The New Times meet The Old

Crux Extrema I is back on the editing table while Pygmalion got a postponement because a sudden film festival invitation opened up a new set of possibilities for a bigger promotion, but the postponement is only for a few weeks, the release is still on the works but with more going into it.

In Crux Extrema I the new meets the old. A contemporary story with medieval elements, which makes it a very intriguing movie to watch… unless of course you have an aversion to Tattoos, which will make this film unwatchable for you regardless of how extremely hot it is.

Dani goes through a lot of exciting things, she says they are very exciting for her, even if they are very painful, extremely uncomfortable, absolutely medieval, pretty weird, and so on. She gets beaten, whipped, scourged, pricked and beaten and whipped and scourged some more. All of it on top of the wheel’s rim. It’s interesting to see that Jac has Dani in many different positions and situations on the same devilish apparatus of pain. This is the first movie in the three part series Crux Extrema. Three different stories all with a beginning, an end and a unique plot.

The plan is to release the first one at the end of September. A second one is going into production next week and not too much later the third and final one. The second and third films should be in the can and in post production by the end of September.

After that production work is done, a new series of feature films will begin, more mainstream films, like Casa de Fieras (Menagerie) based on Jekyll and Hyde, and another De Sade inspired story La Femme De Chambre. In the meantime, and before September is over, Amy will be done with the production of her new film, Rucker. I got word that for the next few weeks Amy will be unavailable… I know she’ll do an amazing job, and we’ll be anxiously waiting to hear from her.

And we can’t forget Monxa Mala, our number one bestseller still, which will continue to reign for at least two more months.

I love it! It’s Margot! Reine Margot herself, the film historian with the big brain who finally decides to join us. Congratulations, you’re exactly the type of person who would know a film like this. You should play trivia with us again, I know you’d be good at it.

Ralphus

I’ll be happy to play trivia once in a while, if I know the film in question.

Lucio Fulci was an early inspiration to Jac, after he saw a couple of his movies way back in the late sixties, early seventies, one of those movies was Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (Lizard in a woman skin) from 1971 where there’s a lot of nudity and lesbian sex. But one that hit the mark for him was Beatrice Cenci, about a young Roman noblewoman who murdered her father, Count Francesco. This young woman was tortured and later beheaded. The title in English baffles me Conspiracy of Torture

That Fulci film and Mario Bava’s The Whip and The Body, with Christopher Lee, set the young impressionable filmmaker-to-be on the road to sadistic movies. Jac didn’t care much for Fulci’s later zombie movies. A couple of his westerns were also very cool.

I was first exposed to Fulci when I was in NY with Jac, we visited a VHS rental place and he got a copy of Demonia, he was intrigued by the cover and the description of crucified nuns. That was his thing, and I already got a taste of the whip and the cross. We even shot a couple of videos on VHS where I’m tortured and crucified.

But I’m digressing. Some Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror films were truly ahead of their time in all GIMP matters and were a good source for inspiration. And of course, there were all those gladiator, Hercules, crucified chicks, afternoon at the movies extravaganza that Jac could not miss, even if he had to kill and then resurrect a fly to get the money for his ticket. True story.

When Jac first began to work with Camille, in what we now call The Via Crucis of Camille series, one scene of Beatrice Cenci sneaked into his head, perhaps unconsciously.

I got word that The Via Crucis of Camille series and other analogue films are now going though a process of getting upgraded into HD films to then go to a streaming platform. We’re adjusting old productions to the new times. More news and comments later.

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