We are suspending our crowd funding for Christmas with the Damned for now, due to the virus. Money is better placed elsewhere than in a neat vanity project.
We are not through, and will return once things settle down more. Everyone take care. Wash your paws, isolate as much as you are able.
Mojo Monkey Productions is dedicated to providing a platform to write, direct, produce, and distribute top quality independent film projects. Working with accomplished author Joe R. Lansdale, and a talented team, our goal is to bring interesting and currently relevant film ideas from concept to screen.
Our first project is "Christmas With The Damned" from a short story by Joe R Lansdale.
About the Film:
Calvin never was a fan of Christmas. The smell of eggnog turned his stomach and the decking of the halls was a tedious ritual that only made simple people smile. When another Christmas rolled around, he thought it would be just like the others. Something to agonize through for his eternally optimistic, holiday-enamored wife, Ella, and his young daughter Tina. But he had no idea how much agony and outright terror there was to come when the lights in the sky showed up, bright and beautiful, full of apocalyptic doom.
When the lights flashed, and Ella and Tina changed into something different. Something dangerous and unrecognizable. And most of mankind went right along with them. Christmas, and the rest of the world were put on pause; forever.
Months down the line, the only thing Calvin wants is have one final Christmas with the family while hanging with a philosophical, new friend named G.M. as well as a horde of flesh-hungry, undead neighbors with a decay problem and a shortage of mid-July Christmas cheer, who want a little something more than to sing carols.
Other Joe R. Lansdale Projects
Joe R. Lansdale has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics and television. His work has been made into films, BUBBA HOTEP, COLD IN JULY, as well as the acclaimed TV show, HAP AND LEONARD. He has also had works adapted to MASTERS OF HORROR ON SHOWTIME, and wrote scripts for BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES, and SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES. He scripted a special Jonah Hex animated short, as well as the animated Batman film, SON OF BATMAN. His short stories "The Dump" and "Fish Night" have been adapted into short animated films, for the Netflix series LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, as has the story, "The Companion" that he wrote in collaboration with his son, Keith, and his daughter, Kasey, as an episode of the SHUDDER CHANNEL'S CREEPSHOW, also forthcoming films include, THE BIG BLOW, from Ridley Scott, and THE THICKET from Peter Dinklage, which is scheduled to begin production very soon.
