Legendary Horror Writer John Skipp Relaunches Kickstarter Campaign For Rose: The Bizarro Zombie Musical

Rose — think “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” meets Night of the Living Dead — is the totally Bizarro story of Rose (Chase McKenna), a hot machete-juggling ex-mental patient with an internet/cable access puppet show, who becomes an unlikely hero of the zombie apocalypse.

On June 20 Skipp re-launched his Kickstarter campaign to audience-fund this off-the-wall cult horror/comedy feature, with a video that he hopes will help clarify everything.

“It’s one thing to talk about Rose,” he says. “It’s another thing to see her in action. So we shot some shorts, which all tell part of the story, but it’s kind of like tiles in a mosaic. It doesn’t make sense until you put it all together, which I think this new Kickstarter video does, with as much eye-popping candy as we could swing, to make the case.”

Skipp and his team – including McKenna, producer Jane Hamilton (Parasomnia), editor/associate producer Andrew Kasch (Never Sleep Again), and Rob Hall’s Almost Human FX (Quarantine) – have also massively scaled back their Kickstarter goal.

“We need $20,000 to build Rose’s Place – the set for her complete puppet world – and all 20 of the super-cool puppets that will inhabit it. Hire the actors who will play those puppets. Take ‘em in the studio, to finish recording the songs. And shoot a huge chunk of the movie, plus a bunch of internet shorts to tease everybody into wanting to see more.