The sound mix of JUSTINE is DONE!
The sound mix of JUSTINE is DONE!, so are the subtitles and hard of hearing captions. We’ll have the official release in a few days, as soon as the assets are up in the stores. It takes a couple of days to upload everything. So the release of this highly anticipated film is at hand! We’ll notify all our supporters of when they can download and when they can receive their DVDs and perks! So, this is it, JUSTINE is finally here!
And it will be over unannounced, It will happen the very moment JUSTINE is ready to be sold. So take advantage while you can. Normally, when we have a new release we don’t have any special sales for months, many, many months. So this is a unique opportunity to get those titles you are so curious about but are not willing to spend the money yet.
There’s a very interesting article written by our own Erix Antoine, the actor/director who played a role in Dead But Dreaming. He gives us an account of his experience during the shooting of the scene when Mila is crucified. It’s great reading, humorous and full of interesting details, I quote:
Mila is tied to the cross, she struggles, whimpers. All very believably. Pablo grabs the nail and the hammer. He places the nail in his fist. He rests it against Mila’s hand. He brings down the hammer; ‘HAAAHH!!!’ The hammer clinks against the nail, a sound that echoes throughout the field. Mila lets out an ear-piercing and very convincing shriek of horror and pain, which also echoes throughout the field. Cut. It is then that we notice a trickle of blood emanating from Mila’s palm. Not stage blood, mind you, real blood. She glances at her hand quizzically, almost as if to say: “Well, will you look at that?”
Read the whole article here: And This Is But A Taste Of How DEAD BUT DREAMING Was Made
https://erixantoine.wordpress.com/2…ut-a-taste-of-how-dead-but-dreaming-was-made/
Finally, Justine looks good. Public whippings are just my thing…and this one looks like it’ll have more and better ones than previous films by the company. I wish I’d contributed early on to the crowd funding campaign…I was still on the fence then because I wasn’t sure if all the scenes were going to feature Jac Avila as the torturer or not. Regardless…it will probably make me part with my money for full price without regret.
Dr Yuya
If you want to see the greatest, the most intense, visceral, prolonged, public whipping scene ever in a mainstream movie, well, you must part with your money at full price. I sincerely belief that the full price will be actually too low for such a great movie. If it was I who decides how much people should pay for this movie, I would go back to our beginnings, when Red Feline on the Cross went for 70 bucks, yes seven zero, but no, I don’t make those kind of decisions, Jac and Amy do, so the normal price will be somewhere in the range of 35, half that, for an amazingly high production values film.
The comment: I wasn’t sure if all the scenes were going to feature Jac Avila as the torturer or not makes me think a lot. Why is it that there’s that fixation in some people? I mentioned many times that all those movies Jac and Carmen made in the way back, the Via Crucis of Camille movies, are not exactly a sample of Jac’s acting and prowess as a torturer. He was not acting at all. In fact he was more concentrated in looking at Camille and her performance. No one complains about his acting in Barbazul, where he plays the main role:
Barbazul (a contraction of Barba Azul, Bluebeard in Spanish) is interpreted by Jac Avila, terrifying to perfection, mixing Landru by his seductions (charming his prey), with an Albert DeSalvo side (the Boston Strangler, who killed a dozen women during the years 1962/1964). He manages to give body to a poor soul, after all, whose life is centered in habits. routines as when he uses the same procedure when seducing each woman.
From a review of Barbazul (2012) by Philippe Chouvel. Read the English translation HERE
http://pachamamafilms.com/2014/review-of-barbazul-by-philippe-chouvel/
One film where he’s the main torturer is our second best seller of these past few years. Le Marquis de la Croix, second to Maleficarum, where he doesn’t act at all. For his role in Le Marquis de la Croix he was awarded Best Performance, and a critic said that:
As the Marquis, Jac Avila himself clearly takes pride in his handiwork and, thus, convinces us that he does, indeed, “delight in what (he) is addicted to”. He “removes the veils of modesty”, relishing his role for what it offers.
We might see another performance film featuring Jac and Mila again in the foreseeable future.
Does Jac torture anyone in JUSTINE? YES, all three of them! And he does it with great pleasure. Justine says at one point: For libertinaje, libertinaje alone, a passion he carries to its extremes. Rodin himself says at one point I torture you, all my creatures, when I have nothing better to do
So, that’s that for now. I’m now waiting to hear that all the assets are up and JUSTINE is available to the public. It will happen any moment now and at that very moment our END OF SUMMER SALE! 35% OFF will be OVER for a very long time. There might be a different pricing all together for all our products. Will they be higher? Lower? I don’t know. I only heard that the pricing of our movies is now under study and it will definitely change after JUSTINE is released. SO, go over our stores and take advantage of that END OF SUMMER SALE! 35% DISCOUNT if you buy more than two movies!
