February
“February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white, but all shades between by turns.Nothing is sure.”
We’re ALREADY in the second month of 2025 and much is happening, much will happen and much will not happen at all. Is it like that every year? I guess it is, but this year is plenty troubling, both, in our micro cosmos as well as the world at large.
Is there a future? Am I too negative?
Well. I’m not enthusiastic about what I see happening everywhere and in our little microscopic corner of the world and yet we must go on with our lives, ready to confront all the chaos ahead. Because it will be chaotic, it already is.
How do we go about facing the future under those conditions? With creativity, good humor, common sense a lot of daring and a lot of amazing films like we always do.
We’re amazing, if I say so myself. There’s nothing in the world like us, really, and knowing that gives us the encouragement to go on creating new worlds.
Our most recent attempt to raise some funds for The Crucified Four movies is stuck in the twilight zone. That tells us something unpleasantly obvious, kind of tragic. There’s very little interest in this film series. How should we deal with that unavoidable fact?
That question is the subject of lengthy discussions between the director, the producer and even the editor, most of these debates take place later at night in bed or in the shower, or during long cardio walks every morning, with Rocky (the dog) going along and who has to be patient with the producer who tends to slow down and step up without coordinating or consulting with the busy dog.
Luckily these exchanges of ideas do not take place in the toilet, that time is used for something more productive, some kind of brain exercise, that’s the official version.
Should we cancel the pre production? The director asks the producer, hesitantly, knowing that maybe his boss? will just throw the project to the trash bin.
The producer doesn’t answer, he is distracted with some after thoughts of what he saw in the news that morning which disturbed him a lot. He saw Trump. Terrifying sight. It’s hard to understand such demonic outcome of events, all the prophesies turning into reality… but I digress.
The director insists, five or ten blocks later, so, should we cancel the pre production of The Crucified Four?
The producer looks at a pretty woman walking two beautiful yorkies, he smiles at the young woman who smiles back and says hello. The yorkies bark at Rocky furiously. Rocky ignores them completely, he’s busy smelling the latest news posted on the lamp posts, trees, walls, sidewalks of the block, every block has interesting news for him.
The director is annoyed at the producer who seems to be ignoring him completely. Well? He insists.
The producer thinks he is in love with the young woman and her dogs, or maybe he’s thinking that he fell in love so he can ignore the question that has been plaguing his mind for a while now.
We should keep the work going for now, he tells himself out loud so the director could hear, and see what happens until march. In the meantime we should complete the CruXbound films with Dani, Mila, Simonne and Ligia and get Erix film, Aventura, on its way to production.
That’s a lot of production work, for sure.
Here’s Simonne rehearsing a nasty scene for CruXbound IV. She is working in two versions of that movie.
The question from the annoyed director comes back. Will we be able to produce the most amazing stories ever brought to the big home screen?
The producer doesn’t answer, he’s too busy checking his wassap, it notified him of a message where Ligia shared a picture of herself during her performance singing Johnathan’s letter, in the musical Dracula. Guess who does Ligia play. If you answered Mina, you are right.
The question remains floating above the producer’s head. Can we do it? Can we produce the incredibly extreme series of 4 crucifixion films? He doesn’t answer. His silence is deafening, only Rocky can hear what’s behind the silence, he can smell it too.
On Saturday the 8th Jac and Erix went to the location where most of The Crucified Four films will be shot, if it happens, that is, and some sequences for Erix new film Aventura as well.
Erix was happy with the location for his movie. A secluded cabaña with a lot of space around for a bloody battle between 2 beautiful young women against seven, well armed, male attackers. That’s the same cabaña that the cast and crew of Dead But Dreaming used for a few days back in 2013. One of the rooms was occupied by Amy, Jac, Mila and Cortney, the other was used by the all male crew plus Erix.
Erix film, has different funding and budget, unlike The Crucified Four that apparently will depend on what we have at hand. We hope to sell a lot of our movies in the next couple of months to have enough cash. Unfortunately it’s not happening that way. Our sales are steady but not fantastic. So we will insist with the fundraising, for now.
Next week Jac will be negotiating the terms for the use of the location for all the films he wants to produce during the coming months. The plan is to shoot all four films beginning in April. Erix film will be shot in March.
He checked the terrain of the location he wants for the crucifixions. There will be four of them.
He walked to the edge from where he can get a good view of the place where the three martyrs suffered their crucifixion in Seditiosa. He thought he would find the three poles used during that film still in their place; but no, there was only one pole still standing and the terrain was greener, a lot greener.
Finding only one pole there meant that Jac has the freedom to create anything he wants for the four crucifixions he is envisioning in his head and developing in his script. They are extremely bloody, pretty horrible, horrendous, awful, terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, revolting, horrid, ghastly, gruesome and yet, poetic and beautiful.
The producer, the director, the editor and the entire cast and crew are totally committed to make those four movies and are hoping that the support the need will materialize in the next few days.
There’s a bet going around. The pragmatic producer who knows more about fundraising efforts said, during one of those lengthy cardio walks, that people are not interested in those films and that he would most likely put them on a shelf somewhere, where unlucky scripts go to die. The director, in the other hand, the one that enjoys working on those films where some beautiful woman suffer the demands of the script and his extreme views of them, said that there has to be interest on the films somewhere.
So they decided to place a bet. If the campaign raises 1,000 USD in the next 7 days, the director wins the bet and he will have the choice of having any of the actresses in his dungeon for 7 days. If no money comes in then the producer will decided whether to continue or not.
Help us make The Crucified Four films! And you can help the Director win his bet! All those who contribute 100 or more during the next 7 days will get an extra movie, one where the director enjoys torturing a beautiful actress! If he wins the bet that is.
We set up this campaign with a goal of $40,000 for ALL the FILMS. You can help us get those funds with contributions for as little as 25 USD.
- For a 25 USD contribution you’ll get ANY new film of your choice, when these new films are released. The regular price will be 35 USD or more.
- For a 100 USD you will get ANY FOUR new releases when they come out, including The Crucified Four movies. The regular price for 4 new movies will be around 150.
All contributions will help us move from one stage of the production to another faster. Please help if you can. Every donation makes a difference.
