The Latest News from the Cinematic Asylum
Pre-Production Madness for The Blue-Eyed Boy & Mister Death Is Underway!!! - 05.16.23
With just under two months left until the cameras start rolling on The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death we are excited and delighted to reveal that the fundraising campaign for the film is almost fully funded!! In addition to the IndieGoGo Campaign we are also taking contributions thru Venmo, Paypal AND good old-fashioned cash! The perks for the campaign will be honoured no matter the method the contributions come in, we're just sincerely grateful for the support we've receieved from our film friends, family and even total strangers! This just affirms our belief that a film of this nature could be the great unifier that brings people together, no matter what makes them different. We told you movies were magic...
The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death is one of the most personal stories I have ever told and is like nothing I have ever written before—a surreal story spun as part Twilight Zone tall tale and part existential “what if” fable that asks the question: what happens when someone answers a phone that shouldn’t ring anymore?
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It is my sincere cinematic hope that this short film will have a universal appeal to anyone and everyone who has ever lost a loved one in their life to Cancer. If you have EVER wanted to become a part of movie magic, then please check out our IndieGoGo campaign (link in comments) which is now live! And please help spread the word, we’ve got lots of surprises in store this time!
#TheBlueEyedBoyAndMisterDeath #MadOnesFilms #ComingSoon #MakeMoviesMagicAgain #NCFilmIsAliveAndWell #SupportIndieFilm #GoGoIndieGoGo #FUCancer
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin
It's Time to Make Movies Magic Again - The Blue-Eyed Boy & Mister Death! - 04.21.23
Greetings and salutations dear film fanatics and movie maniacs! As many of you know, it’s been a hot minute since we’ve made some movie magic… four years worth of hot minutes actually, and now we are excited and delighted to announce that we’ve got a brand new cinematic spell that I need to tell, and we're asking for your help to get it out of our writer/director's head and onto your screens!
The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death is one of the most personal stories I have ever told and is like nothing I have ever written before—a surreal story spun as part Twilight Zone tall tale and part existential “what if” fable that asks the question: what happens when someone answers a phone that shouldn’t ring anymore?
Filming for The Blue-Eyed Boy and Mister Death will take place in July, 2023 in Greensboro NC and after spending the fall in post, will have its film festival world premiere in February of 2024. After that, we're keeping our fingers crossed for a long and healthy run on the film festival circuit before bringing it home to you, our investors, our friends, our family.
It is my sincere cinematic hope that this short film will have a universal appeal to anyone and everyone who has ever lost a loved one in their life to Cancer. If you have EVER wanted to become a part of movie magic, then please check out our IndieGoGo campaign (link in comments) which is now live! And please help spread the word, we’ve got lots of surprises in store this time!
#TheBlueEyedBoyAndMisterDeath #MadOnesFilms #ComingSoon #MakeMoviesMagicAgain #NCFilmIsAliveAndWell #SupportIndieFilm #GoGoIndieGoGo #FUCancer
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin
Resolutions, revolutions, revivals and now… rebranding. Welcome to 2023! - 01.07.23
Like a ’76 Firebird rising from the ashtray, it’s time to wash the bittersweet aftertaste of the aftermath of Hollywood and their distribution disaster from my mouth and to remember why I fell in love with making movie magic in the first place. There is a certain cinematic spell that I’m just aching to tell, but first I need to do some serious madhousekeeping, both in my own cerebral asylum and with Mad Ones Films in general. I can't really call it rebranding as I don't think I ever actually finished officially "branding" Mad Ones in the first place (because why would a professional graphic and web designer ever actually finish their own stuff?!?) In the meantime however, back to playing housekeeper... please to consider me Mary Fuckin’ Poppins y’all for the next little bit I like to call, “Whistle While You Rant!”
And so once more with feeling, it’s time to address the comatose circus elephant in the room, the $64,000 question burning in the backs of the brains and dancing on the tongues of our investors, fans, friends, family and fellow filmmakers for what I hope is the penultimate time: “WHEN is KILL GIGGLES coming out?!? Why is it taking so long?!?” While technically that’s two questions, the tawdry truth of the matter is that all this time later, I still have NO bloody idea when it will be released. I’m not really certain that anyone does actually, and if they do, they’re sure as cinematic shite not sharing that information with anyone else, or at the very least, they’re not sharing it with us – the filmmakers.
You see we’ve been asking that very same and very seemingly simple question going on almost three years now. We’ve asked the good people at Avail Films, at Hollywood Media Bridge, at Grindstone Entertainment: when Kill Giggles will be released? We’ve asked it repeatedly, religiously, and redundantly—and our typical response has been blame absolving shoulder-shrugs, finger-pointing and passive-aggressive posturing or just being flat-out ignored. Apparently this is “just the way things are” and “just the way the business works.” Well folks, I don’t think it’s actually working at all if you ask me, and clearly the way that things are needs to change. And so that brings us to the here and now, you see, of 2023.
Everybody always wants to know what’s on the horizon, what’s the next thing you’re working on, what’s coming soon?? For the OCD kid in me, Kill Giggles still doesn’t feel finished… it doesn’t feel quite done yet because of this whole release limbo we’ve been stuck in for far too long now. If it weren’t for the amazing film festival run the film has had so far, the reviews and interviews and feedback and interaction with the fans from those live screenings, I don’t know if I could’ve held on this long. The movie magic masterpiece that I asked everyone I know, and quite a few strangers that I didn’t, for their faith and their funds to help me make isn’t in their hands, isn’t on their screens, isn’t in “Mike’s Blu Ray Collection” yet, and that really REALLY bothers me! It vexes and haunts me like some sort of Victorian villain in Netflix’s latest period porn project. In fact, it has plagued me to the point that I haven’t been able to move on to the next thing because the last thing doesn’t feel truly done yet. Such have been the internal and infernal trials and tribulations taking their toll as I toil, that I haven’t let myself really even finish a screenplay, let alone to be lucky enough to get it paid for and in and out of production. Now I know that some of this is on me, I bear that self-deprecating/self-sabotaging cross willingly, but there’s just no way in any circle of Hell that this can be an acceptable way for filmmakers to be treated by the people who are attempting to profit from their films, and if it is… well then, no thank you Hollywood. I think it’s time we break up. It’s not me… it’s you. Can I have my stuff back now?
Okay, now if you made it all the way thru that last bit of alliteration-abusing soapbox sermon then congratulations and well done! We’re almost done, I promise. That was all my very longwinded way to say, “I have no idea when Kill Giggles is coming out and I’m not going to worry about it anymore.” The last whispers that we heard from Hollywood were hinting about possibly this February (as apparently Valentine’s Day is the most popular time for horror films to be released). Then again, we heard those same rumours this same time last year, so who knows? It’s in the hands of the film gods now—or the finger click of the unpaid intern who cuts it from Column A and pastes it into Column B in the great FILM RELEASE DATE excel sheet in the sky. As soon as we hear anything, and I mean ANYTHING, we shall shout it loud and proud from the virtual (and quite possibly, literal) rooftops, we swear but it’s time to get ramblin’ ramblers, and so our next cinematic magic adventure awaits.
And so that brings us back to our new “slogan,” mantra, catchphrase, hashtag, meditation chant or battle cry, whatever you want to call it: “it’s time to make movies magic again.” Time to tell some new stories. Time to remember how much fun I have playing make-believe on an epic and creative scale. Time to hit that film festival circuit again and catch up with film friends and family from around the world. And the screenplay demons are most certainly screamin’ in my head, I can assure you!! I have one screenplay close to being finished and another one to revise. I have two stories (and pages of scribblings) to start putting pen to paper to, since I can’t actually write anything on a computer, but soon both will be on their way to FinalDraft land. And then I also have to pull off THE single greatest revenge film of ALL time—the one where we kill Cancer. But first, how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr. Death?
So there are some fantastic things coming soon, stay tuned!! And in the meantime, yours tattooed truly has delved back into the world of thrilling and chilling prose with the publication of “Splitting Headache,” a brand new story that is part of Hot Off the Press, a charity anthology from Red Cape Publishing, in aid of FAST UK – the Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics. This anthology came out late last year and features over forty pieces of flash fiction from some of the biggest names in the indie horror community, including screenwriters, actors, directors, authors and producers. So dim the lights, draw the curtains, and settle in for something both bloody AND brilliant!! Order from Books2Read or from Amazon!!!
Also, please stay tuned for some more fantastic film festival announcements featuring two of our award-winning short films (Don’t Let the Light In and The Corner) coming very soon, as well as more screening opportunities for Kill Giggles. And we pinky swear that we will be better this year about keeping all you crazy people out there who keep coming back in here more informed as to the latest goings-on of the inmates running the cinematic asylum. It’s time to make movies magic again… and to do so our way.
Please just bear with us a little while longer, and I assure you, we will send in the clowns to die!!!
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILL GIGGLES!!! - 6.17.22
Oh dear gods of movie-making magic, has it really been THREE YEARS TO THE DAY since the cameras AND the clown heads started rolling on the set(s) of Kill Giggles?!? Once again, proving that math is a hell of a drug, yes... yes it has! Three years ago today the cast and crew of what would soon be Hollywood's most sought-after clown killer thriller (I mean, why the hells else wouldn't they have released it yet, right?!?) descended upon the Piedmont Triad and specifically, our Director of Photography's house to shoot the very first scenes of the film in the lovely (and hellishly humidly sweltering) North Carolina summer. From the very first few shots, to the last scene of the shoot, there was an electricity in the air that you dream of having on a film set. We all knew we were doing someting pretty damn amazing... making a uniquely original story that had never been told before.
And so here we are, three years later, and before you even ask or type or AutoCorrect... no, we still have no idea when the film is going to be released. We have asked our associates at Avail Entertainment and Hollywood Media Bridge and Grindstone Entertainment... we've asked them a lot, and we are told that this seemingly never-ending wait is just "the way things are" and "part of the business" and to "just be patient." Unfortunately, that's the only answer or lack thereof, that we have at the moment. The unfortunate side-effect of having a dream come true sometimes is that you lose total control of it as it easily dances between dream and nightmare. Hopefully we will have some sort of answer, or even better yet, a release date for you very soon.
However, faithful film fanatics and movie maniacs, there are still opportunities to see Kill Giggles on the big screen! In fact, should you find yourselves in Indianapolis, IN around the beginning of August for the summit of all that is nerdy and awesome known as Gen Con, then you'll be excited and delighted to know that Kill Giggles will be screening for screaming there on Thursday, August 4th at 9PM! Writer/director Jaysen Buterin and some cast and crew will also be on hand for a Q & A after the screening.
Please just bear with us a little while longer, and I assure you, we will send in the clowns to die!!!
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin,
Writer/Director, KILL GIGGLES
Kicking Off 2022 with an Award-Winning BANG!!! - 2.12.22
Well film fanatics and movie maniacs, we would love to tell you the EXACT date that Kill Giggles is being released, but that would require us knowing—which we don't—because that would require someone in Hollywood to actually do their job or, at the very least, respond to an email, which they apparently don't. And so we wait... and wait... and wait... and, oh hey look kids, there's Animal Chin and Godot!!
HOWEVER, all hope is not lost just yet... for we do have some rock-em sock-em good news AND a couple of screenings to share that will hopefully distract you from the fact that the movie isn't in your hands and on your screens just yet. For all of our fans, friends and family in the Austin, TX area, we will be screening at the Austin Revoluton Film Festival on February 17th! And for everyone who wants to see a clown die a bit closer to our NC home, we will be having a screening at the Alliance Community Comic Con on Saturday, March 12th in Paducah KY, to benefit the Mayfield Tornado victims!
As if we weren't already excited and delighted to be an official selection of the 9th Annual Austin Revolution Film Festival (going on in 2022 because, Apocalypse and all) and to be nominated for some pretty amazing awesomeness, but NOW we are absolutely tickled hot pink to share the news that our brilliant DP/editor/EP Jesse Knight has won the award for BEST EDITING!!! We are so very proud of you and your amazing work Jesse, congratulations, and congrats to everyone who made Kill Giggles the movie magic that it is!!! In honour of the achievement of my cinematic confidante/comrade-in-artistic-arms, I am sharing the above BTS shot from the making of the clown-killing masterpiece which still brings a smile to my face. And even MORE awesome than that, we just got confirmation that Kill Giggles has won the Director's Choice Award for Best Feature Film at ARFF9, and that's just some of the most wonderful news that we've gotten all year!
On a personal and humble note, Jaysen would just like to say that he is absolutely ecstatic to be screening Kill Giggles amongst such amazingly talented film friends and family. And that’s been one of THE most important Texas-sized-things that we have loved about this film festival from the very first moment we nervously showed up at an opening night meet & greet back in 2015—family. Never has that word been truer in the creative and communal sense than at ARFF. We have met some wonderful cinematic souls within its walls (and outside smoking), and made some of the most important friendships of our film career with its talented contributors, staff and supporters. So it makes our heathen hearts grow two sizes larger with pride to bring back our first feature film that so many people worked so very hard on, and to show our ARFF Family just how much our work has grown since that first nervous arrival six years ago. If you’re in the neighborhood of the Radisson Hotel Austin North on February 17th, please join a bunch of movie maniacs and film fanatics, where we will be on hand to finally send in the clowns to die in Austin, TX!!!
Please just bear with us a little while longer, and I assure you, we will send in the clowns to die!!!
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin,
Writer/Director, KILL GIGGLES
Yep... STILL waiting to send those clowns in to die!! - 12.21.21
First off, on behalf of the cast and crew of Kill Giggles, we would like to wish all of our fans, friends, family, cinematic supporters and esteemed IndieGoGo investors, a most heartfelt happy holidays! While no one can deny that 2020 was a tough apocalyptic act to follow, it seems like 2021 held its own, mucking up plans left and right for filmmakers and film lovers alike. Rather than go thru a lengthy retrospective wrap-up review, let's get right down to the real nitty gritty of the $64,000 questions burning in the backs of all the brains and dancing on the tips of fingers and tongues alike: WHEN IS KILL GIGGLES COMING OUT?!?
Well folks, as much as I hate to write it and I know that you hate to read it, we still do not have a release date yet. Now the reason that I have been told when I have bugged the hells out of Hollywood week after week after week, is that this is "just the way things are" and that a film taking (seemingly) forever to actually come out is "just part of the business." Now I don't know about you, but to me it would seem that if this is the way things are, then they suck and need to change. However, as it's too late to foment dissent with a distribution revolution at this point, we are simply forced to bide our time (no matter how much it bites) and just wait.
However, the whispers on the wind and in the messenger windows, have given us a shimmer of a glimmer of hope that we might soon have that almightily important release date to share with you, and rest assured that YOU will be the very first ones to know... well, after the rest of the cast and crew, our faithful producers and most likely my mum, but then it's TOTALLY on to you, our patient IndieGoGo investors, fans and friends.
So in lieu of not actually having Kill Giggles in your hands and on your screens just yet, we would like to make it up to you in some small cinematically meaningful way. And so we're throwing open the doors of the Mad Ones Films video vault and making available, for the FIRST TIME EVER, three of our award-winning short films from years past for your video viewing pleasure. Now you too can finally sneak a peek at the on-the-road killer thriller, Between Hell and a Hard Place, and the sinister stay-at-home horror hits of Don’t Let the Light In and The Corner. After that, we'll share these gifts with the rest of the movie maniacs and film fanatics in the world, but we just wanted to do something to say thank you for your faith, your funds and your patience while we wait to get out of distribution limbo.
Please just bear with us a little while longer, and I assure you, we will send in the clowns to die!!!
Sincerely,
Jaysen P. Buterin,
Writer/Director, KILL GIGGLES
ATTENTION FILM FANATICS and MOVIE MANIACS: is your 2021 STILL being a bit TOO 2020? Want to turn that Apocalypse Frown upside down just in time to kickstart the halfway heart of the Roaring 20s all over again?? Do YOU hate clowns like WE hate clowns?!? Then get thee to the OFFICIAL Kill Giggles Store!!!
Be the beacon in the darkest night with your very own light-up Kill Giggles clown nose! Protect your brain box from killer clowns with the official Kill Giggles trucker cap!! Cover your Trapper Keeper with Kill Giggles stickers and be THE COOLEST kid in school this year!!! And don't even get us started on all the amazing posters... We take PayPal, Venmo, those really cool credit card contraptions with the triplicate carbon paper, and all manner of bartering and bantering.
So once more with feeling ,and for those hiding out in the back, if you’re going to send the clowns in to die then you might as well look fabulous while doing it!! Stay tuned for more Kill Giggles gear coming soon, or maybe even a release date!!!
#KillGiggles #TheTruckerCap #KillGigglesTheTShirt #GigglesNoseBest #SendInTheClownsToDie #MadOnesFilms
Sending in the Midwest clowns to die, and other Halloween treats!! - 10.08.21
ATTENTION MOVIE MANIACS & FILM FANATICS: on behalf of the cast and crew of Kill Giggles, we are excited and delighted to remind you that our soon-to-be-released clown killer thriller is an OFFICIAL SCREENING SELECTION of the 2021 Haunted Horror and Paranormal Film Festival going on THIS WEEKEND, October 8th-10th, at the Cambre House in Nauvoo, IL!!
We were already ecstatic for Kill Giggles to be a part of such an amazing inaugural film festival, so to be nominated for BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST KILL, BEST ACTRESS and BEST SCRIPT on top of that was just the icing on the clown-killing cake, so on behalf of the cast and crew we are excited and delighted to be the very first SPLATTERDAY NIGHT MOVIE THIS SATURDAY at 10PM!!!
What do you get when you combine a horror film festival and paranormal investigators? Haunted Horror & Paranormal Film Festival! By day, it's a horror film festival complete with horror movie screenings, horror filmmaker Q & A panels and discussion. By night, it's a real live paranormal investigation for festival goers and a Livestream on their YouTube Channel.
#KillGiggles #HauntedHorrorFilmFestival #BestKill #BestFeature #BestActress #BestScript #SplatterdayNightMovie #SendInTheClownsToDie #SupportIndieHorror
One of the amazing things that happened these last few post-Apocalyptic weeks was this brand new interview that writer/director Jaysen Buterin did with the movie maniacs and film fanatics over at "The Grim and Bloody Theater"!!! Not only does he have a rock-em sock-em good time chatting with show co-hosts, Anthony De Rouen, Joe Flynn, Al Omega and MyIndie contributing writer, Kevin Nickelson, but you can also watch his train of thought derail constantly as they wax cinematic about clown-killing and all things movie mania!!! #KillGiggles #TheGrimAndBloodyTheater #SendInTheClownsToDie
Following the Carolina Fear Fest premiere of Kill Giggles, and the WORLD PREMIERE of "Inside the Circus Tent: The Making of Kill Giggles" at the Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh, NC on May 28, 2021, some of the cast and crew of the film joined writer/director Jaysen Buterin for a quick comedic question and answer session. Michael Ray Williams (Tommy dos Santos), Vernon Wells (Malcolm "Giggles" Fossor), Felissa Rose (Dr. Courtney Lee), Shane Terry (Kinky Dinky), Tracey de Leon (Aunt Angela), and Joey Rudzinski (Joey Z), as well as moderator Bill Mulligan (Uncle Kookie) were all on hand to take part in the shenanigans.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy some behind-the-scenes brilliance with my favourite film fanatics and movie maniacs! Stay tuned for more clown-killing craziness and chicanery coming soon!!
#KillGiggles #ComingSoon #SendInTheClownsToDie #SupportIndieHorror #Coulrophobia #ClownDeathsMatter #NCFilmIsAliveAndWell #LaughClownLaugh
ATTENTION FILM FANATICS and MOVIE MANIACS: is your 2021 STILL being a bit TOO 2020? Want to turn that Apocalypse Frown upside down just in time to kickstart the halfway heart of the Roaring 20s all over again?? Do YOU hate clowns like WE hate clowns?!? Then get thee to the OFFICIAL Kill Giggles Store!!!
Be the beacon in the darkest night with your very own light-up Kill Giggles clown nose! Protect your brain box from killer clowns with the official Kill Giggles trucker cap!! Cover your Trapper Keeper with Kill Giggles stickers and be THE COOLEST kid in school this year!!! And don't even get us started on all the amazing posters... We take PayPal, Venmo, those really cool credit card contraptions with the triplicate carbon paper, and all manner of bartering and bantering.
So once more with feeling ,and for those hiding out in the back, if you’re going to send the clowns in to die then you might as well look fabulous while doing it!! Stay tuned for more Kill Giggles gear coming soon, or maybe even a release date!!!
#KillGiggles #TheTruckerCap #KillGigglesTheTShirt #GigglesNoseBest #SendInTheClownsToDie #MadOnesFilms
The Kill Giggles PENNSYLVANIA PREMIERE, and not much else!! - 8.25.21
ATTENTION MOVIE MANIACS & FILM FANATICS: on behalf of the cast and crew of Kill Giggles, we are excited and delighted to remind you that our soon-to-be-released clown killer thriller is an OFFICIAL SCREENING SELECTION of the 2021 Creature Feature Weekend going on THIS WEEKEND, August 27th-29th, at the Wyndham Gettysburg in Gettysburg, PA!! Join writer/director Jaysen Buterin, the one and only Vernon Wells and a whole handful of our most frightfully delightful horror film friends on Saturday at 8PM AND Sunday at 2PM over at the R/C Gateway Cinema as we send in the clowns to die with Kill Giggles and other very scary movie magic as well!!! Join us for a weekend of safe socially-distant shenanigans and some bloody brilliant independent movie magic at its finest!!! #KillGiggles #ComingSoon #SendInTheClownsToDie
That's right, film fanatics and movie maniacs, can you believe it's been exactly TWO YEARS since the cameras (and the clown heads) started rolling on Kill Giggles?!? While we would have loved nothing more than to rest on our laurels, we have been running nonstop since the principal filming was done. In addition to a handful of film festival screenings and appearances, we've spent the last year going thru the Hollywood studio deliverables process which is just... well... actually it's MORE painful than being surrounded by your worst nightmare for 19 days on a film set, trust me. But we have jumped thru all of the hoops (some flaming, others suspended over a ball pit of despair) and we're told that there is, indeed, a light at the end of the tunnel (although our writer/director suspects that's really just the headlights of a clown car hellbent on seeking revenge), so please Please PLEASE be patient with us a little longer and stay tuned for some sort of update on just WHEN you can expect to have a copy of this award-winning one-of-a-kind clown-killer thriller in your hands and on your screens!!!
DON'T forget to check out the bloody brilliant Kill Giggles merchandise we now have at the Mad Ones Gift Shoppe very VERY soon!! Trucker caps, t-shirts, stickers... OH MY!!! See you next time you loveable lunatics!!
Happy Birthday to Us! KILL GIGGLES Turns Two Years Old!! - 6.18.21
That's right, film fanatics and movie maniacs, can you believe it's been exactly TWO YEARS since the cameras (and the clown heads) started rolling on Kill Giggles?!? While we would have loved nothing more than to rest on our laurels, we have been running nonstop since the principal filming was done. In addition to a handful of film festival screenings and appearances, we've spent the last year going thru the Hollywood studio deliverables process which is just... well... actually it's MORE painful than being surrounded by your worst nightmare for 19 days on a film set, trust me. But we have jumped thru all of the hoops (some flaming, others suspended over a ball pit of despair) and we're told that there is, indeed, a light at the end of the tunnel (although our writer/director suspects that's really just the headlights of a clown car hellbent on seeking revenge), so please Please PLEASE be patient with us a little longer and stay tuned for some sort of update on just WHEN you can expect to have a copy of this award-winning one-of-a-kind clown-killer thriller in your hands and on your screens!!!
We do have some GOOD NEWS we can share that might shine a light on what's been taking so long for Kill Giggles to get released. We can officially say that we are delivering to Grindstone for distribution. We can also officially share this lovely little link from Variety Magazine that gives some illuminating information on who Grindstone is partnered up with. Then we can offically ask you to connect the dot... there's only the one.
We were also lucky enough to participate in the 2021 Carolina Fear Fest Film Festival last May in Raleigh, NC! Not only did we get to have Vernon Wells AND Felissa Rose in attendance for the Kill Giggles screening and Q&A at the Alamo Drafthouse, but we followed that screening up with the WORLD PREMIERE of "Inside the Circus Tent," the feature-length BTS doc shot during the 19-day production of Kill Giggles! We're busy working behind the scenes to self-distribute the documentary just as soon as Kill Giggles comes out! In the meantime, please enjoy some amazing snaps from Carolina Fear Fest, including the one and only VERNON WELLS who was gracious enough to join us for the Kill Giggles Q&A panel in Mad Max attire!!!
STAY TUNED for some bloody brilliant Kill Giggles merchandise coming to the Mad Ones Gift Shoppe very VERY soon!! Trucker caps, t-shirts, stickers... OH MY!!! See you next time you loveable lunatics!!
April Showers Bring May DEAD CLOWNS... and a WORLD PREMIERE!! - 4.19.21
ATTENTION MOVIE MANIACS & FILM FANATICS: has the end of the world got you feeling down? Are you tired of the Apocalypse mucking up your plans for ANYTHING?! Do you just really REALLY want to kill a clown?!? Then do we have the perfect solution for you, true believers, something that will turn that frown upside down... we're talking about... Kill Giggles. And so, with no further alliteration abusing-adieu, we are excited and delighted to invite you to the SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE of Kill Giggles at the 2021 AtomaCon Film Festival going on at the Hilton Garden Inn in North Charleston, SC on Friday, May 7th at 8:00 PM!!! And not only will you get to see this clown-killer thriller, but there will be a Q&A after the screening with yours truly for all in attendance! This will be our first time attending AtomaCon so we're tickled hot pink to be able to celebrate in a safe and socially-distant setting, while enjoying some cinematic spells of indie movie magic from around the world!!! Please visit atomacon.org for all the devilish details! We truly cannot wait to send in the clowns to die with our SC film friends and family, even if we have to do it socially-distant style, which we do, because let's be honest kids... if you don't wear a mask, then the clowns win, don't they?!? #KillGiggles #AtomaConFilmFestival #TimeToDieClowns
At the end of the month, what better way to get ready for the awesomeness of Carolina Fear Fest 2021 than by joining Mad Ones Films for a pre-con double feature kick off event at the Alamo Drafthouse?!? Do NOT miss the Raleigh, NC premiere of Kill Giggles followed by the WORLD PREMIERE of “Inside the Circus Tent,” the feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary shot during the making of the movie, on Friday May 28th!! Kill Giggles writer/director Jaysen Buterin will be on hand along with film stars Felissa Rose, Vernon Wells, Michael Ray Williams and more, who will be greeting fans. All ticket holders to this event will receive an EXCLUSIVE poster and the chance to win other great prizes. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has fabulous food and drinks - so come hungry! Tickets for this event are LIMITED so grab them while you can here: https://purchase.growtix.com/eh/Carolina_Fear_Fest_2021/36826
#KillGiggles #ComingSoon #SendInTheClownsToDie #InsideTheCircusTent #CarolinaFearFest #VernonWells #FelissaRose #MichaelRayWilliams #SupportIndieHorror
Spring is Coming... AND SO IS KILL GIGGLES!!! - 3.18.21
We wanted to check in with you for our second update of 2021 with something special and significant and downright damn important, such as the release date for the film and when you might expect to see it somewhere, anywhere, everywhere. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to peek behind the Deliverables curtain we still don't have a street date yet, which means that we also can't quite say yet WHO is distributing Kill Giggles but please believe us that it's big, Big, BIG!!! We would never make you wait like this willingly, unfortunately this waiting around for long periods of time is nothing new to anyone who has spent time on a film set, we just didn't want you to have to go thru it as well. However, there is always a silver lining, and so, won't you please take our clown-killing hand and come sneak a peek with us...
Behind the Circus Tent
In honour of surviving 2020, and in lieu of still not having Kill Giggles in your hands and on your screens just yet, we wanted to share some special treats with all you movie maniacs and film fanatics still waiting to see Kill Giggles! And so every Friday in February we decided to sneak you BEHIND THE CIRCUS TENT with us and share some of the behind-the-scenes brilliance and on-set shenanigans that went on with a whole slew of brand new outtakes, trailers, and interviews!
We started off with a new and improved (and laurel-filled) theatrical trailer, showcasing the accolades and adulation that Kill Giggles garnered during its limited screening run in 2020. There was also a brilliant bit of an outtake that we discovered in the Mad Ones Video Vaults (see below), as well as the start of what will likely be a new series where our esteemed Creative Director and Kill Giggles writer/director Jaysen Buterin will spend some time talking with the clowns, cast, and crew to give you a better sense of the film family that was truly created by our little clown-killer thriller. Kicking things off is a dear friend of Jaysen's, and an amazing artistic soul, Mr. Shawn Lein, who plays "Thrill 'Em Willam" in the movie. Stay tuned for more intimate interviews coming soon!!!
Something else that's brand new and wicked on the webs is a 23-PART behind-the-scenes blog from our very own cinematic partner in crime, Jesse H. Knight, who was not only the Cinematographer on Kill Giggles but also the editor as well. A badass bit of binary brilliance, Jesse takes you behind the camera for his perspective on the madness of making movie magic! Check out the entire series here - jesseknightfilms.wordpress.com - as well as other recollections of more amazing projects!!!
Our other big news is that we're also working on self-releasing the feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary, "Inside the Circus Tent: The Making of Kill Giggles" that was shot during the 19-day production of the film! Shot, chopped and directed by our very own Katherine Holmes and Aidan Ford, this doc is truly the heart and soul of the film and we really can't wait for the world to see this amazing companion piece to Kill Giggles!! We're working on setting up a world premiere for it in North Carolina at the end of May, so stay tuned for news and updates on that... in fact, check out the trailer now!!
And last, but certainly not least, we are excited and delighted to announce that we have not just ONE but TWO screenings of Kill Giggles coming up this May!! So let's keep those clown-killing fingers crossed that the Apocalypse might finally fuck off proper and things can return to some semblance of normality. The first screening will be at the 2021 AtomaCon Film Festival in Charleston, SC on Friday May 7th! As an added bonus, Jaysen Buterin will there for a Q&A after the screening!! We also have another screening at the end of the month, but we're waiting for all the devilish details for that one to be finalised before we can announce it, so stay tuned. We can tell you that it will be in North Carolina, and there will be a WORLD PREMIERE of the documentary to to with the Kill Giggles screening AND there will even be some AMAZING celebrity cameos at the screening as well... STAY TUNED!!!
2021... the Year We FINALLY Send in the Clowns to DIE!!! - 1.20.21
Greetings and salutations, grinnings and salivations to you, the MOVIE MANIACS and FILM FANATICS of the Interwebs and Happy New Year!!! We're still in a bit of shock and awe ourselves that we're still here ourselves, and since Kill Giggles STILL hasn't been released yet (more on that below), we wanted to let you sneak a peek behind the curtains at the madness behind the magic of movie-making. In an effort to start off the new year right, We have a few announcements and updates from the mad man with the masterplan himself, Creative Director/Head Inmate Jaysen Buterin, as he waxes cinematic about all things clown-killing... ENJOY!!!
Now while there are no damn doubts that 2020 was nowhere NEAR the year that we were anticipating, still though... in the clown-killing grand scheme of things, we are BEYOND excited and delighted to announce that Kill Giggles was an official selection at the following fantastic film festivals in some incarnation or another: Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival, GenreBlast Film Festival, ConCarolinas Film Festival, Wreak Havoc Horror Film Festival and the Stranger Days Independent Film Festival!!! We even managed to win some accolades and awards as well... #KillGiggles #WeSentInTheClownsToDie
But now on to the $64,000 questions burning in the backs of your brains and dancing on the tips of your tongues... WHEN WILL KILL GIGGLES BE RELEASED?!? Well kids, here's the answer: we have no bloody idea. We jumoed thru ALL of the distributor's hoops and deliverable demands, and now we're just waiting for the legal eagles to land with the proper paperwork signed. However, we have also recorded a detailed and fully informative Q&A video for you just below that should hopefully answer the (seemingly) eternal quandary: WHEN will Kill Giggles be released? It might even have some sneak peeks and surprises of things to come very very soon (in addition to the aforementioned movie magic). So please sneak a peek and enjoy...