AMERICAN
Each OFFICIAL LIMITED EDITION BOOTLEG in the PULP VIDEO COLLECTION is a hand-made NTSC all-region DVD-R, numbered and signed by Charles Pinion, in editions of 313 copies. $20 each, $25 foreign. 2 for $35, 3 for $50 (Foreign: $25, $40, $60), to:
Charles Wing, 5959 Franklin Ave., #409, Los Angeles, CA 90028 ( PAYPAL BELOW!)
Each DVD is fully
chaptered!
Lots of extras!
Free PULP VIDEO Magnet
with each order!
Buy now! All titles $20 each, 2 for $35, 3 for $50. (Foreign: $25, $40, $60)
313 signed and numbered copies -- when they’re gone, they’re gone!
“In the nineties, the video movie revolution seemed to be the promised land for filmmakers of non-mainstream genres. Essentially, drive-ins were finished--those that did remain only showed Hollywood blockbusters. Most cities were even without a Saturday afternoon horror show/host. But there was a buzz amongst fans of the underground that something bolder lay ahead. Using low budget video, directors could make their movies without fear of losing Hollywood $$$$. Right-wing conservatives couldn’t keep their movies from being in the crappy mall multiplex because directors were going to produce/distribute their works themselves. It all sounded good. Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite turned out that way.
“Here at Video Crypt, we see too many titles issued that lack imagination, style, or purpose. Many aren’t taking risks and those that do often don’t possess an artistic vision. The technology keeps getting better as imaginations seemingly regress.
“It wasn’t always that way. In the early days of Video Crypt we were excited over the ultra low-budget works of John Michael McCarthy (Damselvis Daughter Of Helvis & Teenage Tupelo), Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), Howard S. Berger/Matthew Howe (Original Sins), and Charles Pinion (Red Spirit Lake and We Await). All these directors made wild, in your face movies that not only took on taboo subjects (religion, sex, violence, and culture clashes) - - but were also extremely entertaining.
“But none impressed us more than Charles Pinion. Arriving in New York from Gainesville, Florida for the tail end of the Cinema Of Transgression scene--made famous by people such as Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Beth B., and Lydia Lunch--Pinion was a painter/printmaker, high school teacher turned punk rock frontman, who was now an actor and director. It wasn’t very long before Pinion took the Cinema Of Transgression’s subversive elements and mixed them with inspired drive-in madness.”
Chip Lamey, Videocrypt
“Charles Pinion... is engaged in a similar polemic to Stewart Home; what he does reincorporates trash film and mass new production techniques.”
“Charles Pinion has been one of my favorite filmmakers for many years. No one captures the dream state — supra-normal narrative twists, terrifying horror, animalistic eroticism, outrageous humor and child-like wonder — better than he. Weaving these disparate elements into seamless storytelling makes a Pinion film like no other.”
MUMMY
Updated
Feb. 2011
Just wrapped a 17-day shoot -- the first Charles Pinion movie in 15 years! AMERICAN MUMMY (the title) was presented to me by Greg Salman, ca 2005 or so. Together we wrote it, cast it, and were getting ready to shoot it, when various events occurred to prevent us. It has lain fallow for the past 5 years or so... Then suddenly, recently, an investor showed up, then a couple more, and hey presto! Here I am with a new frickin’ film. Currently waiting on the hard drives, at which point I can start editing! Oh, did I mention it’s in 3D???!!!
The set in Northridge.
3D monitoring!!!
Producer, co-writer,
and 3D Maven
Greg Salman!!!
STAY
TUNED!!!
Me and my old buddy Webster Colcord. He came to visit the AMERICAN MUMMY set. He’s a hotshot animator. It was great to see him -- I think it had been ten years or more!
(Webster Colcord and I
as young whippersnappers,
circa 1988, in NYC.)
Updated
March 20, 2011