Attempting to create a new horror icon from scratch is a daunting task, but that’s exactly what the filmmakers behind the new independent slasher pic Billy Club are trying to do. Written and directed by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer, who also made the Troma release Blood Junkie, their latest breaks down like this:
“Fifteen years after a gruesome triple homicide devastated their Little League baseball team, four friends reunite to commemorate their dead coach and fallen teammates. A mystery unfolds as the secrets from their past return to haunt them and a vengeful killer, hidden by an antique umpire's mask, returns to even the score.”
Shock Till You Drop spoke with Rosas about the balance between paying homage and crafting something new, developing their killer’s look, the challenges of making an indie film far from Hollywood, and more.
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“Fifteen years after a gruesome triple homicide devastated their Little League baseball team, four friends reunite to commemorate their dead coach and fallen teammates. A mystery unfolds as the secrets from their past return to haunt them and a vengeful killer, hidden by an antique umpire's mask, returns to even the score.”
Shock Till You Drop spoke with Rosas about the balance between paying homage and crafting something new, developing their killer’s look, the challenges of making an indie film far from Hollywood, and more.
Read more...
- 10/7/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Check out the latest trailer and the third poster for Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer's Billy Club comedy horror, starring Marshall Caswell, Erin Hammond, Nick Sommer, Max Williamson, Mark Metcalf and Kelly Cunningham. There's no U.S. release date set as yet, but stick around for more news. Here's what the film's about: From the team that brought you Blood Junkie (2010) comes Billy Club, a new film that combines two of America’s favorite pastimes -- baseball and slasher movies! Billy Club follows the story of a little league team that was torn apart by a gruesome triple homicide and the four friends who reunite 15 years later to pay tribute to their fallen coach and teammates.
- 7/12/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Word of Billy Club, a new indie film set to debut later this summer, came our way today, and we're happy to provide the online premiere of the film's teaser trailer along with some stills and posters.
From the Press Release:
From the team that brought you Blood Junkie (2010) comes Billy Club, a new film that combines two of America’s favorite pastimes -- baseball and slasher movies! Billy Club follows the story of a little league team that was torn apart by a gruesome triple homicide and the four friends who reunite 15 years later to pay tribute to their fallen coach and teammates. A mystery unfolds as the secrets from their past begin to haunt them, and a vengeful killer, hidden by an antique umpire’s mask, returns to even the score.
As both a mind-bending mystery and a breakthrough genre film, Billy Club showcases a passionate collaboration of extremely talented producers,...
From the Press Release:
From the team that brought you Blood Junkie (2010) comes Billy Club, a new film that combines two of America’s favorite pastimes -- baseball and slasher movies! Billy Club follows the story of a little league team that was torn apart by a gruesome triple homicide and the four friends who reunite 15 years later to pay tribute to their fallen coach and teammates. A mystery unfolds as the secrets from their past begin to haunt them, and a vengeful killer, hidden by an antique umpire’s mask, returns to even the score.
As both a mind-bending mystery and a breakthrough genre film, Billy Club showcases a passionate collaboration of extremely talented producers,...
- 7/11/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Director Drew Rosas, known for Troma’s Blood Junkie, is using Kickstarter for his next project, and with only a few days left, he’s nearing his goal. He says: “We are currently at $13,611 of the $15,000 we need to hit to make this movie. Only 4 days left to pledge so if you have been meaning to support the film, wait no longer! Big thanks to all of our 73 backers.”
In order to make up the last bit of money, Rosas has created a new promo video for the Billy Club, as you can see below. Blood Junkie was all sorts of neat, especially on an $8k budget. Support indie films, original films:
Learn more about the film on its official site.
In order to make up the last bit of money, Rosas has created a new promo video for the Billy Club, as you can see below. Blood Junkie was all sorts of neat, especially on an $8k budget. Support indie films, original films:
Learn more about the film on its official site.
- 8/29/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Director Drew Rosas is gearing up for his next film in Billy Club, after wowing us in Blood Junkie for Troma, and he’s created a new promo video to spur attention to the Kickstarter campaign.
From Drew Rosas: Help us make another killer low budget movie by pledging your support today and promoting the film! You can pre-order a DVD for only $25 and we have lots of other great gifts at every pledge level!
Huge thanks to all of our backers so far! And remember, if we don’t make our goal, we get nothing and you get your money back. So make your pledge count and spread the word to everyone you know! Thanks to each of you for your support. I will make you proud.
Billy Club is an independently produced horror film from the directors Nick Sommer and Drew Rosas. This is a psychological thriller...
From Drew Rosas: Help us make another killer low budget movie by pledging your support today and promoting the film! You can pre-order a DVD for only $25 and we have lots of other great gifts at every pledge level!
Huge thanks to all of our backers so far! And remember, if we don’t make our goal, we get nothing and you get your money back. So make your pledge count and spread the word to everyone you know! Thanks to each of you for your support. I will make you proud.
Billy Club is an independently produced horror film from the directors Nick Sommer and Drew Rosas. This is a psychological thriller...
- 8/17/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Say what you will about Troma Entertainment, but every once in a while they do find a cool little gem like Blood Junkie (review here). Killer Film has received word that the film director, Drew Rosas (interview with him on Blood Junkie here) is getting his team back together for a new project called Billy Club.
Here’s the deal: he needs your help. Read on…
“I am getting the Blood Junkie team back together for a new horror film project called Billy Club,” Rosas tells us. “and I need your help! We are doing a fund raising campaign for the film through Kickstarter and we need all the help we can get to meet our goal of $15,000. (This is a feature length project by the way!)”
Click here for the film official website and here for its Facebook.
Here’s the plot: Bobby Spooner returns to his childhood home...
Here’s the deal: he needs your help. Read on…
“I am getting the Blood Junkie team back together for a new horror film project called Billy Club,” Rosas tells us. “and I need your help! We are doing a fund raising campaign for the film through Kickstarter and we need all the help we can get to meet our goal of $15,000. (This is a feature length project by the way!)”
Click here for the film official website and here for its Facebook.
Here’s the plot: Bobby Spooner returns to his childhood home...
- 7/28/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
In the world of Diy movies, it’s quite a feat just to complete one, but to have a successful film? That’s a rarity. Writer/Director Drew Rosas has recreated a neat 80′s styled slasher in Blood Junkie (official site here) on the smallest of budgets, and came out with a winner. Rosas chats thoroughly to Killer Film about the film and how he did it himself.
Jon: From your short film Plastic Fangs to Blood Junkie, it was about 5 years. Talk about getting Blood Junkie going through this time period.
Drew Rosas: Plastic Fangs was my senior thesis project for film school at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. I shot on 16mm and had access to a giant array of support and equipment with the Uwm film department. After graduation I went straight into working in the local film industry as a Pa and eventually moved...
Jon: From your short film Plastic Fangs to Blood Junkie, it was about 5 years. Talk about getting Blood Junkie going through this time period.
Drew Rosas: Plastic Fangs was my senior thesis project for film school at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. I shot on 16mm and had access to a giant array of support and equipment with the Uwm film department. After graduation I went straight into working in the local film industry as a Pa and eventually moved...
- 6/9/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
The Film:
You should never judge a book by its cover as they say, and if you did, you would confuse Troma’s Blood Junkie as a My Bloody Valentine (1981) rip-off, but it is not. There’s quaint similarities, notably in the killer’s mask, but if anything Blood Junkie‘s director Drew Rosas made a loving homage to George Mihalka’s Canadian slasher. Creepy, funny, very stylish in its mood and setting, the film is a throwback to when slasher were about rural settings and gore-driven stupidity.
Blood Junkie is kind of, sort of, pretty neat. Rosas’ eye works in two key areas, as a director thanks to an amazing setting, which is some abandoned warehouse that is just huge. The setting of this place adds mood and creepiness, something that is vastly missed in today’s slashers. The other key area, is the actual look of the film.
You should never judge a book by its cover as they say, and if you did, you would confuse Troma’s Blood Junkie as a My Bloody Valentine (1981) rip-off, but it is not. There’s quaint similarities, notably in the killer’s mask, but if anything Blood Junkie‘s director Drew Rosas made a loving homage to George Mihalka’s Canadian slasher. Creepy, funny, very stylish in its mood and setting, the film is a throwback to when slasher were about rural settings and gore-driven stupidity.
Blood Junkie is kind of, sort of, pretty neat. Rosas’ eye works in two key areas, as a director thanks to an amazing setting, which is some abandoned warehouse that is just huge. The setting of this place adds mood and creepiness, something that is vastly missed in today’s slashers. The other key area, is the actual look of the film.
- 6/9/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Blood Junkie You remember watching films like Death Proof and Planet Terror that are supposed to be homages to the films of the yesteryear? While watching them, they certainly evoke the past, but you never truly forget that they are a modern day movie. That's what makes Drew Rosas debut feature length horror film, Blood Junkie (aka Rocky Trails), different. See the actors, the humor, the clothing, the attitudes, the way that the film was made, all make you believe that you are truly watching a forgotten or lost horror film from the 80's. And he accomplished this on a budget of just $7000! Blood Junkie deals with teenage girls who along with a younger brother drag themselves to the woods to have a camping party with two high school graduates. However, the party of their lives is about to get cut short by an uninvited serial killer. Blood Junkie was...
- 5/16/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Aka Rocky Trails
2010 - 72 mins. - Rated R
D: Drew Rosas
C: Nick Sommer, Mike Johnson, Sarah Luther, Emily Treolo
Group of kids camping out are stalked and killed by a maniac.
Fun, but nothing new story wise that the slasher sub-genre hasn't seen before a million times already. However, Blood Junkie manages to set itself apart from the pack with its throwback to the style of the 80's. Blood Junkie looks and feels as though it was made in the 80's. The way that the characters look, the way that they act is spot on. Blood Junkie amusingly captures the inherent humor of the clothes, the style, the behaviors and even the exercise tapes of the era. However, Blood Junkie is more successful as a throwback to the 80's over being an actual slasher film. The slasher elements are introduced rather late into the film's brief running time. The slasher bits,...
2010 - 72 mins. - Rated R
D: Drew Rosas
C: Nick Sommer, Mike Johnson, Sarah Luther, Emily Treolo
Group of kids camping out are stalked and killed by a maniac.
Fun, but nothing new story wise that the slasher sub-genre hasn't seen before a million times already. However, Blood Junkie manages to set itself apart from the pack with its throwback to the style of the 80's. Blood Junkie looks and feels as though it was made in the 80's. The way that the characters look, the way that they act is spot on. Blood Junkie amusingly captures the inherent humor of the clothes, the style, the behaviors and even the exercise tapes of the era. However, Blood Junkie is more successful as a throwback to the 80's over being an actual slasher film. The slasher elements are introduced rather late into the film's brief running time. The slasher bits,...
- 5/10/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Blood Junkie A 1980's styled horror-comedy that will take you on a trip down memory lane... and right into harms's way!
From Troma Entertainment comes Blood Junkie (aka Rocky Trails), a hyper-hipster 1980s horror comedy about a group of teenagers that discover a mysterious abandoned building where bad things happen. Directed by Drew Rosas (aka Andrew Rosas), Blood Junkie will be making its way to DVD on May 10th.
Shot in Wisconsin for $6000, Blood Junkie is a refreshing new vision in Diy independent horror film making. If the trailer is any indication, Blood Junkie full captures the spirit of the 80's, of the grindhouse, of the slasher genre and even gives us a little creature feature in the mix - all in one package!
Special features included on the DVD:
-Introduction by Debbie Rochon and Lloyd Kaufman
-Commentary by drector Drew Rosas
-Delated scenes
-Slideshow
-Plastic Fangs: A...
From Troma Entertainment comes Blood Junkie (aka Rocky Trails), a hyper-hipster 1980s horror comedy about a group of teenagers that discover a mysterious abandoned building where bad things happen. Directed by Drew Rosas (aka Andrew Rosas), Blood Junkie will be making its way to DVD on May 10th.
Shot in Wisconsin for $6000, Blood Junkie is a refreshing new vision in Diy independent horror film making. If the trailer is any indication, Blood Junkie full captures the spirit of the 80's, of the grindhouse, of the slasher genre and even gives us a little creature feature in the mix - all in one package!
Special features included on the DVD:
-Introduction by Debbie Rochon and Lloyd Kaufman
-Commentary by drector Drew Rosas
-Delated scenes
-Slideshow
-Plastic Fangs: A...
- 4/11/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
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