Check out this exploitation style trailer for Teenage Caligula and information on the feature length film The Theta Girl.
The five minute trailer titled Caligula Girl was a warm-up for the cast and crew of the upcoming feature length film called The Theta Girl. Both are shot in an exploitation style, with the trailer serving as a way to raise money for the feature via their GoFundMe account. Check out the press release and trailer below.
"Musician and Dangerous Minds-writer CHRIS BICKEL and DAVID AXE,
founder and editor of War Is Boring, are first-time filmmakers who have shot
the perfect throwback exploitation trailer as part of a funding campaign for
their upcoming feature film, THE THETA GIRL.
The five minute trailer for the film TEENAGE CALIGULA is a throwback to
Jack Hill-style gritty exploitation flicks with classic '70s style voiceover
narration. The trailer, produced for $150 and filmed over two weeks served as
an exercise to gear the cast and crew up for their feature production, THE
THETA GIRL, which will be shot in December.
THE THETA GIRL is a feature-length psychedelic thriller that pays homage to
1960s art films, 1970s revenge flicks and '80s slasher films. Shot entirely in
Columbia, South Carolina with regional talent, THE THETA GIRL is a bloody,
sexy, atmospheric labor of love.
THE THETA GIRL concerns a take-no-shit young woman, Gayce, who deals a
hallucinogenic drug called "theta," facilitating an audience for her
friends' all-girl rock band. When Gayce's friends are brutally murdered, she
must solve the mystery behind the murders and protect herself from the killer.
She discovers the connections between theta and the murders ... and learns a
terrifying truth. That the world -- indeed her whole reality -- is not as it
seems.
THE THETA GIRL is a psychedelic horror film in which all the "good
guys" are women and (most of) the bad guys are men. It's an existential
sex/drugs/rock'n'roll movie with buckets of blood, lots of writhing bodies and
a completely insane soundtrack. It'll pass the Bechdel Test.
Chris and David have ponied up $10,000 of their own money to make THE THETA
GIRL. But they need at least another $7,000 to pay the cast and crew. Today,
the filmmakers are launching a 40-day Go
Fund Me campaign. Rewards include copies of the film, featured extra roles
and even producer credits. Funders not only get sweet swag and, for some, a
chance to be in a movie -- in giving, they also become filmmakers themselves.
David wrote the script for THE THETA GIRL. Chris is directing and editing and pulling together an eclectic soundtrack of coldwave, femme punk, experimental noise, and swampgospel. The pair have indicated that a feature-length version of TEENAGE CALIGULA is their likely follow-up to THE THETA GIRL.
Principal photography begins in December for a release date in mid-2017. THE THETA GIRL is going to be great. Just how great ... is up to the film's funders."
David wrote the script for THE THETA GIRL. Chris is directing and editing and pulling together an eclectic soundtrack of coldwave, femme punk, experimental noise, and swampgospel. The pair have indicated that a feature-length version of TEENAGE CALIGULA is their likely follow-up to THE THETA GIRL.
Principal photography begins in December for a release date in mid-2017. THE THETA GIRL is going to be great. Just how great ... is up to the film's funders."