A rather stout beginning post for 2013

The new year is underway, you must’ve noticed. Our team is rather lost without the pair that makes them tick. But their absence is for a good reason. They’re returning with the goodies and grand plans for a cascade of wonderfully gimpy productions.

There’s Amy’s next movie, Olalla, weird title, I know, it’s based on a Louis Stevenson novel, his first, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, which tells the story of a family of genetic vampires. It’s a cool story, it has a lot of GIMP, believe it or not, since Amy’s putting the story upside down.

There’s also the second part of that thrilling story, Dead But Dreaming, a more traditional vampire story that has a very good amount of GIMP in it. It is, after all, the child of Jac’s brain, who seems to have a hard time working on a story that has no GIMP in it.

And there’s more. So, I’ll go into the details of it all. Brace yourselves. First, a promo shot from Le Marquis de la Croix with a reminder that for every film you get from us, the possibility of us making another one gets stronger.

Thank you Bill K. for your wishes for the new year and your comment to my post. To reply to your question

May I ask what is the status on release date of “Dead But Dreaming”? I see VermeerWorks just says 2013

I will now elaborate.

Dead But Dreaming is still in post production. We don’t have a date for its release yet. It’s a far more complex movie than anything we did previously because of a lot of visual and sound special FX.

We consider Dead But Dreaming another breakthrough film. If Maleficarum made our audience grow many fold, we hope that Dead But Dreaming will reach even farther. As Ralphus pointed before, a vampire movie is a seller. A vampire movie with lots of GIMP is a better seller. A vampire movie trilogy with a lot of GIMP can sellnfor years to come. Right?

The production of Dead But Dreaming II will start sometime in May. The dry season in Bolivia. That’s because we have a lot of exterior scenes, one that involves a nasty crucifixion, set in 57 bc, and some set
building, or something like that. Details of which I do not posses because I’m not the script writer and nobody, except for Jac, has any idea of what he’s writing.

That second film will have our usual suspects, Amy, Mila, Vero and Jac on the leading roles. There will be some new faces as well, a totally different cast from the first DBD. Some faces will be recognized because they were in Maleficarum and one particular face that suffered the wrath of Barbazul.

Ralphus said The good news, however, is that don’t forget Amy Hesketh has future plans to bring one of Eda’s stories to the screen.

And he’s right. Eda’s story is in our production plans. In fact, it will happen this year, it’s one of the ambitious goals Amy and Jac have in store. I concur with A Canadian when he says that the spy film should be a worthwhile production.

However, there’s a bit of a wait for that project. When it gets the green light to go in production this forum will be the first to know. I can say that much.

We agree that a spy movie has a great potential, a spy movie with a couple of hot tortured female spies has even a greater potential, and so our philosophy goes. Before Maleficarum Agent X was our most popular movie, the best seller after its release and it kept going strong until Maleficarum sent it way back to second place. Agent X wasn’t a very elaborate movie, it was GIMP all the way, but very, very short story, girl gets captured, girl gets tortured, raped and tortured, whipped and water tortured, strung up and tortured and finally crucified. Something like that.

Eda’s story has a more intricate plot and Amy added some more intricasies to the story, and there’s more character development and so on. A more complex film. Still, it has to wait a bit.

So, to refresh your memory, a picture from Agent X.

There’s another bit of interesting news. Amy and Jac are reading, voraciously, D. Andersson’s books. So far Jac read Torture Tomb and now he’s deep into Raw Pain Max. Amy is reading Torture Tomb having a lot of fun with it. Jac’s first comment was. “Dean and I are soul mates“ or something to that effect. Amy thinks that the stories are totally doable. Now, that’s positive thinking. So, are there any plans for an adaptation of Andersson’s famed books? I guess that’s something that it will have to be discussed between the author and the producers. As far as I understand this, there’s a willingness on both sides.

Congratulations to Eda Chang for her new great story. Eda joined Ralphus and A Canadian commenting about “Amy’s possible interest a few years ago in filming one of my stories…”
As I just mentioned that story is, still, in our plans. Jac is going over and over it, Amy worked at it. So, on paper, it is there… well, actually not on paper, in the computer, but it is there.

Eda mentions that she wrote that story to be filmed in a small budget, like Agent X was. However, as Amy and Jac looked into Eda’s story, they actually made it grow into something that requieres a bit more of a budget and it needs more than one location. Thus, Eda’s story is more into the new the new way we’re working now, with bigger budget, more complex stories, more actors, etc, etc, … yes, like Maleficarum which is still running strong. If you didn’t get it, I don’t know what are you waiting for.

Amy and Jac will be back in Bolivia in less that ten days and our team will go into production mode. Everyone is very excited, psyched, to return to the set for more exciting movies. One reason we can do this, actually the main reason, is the support of our fans. We could not go on if our movies did not get an audience. It is because people buy our movies that we can make more. That’s the basic reason.

Jac was asked, during the premiere of Barbazul in La Paz, what was the secret to so many releases, when most filmmakers release one film every few years, we release two, three films in one year. Jac responded that he didn’t have any secret. It was simple. We make films, we sell them, we make more films. That’s all there is to it. So, the more we sell, the more we make. Like The Beatles song “and
in the end the love you get is equal to the love you give“.

In that spirit, I promote another film we have in our store:

So, there you have it. The latest of what we are up to now. I’ll have more interesting news when production of the new films start and I get all those nice pictures. We’re going to be releasing Barbazul soon. We’ll also release Specters of Blood Castle, remember that one?. Another film we’ll release is the movie version of the famed TV miniseries El Hombre de la luna. We’ll also also have the 25th anniversary release of Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare, with a multiple language menu. And don’t forget that sometime soon we’ll premier that next great GIMPY Vampires film: Dead But Dreaming.

So, there’s a lot of work for us ahead and we’d love to have you all along for the ride.

John Galt reacted to Amy’s post by saying in parts:

I am kind of looking forward to Dead But Dreaming because of the comments you made (way) earlier when the discussion revolved around torturing “to death” a victim who didn’t die. That sounds interesting, and I’m waiting to see what direction that takes in the upcoming movie.

That’s an interesting point since that particular premise opens a wide range of possibilities, thus the need to have a trilogy, since the possibilities are endless. Imagine Sherlock Holmes and his Nemesis. They can go on forever, right, even if each story does not dwell with their issues, but something else. Well. It’s something like that. Each film has it’s own main story, or plot, but this plot is underscore by the larger conflict, one that lives beyond each movie and gives more than one excuse to torture someone even after that someone has been killed.