Anhedenia Films News 5/2012

Hello!

Thank you all visiting Anhedenia Films! Can you believe the year is almost half over?

Here is a trailer for my documentary ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. This film is a unique look at the Orange County, CA punk/hardcore music scene from 1990-1997. You can watch the trailer here.

Click here to check out the ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER Facebook page.

You can purchase the DVD/Blu-ray of KNOCKOUT. This is the boxing film that I co-wrote and it stars "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. For the best price I would go to BestBuy.com.

Also, you can order all of my available films via Amazon.com by clicking here.

Finally, if you want to order a copy of my first young adult novel, MY SUMMER OF HATE, you can do so by clicking this link. If you live in Orange County, CA you can also check it out of the library.

In Anhedenia Films Writing News…

I just turned in the fourth draft of my script RIDE ALONG to NGN PRODUCTIONS. I am about to start another one that I am going to see if they want. If they don't, I will take out myself but they have been great to me so I like to give them first crack at anything I do. This new script is going to be a boxing movie but it will have a unique twist. At least, I hope it's unique.

I am currently logging footage for the movie I directed called SHADOW. Once that is done, my plan is to do some sound work, add some music, then a soundtrack and see what the "powers that be" think.

ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER is done. At least this current version is. I plan to clear everything over the next 3 months. I will do a quick re-edit at the beginning of August and this project will officially be done and released.

It feels great to get OCHS done because I can now go back to working on my next animated movie, INSECT. Check that out here. As I said in my last post, the INSECT page is going to be updated a lot. Sadly, I just haven't had the time to work on it to do said updating. Hopefully, I will have some more images to share next month!

Lastly, my plan for making 2-3 schlock, exploitation films a year is slowly taking shape. I have my ideas for what the first three films will be (to be made in 2013), and I almost have the script for one of them completed. The other two should come together in short order. I have even lined up financing for them… it is micro-budget financing but financing nonetheless.

So far… 2012 is going great!

Evan Jacobs
anhedenia@hotmail.com

Anhedenia Films News 4/2012

Hello!

I am very sorry this is late.

Here is a trailer for my documentary ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER. This film is a unique look at the Orange County, CA punk/hardcore music scene from 1990-1997. You can watch the trailer here.

Click here to check out the ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER Facebook page.


You can purchase the DVD/Blu-ray of KNOCKOUT. This is the boxing film that I co-wrote and it stars "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. For the best price I would go to BestBuy.com.


Also, you can order all of my available films via Amazon.com by clicking here. 

Finally, if you want to order a copy of my first young adult novel, MY SUMMER OF HATE, you can do so by clicking this link. If you live in Orange County, CA you can also check it out of the library!

In Anhedenia Films Writing News…

I am currently working on 2 scripts for my friends at NGN Productions. Both are presently in the rewrite phase and they are going well. I am really trying to push myself more when I write. I am trying to bolster the scripts with better scenes, better dialogue and overall trying to make things more unique. Not sure how well that is going but I am trying.

I am almost done with my research and I am about to start writing another boxing movie. This one has a somewhat unique premise so we will have to see how it goes.

I might be doing some sound editing on SHADOW, the film that I directed. Patrice, the gentlemen that shot the film, has delivered a cut and now we need to cut in the extra voices. Looking forward to seeing how this thing came out.

As I write this I am knee deep in the ORANGE COUNTY HARDCORE SCENESTER edit. I should have it done in less than 72 hours! It also looks like I am going to be doing a first pass edit for a documentary on the band INSTED, and then after that I am going to begin work on a documentary for REVELATION RECORDS.

Somehow, amidst all this I am also going to make my next animated movie, INSECT. You can read more about here. I also plan to update the INSECT page regularly so keep checking back as it will be changing.

I have come up with a long range plan for making more movies. This could always change but once all of the documentaries and INSECT are done, I plan to make a slew of quick, schlock films with titles like IT CAME FROM THE TOILET, FALLING APART, CYBER CAT, etc.

See you next time! 

Evan Jacobs
anhedenia@hotmail.com 

 Insect 

In 2007 my mother died. She had been sick with a form of cancer for about 8 years but during that time she never looked sick. She had many chemotherapy treatments but they weren't the type that made her suffer physically or in her appearance. Then, in the summer of that year, she caught a cold, it didn't go away, and then a few days later she was on a respirator in an ICU. Then she passed away. Aside from my life changing a lot, I was forced to confront many of my fears after she died. I was amazed at how I could go long periods of time feeling okay, and then all of the sudden I was almost crippled by the idea of the long road of life that laid ahead of me. I mean... how do you go on after the person that gave you life loses theirs? So I came up with with this idea of two brothers who lose their mother (their father is already dead) and there is the possibility that the older brother is going to leave the younger brother when he turns 18. Inspired by PHANTASM and THE GATE, I made this a horror movie so that this subject matter would have some context and be entertaining as well.

INSECT - Synopsis

After the death of Reggies (14) and Dons (17) mother, the boys find themselves without parents. As their Aunt and Uncle get their home ready for them to move into, Reggie and Don are allowed to stay alone for a week in their mothers house. Shortly after their moms funeral, Reggie starts to hear strange noises. He also begins to see things such as dead insects, dead rats and even dead people in his home. On top of this, his cat Tallman has mysteriously gone missing and Reggie keeps finding a strange, crust-like substance all over the house.

Reggie tries to talk to Don about this but he is too busy with his girlfriend and his own life. With his brother only months away from turning 18, Reggie is terrified that Don is going to leave him alone with their Aunt and Uncle. He continues to experience strange events which eventually boil over when Reggies best friend Angus spends the night. After disappearing when he goes to check out a noise emanating from Reggies and Dons mothers bedroom (a room the brothers made a pact not to enter), they soon discover that what has taken him is scarier than they could have ever imagined. Reggie and Don must now band together if they are going to save Angus and themselves from the deadly Insect in their mothers bedroom.

As I am presently drawing this movie please keep checking back as I am planning to update this page on a monthly basis. 

You can check out an unedited scene from INSECT here. (In the final film there will be a lot more coverage happening during this character exchange.)

For more information please email Evan Jacobs at:

anhedenia@hotmail.com