CONTEST CLOSED! Win a Five-Disc Bulletface DVD Package
When director Albert Pyun and his team do a giveaway, they don’t mess around! They are providing five lucky Dread Central readers autographed DVD packages of Pyun’s latest film, Bulletface. And they’re not just your typical one- or two-disc DVD sets either. Each one contains five discs, two of which are soundtracks.
More specifically, each winner will receive:
Along with providing us with the contest info, Pyun shared his motivation for directing Bulletface:
“Why did I want to make Bulletface? Well, when I first read Randall Fontana’s script, I was drawn to the way he created a kind of throwback to the B-movie noir crime thrillers of the 1940’s and 50’s. I really wanted it to be, stylistically, like a contemporary version of those great crime thrillers from the poverty gulch studios of the time like Monogram. They were shot fast (Bulletface was shot in five days), on the cheap (Bulletface cost just a bit less than $100,000), and with a lot of creative desperation (which mirrors the plights of the Bulletface characters).
The great appeal of these films was that they had characters that were generally unredeemable and very bad. It was shades of black, not gray. These were hard-eyed, sensationalistic films. Precursors to the exploitation movies of the 1960’s and 70’s. So Bulletface has a lurid tone. It’s a little scruffy and ragged with sharp edges … a movie that follows one person’s two-year descent into Hell.
I was also looking for something to star Victoria Maurette, the young Argentine star of my Gothic horror western Left For Dead. I wanted to bring her tough, sullen quality into a more contemporary setting. She has one of the more remarkable faces I’ve ever had before my camera. It’s exotic, petulant, and beautiful in a rough and street-wise way. Clearly not a Hollywood starlet type.
Bulletface was originally written with a male lead. A traditional silently coiled man. I thought casting Victoria in the part would open up its possibilities. I kept the romantic and sexual connections the same. So her relationships are with women, but clearly she is bi-sexual. Victoria brings a sexy earthiness into the role that makes you understand her character’s preference for female companionship.”
Sound like something you’d be interested in? If so, it’s easy to enter: Simply shoot us an email here including your FULL NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS, and we’ll take care of the rest.
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