As the month of April approaches its end, so does the production of Deep Cover Mole. This past week the tireless Red Feline Team got together for, again, only two days of production, that seems to be the standard lately. There’s always something happening; either someone becomes satanic, or it’s a Good Friday, like the week before, or the star of the film just runs into something or other that prevents her from getting to the set to be thoroughly tortured.
Fortunately the shooting days of the previous and this past week were very productive. Jac took Mila into a world of renewed pain, in many different ways, completing, as of this writing, 8 sequences of the film and setting things up for the 9th.
Each of those sequences put on display one or two ghastly tortures, one more horrifying than the previous one and each of those dreadful torments leading to the final hair rising and indescribable madness which is fast approaching but not fast enough.
One comment Jac had when he sent the pictures, lots of them, is that when he was going through all the material to select the and organize the shots for the film, all 334 minutes of selected material, he thought that:
Mila’s performance under the whip is nothing short of a Dance of Pain. She looks so beautiful, of course, and her beauty and expressive face and body are simply divine.
I totally believe him!!
The plan as of now is to complete the production of Deep Cover Mole next week. Jac needs two days, three at the most to finish it and he has to get ready for what is coming his way after he’s done with the film.
He mentioned that Dani, as the new associate producer for at least three films, set up for the two of them to travel to a far away city, all expenses paid by the authorities of said city, to look at possible locations for a new movie. The city is a few hours away by car and they will spend three days in the area looking at what the city and its surroundings have to offer. It’s in the middle of the tropics, a few kilometers away from the location where Amy and Jac shot Perils of Jane.
DougiePXWent to the website and didn’t find Agent Honey Trap. When will it be available?
The production of Agent Honey Trap was recently completed. The film is in post production now, along with other two new films.
I’ll be announcing the progress of those productions as always.
Eda Chang (Asiangirl342333).I have been away for a number of years and just returned to say hello and wish my fellow GIMPers well.
I noticed this post: ” There’s even a script by Eda Chang as a possibility.” Interesting. Was not aware of that. I discussed a possible script with Amy probably 5 years ago but never heard more. I wonder if that is the one referenced.
Hello Eda, very glad to have you back!
Unfortunately it was more than 5 years ago. Amy moved back to the US at the very end of 2015, that’s almost 7 years ago, time flies and we’re getting old.
If I’m not mistaken Amy and Jac were discussing your script just before they produced Dead But Dreaming, that would be in 2012, right after Maleficarum was release. That makes it 10 years… where did time go?
As you know, after Dead But Dreaming they produced the big features Olalla, Pygmalion and Justine.
The films I was discussing in previous posts are Agent Honey Trap and Deep Cover Mole, a two part project where Dani and Mila suffer the consequences of their misdeeds.
These two films are the small kind. Jac returned to make those after Amy left for the US.
I believe your script required the big production treatment. Again, I’m very glad you are back!
Many projects are on the waiting list and Jac is recruiting Mila to help with the post production. That is after they are done with the production of Deep Cover Mole.
Red Feline Pictures and Pachamama Films will both go into a month of re-organization for the work of the rest of the year and even beyond. With Deep Cover Mole, the cycle of small productions that began with CruXtreme I will come to an ed and a new cycle of big productions will begin with either La Femme De Chambre or 69 Année Érotique. At least that’s Jac’s intention and I, and the rest of us in the production company, will know soon what are the new plans.
La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:34 pm
One comment Jac had when he sent the pictures, lots of them, is that when he was going through all the material to select the and organize the shots for the film, all 334 minutes of selected material, he thought that:
Mila’s performance under the whip is nothing short of a Dance of Pain. She looks so beautiful, of course, and her beauty and expressive face and body are simply divine.
I agree with Jac as to Mila's body and performances. However, the ink just cancels all that. Once ink rears its head, the beauty of the body and the dancing is gone for me. Eventually I'll will not be able to see films or clips. I know all the arguments pro ink: freedom of expression (nullified when everyone has ink on his/her body); aesthetics (not really, some ink is just lame); it's my body, I do what I want (fair enough, but don't expect everybody to fawn over it and don't be offended if not accepted, just tolerated), and a list of other etcs. End of rant, I've said all this before and it will not change a culture tsunami. So, I'll just run towards the hills and close my eyes.
Another week has passed and Jac got closer to complete the production of Deep Cover Mole, unfortunately Mila was sick on Wednesday; but she was able to show up on Thursday to continue her suffering under increasingly heavy torture, which made Jac very happy.
The plan was to finish the film the next day, Friday, but Mila had what she described as a decaida, which means that her cold, or whatever it is she had, was back and so the shooting was postponed to Wednesday of next week. It will be the last day of shooting for this film, unless Jac wants Mila to suffer a lot more.
On Thursday the tireless but sometimes sick team worked on the transition from the 9th to the 10th sequence, with plenty of shots of two different nasty tortures. Friday was going to be totally dedicated to the final sequence of the film with the intention to celebrate in good form after they were done, as they normally do when they wrap a film. They were already having some good Havana Club Añejo Rum on ice.
Jac was looking forward to Friday, not only because The Naughty Threesome was going to finish the shooting of the new film, but because Jac had a dinner date for that evening with a very, very pretty lady. None of it happened. Big let down for the man. Both events were postponed.
Jac was/is already planning the month of May, which, incidentally, is Amy’s month, her birthday is on the 3rd.
Jac’s plan for May is to work in many fronts. He wants to begin the pre-production of two or three films. This work involves transforming the set, changing the floors, painting some rooms, moving things around, dismantling the dungeon where all the most recent films took place, beginning with Mila A La Croix and Monxa Mala and culminating with Deep Cover Mole, that’s a total of 10 films plus all the testing and try outs for Monxa Mala, many of them, which are little films in themselves.
With the completion of Deep Cover Mole, the new cycle of the two or three cast and crew movie making will come to an end.
Red Feline Pictures and Pachamama Films, which are almost the same but they are not, will turned their full time attention to big production value feature films, which includes La Femme De Chambre if it happens, there are some doubts about that film for some reason.
Most of the work for the rest of this year will go to the production of 69 Anée Érotique, Aventura and Maleficarum Excruciati. It will involve a fundraising campaign for Maleficarum Excruciati because it is a very expensive proposition which, from what I heard, it involves an amazing BATS scene where two of the protagonist will have a fiery end. The film will have many incredible torture scenes involving very elaborate props, a variety of nasty torture instruments, a large cast and great locations. The production of Maleficarum Excruciati might involve traveling to a different city, near to where part of Olalla was shot, to get the nice colonial look the film needs. That city was visited by Amy and Jac before, where they took a bunch of pictures because it was a possible location for some films.
As part of the work, Jac and Dani will be traveling in the middle of May to Caranavi to look at locations for Aventura and maybe some other film. Caranavi is in the tropics.
I have a nice anecdote about this area. Way back in ’94 Jac and Camille decided to hitch their way up to Alto Beni, the same area where years later Jac would work in the now award winning documentary he worked on in 2016 though 2018 about the Jaguars, but that’s another story.
In ’94 Jac and Camille were on the road to that Palos Blancos, Alto Beni, a 20 hour trip by car, and they were hitching. At one point they had to wait until the dirt road was cleared because there were some serious landslides.
Once the road was cleared, they were on their way. The pickup truck that picked up the couple took them part of the way and left them in the area known as Caranavi, which in Jac’s view was not very pretty, in fact it was ugly, but it was late afternoon so they decided to camp there for the night.
They very young looking couple looked for a place near the river, but the river front was full of giant spiders and snakes, not camping friendly at all, so they walked away from the river and they found a nice flat terrain somewhere between the river and the mountainous jungle where they set up their tent.
Their camp was near the town. There were some competing sounds going on that night. At one end, an evangelical church with incredibly noisy singing, almost next to it a discotheque with equally noisy music and then, to top it all, the bugs and frogs of the night celebrating with incredibly loud chirping. Eventually the sexy couple managed to go to sleep, only to be woken up in the morning by a guy screaming his head off. Get out! Get out! Get out!… the man, a young soldier, screamed at them in total urgency and panic.
Camille and Jac practically jumped out of the tent as the soldier proceeded to pull the tent away and to push both of them out of their camping area, which was a landing strip! An airplane, a Cessna, was just about to land, on top of them… if it wasn’t for the soldier.
Jac took a picture of the landing plane.
After that harrowing experience and some coffee in the ugly town, Jac and Camille were on their way to Palos Blancos, where they were going to spend a couple of days before returning home by bus, a 20 hr trip plus. They sat in the back of the bus, the guy next to them had a big wicker basket full of …. live snakes.
Dani and Jac will be heading to that famous area, all expenses paid by the office of tourism of the zone, to see what they have to offer. A three day excursion into the tropics, the first trip for Jac since his travels to Zurich, back in 2019, where he went to show his NatGeo film, Outbreak, about an epidemic, to an audience of experts in epidemics. During the discussions after the screening Jac was asked if he thought anything like what is in the film could ever happen again. Jac responded, it’s not a matter of if, but when and I think it will be happening soon.
One year later, to the date, Jac went into lockdown, along with the rest of Bolivia, joining the rest of the world because the worst planetary pandemic in recent history.
The Caranavi Palos Blancos adventure was sometime before the famous couple create Red Feline Pictures and around the time they started doing some rehearsals for a crucifixion. I think they shot one of the videos during that trip.
The month of May will be the beginning of a new cycle of work, with at lest 6 feature films planned to be produced, as well as 2 TV series and 3 documentaries. There are eleven films, either completed or in post production, on the line to be released during the year and beyond, three of those films theatrically. So… as scary as it sounds, that’s a lot of work ahead for our team. Ah, and there’s plenty of room for some improvisation as well. Like, what if Jac decides to torture Dani, in the jungle, during their three day trip… just to test the locations… who knows.
And this month marks the Ten Year Anniversary of Maleficarum having a theatrical release.
I posted on the GIMP site back then a nice and long post about it, which might be in the archives, but it used to be in our site before we run into problems. I reposted it there yesterday, as part of my work of rebuilding the site and I thought it would be good I share it as well to mark the anniversary and to celebrate Amy who is having fun today.
So, without further due, here it is:
Maleficarum goes mainstream
When one sits at a mall and sees TV screens all over the place showing the movies playing in the 20 screening rooms there, one knows that the movies in those screens are all mainstream and mostly Hollywood. So…
It was Tuesday the 8th, a day after the premiere, the city was paralysed by a strike and blockade of the transport people who want to do whatever they want, when Amy and Jac decided to walk all the way to the mall where Maleficarum was scheduled to open on the 10th (today) Off they went with copies of the movie, to deliver them to the theater, the reason for their long, very long, over an hour walk there. Downhill, luckily. The problem was the return, uphill.. but that’s another story for another time, maybe.
It was a sunny and pleasant day. The advantage of not having cars ruining the city is that the air is better, there’s no noise pollution, … it’s simply nice.
So, after the long walk the couple arrived to deliver the film. The first thing they noticed is the big banner of [color=#BF8040]Maleficarum[/color] along side banners of the Hollywood movies like The Avengers and Lady in Black.
Jac delivered the copies of the film at the office and a woman waiting for someone asks: Are you the filmmaker that made that movie? She requests info, e mail, website address…she wants to learn more, she wants to see the film.
After delivering the movie, Amy and Jac decided to have some coffee in one of the coffee places in the mall, there are three or four of them so, they sit at a nice table to have their coffee. Expresso for Amy, Cappuccino for Jac. They are having their coffee when they hear a recognizable scream. Is Amy, screaming at the top of her lungs as the flames reach her face. It is the trailer of Maleficarum on the many screens at the mall, in all three stories of stores, shops, restaurants, supermarkets and even a giant screen at the entrance of the mall. The mall is giant, it’s aptly named MegaCenter for its bigness, the biggest in Bolivia and some say most of South America.
And there it is, Amy being tortured and raped, Mila Branded, Both whipped and beaten and even making out … everyone can see. If that’s not mainstream I don’t know what it is.
There was a PREMIERE.
Jac thought he might have to cancel it because there was no way of going anywhere except by walking and a lot of the invited press and guests were calling to tell that they could not make it. Jac had some discussions with the person in charge at the movie theater and decided to proceed with the premiere but he managed to convince the theater that all the guests who could not make it were going to be able to use their invitations the day of the opening.
In his heart of hearths Jac braced himself hoping that some people might make it to the premiere.
There he was, waiting at the theater, talking to Amy and Beto at a table when the first people started to trickle in. But Mila wasn’t there yet. Oh the stress. At one point Jac asked Miguel to take some pictures when suddenly Mila appeared coming down the escalators, all dressed up. So Amy, Mila and Jac stood in front of the banner and Miguel started taking pictures, when all of a sudden a lot of people pulled out their phones, iPhones, cameras and voila, it looked like Hollywood with dozens of photographers taking pictures of the beautiful stars and the director. Flashes here, flashes there, crowds gathering to see what the big deal was and the big deal was the two stars of the movie and the director attracting the photographers.
It was clear, at that moment, that the crowd gathering at the theater were there for Maleficarum, and it was a large crowd. There was space for 250 people in the screening room and before that moment everybody thought that it was going to be empty… but no… it filled up and to our people’s amazement some of the actors brought their parents, grand parents and even some children… yes, a couple of kids were there for the show and THEY WERE LET IN!…
Amy was tense, so was Jac and not to mention Mila who had been under a lot of stress just thinking that a lot of her friends and family were going to see her like they never saw her before… naked.
The lights went out, the film began. Everyone was quiet. And there it was…. the movie, playing to a large audience and on a big screen and it looked good, really good.
What can be said? It was wonderful. When the film ended and the crowd broke in a big applause Jac knew he didn’t have to worry anymore, Amy had a huge smile and Mila was amazingly relieved. The crew and cast present were certainly proud, there were smiles all over the place.
Mila’s sister was very proud of her and told her so. Mila was beaming, so was Amy. As people left the screening room they walked up to Jac and Amy who could no longer move as people wanted to shake their hands to congratulate them for a job well done.
Later that night a few of the crew and cast plus a couple of friends went to Jac and Amy’s house for a little get together that turned into a drinking party.
The comments after the screening were great. One woman said that Maleficarum dwarfed The Passion of the Christ and Saw, that it was veeeeeery strong. The most used terms were “powerful” “courageous” “daring” and so on. There are no negative comments… yet. We’re expecting them to come from the critics.
The entire cast is very, very proud of being part of this movie. That was Jac’s worry, that they were going to feel used or something. But no, they are taking their friends and relatives to the big opening today.
Today is the big opening in three cities, four screens and at all kinds of hours, plenty of chance for anyone to see it. It’s the big day for Maleficarum, one no one in our world foresaw. Maleficarum went mainstream and we’re proud of it. Everyone can anticipate the reception to Barbazul and Dead But Dreaming now.
And of course, there’s the press. We’re recieving an acceptable coverage, althought a bit slow in coming. There are some interviews on TV, some news reports, and so on. Not a lot of radio yet. The interviews are all different. The first one, that you all saw already, was short and funny.
Ralphus: Found this new video on Amy’s channel on YouTube. It’s Jac and Amy being interviewed in Spanish by a blonde TV hostess showing lots of cleavage who botches Amy’s name and towers over both of them because she’s wearing big spiked heels. I couldn’t understand a word of it except when they said the name “Maleficarum” about a dozen times. You get to see the Spanish language trailer for the movie while they’re being interviewed.
BTW, the Spanish captions over top of the trailer read: More than one hundred thousand women were condemned, tortured and executed by the Inquisition in Europe and the Americas …
… this is the story of two of them.
Thank you, Google Translate!
Now Jac and Amy, you found Mila, who had never acted before, while she was working in a doctor’s office. I’ve just discovered the star of your next movie, and she’s already got experience on camera! I think you need to sign up the bimbette in the pink dress!
Well, I don’t think she has the talent we need. But we expect a lot of people to come knocking on our doors for a juicy role in one of our productions.
After that interview Jac and Amy had a second one, that was actually better. Amy was a bit more awake and could discuss the movie rather than respond to questions with monosyllables.
The funny part of this interview is that the host of the program had a coughing fit every time Jac was answering some question, and it was distracting and sometimes upsetting, specially for Beto who could not hear his name mentioned because of the cough. But it was a better interview.
There was also a third interview in a Catholic TV station, the host is apparently a priest, but it was the best interview before the premiere. It happened the day of the premiere. The questions were nice, the Maleficarum clip they requested in advance was actually re-edited so the bit where Mila and Amy are making out is not shown, but the beatings, burning, etc, are. Go figure.
This time there were four being interviewed. Jac, Amy, Mila (her first interview ever) and Eric the torturer.
It was good, specially because the discussion centered on the inquisition itself. Good one.
There are also some interesting written press items, appearing one at a time, which is good because the coverage will continue throughout the week and the next. More TV interviews will be appearing today, tomorrow, and for the rest of the week. We’re getting a lot of attention, that’s for sure. This in one of the reports.
This period of time, this crazy period of time, will be over in a couple of weeks. The film won’t be playing more than two weeks, that’s a certainty. The places where it is playing are commercial movie houses with tight programming, lots of new releases, so we are given the same treatment as Hollywood. The only thing that can change that is if there’s a massive response to the movie which doesn’t normally happens here, most people wait for the pirate DVD, sad to say.
John Galt: Margot: Thanks for another enjoyable post with illustrations. I always like hearing the “inside scoop” on the doings of Red Feline, past, present and future. I am very interested in hearing about the reaction to the theatrical release of Maleficarum.
I personally think it was a good idea for JJ to edit the movie for theatrical release for just the reasons you mentioned. So my question is, when it comes to ordering the movie in the future, will there be a “GIMP Release” and a “General Audience Release?” There will definitely be folks who want the all-torture all-the-time approach (most of the readers of this forum, I suspect), but surely there will be others who want the more tightly edited version. Please be sure to clarify which version is which. It was also pretty cool to read that Ralphus is getting his own re-edited fire scenes.
I will refrain from weighing in on the reality vs fantasy discussion, except to say that I’m sure it resembles a sliding scale with extremes that are well-defined but a lengthy continuum that is highly subjective. Logically, though, any fantasy that is acted out has become a reality to a certain extent simply by virtue of having been done. The dividing line is all in the mind.
The “Theatrical” version of the movie will be released as well and it will be clearly noted in our stores. It will be made available in larger markets like Amazon.com, where the original version won’t be available.
The ‘fantasy vs reality’ discussion will have to be on hold for the time being. I have a lot to say but today I’m in a rush to get this out and get our promotion work for the movie done. We’re having a fantastic time and stressed filled as well. But that’s normal in our kind of work.
I’ll have a lot to say when the first reviews, if any, start coming in. That’s it for now.
La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 3:12 pm
We're celebrating Amy's Birthday Today!
And this month marks the Ten Year Anniversary of Maleficarum having a theatrical release.
I posted on the GIMP site back then a nice and long post about it, which might be in the archives, but it used to be in our site before we run into problems. I reposted it there yesterday, as part of my work of rebuilding the site and I thought it would be good I share it as well to mark the anniversary and to celebrate Amy who is having fun today.
So, without further due, here it is...
Happy Belated Birthday Amy! She's done so much for us and our World...
And thank you for the recap of the Maleficarum theatrical release, it's always good to hear what an event was like, and glad it went well and is a happy memory.
La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:00 pm. . . Camille and Jac practically jumped out of the tent as the soldier proceeded to pull the tent away and to push both of them out of their camping area, which was a landing strip! An airplane, a Cessna, was just about to land, on top of them… if it wasn’t for the soldier.
Jac took a picture of the landing plane.
That's not a Cessna, it's a Beechcraft. A V-tail Bonanza, to be precise.
La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:00 pm. . . Camille and Jac practically jumped out of the tent as the soldier proceeded to pull the tent away and to push both of them out of their camping area, which was a landing strip! An airplane, a Cessna, was just about to land, on top of them… if it wasn’t for the soldier.
Jac took a picture of the landing plane.
That's not a Cessna, it's a Beechcraft. A V-tail Bonanza, to be precise.
I stand corrected, thank you.
To be honest, I can't tell the difference between cars, imagine little planes or big planes or boats... I flew a few times in those little crafts. At one time the engine stopped in mid air, the pilot had to stick his head out the window to make it work again. Scary.
In '96 we went to shoot a documentary and flew in what I would call, wrongly, a Cessna. What is it?
It finally happened! And it only took one day, on Wednesday, to complete the production of Deep Cover Mole with an all out electrifying assault on Mila’s naked body.
Mila shook, twisted and shook again as the power of a few thousand volts travelled up and down her body, burning her insides and sending sparks from the wires and through the barbed wired they were attached to, casting a glow of blue and yellow light in the otherwise tenebrous dungeon.
That’s another film in the can, as they say in the biz. The production slate in Jac’s whiteboard is now empty. So is the pre-production slate, although there will be some movement for one of the projects next week, with a trip to the tropics, to check locations, and Erix’ promise to deliver his script for Aventura by the end of the week. Jac the scriptwriter also promised, to Jac the producer, to deliver the final draft of 69 Année Érotique before the end of the month.
It appears that the only person to go on the trip to the tropics is Dani for reasons I still have to learn about. We’ll see how that goes.
Jac has already selected and organized all the shots for Deep Cover Mole and he has a total of 6 hrs and 49 minutes worth of excellent material. Those are the actual shots that have to be edited down to a 90 minute film, the actual footage is over 10 hrs.
I mentioned before that there are a bunch of films in the post production timeline, four of those films are recent productions, the other four of are old films that either are not completed, like 7 Days on The Cross 5, or that Jac is doing something extra with them, like a film with all the torture footage from Martyr.
On top of that, Jac might work on three or four videos dedicated to the Training of Camille. That’s a lot of post production work at hand.
If we count the three films to have theatrical releases this year, Pygmalion, Rucker and the awards winning doc about the jaguars, the one Jac shot in the Madidi, and the other films in development, like Maleficarum Excruciati, we have something like 15 films in the works.
As I was preparing this post, the Most Active Threesome of Pain were supposed to get together for a meeting to sort out the future, but Mila couldn’t make it so it came down to just Jac and Dani who discussed a bit of the what is to come.
Jac updated Dani on the status of 69 Année Érotique and as he was telling her the details of it she got more and more enthusiastic and said We have to make this film right away!
There was some discussion about Maleficarum Excruciti and La Femme De Chambre as well.
Beginning next week, on Wednesday, to be exact, the Daring Threesome will begin the process of dismantling the set used during the last 4 years for 9 feature films and a few ‘rehearsal’ little movies and the building of the new set for at least two feature films will commence.
I can say that the rest of this month will be crucial in many ways for the future of our cruel but naughty and sexy enterprise. I’m sure that before the end of the month we’ll know what movie is going to start production next and when. I can hardly wait.
Margot wrote: I mentioned before that there are a bunch of films in the post production timeline, four of those films are recent productions, the other four of are old films that either are not completed, like 7 Days on The Cross 5, or that Jac is doing something extra with them, like a film with all the torture footage from Martyr.
On top of that, Jac might work on three or four videos dedicated to the Training of Camille. That’s a lot of post production work at hand.
I'm sure that Jac is the only person who can possibly do post-production, but it seems to me that if you all are interested in generating revenue from 12 films that are "in the can"--not to mention pleasing your audience--getting them out of the can and onto download or DVD would make sense. Sure, I get it that it's a LOT more fun for Jac to play with the girls some more, and that's fine. But post is not necessarily a task that MUST be done my the AUTEUR. Maybe if there was a rule in the company that Jac could not start any new film until he had completed post on 4 existing ones, he would be more motivated either to work on them or find someone else who could do it.
