MULES is Killing Joke Films' adaptation of handsome acclaimed novelist Ed Kurtz story about a pair of of drug mules who face tragedy and redemption within the horror weirdness of a hotel room.
Synopsis-
Mary-Jo and Hank are drug mules who just got across the border full of product inside them. Soon Mary-Jo is left to deal with a horrible situation but despite her abysmal world she finds purpose and redemption in her final act in this weird tale/crime/horror hybrid story.
Killing Joke Films is a Minneapolis based company who have produced over 30 short films/music videos, 2 feature documentaries including SNUFF: a documentary about killing on camera and Scrap. KJF's films have been selected for dozens of festivals worldwide including Telluride Horror Show, Sydney Underground Film Festival and LA's Screamfest while winning many awards including "Most Disturbing Film" "Best of Fest" and "Most Innovative Horror". KJF has collaborated with handsome author Ed Kurtz in the past for the short film "South of Heaven" and for the adaptation of his novel Bleed as a series for SeekaTV.
Ed Kurtz is the author of Nausea, The Rib From Which I Remake the World, and Angel of the Abyss, among other novels and novellas. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies like Thuglit, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Shotgun Honey, and Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
This will be produced in tandem with Minneapolis based Know Idea Productions who are the perfect team for this disturbing adaptation.
We are attempting to raise funds to adapt Ed's unreleased short story Mules to complete the KJF short film collection Noir at the Bar which are adaptations of novelists who have contributed to Noir at the Bar somewhere in the nation. Noir at the Bar is an internationally spread event of writers reading and drinking created by Jedediah Ayres who KJF have collaborated with in the past for the award winning short film "Viscosity". MULES would be the final short needed to finish the collection for distribution which would include the adaptation of Dennis Tafoya's "How to Jail", John Rector's "In the Kitchen With . . ." and Jeff Shelby's "Twisted Sister". This collection has been seven years in the making and we are all very excited to finally officially release it to the public as we actively seek distribution for the anthology collection..
We are asking for this amount to help invoke the help from The Dark Lord but also because this amount will fund the entire project, pay crew, and especially to pay for the very difficult and unique special effect which is key in the story. We don't want to give it away but the effect will be constructed and utilized by Outpost 31 proprietor and KJF friend and long time collaborator Ryan Schaddelee for the practical effect and by another longtime KJF collaborator Hyperfocused Production's Marlee MacLeod for the post effect and all other aspects of post production. So please help us raise these funds so we can pay these good folks and as Neil Gaiman says "Go out there and make good art."
