Here at Missions Unknown we’re still sorting through the entries from recent film competitions. Today we present two of the submissions from the SAL 2009 Summer Remake Challenge. The challenge was to remake a film that was very influential to your work.
This short, What the Cock Roach Man Saw, was conceived and written by Carlos Pina and Mistah Pete Barnstrom with original music by Carlos Pina. This film is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal horror flick Psycho. Here’s what Mistah Pete has to say about the movie:
When I went to film school, my dad thought it’d make me either gay or a Democrat, but all it did was make me a Hitchcockian. I’m nuts for Hitchcock’s work, and this is my salute to Sir Alf.
I decided to do it in the style of the soft-core pron of my youth, which usually involved taking actual sex flicks and cutting them down to an R-rating, with a framing device involving an Avery Schreiber-type goof who sees the boots a-knocking from a safe and titillating distance. As Psycho pretty much was Hitchcock’s version of a sex loop (if not a snuff film), it didn’t seem much of a stretch.
This is a parody, and all rights are reserved to whoever owns the Master’s films these days. I made no money off of this and provide it purely as a tribute, however cockeyed.
Next up is Hell is Work from Lone Bannana and Parker Creek Productions.
Joey Carrillo is the writer/editor to blame for this take on Office Space meeting Evil Dead 2. Photography by Siggi Ragnar, cinematography by Wes Barlow. Personally I have to give ‘em props for realizing that in Hell the computers would all be Macs…running OS 8!
Hey, thanks for the link. Just for the record, my wife is mortified.
I would be too if I were married to the porn version of Avery Schreiber.