When you think of a slasher film, images of summer camp and college campuses might dance in your head, but in her first feature film, B.C. Butcher, Kansas Bowling uniquely sets a slasher story in prehistoric times. With Troma set to release B.C. Butcher next year, we caught up with Kansas to discuss making her first movie at the age of seventeen, shooting on 16mm, and much more.
Thanks for taking the time to converse with us, Kansas. Your debut feature film, B.C. Butcher, is a slasher movie set in the prehistoric era. How did you come up with this unique plot?
Kansas Bowling: Thank you so much for showing interest in my film! My friend Kenzie Givens and I came up with the idea when we were in high school. I was 15. It seemed like something easy to do on a tiny budget and it was something that had never been done before!
Thanks for taking the time to converse with us, Kansas. Your debut feature film, B.C. Butcher, is a slasher movie set in the prehistoric era. How did you come up with this unique plot?
Kansas Bowling: Thank you so much for showing interest in my film! My friend Kenzie Givens and I came up with the idea when we were in high school. I was 15. It seemed like something easy to do on a tiny budget and it was something that had never been done before!
- 12/11/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Stars: Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, Rich Lounello, A.J. DeLucia, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, Ken Van Sant | Written and Directed by Brett Piper
The latest film from cult auteur Brett Piper (They Bite, The Screaming Dead, Raiders of the Living Dead) Queen Crab is – from start to finish – a loving, action-packed tribute to the classic days of practical stop-motion animation, evoking the days of Ray Harryhausen creature features.
The official synopsis reads thus: A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside, awakening a centuries-old beast. She emerges from the deep and tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants. The humans must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies that will overrun the entire world.
Though to be fair that synopsis exagerates things a little. It’s more a case of girl develops relationship with a crab,...
The latest film from cult auteur Brett Piper (They Bite, The Screaming Dead, Raiders of the Living Dead) Queen Crab is – from start to finish – a loving, action-packed tribute to the classic days of practical stop-motion animation, evoking the days of Ray Harryhausen creature features.
The official synopsis reads thus: A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside, awakening a centuries-old beast. She emerges from the deep and tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants. The humans must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies that will overrun the entire world.
Though to be fair that synopsis exagerates things a little. It’s more a case of girl develops relationship with a crab,...
- 10/25/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Lloyd Kaufman is the Rodney Dangerfield of low-budget, B-level horror movies. He gets no respect. Even Roger Corman, who is notorious for cranking out genre films for profit since the 1950s, has respect of his Hollywood peers. But in Corman’s shadow is Kaufman’s exploitation studio Troma, which has been generating marginal and low-quality entertainment for years…almost 40 years, to be exact. Troma began in 1974 as a joint venture between Kaufman and his buddy from Yale, Michael Hertz. Over the years, the studio has pulled their own fair share of Cormans by featuring would-be stars in their earliest roles, including Kevin Costner in Sizzle Beach U.S.A., Billy Bob Thornton in Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, and the comedy team of Trey Parker and Matt Stone with Cannibal: The Musical. In 1985, Troma broke out with their tongue-in-cheek success The Toxic Avenger, a low-budget hit that spawned three sequels and gave Troma its poster boy for its...
- 6/12/2012
- by Kevin Carr
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Make no bones about it, my friends: “A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell ” director Brett Piper’s 2009 horror/comedy “Muckman” is absolute crap. If anyone says otherwise, they’re probably lying to you. Everything about the film is cheap: the script, the special effects, the acting — it’s a hot pile of microbudget feces that would send most discerning film fans screeching from the room in anger. However, if you’re a fan of no-budget horror with a penchant for low-brow laughs and bargain basement monsters, the film is actually kind of fun. Sure, the creature is a direct rip-off of “The Swamp Thing”, and the story spends more time goofing off than it does exploring the legend of its titular villain, but it’s silly charms and wonky thrills do contain a fair amount of entertainment. Assuming, of course, that you have a sense of humor about cinema. Perhaps...
- 8/24/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Ok, this one should be pretty self-explanatory. Polonia Brothers Productions have been responsible in the past for such gems as "Splatter Beach" (IMDb-rating: 3.4), "Dinosaur Chronicles" (IMDb-rating: 2.5) and of course "Holla If I Kill You" (IMDb-rating: 1.8), so their latest effort "Muckman" might be trashy fun if you are in the mood. And they have now put a trailer online!
Actually it does indeed look like trashy fun. Did I just see a stop-motion monster attack a toy trailer? Cool!!
Unlike the examples above it's not directed by either Mark or John Polonia, instead we have Brett Piper of "A Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell"-fame (IMDb-rating: 1.6). Also check out Brett's site which shows stills of many of his monster creations, all of which look pretty awesome in that old-school sort of way (warning though: some of the snaps might be construed as Nsfw...).
Anyway, without further ado: the trailer.
Actually it does indeed look like trashy fun. Did I just see a stop-motion monster attack a toy trailer? Cool!!
Unlike the examples above it's not directed by either Mark or John Polonia, instead we have Brett Piper of "A Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell"-fame (IMDb-rating: 1.6). Also check out Brett's site which shows stills of many of his monster creations, all of which look pretty awesome in that old-school sort of way (warning though: some of the snaps might be construed as Nsfw...).
Anyway, without further ado: the trailer.
- 3/18/2010
- Screen Anarchy
With the success of the Matrix movies and V for Vendetta, James McTeigue has now brought an onslaught of CGI blood and mayhem to the ninja genre with Ninja Assassin. Starring pop star Rain as an often-shirtless ninja assassin, this movie has the most self-explanatory title since A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. You may or may not have liked it in the theaters, but this game will definitely make you happier while you watch it.
- 3/17/2010
- by Kevin Carr
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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