MAJOR UPDATE:
Anyone who purchases a digital copy OR the Blu Ray will receive an email from us within 24 hours with a link and password to your digital copy. Blu Ray purchasers will get a digital copy to tide them over until they recieve the physical disc. Discs are usually mailed within one week. Thank you all so much for the love and support of BAD GIRLS!
BAD GIRLS
We are producing an eye-popping feature-length underground film and we guarantee it is unlike anything else. The film wrapped shooting just days before the pandemic lockdown and has been in post-production since. We are aiming for a release in both physical and digital formats in early 2021. We are inviting fans of alternative cinema (arthouse to grindhouse) to join our team to help us pay final post-production costs, get the movie over the finish line, and become part of motion picture history.
BAD GIRLS is produced by Crystal Colligan and Christopher Bickel. It was directed by Mr. Bickel and stars Morgan Shaley Renew, Sanethia Dresch, and Shelby Lois Guinn.
BAD GIRLS gleefully subverts genre tropes in spinning its lurid, hyperreal tale of desire, love, chaos and violence. After robbing a strip club, three desperate teenage girls lead a misogynistic Federal Agent on a lysergic cross-country chase -- scoring a duffle bag full of money, d**gs, and a crew of willing kidnapees along the way.
"These are characters people haven't seen before, interacting in a world that is almost-but-not-quite our own," says director Christopher Bickel of the "exaggerated reality" of the BAD GIRLS universe. "When you're making a movie for the cost of a used car, you're forced to get creative with the storytelling in ways that Hollywood focus-groups don't allow. You won't find BAD GIRLS in a Walmart because it doesn't belong in a Walmart."
Due to platform constraints, this campaign presents a family-friendly cut of our trailer. To see the full-cut of the trailer, check out www.badgirlsmovie.com.
What We Need & What You Get
BAD GIRLS was shot on a shoestring and every bit of money we had available to us went into the production. From paying the cast and crew to making sure everyone had food to securing our locations and rental of the plethora of classic cars used in the film. We now find a number of miscellaneous costs to complete the film and to get it released. True to our DIY punk rock roots, we are planning to do our own distribution -- so there are a number of costs involved in that.
We believe that the best way to raise these funds is to pre-sell the film and related mechandise. Furthermore, we are giving the promise that those who help us out now will be the first people to see and own a copy of the film.
We have made a conscious effort to make all of the "perks" in this campaign appropriately priced and affordable. Our perks are "a la carte" and not cumulative -- select the items you'd like individually and save! We are offering physical format in the form of a Blu Ray loaded with extras as well as a digital release. Once again, contributors to this campaign will be the first to get a copy -- likely a month before the general public.
Background
BAD GIRLS will be a second film for underground producer/director Christopher Bickel. His first film, THE THETA GIRL, was widely critically acclaimed and has been distributed all over the world. Though made for roughly the same amount of money as THE THETA GIRL, BAD GIRLS is a much bigger and more complex production. Film Threat's Chris Gore described THE THETA GIRL as "a film that warped my mind," Here's what other critics had to say about Bickel's first film, THE THETA GIRL:
- "One of the best exploitation films in a generation" - Nevermore Horror
- "This film explodes onto the screen like the lovechild of Ted V. Mikels and Jodorowsky, skull-f**ks you like a tag team of Blue Sunshine and Blood Feast, and when it's done you will say, "Thank you, may I have another." - Psycho Drive-In
- "Far, far better than it has any right to be... This is the kind of movie that microbudget indie producers should be studying to up their filmmaking game." - The Slaughtered Bird
- "In its wildest moments, you can feel the same sort of creativity and mania of young Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, cobbling together action and horror out of not-much-at-all." - Cinapse
- "Perfectly capturing the look and feel of earlier films THE THETA GIRL carves out its own niche by upping the ante with even more sex and violence than we would have seen in the films it clearly loves so much. This is a kind of perfect distillation of the exploitation genre that would have been a cult classic back in the day...and is destined to be one in today... This is one of my favorite (and possibly one of the very best) films of 2018." - Unseenfilms.net
- "THE THETA GIRL is a remarkably inventive, psychedelically captivating, micro-budget mind-banger presently mushrooming into the consciousness of indie fright fare fans, particularly those with a bent toward bravura brain blasting derring-do... THE THETA GIRL is a knockout accomplishment by any standards." -- Mike McPadden, Daily Grindhouse
BAD GIRLS was co-written by Bickel and star of THE THETA GIRL, Shane Silman.
DOP Stephen Nemeth is known for his camerawork on the extreme horror film AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: BLOODSHOCK (2015)
This is a first feature for most of the cast members, though Mike Amason, Cleveland Langdale, Dove Dupree, and Shane Silman are returning from THE THETA GIRL.
BAD GIRLS stars Morgan Shaley Renew, Sanethia Dresch, and Shelby Lois Guinn as the titular "Bad Girls." Cleveland Langdale and Micah Peroulis star as two cult rock stars kidnapped by the girl gang. Jonathan Benton stars as a geeky hotel clerk swept up in the madness. Mike Amason and Dove Dupree star as oddly-paired FBI agents following the wreckage of the girls' cross-country crime spree.
Inspirations
Citing influences as diverse as Jack Hill, Russ Meyer, Greg Araki, R Kern, David Lynch, Monte Hellman, Sam Peckinpah, John Waters, and Robert Downey (Sr.), we have crafted a vision more than just the sum parts of those influences. More than anything, it was probably the get-it-done-cheap lessons of Roger Corman that were the guiding light of this picture. This is a punk rock demo tape of a movie, made for people who love punk rock demo tapes and movies.
Your Help
Your help sees to it that we get this defiantly Anti-Hollywood film released in a timely manner and you will be the first to see it.
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