Here we are on the set of TFO Productions’ next feature, BADASS MONSTER KILLER!

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Hey, here’s a few blurry, grainy iphone shots behind the scenes of the set of TFO Productions’ latest feature flick, BADASS MONSTER KILLER!

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Help us make our new movie by having a ridiculously fun time!

CRAZY-ASS VARIETY SHOW
featuring…
LIVE MUSIC!
featuring Barbarous Cock!
LIVE COMEDY!
featuring Keith Lowell Jensen and ICUP!
LIVE BURLESQUE!
featuring Stephanie Hyden and Sandahl Galbraith!
LIVE MAGIC!
featuring Ariel the Faerie-Magician!

Games, Prizes, Drink Specials and SOOOO Much more!

With your Host from RetroCrush.com, ROBERT BERRY!

Where: On The Y

670 Fulton Ave
Sacramento, CA 95825

(916) 487-3731

21 and Over Only
All tickets Only $10 at the door!
All proceeds go to TFO Productions’ new movie BADASS MONSTER KILLER!

Check out the latest pictures from our latest work day and early rehearsal of BADASS MONSTER KILLER!

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Checking out the work happening on the set of TFO Productions’ next feature film, BADASS MONSTER KILLER.  Our team built some props, a large green screen, and our first camera dolly!

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TFO Productions Presents:
SUPER-SPECIAL FUNDRAISER 2-The Sequel

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
FRIDAY, APRIL 13th, 10pm
at the CREST THEATRE
1013 K Street

SEE a Special Screening of TFO Productions’ PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN, newly remastered and revamped. Don’t miss your last chance to see this locally produced feature film on the Big Screen in HD Surround before it’s worldwide release.

CELEBRATE the official US DVD release from Seminal Films and the brand new PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN comic Book from Paul Allen and Darin Wood…both available at the show!

Plus-SEE a special TFO-Only presentation of ‘The Sexiest Ladies in Outer Space” featuring a heart-stopping barrage of the most titillating space babes of all time!!!

All tickets $10
Doors will open at 10pm, Show at 10:30pm.
DON’T MISS IT! Buy advance tickets at tickets.com

SUPPORT LOCAL INDY FILMMAKING!
All proceeds go to TFO Productions Exciting New Movie, BADASS MONSTER KILLER!

You can feel the excitement here at TFO Productions as we have started ramping up on our next feature-length film.  We’ve been doing some test shooting and auditioning actors, wrangling costumes and sets and props.

If you loved PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN, you’re gonna love our next foray into the world of Camaroville and its strange inhabitants!

Watch this blog for updates from cast and crew as production continues.

HOLY JUMPING CATFISH!!

Don’t miss the local movie everyone is talking about!
Held over by Popular Demand AGAIN!! PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN

Limited Engagement

Produced entirely in Sacramento, PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN is an action-packed sci-fi adventure of the galaxy’s sexiest space pirates who pull off the ultimate heist only to crash into a nightmare world of unrelenting horror!

Friday, June 3^rd through Thursday, June 9^th
8:30pm Nightly CREST THEATRE
1013 K Street, Downtown Sacramento
General Admission $9.50
Senior/Student $6.00

Presented in High Definition Blu-Ray with Super-Space Surround Sound!

DVDs of the film will be available at the show for only $10!!!

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN is not rated, but does contain scenes of shocking bloody violence and gratuitous nudity. It is recommended for mature audiences. Children should be accompanied by a responsible adult.

www.planetofthevampirewomen.com

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Not really trash, this movie’s almost too good for ya! An “A” production all the way. Good cast, luscious lighting, breathtaking scenery and cinematography—and lots and lots and lots of killing.
It was a controversial sensation in Japan, spawning action figures (with stick-on wounds and bandages!), phone cards, and a gun lighter! A slightly futuristic “Lord Of The Flies” fable, with a class of 9-graders dumped on an island to fight it out to the death. The teacher/gamemaster Mr. Kitano is played with glee by “Beat” Takeshi, famous actor/director from Japanese Yakuza flicks like “Hana-bi”. What a great character, I don’t want to give too much away, let’s just say he gets the ultimate teacher’s revenge.

Supposedly on the way to a school trip, the kids are gassed and taken to an island, where they wake up fitted with explosive tracking collars. Teacher Kitano tells them that kids like you are what is wrong with the country today, so the government has instituted the BR program–Battle Royale, which is demonstrated in a hilarious video with an tremendously perky Japanese host. Friends are going to have to kill each other. Only one kid leaves the island-it’s a battle to the death. They get a random weapon, and scurry into the night.
Don’t worry about reading the subtitles, they help, but you can understand the story without ‘em. (Actually, even if you read the subtitles you will be confused.) From this early point on, it’s an ongoing procession of horrors, as the kids start knocking each other off.

The great thing about this concept (and the thing that would get changed and thus ruined in an American version) is that it’s not grizzled old criminals deserving of brutality but young teenagers who you are introduced to, get to like, and then see slaughtered. Makes for a very affecting movie. Try at the film’s beginning to guess who makes it off the island at the end. I did, and was way off—my guy got offed in the first reel.
Director Kinji Fukasaku (maker of 60 movies including lotsa Yakuza flicks and cult fave The Green Slime) does not dwell on the violence, but it’s damn sure present and well done. The film jars one all the more for it’s tender interludes where we meet the characters in gorgeously shot scenes in the beautiful countryside with Bach playing. Then all hell breaks loose again.     There is a running body count to add to the claustrophobia, given in daily reports on loudspeakers by the utterly fantastic gravel-faced Kitano.
The violence is all wrapped up in some weird Japanese philosophy that seems kinda muddled, and leaves it open for interpretation.

Is it really about kids’ lack of respect for adults? Or the childishness of the adult world? Is it telling us to live life to the fullest, or telling us only the amoral and deceitful survive? Is it pro-fascist? Pro-individual rights? Is it a satire of life and death? Is it an anti-violence statement that just happens to have a ton of brutal violence?

Apparently the novel it is based on goes into much more detail of the characters thoughts, but without this, the movie’s intent is more nebulous. It seems to try and make a statement, but I dunno what it is… and that’s just fine. As a great piece of filmmaking, it stands on its’ own and doesn’t really need to be picked apart. But if you must examine the nuances of this popular film to death, there are several active discussion groups where you can exhaust the excruciating minutiae of the filmmaker’s vision. There is also a bunch of sites, here’s two of the best for you to check out: www.battleroyaleonline.com and www.battleroyalefilm.com

And in summer 2003 (at least on screens in Japan) came Battle Royale II! Director Blank Fukusaku died of cancer before its completion, so his son Kenta Fukusaku, the screenwriter, completed it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t live up to  the first one.
There are many versions of BR available. The one I got and would recommend is the Director’s Cut, with 8 extra minutes, and an extra disc full of making-of and behind the scenes stuff. Only problem with it is that the subtitles on the extra disc are only in Korean!

Battle Royale (and it’s sequel) will never get proper theatrical distribution in the US beyond scattered film festival screenings. The distributors are scared of having the next Columbine-type incident blamed on their film, so run out and buy the DVD now. You’ll be glad you did.