A young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.
Director Julian Richards told that the script was originally written more than 10 years ago. It was at the time of SAW and "torture porn" as the main keyword. That version has been rewritten in the meantime to better adapt to changes in audience appreciation. The director considered this a logical consequence of the post-MeToo era we live in nowadays.
Plot:The California Kid follows a sadistic small-town sheriff who has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. A deranged, desert town sheriff has a murderous habit or forcing speeders to their deaths, until a young man with a souped-up hotrod arrives to possibly end it. Martin Sheen is at his most "James Dean-ish" and Vic Morrow at his most [...]
Plot:There's plethora of reasons why to watch Rage of a Ninja, but you only need one - it was directed by Godfrey Ho! ;) The bizarre story centres around an evil ninja trying to get his hands on a manual that will somehow make him 'The Ultimate Ninja'. Steve, who comes home one night to find his wife having intimate relations with a young stud. Understandably none too impressed with this, Steve pr [...]
Inspirational proof of concept film that thrives on ambitionPlot:If you were murdered but given a second chance, a chance to redeem yourself and it means taking the lives of those who took yours... Would you do it?“REDEEM The Beginning” came from wanting to make a film about a female hero that people felt authentic and true and with the focus on making REDEEM an International production. But e [...]
Brutal revenge or letting go and breaking the cycle of violence? In feudal Japan, village senior is killed out of revenge by a youthful samurai. His blind daughter agrees to be escorted to the nearest safe place while she has a dilemma - either to revenge her father or to cut a cycle of revenge.**Akiko Izumitani** is a female director/writer born and raised in Japan, now based in Los Angeles. As a [...]
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic landscape. In the future, a deserted city and its residents struggle to survive. It doesn't much feel like Halloween, and yet four young trick-or-treaters - a Ghost, a Devil, a Grim Reaper and a Witch - make their way through the night, door to door and house by house, gathering up an unlikely harvest of kindness amid the devastated wreckage of society's coll [...]
Definitely Dead (2012) - A young woman making her weary way through life as a saloon whoreDefinitely Dead (2012) tells the tale of Lex, a young woman making her weary way through life as a saloon whore in the small town of Dead's End. One morning though, she wakes up next to an elderly costumer who has passed away during the night leaving her a heap of trouble. Soon her colleague and rival Nellie [...]