If you’re a fan of low budget B-movies the names Charles Band and Full Moon likely mean a great deal to you. For the last 30 years Band has been entertaining genre fans with hundreds of films including the likes of Re-Animator, From Beyond, Trancers, Puppetmaster and on and on to the point of racking up nearly 300 titles. Band has now taken to the crowd funding route for a little help with his next two films, both of which are sequels in popular franchises.
The first film is Evil Bong High-5 which as you may have guessed from that title is the 5th film in the Evil Bong series. This horror/comedy franchise is one of the newer creations under the Full Moon umbrella. The first entry came out in 2006 and starred everyone’s favorite pot head, Tommy Chong.
The next film looking for a little crowd funding love is Killjoy’s Psycho Circus. Trent Haaga, who has played Killjoy in the previous three films, will be back for the 5th film and joining him will be Victoria DeMare as Batty Boop.
Per the IndieGoGo campaign, the money to make the films is already there, but with some help from the fans the movies can be even better:
These films are fully financed and will go into production in Fall 2015, but YOU can make them even better!
- More Practical Effects!
- More Cameos!
- And wild surprises!
Contribute to our IndieGoGo campaign… Become part of this adventure! You’ll get incredible rewards, such as:
- DVDs, posters, tshirts
- Cast and Crew signature scripts
- Props from the films
- Visit the sets!
- Be in the films!
- Be an Associate Producer!
- A phone call with Charles Band himself!
- And if you’re lucky – we’ll kill you!!!
While crowd sourcing has it’s ups and downs, I’m mostly on board with it. Charles Band has given the horror community a lot of the years, so if there’s a chance I can give something back to him, I’m all for it. Plus the perks-to-donation-price-ratio is quite nice. For a $20 donation you get DVDs of both films? I’ll take it. That’s roughly the same price you’d pay for two DVDs anyway, but in this case your money actually goes to making the movies better.
With that being said the campaign is heading down the stretch run. If you want to donate and get some cool stuff for doing so, you’ll have to do it soon. To donate please click here.