top rated show on the webseries directory Visioweb.tv.
Due to the popularity of the show a distribution deal was signed with David Samuels the owner of Koldcast.tv and has been airing there since August 4, 2009. David Samuels has said publicly that the Spellfury Series has over 200,000 views in 2010. In an interview with ScifiPulse writer Marx Pyle, Gordon said the series (as of April 2011) has over 3.5 million views.
Travis Gordon the writer/director of Spellfury won a Bronze for a Dramatic Short at the 2008 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for a short called Revelation. You can find interviews with Mr. Gordon about Spellfury in 3 places, PopCultureMonster.com who also reviewed it calling it "Magical, mystical and gripping", UberscifiGeek.com and Innsmouthfreepress.com.
A recent newspaper article (EMC Perth) on the evolution of the show and an interview with writer/director Travis Gordon called "Perth-based online show casts spell on viewers".
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