The Red Feline Club and The Passion of Bea

Friday Punishments. Following the slave auction, Justine finds herself in Rodin’s home. His attentions make her uncomfortable. “What need has he for a third woman, I asked myself? Why must they all be so pretty?” she says, again breaking the fourth wall. Taking Justine to a secret panel in her bedchamber, Rosalie pulls back a curtain to reveal the dungeon where Rodin conducts his Friday punishments. Her father comes up with “trifles” to justify his pleasures, Rosalie explains.
Read more of Rich Moreland’s essay about JUSTINE
https://3hattergrindhouse.com/2016/12/18/i-only-see-darkness-jac-avilas-justine-part-five/

Margot: I know that any tortures you inflict upon poor Bea factors in safety as well as Bea agreeing to go along with it. How about working on things that have worked in previous movies you have done. Here are my favorites from the past that you may try again with Bea this year. -An upside down suspension. I know that it was possibly going to happen in Justine, but scrapped last minute due to Amy’s health. I know Jac knows about the safety since he has done it twice with Carmen (Martyr and Inquisition 3). -If Bea is up for it, a water torture of some kind. I know Amy had some fear in Agent X. -I asked about this for Justine, but it did not come to pass. How about Bea getting impaled with multiple nails similar to Camille in Red Feline on the Cross. This torture is in the top 3 of the things Jac has done in his RF and Pachamama Film movies.
Joek0

There will be 7 torture settings in the first film with Bea, what happens in each one will be developed in the next few days. The events will unfold in a ten day period, each day will advance the story, each day more intense. there won’t be any public tortures. It will be very similar to Red Feline on the Cross in that way. A bit like going back to the roots kind of thing. I doubt there will be a water torture on this one. Perhaps in the second one, the contemporary one. Upside down is difficult. It worked well with Camille in the Red Feline Faces the Inquisition Series and in Martyr or The Death of St Eulalia. Camille is a very light person. Jac was able to carry her around, by her waist, with one arm, or over his shoulder. She has very strong legs that can support her weight upside down, held by ropes attached to her ankles, and spread eagle. It worked twice and very well.

I don’t believe that Bea will be willing to be strapped by her ankles and suspended upside down. Mila was willing to do that in JUSTINE, however Jac felt it was too risky. It’s specially risky if you don’t have a crew in the set ready to go into action if anything happens. It was difficult for Amy in Agent X, when she was upside down for the water torture, the first try was at a more straight down position and Amy had a situation where things could’ve gotten ugly, so it was decided to have her suspended at a bit of an incline and with her body supported totally by her folded legs. She wasn’t going to be upside down in JUSTINE because of issues with her ankles and because Jac did not want to put her and Mila at risk.

I can see the nails torture, similar to Camille in Red Feline on the Cross and to Amy in the last scene in Agent X Yes. That is not only possible, but I believe is part of the story already. I know that Jac was searching in the prop boxes for the nails to use, the kind that once inserted in the body, stay there, sticking out in a nasty way, the way they were used in Red Feline on the Cross. In Agent X he only inserted the nails in Amy’s flesh and retrieved them, like it was done in Maleficarum with the stiletto.

Thanks for sharing your lifetime sales numbers with us. Some of the results surprise me. The thing that still surprises me is how well your original movie, Red Feline on the Cross, does compared to your other films. I know that Maleficarum is undisputed at #1, but RFOTC is not that far behind at #2. RFOTC is also far ahead of #3. I can’t believe how much of an impact RFOTC still has to this day regarding your lifetime sales. I hope RFOTC still sells well for you to this day
Joek0

Red Feline on the Cross was a work inspired by all the work Camille and JJ were doing back in the day, twenty years ago… OMG! Time flies, doesn’t it? It was in 1997, Camille was a young 19 year old, beautiful and intense woman, experimenting on how it would be to enact a crucifixion for a movie. All those The Via Crucis of Camille movies were made that year, one after the other, until, in July/August, while Jac was working as a film professor at a prominent university, they went on and made that classic GIMP/CRUX film. They didn’t know at the time that they were beginning something that would last decades. It was just the two of them, no one else was involved except me, in some small part. Jac credited a crew, just to have something, but he was simply using the different names and nicknames Camille and Jac have.

The appeal of our first release under the RFPIX banner was very, very strong. Even to this day we’re asked about whether we’ll be having a better version of it. People who bought it in its VHS format, also got it later in its DVD format and some of the big Camille fans are wondering if we’ll ever release it in BluRay. Well, it is under consideration. We would love to have all of our films in BluRay for the public. We do have masters in BluRay for exhibition purposes. Some movie houses, like the Cinemateca, do not yet have DCP, the current professional digital format that replaced 35mm projection for public exhibition, so they have BluRay instead. The plan is to upgrade Red Feline on the Cross to a higher quality, so the format will be 2K. That means blowing up the image from what I think is its original 640×480 to 1920×1080 (2K). The new version will have a limited release. It will include scenes that were taken out of the original release in VHS. That’s a plan, but we have to have the time to do it and it would be great if it happens before the end of this year, when we’ll be celebrating 20 YEARS of its production and the beginning of the Red Feline adventure.

RED FELINE CLUB: This is a welcome site for all the various works. Love seeing the old Red Feline brought back. MARGOT: How do we sign up for the club now, or do we wait for the test period to conclude?
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I will be announcing when people can sign up to become supporting members of our endeavors. The test period will last a few days only. You can visit now:
Red Feline Club.

I will be posting more articles in the site during the coming days. Each article is the first page of a series of posts around all the different subjects we covered back in the day and those that I will be covering now. I plan to update the site every week. Lots of work, I know, but it’s worth it. I firmly believe that we had a great members site before and a lot of people are missing it.

There’s also a plan to release a special version of Martyr or The Death of St Eulalia. A compilation of the torture scenes, including those that did not appear in the film itself but were shot. It will be released as a Making Of movie titled something like The Martyrdom of Camille. The torture scenes will be longer, without intercuts of any kind, just straight forward from the beginning to the nasty end.