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Troy Duffy Goes Serial Killer Hunting With ‘The Blood Spoon Council’!!
Independent film producer Scott Clayton and his production company Oceanside Media has signed on to produce and fully financeThe Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy‘s new feature film The Blood Spoon Council! Duffy will direct the highly anticipated thriller from a script he wrote with new scribe, Criss Lassiter, Bloody Disgusting learned.
For Duffy’s new chilling psychological thriller, the film follows a vigilante group, known as the Blood Spoon Council, who are hunting down and executing serial killers in the U.S. The FBI commissions a young, rogue profiler to get into the head of the group’s elusive leader. But their investigation is derailed when the whiz kid engages in a secret game of cat-and-mouse with a mastermind the likes of which he’s never seen.
The Blood Spoon Council is Duffy’s first film since his return to writing and directing following The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the sequel to the cult favorite action crime thriller The Boondock Saints. The original film, starring Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Norman Reedus, developed a colossal fan following through word-of-mouth publicity and successful packaged media distribution. The film ran on a limited theatrical release, but it was the home entertainment sales as a Blockbuster Exclusive selection where the film amassed staggering sums catapulting it to a DVD bestseller and the highest-grossing rental of 2001. The film maintains a strong cult following to this day while finding new audiences through digital platforms.
“[Duffy] brings back the same raw, unforgiving action tangled with the kinetic storytelling that audiences know and love to his new film,” said Clayton.
“I want to create an action-packed psychological thriller with Blood Spoon and I have held nothing back,” adds Duffy. “All the killers and their crimes are inspired by actual serial cases. The mastermind of the Council is a one-of-a-kind character that will take a one-of-a-kind talent to portray him. The Blood Spoon Council may be dark but it is darkly beautiful, darkly exciting and it satisfies that devilish curiosity many of us have about serial killers and the uniquely gifted individuals who pursue them.”
Though Duffy intends to give fans a third installment of The Boondock Saints on the big screen, he is currently partnered with Don Carmody of DCTV to create a rebooted TV series based on the cult franchise entitled, “The Boondock Saints: Origins”.
Her House of Horrors, the horror division of Independent Production House WOMXNOGRAPHY, has launched its Bite Size Short Grant Program, ahead of its film festival Dollhouse of Horror, which will take place in March 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.
The Bite Size Short Grant Program awards $2,000 film grants to female-identifying and queer horror filmmakers. Shorts must be able to be made for $2,000, with a minimum runtime of 8 minutes. Submissions are now open on Filmfreeway, and are being judged by a panel of horror lovers and content creators.
The 2024 Bite Size Short Grant Program judge lineup is as follows:
“James H. Carter II- A documentary director, film producer, podcaster, marketing specialist, and writer. James is the founder and co-owner of Creepy Kingdom. Creepy Kingdom was founded in 2011 and is a multimedia website, and production studio specializing in creepy content. Their primary focus lies at the intersection of childlike fantasy and the macabre, covering horror films, theme parks, haunts, and much more. Beyond their extensive media coverage, Creepy Kingdom hosts events, offers original merchandise, and engages in film production under the Creepy Kingdom Studios brand producing original films like “Foolish Mortals”, exploring Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” fan culture, and “Georgie”, featuring Tony Dakota from the original “It” miniseries.
“In addition to founding Creepy Kingdom, James has won awards for his documentary work, including the award-winning “Foolish Mortals,” which has earned him recognition. He has been featured on Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween special.
“Ashleeta Beauchamp is the editor-in-chief of Peek-A-Boo! Magazine, a cheeky horror magazine created to uplift marginalized writers, artists, models and other creators within the horror community. She also runs The Halloween Coalition, a community group to provide support and marketing for horror and Halloween events around the Southern California area.
“Titeanya Rodríguez is a multi-hyphenate creative, and the founder and owner of HER HOUSE OF HORRORS, home of DOLLHOUSE OF HORROR and the horror division of WOMXNOGRAPHY. As a fellow storyteller and a self-proclaimed artivist, Titeanya’s mission is to create opportunities for women of color and queer women, across film, tv, sports, music, and beyond. She is also the creator of the BITE SIZE SHORT grant program.”
Winners will have a one-night theatrical screening at Regal Cinemas. Submissions Close April 8 at Midnight. Winners will be announced on May 27, 2024. Shorts must be shot and through post-production by June 30, 2024. The screening will take place on July 8, 2024, in Los Angeles, CA.
WOMXNOGRAPHY, HER HOUSE OF HORRORS, and Rodriguez are represented by Azhar PR, Granderson Des Rochers, and Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir.
To submit your short to the Bite Size Short Grant Program, go to the FilmFreeway link here.
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