Yes. Red's Breakfast 2: Dawn of the Red" is currently available on VHS and DVD from Troma on a collection called The Best Of Tromadance along with some great short films by other young filmmakers from around the world. Troma is going to be releasing The Red's Breakfast Experience ( a trilogy of Red films along with interviews with the cast & crew) sometime soon (go to www.troma.com and send them an e-mail saying that you want it).
This all started in 1995 when I was at college at The Rhode Island school of design with my friend Tim Gerstmar. I had to do a little project for a video class, so we invented this character (who was basically a cross between me, Tim, and a serial killer)and named him 'Red' (after some graffiti on the wall of the basement we were shooting in) and had him wake up, pull a girl out of his closet,cut her open and eat her guts....Red's Breakfast. It was only 4 or 5 minutes long. But Tim and I had fun and wanted to keep going with it.
So then came Red's Breakfast 2: Dawn of the Red (1997) which is about 14 minutes long, and has Red finding a girlfriend who is also a deranged killer (a little bit of art immitating life, as that was when I first met my girlfriend of 6 years) and then the following year Red's Breakfast 3: Die You Zombie Bastards! which is a short (25 minutes or so) version of the film we are doing now, Die You Zombie Bastards!.
There are several scenes in Die You Zombie Bastards! that are being directly re-made from the Red shorts. I think DYZB! is just the film I have been wanting to make all along, and now that we have the means it is the final product of years of me and Tim screwing around with this character in short films and videos, just on a much bigger scale. Here's a quick plot synopsis:
Red & Violet: a blissfully happy couple (now married) who happen to be loveable serial killers. On the other side of the world we have Baron Nefarious: a Mad Scientist (for lack of a better description) who has built a machine called the Zombotron which he uses to turn people into mindless zombie slaves and wants to...of course...take over the world. One thing leads to another, and he kidnaps Violet to make her his bride, which sends Red on a crazy road trip around the globe to find her. He visits various characters (including One Man Band Rockabilly Legend Hasil Adkins!) who give him bits of information & weoponry to help him on his journey.
I was raised on horror films, and most of my favorite movies would fall into that category. But DYZB! isn't really a horror film at all. It's a character based road movie/comedy FOR people who love horror films. Scaring people isn't really what's in me as an artist. But virtually all of the elements in this film are elements from horror/exploitation movies. There's a lot of blood, there's a lot of nudity, there's zombies, etc. Anyone who's into horror movies & has a sense of humour will dig this movie. It's kind of like maybe....Bad Taste meets Cabin Boy (with a little John Waters, Jerry Lewis, Russ Meyer, and Clash of the Titans for good measure). |
