The two part post you all were waiting for! – Part I

Well, those who live in the midwest know what a tornado looks like, am I wrong? If you live in Florida, you are familiar with hurricanes. Ok, I’m looking for a word that describes what’s happening in our world right now. Voragine, comes close. It all started some time ago when we found a link to Awesome Scream Queens and found that Amy was named Awesome Scream Queen of The Week. We couldn’t be more thrilled.

In addition, Amy was offered to work on a new film: Succubi. It’s been already announced:

We are very pleased to announce that the great American Scream Queen, Amy Hesketh, will be joining the cast in the new film, Succubi. Amy is well-known in the world-wide horror genre and you can connect with her official facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/amyhesketh Look out in the next issue of Awesome magazine for a special feature on Amy and much more.

Fangoria came out with the famous article about Amy, it’s not only an interview, it’s actually a feature article, 2 pages and 1 column long, and the ripples of this publication are beginning to reach our Andean mountains.

Somehow we’re going viral, well, at least Amy is. It’s all happening before the release of Dead But Dreaming. We wonder what’s going to happen after that.

That beginning paragraph in the Fangoria article says it all. We’re in a very interesting place right now. We’re getting contacted by people in the industry, actors of certain level, like one who was part of the cast in Deadwood. It’s simply amazing. And it’s happening very fast, which brings me to many points that were raised in this very forum, but before I get into that some follow up to previous, a bit older comments.

GuymanSeven Does Amy works out in some special routines? Her physique is great! And I hope to see more agent/spy films in the future as I loved Agent X!

Amy has a physical trainer and he played a part in the sequence that was shot for Dead But Dreaming. So, that answers your question. Yes, Amy is working out with a physical trainer, three times a week in a high end Gym. We have a couple of agent/spy films in our future.

Carmen and Vero would be happy to hear what GuymanSeven commented:

GuymanSeven: The 1996 picture is heavenly, the years have been kind for them. They look as young as ever today!

I agree, they look wonderful today, as wonderful as they did in 1996. Veronica looks amazing in our next release, Dead But Dreaming.

Gog: Reine Margot: Thank you for your post! It certainly sounds like a lot of great things happening! And that’s good to hear. 🙂

Yes, lots of great things are happening which are keeping us in our toes, they are also the source of a lot of stress for Amy and Jac, who now have a reputation to maintain. I expect they will stay on course, as daring as always.

Gog: Yes indeed! I love that picture. Almost makes me think it’s MY birthday to get such a lovely picture of Amy to add to my stalker co….ummmm, I mean….collection. 🙂 But what’s going to be the “Giant size poster” inside? 😉

A giant poster is more difficult to choose, yes? I mean, a wall size picture has to be one with the impact to last a lifetime, if not more. We could start a poll as to which picture should grace the wall of a Gimper. I have some of Jac’s favorites through the years.

YikYakker Amy: Do you remember what was happening a year ago as you celebrated your previous birthday?

We remember well, in fact, Beto, our most famous inquisitor and creepy buttler, remembers that two years ago we were done with the last scene of Le Marquis de la Croix, where Amy gets to be stretched on the rack. After the director, tied to the rack, managed to call out CUT!, the cast of three and crew of four went directly from the set to our HQ to celebrate her birthday. And yes, last year we were wondering about how Maleficarum was going to do at the multiplexes. This year we are preparing to release Dead But Dreaming. It’s really nice to mark every year with some big event. We do have a couple of events a year, at least.

YikYakker How momentous this past year has been for you. Here’s hoping you have another fantastic one.

We’re looking ahead with anticipation. However, our complete attention was and is on the shooting of the missing sequence in Dead But Dreaming, the final editing of this most fantastic movie and its ultimate release.

Dead But Dreaming has become the most anticipated movie of the year… for our fans, of course. The world will learn about it in due time.

Falstaff: Like most others here I am a big fan of Red Feline and am enthusiastic over their new found “main stream” success. However, I recently revisited some of the Via Crucis De Camille productions, Seven Days on the Cross, and Aristo Crux – it is a shame that similar efforts may be abandoned while they focus on the main stream effort – if for no other reason than the number of productions will be sufficiently reduced.

Jac too is very fond of the work he did with Camille, but what he did then it was with the intention of what he’s doing now. The beautiful thing is that all that personal work, because it was very personal and intimate, gave birth to what is happening now. His heart, Amy’s heart are on the GIMP element in their movies and they are not backing out.

A point. When Jac was releasing the old movies we had the Red Feline Club where he would write the story behind the videos. It is the same now, except that he no longer writes the story behind the movies, the story IS in the movies. Like in Dead But Dreaming, or Maleficarum.

But I have to admint that there’s something very special about those past efforts. In fact, I know that Jac misses doing them once in a while. But our number of productions are not really reduced. All the previous work was done between 1996 and 2009, that’s a long time That’s about 1 1/2 per year. We’re producing 2 to 3 features a year now, that’s not a small number.

Falstaff: The early work had its faults, the production values, the lighting, etc. were primitive compared to what Red Feline is capable of producing now. Yet, for pure GIMP entertainment value, short of the old ZFX productions there is very little to compare it to. I would love to see similar efforts – something that could be produced in a relatively short time with merely the basic plot lines but overflowing with the action that they do so well. I am still waiting for the last installment of Seven Days on the Cross with great anticipation.

We bought a lot of equipment. Fancy digital cameras, amazing ARRI lights, one provides a 2000 watt capacity, light reflectors, kinos, cranes, etc. That helps. We also have an on hand crew that is gaining more experience with every new movie. However producing those small movies was difficult too. They were the work of only two people, either Jac and Camille, or Jac and Vero, or Jac and Amy… where all the work was in their hands. ALL of it.

We take 6 hours to shoot a complicated scene now, with a full crew. It took six hours to shoot a simple scene without a crew. Jac would spend hours setting up the lights and the camera. Then hours shooting. Exhausting. There’s one scene in Red Feline on the Cross where Jac had to climb on a chair, with a big Sony camera on his shoulder to get a high angle shot of the action, while, at the very same time, he was whipping Camille with the other hand. That’s exhausting.