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OCT 17, 2005
(While I don't like to post sales-oriented news, every visitor to the site knows I'm a sucker for charity events)
There is no question which is the dog and which is the lady in each of the thirteen pictures on the Superior Mutts Doggie Rescue's fundraising poster. Scream Queens Debbie Rochon, Hollie Winnard, and ten other beautiful ladies posed for pictures with their pooches and other animals to raise money for pets in need of adoption. Every poster sold helps to support Superior Mutts' shelter and rescue resource in College Park, Fla.
Independent director Jason Liquori worked with Christopher Murphy, who operates Superior Mutts, to create an 11x17 four-color poster that shows the sweet and sexy side of a coven of beautiful actresses that include legendary scream queens Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Julie Strain as well as up-and-comers Sacha Crutchfield, Brunilda Zetki and Brittany Messina. Liquori says, "It's great to bring it [the poster] to conventions because with all the ladies on one item it's easy to collect autographs without carrying a lot of stuff." The director of THE LUNAR PACK, and the just announced ALL WRAPPED UP adds, "These lovely ladies will be sure to smile when they see that their fans have helped save a superior dog or cat."
Ms. Rochon has done more than 100 independent films and was named ?Scream Queen of the Decade? in 2002 by Draculina readers. She recently appeared with Winnard and Murphy in Liquori?s new collection of shorts, Death Plots.
Posters are available at www.superiormutts.com for a $10 donation to Superior Mutts (add $2 for shipping).

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Chattanooga, TN, production company Bat Wold Films is currently taking applications for crew and head shots and resumes for acting roles in their movie, OPERATION: ETERNAL DARKNESS. Positions will be paid. Shooting is set for Spring of 2006 with pre-procution under full swing in January of 2006.
Synopsis:
When lonely weapons scientists start dying under mysterious circumstances, Montague (Monty) Summers and Ravenna Pike of S.H.A.D.O. (* Special Homeland Anti-Demonic Operations.), uncover Dating Service using female vampires in a doomsday plot to trigger a vampire-friendly nuclear winter.
Roles needed:
Montague (Monty) Summers - Human Male 25-35
Cassie Summers/ Lilith - Human Female 20-30 - Southern Accent , Vampire Female
Ravenna Pike - Female Human Telepath 20-30
Lugosi Vrykolakas - Vampire Male Age unknown - German Accent
Caroline Landers - Vampire Female 40's Bi-sexual
Jonathan Landers - Human Male 45-55
Vampire Sisters
Marie Laveau - Vampire Female look 30's age unknown - Cajun accent
Lamia Laveau - Vampire Female look 30's age unknown - Cajun accent
For more information, please contact J. Alan Tripp at batwolf@comcast.net
Batwolf Films

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Robert Smart of Excessive Films says that his new film, KNOTTED NOIR, is currently in post-production. The movie stars Adria M. Moskowitz and Sonja Park
When pressed for plot information, Smart describes it by saying that "Rhonda (Moskowitz), a forty-something lesbian, picks up Holly (Park) in a city park. They become lovers and Rhonda introduces her to her world of recreating bizarre sexual murders involving strangulation culled from her own mother's untimely death and from accounts from True Detective Magazines. Holly resists admitting the true nature of her desires while Rhonda presses for complete accord in their desires. The scenarios become more intense and ultimately result in tragedy. A dark erotic romance, fetish video and psychological thriller.
"Shot in DV-CAMPRO and mini-DV, ...(the movie is) told in vignettes with a mildly experimental structure."
There is not website currently for the film or company.

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Independent EDGE is a showcase program for today's film and video makers. 13 episodes will be produced for the 2006 season. The TV program will be shown on EDGE's own CAT network across the USA; it will also be marketed to broadcast stations and other venues nationwide.
There will be compensation to those artists whose work is chosen for the program, as well as a residuals deal in place should the program be shown in other venues beyond Cable Television. Submissions may be mailed to:
Independent Edge TV, 2006 Submissions,
PO Box 101,
Winn, ME 04495, USA.
EDGE Productions has been producing Independent Television and Films in Maine since 1991. Some past projects have been: DARK CURRENTS, an occult soap opera, FROSTBITE, a horror short, AFTER THE BEEP?, a suspense thriller and STRANGE AMERICA, a late night trip into the dark world of talk radio.
More information can be found at the website: http://www.edgevideo.net or by contacting the program's producer, Doug Gordon at 207-736-2923.

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Underground cinema acting legend Joel D. Wynkoop recently reported in to announce the completion of his return to directing with THE BITE. While having acted for the directing likes of Marcus Koch, Conrad Brooks, and Warren Madden, Joel is best known for his work with Tim Ritter. It was over 20 years ago that the two started making films together as teenagers in south Florida with the cult classic TRUTH OR DARE
Of his new movie co-directed by Chris Conklin, Wynkoop says, "your world gone straight to hell...or at least to the vampires. After losing his wife to the vampires, Hazzard (Wynkoop) starts a one man war against the monsters in hopes of righting the wrongs they have created. Aided by Madame Ora, a mysterious woman who knows all, Hazzard is sent on a mission which will test his FAITH as well as MARTIAL ART abilities to their fullest.
Joining Wynkoop in the fun is his real life wife M. Catherine Holseybrook (TWISTED ILLUSIONS 2, BEFORE I DIE) . The two were recently married. Also staring Gustavo Perez (LIGHT OF BLOOD, RAGING BELLS) and Noel Maree(REAL PREMONITION, CONTACT FROM BEYOND).
The Bite

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Gallows Hill Productions latest Film DUST TO DUST starring Lynn (Cat People) Lowry, Felissa (Sleepaway Camp) Rose & Joe ( Soultaker) Estevez has a Trailer. Click here to view.
DUST TO DUST is an anthology featuring three stories. Gallows Hill's Georgia Vasi breaks down the individual stories. "A group of reckless teengers experiment with mind altering drugs. They party at an abandoned hospital and start seeing horrific sights . Is it their drug-induced visions or the true horror's of the hospital. The stories feature a secret in a dark basement, a mob hit man has the tables turned on him, and a mother does anything to get even with the man responsable for her daughters death.
The company is also set to release another anthology, DEAD THINGS, starring Reggie (Phantasm) Bannister & Brinke ( Bleed) Stevens.Vasi says the stories this time involve "three tales of terror told over a poker table where a conspirasy against one of the players is about to unfold. The stories feature a revenge-minded witch, a satanic serial killer, and a redneck clan who unleashes a forest of there zombie victims.
Gallows Hill Productions

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Cheap Jersey Video, Inc. presents THE DRUNKEN DEAD GUY, starring TOM DUDA, BILL HINZMAN, TINA KRAUSE, AL ASARNOV, RAY JOHNSTON, BOB SMITH, TATTOO, JOHN GREFF, and J.B. Written by TOM DUDA and JOHN GREFF. Edited, produced, and directed by JOHN GREFF.
Greff says that THE DRUNKEN DEAD GUYS "is the story of Tom, an advertising contractor with an empty, gray existence, as cold as his commute to work through the concrete. After an untimely death, he enjoys the comforts of Heaven, but a wrongly perceived crises (God doesn't understand that the Devils are a hockey team) results in the need for a miracle. Tom is the unlucky choice to be risen up to fight the Devils. Unfortunately, Heaven botches the job and Tom is a rotting corpse. The only solution is for him to drink a lot of alcohol to preserve himself. The side effect is that he gets intoxicated."
Greff continues "broadcast on WCJT-57 Elizabeth, NJ, THE DRUNKEN DEAD GUY is a made-at-home, shot-on-VHS comedy with no budget and no crew. The 'sets' are like a tour of the living rooms of New Jersey. The audio, including the musical instruments, were recorded with the camcorder microphone. Yet, through all this lack of equipment and production, the large cast of no-names show themselves to be talented comedic actors, especially Tom Duda in the title role. Add to this the writing team of Tom Duda and (myself), together with John's inspired editing and directing (and his silly music) and you have an enjoyable unique movie that had no business coming together so well. Plus, the movie is graced by zombie legend Bill Hinzman's monumental performance, a couple of very funny scenes with B-movie major talent Tina Krause, and 2 surprise cameos.
Cheap Jersey Video

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Movie Seals Productions, in collaboration with Critical Mass Releasing, begins preproduction on the sequel to their award winning sci-fi/action film RECON 2020: THE CAPRINI MASSACRE.
RECON 2022: THE MEZZO CONSPIRACY, picks up two years after the events of the first film and introduces a new cast of characters as well as bringing back familiar ones. After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp and his elite team of tough space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma'har activities. What they will discover there defies imagination: giant snow worms, an underground cyborg city, and maybe, finally, a glimpse of the ever elusive Ma'hars.
Anderson Bradshaw (Taking Lives, Gothika) reprises his role as Lieutenant Sharp, the though, hard nosed leader who must lead his rag tag team of soldiers through the numerous perils of Mezzo. Valerie Wiseman (Barbarian Invasions, Steal) returns as the impassible android Kara and by popular demand, will have more screen time and kick more @$$ this time around. Gillian Leigh (Samhain) returns as well as the sassy hotshot pilot Fooks. Other returning actors include John Fallon (Saw 2, Pain Killer, Alone in the Dark) in a surprising expansion on his original mercenary cameo, Heidi Hawkins (MTV's Undressed), Howard Rosenstein (Hatley High, Samhain), Ian Paterson and Nadja Scantamburlo.
As far as confirmed new comers, scream queen and B-movie actress Suzi Lorraine (The Night they Returned, Chainsaw Sally) makes a special appearance as the sultry Dr. Beverly Jones while Carmen Echeverria (Pain Killer, MTV's Undressed) co-stars as the ambitious, no-nonsense Lieutenant Salma Alvarez.
RECON 2022: THE MEZZO CONSPIRACY is prolific Montreal writer/director/editor Christian Viel (Pain Killer, RECON 2020, Samhain) fifth feature film and his first sequel. The film is executive produced by William Alexander and produced by Christian Viel who will also edit the film. Jean-Francois Fontaine returns as director of Photography. Fight choreography will be handled by Alan Chou (Samhain). Special Effects will be handled by Cineffects. Principal Photography will begin in January 2006 in Montreal, Canada.
Recon 2022: Site launching Dec '05
Recon 2020

In the effort to introduce the work of legendary sexploitation auteur Joseph Sarno to a wider audience while simultaneously meeting the criteria of specific U.S. retailers that only R-rated or R-equivalent product be placed upon their stores� shelves, Retro Shock-O-Rama Cinema proudly announces the release of THE DEVIL'S PLAYTHING - the MPAA R cut of Sarno�s 1974 soft-core horror cult classic VAMPIRE ECSTASY (a.k.a. VEIL OF BLOOD). It comes from a brand new 1.78:1 telecine transfer from the original film elements and is enhanced for 16x9 televisions.
A heavily trimmed version of VEIL OF BLOOD, albeit with an X rating still attached to it, was released in the mid 1970s in the UK and U.S. under the titles THE DEVIL'S PLAYTHING and THE PLAYTHING OF THE DEVIL, respectively: This first ever home video and DVD release of THE DEVIL'S PLAYTHINGS includes further minor trims to the theatrical versions referenced above - just enough to secure a recent MPAA R rating while still retaining the sexually potent and erotic edge that places this provocative film head and shoulders above other "erotic horror" films of the day.
THE DEVIL'S PLAYTHING DVD will be available at Best Buy and other national retailers on November 8 at a special $12.99 msrp. The DVD recreates the film�s original theatrical poster art and features a full color booklet with insightful liner notes by sexploitation film historian and Sarno biographer Michael Bowen and a 2005 interview with director Sarno.
Shock-O-Rama

OCT 14, 2005
I generally don't post ad-related items in the news section, but here's a message I received that's offering B-Independent readers free episodes of one of New York's most popular underground television programs.
Here's the e-mail:
We would like to offer your readers a "free" dvd containing 2 sample one-hour episodes of industrialTELEVISION ($4.00 S/H fee applies-paypal accepted)
Here's the link: http://2droogies.com/itstuff!.htm
industrial TELEVISION is currently putting together a box set of the late-night public access television. Each box set will be 18 hours on 9 dvds. For the first set, they are starting with the complete season 8 (a bonus disc + 17 episodes from 2003-2004), and working their way backwards releasing year 7, 6, 5, and so on. Producer Edmund Varoulo says the transfer "look great, noticeably cleaner and better audio than the broadcast. They are direct copies from the master that's been digitally re-mastered for DVD"

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BACK HOME AGAIN: THE REAL CASINO director Joe Alexandre, who chronicled the making of his mob documentary for us last year, recently sent us a press release for the new Hollywood-sized budget feature he's working on with Director Joe Carnahan. Congrats Joe Alenandre.
Writer/director Joe Carnahan has signed on to produce and develop a potential feature directing vehicle which FilmEngine will produce and finance. The pic is based on the life story of Will Wright: a seemingly perfect National Merit Scholar and promising high school athlete, who raked in $70 million dealing narcotics.
During his high school years Wright was an academic and athletic star in Washington State where he was drafted by the Seattle Mariners � at the same time he was also the mastermind of an international drug ring and money-laundering operation by age 17. Caught in a sting operation, Wright ultimately was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and served eight before being released two years ago at age 26.
Exec. Producers Giovanni Agnelli and Scott Bloom brought the project to Carnahan and his producing partner Michelle Grace, who immediately gravitated to the material.
"There's something quintessentially American about Will Wright's story� said Carnahan. �We've built this �brass ring� ideology into almost every facet of our lives: In order to be something, you must achieve something and anything short of great wealth and fame seems like wasted pursuit. This kind of thinking permeates our culture on virtually every level and Will's story is a bi-product of that. I'm also thrilled to be working with young producers and a company in FilmEngine that have shown their willingness to take on interesting projects."
"Joe Carnahan is an intense and honest filmmaker with an uncompromising vision.� This story lends itself perfectly to his style" says Giovanni Agnelli.
FilmEngine has tapped scribe Joseph F. Alexandre to pen the screenplay. Alexandre, who has collaborated with Carnahan in the past, comes from the documentary world, having directed IN HOCK AND STAYING THERE and BACK HOME YEARS AGO: THE REAL CASINO.
�Will�s story,� says Alexandre, �is almost a mythic F. Scott Fitzgerald view of the American dream, albeit with Football pads and 9mm's, and its tendency to corrupt those most driven to succeed at the most opulent level.�
FilmEngine�s Tyler Mitchell, Anthony Rhulen, and A.J. Dix will produce the project along with Carnahan and Grace. Bill Shively, Giovanni Agnelli, Scott Bloom and Wright will Exec. Produce.

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Jack Thomas Smith, the writer/director/producer of the feature DISORDER says that he "currently trying to get my feature film 'Disorder' into several film festivals and also get distribution for it. Since my last name isn't Spielberg, I have to rely on a grass roots campaign to get people to hear about this film."
Jack is asking for people to visit his website, http://www.disorderthemovie.com and click on "Trailer," watch the movie trailer and fill out the 2-part questionnaire. Jack says that the information provide would help him a great deal towards his festival goal.

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Fountain Head Pictures won the B-Independent Underground Short Film of the Year Award for 2003 with the 23 minute film "The Last Round". They've spent most of 2005 putting the finishing touches on a feature length version that they expect to be completed by the end of 2005.
The tense drama revolves around six men who have nothing to lose and are brought together by the writings on a bathroom wall. Through a game of Russian roulette, the men reflect on their lives and what led them to this deathly round table. In the end, one must die.
On the official movie website, viewers can find downloadable documentaries features interviews with the cast.
The Last Round

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Baltimore, MD- Two-time New York International Film Festival filmmaker, Robert G. Christie, will premiere his latest feature, THE SOBBING STONE on November 3, 2005, at Gardel's Supper Club in Baltimore. Adapted from the play by Dick Charlton, the film will be shown at 9:00p in the screening room at Gardel's.
Four of the world's leading paranormal experts are called upon in a desperate attempt to discover the mystery behind a stone that produces human-like sounds. The sounds can not be recorded or explained, but they affect the minds and souls of everyone who hears them. This supernatural thriller is geared to make you question your own beliefs.
The film, produced by RCFeatures/Garcia Films in association with O.D.D. Productions, is already getting looks from major distributors. For more information, please visit www.rcfeatures.com

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OCT 13, 2005
Friday October 21st, the Roxy Theatre in Victoria, Canada will play host to THE DEAD INSIDE, an independently-produced, low-budget film directed by Brian Clement, made and set in Victoria BC. The movie tells the story of a team of paranormal investigators in 1948 looking into mysterious disappearances at a 19th century home, and the secrets they uncover.
While the world premiere took place at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland Oregon on October 8th and 9th, the Canadian debut will take place only ten days before Halloween. The South American premiere will take place between October 28th and November 2nd, at the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival, in Argentina. "The Dead Inside" veers away from the satirically gratuitous gore and nudity of previous Frontline Films productions such as MEAT MARKET, and the post-modern examination of b-movie cinematic form in EXHUMED, for a more classic approach to a haunted house story. Drawing inspiration from the 1920's horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft, THE DEAD INSIDE opts instead for a chilling atmosphere of dread with a few good shocks and scares, and gore used sparingly for maximum impact. At no point does the film blatantly reveal its no-budget origins, with above-average acting, solid special effects, and an interesting story with characters that aren't simply stage props to be offed by the colourful villain.
The film presents a vision of a 1940's Canada crawling with otherworldly forces and foul creatures of the night, kept at bay only by the vigilance of a handful of people who know of their existence. With a nearly non-existent budget, the production creates an authentic period look, complete with flashbacks to World War II and strange inhuman creatures.
The Victoria, BC showing will be at the Roxy Theatre after their regular screening schedule the evening of Friday, October 21st, at approximately 11:30PM. Admission will be $5. There will also be a Vancouver BC showing on Sunday, December 4th, at 7PM.
Frontline Films Ltd. Was created in 1999 as a small Victoria-based production company devoted to entertaining and intelligent low-budget filmmaking, and has produced award-winning features such as "Meat Market" (b-independent.com's winner of "Underground Film of the Year" for 2001).
Frontline Films

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Mark Pirro of Pirromount says "The Japanese premiere of Rectuma will be November 2005. I've heard unsubstantiated rumors that it will get a theatrical run there in addition to its inevitible DVD release. However, these rumors have yet to be verified. I really need a business manager to keep better track of these things. Sometimes, when it comes to my films, I feel like a deadbeat dad. I'm there for the birth, then I send the kids out into the world with their surrogate mothers and rarely visit them. Although, based on how we always get screwed by distributors, we certainly pay alimony.
We found the official Japanese website that is releasing Rectuma and have also found a very badly translated version of the site. I notice that in Japan I'm known as "Mark Pillow." Makes sense, I guess. I mean, that's how the Japanese would pronounce my name, right? I suppose if I officially changed my name to "Mark Pillow," the Japanese would pronounce it "Mark Pirro." Oh, those wacky Japanese. Anyway, I like the poster they've created. It comes across looking like an actual Japanese monster movie. I'm told that this poster was designed by the same artist who did one of the Japanese "Kill Bill" posters. Good company.

I am finished with the remastering of the early Pirromount short films, Buns (1978) and The Spy Who Did It Better (1979) The remastering has gone well. They look better than they ever did, even though I was starting out with pretty grainy super 8 images. I'm now selling them together on one DVD through this site for 25 bucks. These films were never officially released, and they're collector's items, so treat them as such! Buns stars me as an insane killer of hamburger eaters. Whenever he sees someone eating a burger, he goes into a hypnotic trance and kills the carnavor (I think this movie was made before PETA was formed, can anyone verify that?). My co-star in the film is Glenn Campbell, in his one shot at acting before he had gone onto an Emmy Award winning career as a special effects artist. Buns runs 21 minutes. The second film on the disk is "The Spy Who Did It Better." That was my attempt at making a James Bond parody. It stars Pirromount regular John McCafferty, and runs about 45 minutes. This was produced 18 years before Austin Powers, I might add. Ah, a man wiser than me once said that the road west is paved with the bones of pioneers. "Spy" also has a cameo by the late Eric Douglas, who I had originally met and worked with as a tour guide at Universal Studios in the mid-70's. Eric passed away last year. Sigh.
Pirromount

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ei Independent Cinema and Electric Daisy Pushers (EDP) are pleased to announce that the first DVD release from the fledgling production company THE DEVIL'S BLOODY PLAYTHING.
Electric Daisy Pushers is the new production company instigated by anarchic underground sexploitation filmmaker Bill Hellfire and cult actresses Zoe Moonshine and Ruby LaRocca. Hellfire was the driving force behind the notorious Factory 2000, which produced many shocking, disturbing, dangerously deviant and just plain nasty ex/sexploitation films throughout the late 1990s and into new millennium including such films as I Was a Teenage Strangler (featuring future Seduction/Shock-O-Rama Cinema star Misty Mundae�s first screen performance), Infamous Bondage Murders 1 & 2, Lesbos Slaughter 1 & 2, and, most notably, Duck: The Carbine High Massacre. Factory 2000 has since disbanded, but Hellfire and crew decided it was high time to once again produce the kinds of intense, often offensive, and controversial films that brought �The Factory� such international underground acclaim. And EDP does not disappoint, as its premiere release, the bloody and violent The Devil�s Bloody Plaything, directed by Hellfire and co-starring Moonshine and LaRocca, has already garnered favorable comparisons to Roman Polanski�s 1965 psychological horror classic Repulsion.
The ei Cinema and Factory 2000 relationship was an exciting and prolific one that began ten years ago, so it was only natural that ei and EDP forge a new relationship that will allow for the creation and distribution of further outrageous and in-your-face cinematic mayhem. Orgasm Torture in Satan�s Rape Clinic, EDP�s next release, certainly puts the exclamation point to that statement!
Electric Daisy Pushers

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Iron Lion Picture�s FIGHT RING is in pre-production, to be shot Spring 06 in Connecticut. This is writer, director, star Sean Gallimore�s second movie. His first, VAMPIRE HUNTER, is being distributed by Brain Damage Films.
FIGHT RING follows the story of a man down on his luck who ends up in a secret tournament in which each contestant gets a ring. Whenever fighters cross paths, the rings signal and they must fight, anytime, anywhere. Winner gets the loser�s ring. The one with the most rings wins. It promises to be a feast for martial arts movie fans. Gallimore himself is a holder of four black belts. Model and Scream Queen Suzi Lorraine will play the female lead. Casting for some cast and crew continues, aiming at local talent.
Sean Gallimore

OCT 12, 2005
Baton Rouge based Production Company Crane Films that their documentary JUST WHAT I NEEDED will have its premiere screening on October 29th at the Manship theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge. The movie documents the weekly occurrence known as Star 80 at the Baton Rouge bar The Spanish Moon. Star 80 is the bar's 80s retro night that, since its inception 5 years ago, has built a loyal and rabid fan base, some of which spend their entire week getting ready for the event. The documentary examines how this retro night has shaped the lives of some of its most loyal regulars and its relationship with the Baton Rouge community.
The movie will show on October 29th at 8pm at the Manship Theatre in the Shaw center for the arts in downtown Baton Rouge. Tickets are $7.
Crane Films has also produced the feature length film MAN OF THE HOUR and most recently completed another documentary entitled MOVING PARTS.
Crane Films

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HOLLYWOOD SHE-WOLF, which stars Garo Nigoghossian, Banana Wong, Jane Scarlett (in her final acting role) and porn star, Charlee Chase, has entered post production. The film, which wrapped in May 2005, has a tentative early 2006 release date through Crash Cinema. Hollywood She-Wolf is the story of a down on his luck writer (Garo Nigoghossian) who comes into contact with a psychotic Hollywood producer (Banana Wong). The film was written, produced and directed by the star of the film, Garo Nigoghossian.
Atomic Erotic Films (inactive as of 10/12/05)

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SHOCK-O-RAMA - the newest horror film from veteran cult horror director Brett Piper and Shock-O-Rama Cinema - receives it NYC theatrical premiere at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, Thursday, October 27, at 7:00 PM. The screening is open to the general public, and the film's cast & crew will also be on hand to get their first glimpse of what can only be described as Brett Piper's most ambitious, outrageous and entertaining monster movie to date. All who attend the premiere will receive a free DVD of a recent horror release from Shock-O-Rama Cinema. Also, a short Q&A with director Piper will take place post-screening. To order advance tickets for SHOCK-O-RAMA, click on pioneertheater.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=37534
The past two years have seen Shock-O-Rama Cinema premiere two Brett Piper films at the Pioneer - 2003 saw his Screaming Dead and 2004 his Bite Me! Thus it is with great pleasure that Shock-O Cinema continues the tradition with the newest Piper film. So come out and support indie cinema at the Pioneer, get a free DVD while you're at it.
Click to view trailer
The Two Boots Pioneer Theater is located at:
155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B)
New York, New York 10009
(212) 591-0434
Shock-O-Rama Cinema

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Accidental Films is proud to announce the availability of its first feature on DVD, SO, YOU'VE DOWNLOADED A DEMON, a 90 minute supernatural comedy about four college students who hack into an occult website and release a demon that is imprisoned there. Once free, it goes about posssessing the masses.
The indie production company, run by filmmakers Nicholas Capetanakis and Todd Livingston, is offering a Limited Edition DVD of the title, which stars Casidee Riley (Deadwood) and features Xenia Seeberg (star of the Sci-Fi Channel hit "Lexx").
The movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 and made its US debut at DragonCon last September.
Director/co-writer Livingston, also responsible for the horror graphic novels "The Black Forest," "The Wicked West" and the upcoming "The Living and the Dead", says about the Cannes screening, "The French loved it! But the French also love to eat snails, so you have to take that with a grain of salt. Salt,by the way, kills snails.
"Seriously, though - Nick and I are really proud of the film - it's received an amazing response at every screening. If you like comedies with horror/supernatural elements, then this is the movie for you. Well, this and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Accidental Films

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Washington State filmmaker Brion Rockwell has recently wrapped production and begun post-production on the remake of sexploitation auteur Nick Philips' 1972 feature FIRE IN HER BED (also known as Fire Under Her Bed). ei and Rockwell had been discussing working together for several years, ever since ei released his evocative and intelligent Pacific Northwest-set drama, WHERE THE AIR IS COOL AND DARK, to home video back in 1997, and the opportunity to do so finally presented itself. ei was confident that Rockwell had the insight and vision to effectively contemporarize and update Philips' minor cult sexploitation film; thus the project received the green light this past summer.
Shot in and around Seattle, WA, on Sony Hi-Definition, FIRE IN HER BED stars scintillating and seductive newcomers Angelina Dekker and Maria Palentini. If the initial "rushes" screened by ei are an indication, the chemistry between these two young women is simply amazing and the eroticism quotient staggering. Rockwell's final cut is forthcoming, so his version of Fire In Her Bed should see a release later next year on the Retro Seduction Cinema label - tagged teamed with the Nick Philips original.
Since purchasing several 1960s & 70s sexploitation films from the Nick Philips library, Retro Seduction Cinema has been actively committed to producing remakes - re-imaginings, if you will - and packaging them with the original films to create unique erotic double feature releases. Past original/remake double bills include the extraordinarily popular ROXANNA and LUSTFULL ADDICTION (both starring Misty Mundae, with Mundae writing & directing Lustful Addiction) as well as PLEASURES OF A WOMAN (starring Darian Caine and Julian Wells). The newest double feature forthcoming from Retro Seduction Cinema - it's currently scheduled for an early 2006 release - is CHANTAL, also starring Misty Mundae and written & directed by Tony Marsiglia (Dr. Jekyll and Mistress Hyde, Lust for Dracula, Sin Sisters).
Seduction Cinema

OCT 11, 2005
FEAR FILM's latest production, THE HAUNTED is now in Pre-Production and we are looking for a DP that is familiar with the Panasonic DVX100a, Canon XL-2 or the JVC HD100U. This is currently a deferred pay postition, but could be lead to regular payed postion if we get financing. We will be shooting on the weekends in the South Florida area, so local DP's are a plus. Travel expenses will NOT be covered. Interested parties can send their contact info, resume and reel to:
FEAR FILM
1747 Van Buren Street
Suite 940
Hollywood, Florida 33020
We are also looking to build a list of Crew members for the shoot. These will be deferred payed postions as well. Crew members need to be in South Florida area as we do NOT cover travel expenenses. Currently, all postions are open. Interested parties can send us their contact info and resume through this myspace page. You can also contact us with any questions as well.
FEAR FILM Independent Productions also announces it new productions for 2006. First is THE HAUNTED, this will be the debute film for writter/director LUKE BENEDETTO. What if your worst fears became real? This film is schedule for production sometime in November. The next film is the long awaited new film by director ROBERT J. MASSETTI called TERROR. This film will start production right after principle photography is finished on THE HAUNTED. We will keep you up dated on the progress of both films so keep checking back.
Fear Film Independent Productions

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Trauma One Entertainment is currently in post-production on FIVE ACROSS THE EYES. The film is described as "five girls face the ultimate experience in terror on the way back from a football game. Finding themselves lost, they stop at a desolate store to find directions, but unfortunately instead are involved in a hit and run leaving the driver of an SUV one headlight short. Inexperienced and frightened, the girls flee the addicent and speed away down the dark and unfamiliar roads. Shortly, they are joined on their journey by the pursuit of the one lone headlight, an event that will scar them for life; one mistake make while lost will cost them their innocence and possibly their lives."
Trauma One Entertainment

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Sixth Street Entertainment is currently finishing post-production on their thriller ZORBO. The film follows the investigation of one Sherrif Scott Williams one year after the murder of three high school students, known as The Spade County Massacre.
Sixth Street Entertainment

Adam ArNali of ArNali Films is currently shopping his recently completed short film CREED to various national festivals. Next, he plans to sit down and right a follow-up titled THE DARK OCEAN AWAITS. ArNali says the new script is set after a gang war between Japanese and African-Americans living in New York City. ArNali describes the plot as "a cross-cultural coming of age thriller." The script should be completed by January.
Creed
Arnali Films

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Brain Damage Films will be premiering Jeff Leroy's THE WITCH'S SABBATH at The Internation Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival at 11p.m. on October 22, 2005. The screening will be held at:
Harkins Theater Centerpoint 11
730 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
SYNOPSIS
THE WITCH'S SABBATH tells the tale of a coven of witches who mask their true identity by operating the "Sin & Skin" strip club. To keep the coven as one, they must behead 666 victims before the arrival of their Dark Lord on Halloween. Unsuspecting victims are carefully chosen at the strip club and find themselves invited to feast at a sinister mansion where the ladies of "Sin & Skin" offer their victims one final meal.
With their deadline fast approaching, the head witch, Auriana , makes a desperate attempt to meet their Lord's demands. They soon realize that the attendees of their final dinner on All Hallow's Eve prove to be more than just victims.
Brain Damage Films
The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival

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Razor Sharp Productions is proud to announce that CATHOLIC GHOULGIRLS has been completed and shipped off to Maxim Media International / Brain Damage Films for distribution.
The finished film includes a newly edited version with a brand-new sound mix, created from scratch. DVD special features are currently in the works.
Hot on the heels of CATHOLIC GHOULGIRLS comes its sequel, VAMPIRE WHORES FROM OUTER SPACE. Post-production is underway and you can follow its progress at http://www.vampirewhoresmovies.com. A DVD should be released by Razor Sharp Productions around early November.
VAMPIRE WHORES FROM OUTER SPACE stars Lance Steele, Meghan McDowell, and Brian Gunnoe from CATHOLIC GHOULGIRLS. Produced by Chip Kunhavijit. Written & Directed by Eamon Hardiman.
Vampire Whores From Outer Space

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Director Keith Boron says that his horror-thriller MURDER IS LIKE SEX is currently finishing the final stages of post-production. Husband and wife team of Holly and Ken Sechrist are doing the editing and sound engineering respectively.
Boron discusses the plot of MURDER IS LIKE SEX as "a movie about the experiences of Kevin Wright, a guy looking for a solid, long-term relationship with the right woman. The story shows what he has to go through in his quest, including an unexpected and quite dangerous side effect from chronic masturbation. To make matters worse, the police have him pegged as the prime suspect in a recent murder investigation. So does he get the girl and live happily ever after?
The movie features former soap opera actress Robyn Griggs as "Lisa".
HTM Films

OCT 9, 2005
Andrew Copp's latest experimental short film KING KILL 33 is available for download HERE. The short is loosely based onthe essay by James Shelby Downard that deals with the Occult implications of the Assassination of President Kennedy. Check it out and leave some feedback!
Copp says "we have been actively working on our next feature film, URBAN REALITIES, a co-production with NIGHTBEAT ENTERTAINMENT. The film is an anthology of short horror tales that all take place in the inner city. Copp has been co-producing, doing effects, and co-wrote/directed the first segment FUN IN THE OLD TOWN TONIGHT, about three teens who think driving around, beating up homeless people and videotaping it is the ultimate in a good time. That is until they get caught in a trap set for losers like them, that leads to bloodshed, cannibalism and ultimate retribution.
Copp continues. "the piece is my reaction to the pieces of shit who made those Bumfights tapes. It's my way of getting back at those who take advantage of the poor"
The short stars newcomers Brian Dixon, Rob Morrick, and Joe Mackenzie as the teens. As the homeless victims, Matt Brassfield and Andrew Copp, and newcomer Breanne Parcels is the beautiful young woman who is the lynchpin of the story.
The other shorts are being directed by producer Greg Tucker, and Andy Nulls. With professional animal training by Charles Cooper.
KING KILL 33
Apparition Films

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Ronnie Sorter of Borderline Entertainment recently made the announcement he'll "be assembling masters and supplementary material for the upcoming DVD release of SINISTRE. It'll be a challenge since we no longer own any of the editing equipment that was used to make the movies in the first place. Thankfully, I'd already cut together a behind-the-scenes featurette using footage that Mike Strain and his wife shot eleven years ago on the sets. Even if I had access to all those tapes, there'd be no way to cut it together; let alone the fact that I'd have no time to even review all of it. At least "Remains" will finally have a home because it will be included as a bonus...
The 10 minute zombie short "Remains" is the Springfield, Missouri filmmaker's first directorial effort in 8 years, since the underground action classic RAVAGE.
Borderline Entertainment

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Car School Films' TERROR REPORT is a taut political thriller, blending traditional Hollywood action film conventions with scenarios ripped from today's headlines. It promises to do more than entertain. It suggests what really goes on behind the scenes in today's political environment, and approaches the subject of the war on terror from a global perspective. Moreover, it promises to raise questions about what regular people would do in incredible circumstances, and confirms what we already know � that those regular people will rise to the occasion and become heroes when circumstances demand it. TERROR REPORT is a feature length film project being created by students at Art Institutes International, Minnesota. Participating students are enrolled in the Visual Effects and Motion Graphics program, and will be receiving credit for their participation.
Car School Films are the team behind the Troma release GO TO HELL
Car School Films
Troma

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Chris Watson of Wild Range Productions is currently filming EVIL EVER AFTER with Randal Malone, Felissa Rose, Ron Jeremy, Brinke Stevens.
Of the plot, Watson only says that "an odd neighbor is wrongly accused of rape, the friends of the accuser beat him and leaves him for dead. The man comes back to town with vengeance on his mind--and eating the kids that hurt him."
Watson also says that his production SLAUGHTER PARTY is set for a February 7th release from Troma. In typical Troma style, this movie deals with "a mad doctor who creates a killer midget that is out to kill bikini clad women."
Information on Wild Range Productions can be found on their MySpace Profile.

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Matt Brassfield of Independent B Movie says that "a lot has been happing around here at the offices. First up, the DVD of "Vigilante C: The Hunt For Man-Beast" has been delayed, The Editor and The Company have split ways, We wish him the best in upcoming projects. But in great news, Jason Wilson, the owner of the cool video store "Precinct 13," here in Dayton, Ohio, has stepped up to bat to edit and make all upcoming DVDs! We cant wait to start working with him. "The Sadness" will be out on DVD by the end of October and will be paked with extra's that include "The Hook" short film, Commentaries, Trailers, And Tons More!! This will be the DVD to set all standards here. "Long Dead Winter" is dead...It looks as if the film will never see the light of day as Mike Ritchie, we hope, starts on "Farmer Joe 2".
Independent B Movie

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Jason Stephenson of Not For The Squeamish Productions reports that "The movie formerly known as INFECTED is now titled DOOMED TO CONSUME.
"We had to make necessary changes in regards to our zombie movie�s title in order to avoid legal ramifications from a video gaming company that currently owns trademark rights to the word Infected.."
DOOMED TO CONSUME deals the a small mid-western town after an airborn virus starts turning the townsfolk into zombies.
Not For The Squeamish Productions

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