Hello everybody I'm Rick the director of this film. The official site is getting a major facelift and that's why it's down. We've received about a dozen distribution offers for this film but we have not decided which company we want to go with yet. This is my first feature as a director, I've worked on a few (some good some really bad) so I don't want my first film to end up on the last page of some download only site. We are still undecided on who we are going with.
AnyTek ProdCo was a one "hit" wonder:
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0295919/
No wikipage for nothing.
I just wasn't aware that a Wiki was all that important. I'll remedy that shortly but yes we originally created AnyTek specifically for the film Kill Everyone.
Okay I wrote this film back in 2004-05. I was involved with a group of guys who really wanted to put out a no budget full feature and I got elected as writer. I'd written a bunch of shorts and written for a local public access show so I guess in their eyes I was the most experienced. I await the public access ribbing.
We voted on a genre and it was four votes for slasher and one vote for comedy. I voted comedy. So I started writing this slasher that I didn't want to write in the first place and I just couldn't resist adding a bunch of comedy to it because to me at least, slashers are pretty funny to begin with. To make a very long story short we tried to shoot this slasher/comedy with about 2000 bucks and the production completely fell apart. The script then sat on my desk as a coffee cup coaster for a couple years but people who had read it kept telling me it was hilarious and asking when I'd get around to making it.
Enter Cinematographer/director producer Michael. Mike had worked with me on some corporate stuff and suggested we take a crack at shooting Kill Everyone. The plan was he'd produce, I'd direct. We didn't go into it saying "We'll both do 35 jobs each," trust me on this.
So a week before we start shooting at the lake house (that we had only one month to use because it had just been sold), our lead actor quits because he found a "real job". This film was done on the super cheap and our male lead had volunteered his time so we were kind of screwed. I had already failed to complete this film once and I wasn't failing again so I decided to take the lead male role because I knew the script and we simply didn't have time to recast.
So now I'm writer/actor/director when all I really wanted to do was direct my film. Well I'm not Clint Eastwood and even though I tried I found it difficult to direct scenes that I was in so Mike became co-director. I also ended up dropping quite a bit of my own money into the film so the next thing you know I'm the writer/actor/director/co producer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Cx36DZyyM
How to not do a trailer:
- Dialog/soundtrack volumes @ 50/50 split. Uh... can't hardly hear sh!t of what people are saying.
- WTH is all that faux vignetting sh!t?
- IMHO, CUT THAT STATIC CR@P OUT!
- Learn the rule of thirds before your break it.
Fair enough.
We were getting close to the film's premiere, maybe a month or two away and we really needed a trailer to send out to friends on Facebook and other social media sites so we threw that trailer together with the original audio because the ADR and scoring wasn't completely finished yet. The loud music covers up the awful original audio. Yes I know this was totally bush league but the trailer generated quite a bit of interest and people started buying tickets so I guess it served it's purpose.
Mike could answer this better but The vignetting sh!t was because we had used a 35mm lens adapter and one of the lenses was a cheap piece of sh!t that caused a sh!tty vignette that I SWEAR TO YOU did not show up on the monitor during the shoot. So all of our wide shots had vignetting sh!t and we had no choice but to add vignetting sh!t to any scene we shot with that adapter. As soon as this was discovered we stopped using that lens but the damage was already done.
The static crap was my editor's idea and I wasn't a huge fan of it but we didn't have time to make a new trailer so we just went with it. I guess I'll take the hit on that one.
Before we shot this film I watched at least 100 mid to late 70's early 80's no to low budget slasher/exploitation films and I really wanted this film to resemble a no budget film of that era. I'm not talking about Friday the 13th or Halloween, lower that bar by about one or two million bucks. We purposely left the camera on the sticks most of the time and tried not to move the camera when it would have looked cooler to follow the action because that's the way it was in a lot of these older flicks. The thirds rule wasn't always adhered to in the old Italian, Spanish or American exploitation films so when someone ends up too far to one side or even dead center I honestly wasn't that concerned. I even expected negative feedback!
Surely there's something educational here that i just can't quite put my finger on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYoL1IV1pTE
Hmm...
http://www.youtube.com/user/moondropstudios#g/u
Yes the lesson is don't do drugs. The lead singer of that band took his own life due to drug addiction and I don't think he ever saw the completed music video.
Someone watch this for me:
http://hodownloadfilms.com/quality-kill-everyone-movie-downloads/
Alright! $10k!
http://www.mandy.com/1/film3.cfm?id=13581
A google search renders the most free downloads of this movie of any I've looked for so far.
There's a surprising number of outlets to provide both free and paid downloads.
If you find links to Kill Everyone downloads please pm me with links because we haven't authorized any of them.
Now regarding the Killer Film Festival, what don't you trust about it? We don't charge an entry fee for films and we have for the last 2 years given low budget indie film makers a venue to show their films. Last years Killer Film Fest cost both Mike and myself quite a bit of money to run, we actually lost money when everything was totaled up. We are not out to screw any film maker over because being low budget film makers ourselves we know what they have been through to get their film finished.
President's Day won Best Picture and R-Squared offered them distribution but the guys behind President's Day told us they already had a deal. Does that make us crooked? We'd love to offer a deal with Lion's Gate or Fox Searchlight but we are not really that far up the food chain.
If you have any other questions about the fest or Kill Everyone just message me or post here and I'll try to answer your questions as best as I possibly can..
Rick
