Scott Phillips has decided to release his most recent film, Gimme Skelter, on DVD through Kurly Tlapoyawa’s Burning Paradise Entertainment label.
Check it out. It’s a good movie – I reviewed it here myself. As I mentioned, it’s not to everybody’s taste. But if you like indie horror – it transcends the genre.
Mainly, bravo to Scott and Kurly. It’s a courageous step. It’s also a necessary one, but for Scott as a creator and for the entertainment field in general. Including, need I add, prose fiction?
Centralized distribution of entertainment is broken. It no longer serves either creators or their audiences. It will not be fixed.
This applies to all major media.
Authors, artists, musicians, filmmakers, whatever – we’re going to have to take charge of distributing and marketing our own works to a greater and greater degree. This can and will happen individually as well as cooperatively. There’s no one model; one size does not fit all.
This change will also require our readers, listeners, viewers, what have you, to embrace – by which I mean, buy – independently offered works.
So please – if you’re interested in cleverly written and splendidly produced horror films, give this one a look.
Hey! It’s got nekkidness in it. What more do you need?
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Thanks for the plug and the very kind words, Vic! Much appreciated. Fingers crossed that this little experiment works out — if so, it could provide a model for many of my filmmaker buddies who are getting dorked by the distributors…
You’re welcome. Got my fingers crossed too.
Meanwhile can those of us in Burque purchase this DVD at Kurly Tlapoyawa’s fine Burning Paradise Video store? (Hint.)
Indeed you can! Once the discs are in our hands, Kurly will have ‘em for sale at Burning Paradise, and we anticipate they’ll be available at Page One Too, as well.
If all goes well, they’ll be hitting store shelves/shipping in mid-January.