Filmed in Exile

This comes to you from our good friends at Scorpio Film Releasing…

Here it is! The WORLD PREMIERE of Scorpio Film Releasing’s newest feature ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION!

It’s 1957 and evil aliens have landed in the quaint New England town of New Shoreham! What could they possibly want from our precious planet? Will our plucky teenage heroes be able to stop them?

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION is a good, old-fashioned sci-fi horror film. No tricks, no gimmicks. Just 90 minutes of fun that will bring you back to the thrilling days of the drive-in!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION stars such acclaimed actors as
Sarah Nicklin
David Lavallee, Jr.
Michael Reed
Rich Tretheway
Alexandra Cipolla
David Erin Wilson
Daniel Lee White
Ruth Sullivan
Colin Carlton
Alexander Lewis
Alex Aponte
Andre Boudreau
Mark Fogarty
Gregory Barbon
Gio Castellano
Christopher Ferreira
Jennifer Scharf
Cat Hainfeld
Aurora Grabill
Sarah Lewis
Peter Morse
Jason McCormick
Kenneth Koury
Eric Eastman
and Brandon Luis Aponte as “Elvis Presley”
… as well as many, many more!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION was produced by Ted Marr, directed by Richard Griffin and written by Guy Benoit and Richard Griffin.

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION will be playing at the historic Orpheum Foxboro theater in Foxborough, MA on September 10th and 11th at 7pm and 9pm daily. Tickets are $9.00 at the door.

ATOMIC BRIAN INVASION is not rated, but contains no nudity, graphic violence or profanity and would be considered acceptable for audience members 12 years old and up!

ATOMIC BRAIN INVASION will be preceded by a brief Spookshow on opening night. Before your very eyes, horror hostess Penny Dreadful will bring Elvis Presley back from the dead On-Stage and In-Person!

Canzo Empyrean is a bizarre film which features the character Destro from G.I.  Joe.

The film is impossible to see and has one of the most bizarre and inventive marketing campaigns I have ever seen.  As I can not see it, this discussion really only covers the marketing plan.

The movie has created an underground buzz about itself by inflating it’s own myth.  You can not buy the movie, (probably because of copyright infringement).  The rumor is it took over ten years to make.  Other rumors help build the myth of the movie.  It claims to have had it’s first screening in Liberia.

Other rumors claim the only way to see it is to tag “Canzo Empyrean” in graffiti six times and photograph it, then the director will send you a copy with a unique watermark so he can tell if you leak the movie to the internet.

As a G.I. Joe fanatic I would love to see it.  It has destro and Zartan and portrays the Baroness as a dominatrix/ Ilsa She-Devil type.  Whatever it is, it has to be better than that piece of shit-Hollywood-Rise-of-Cobra-bullshit.

The movie takes place in a dystopian American future where an AIDS epidemic has swept the nation.  Destro arrives with a cure and a promise of pleasure without consequences.  It is bizarre and full of strange and beautiful images.
Destro speaks with a Sean Connery like accent, and seems to be played as a direct homage to Connery’s Bond.  Destro is a pimp in this movie, living the life.  He comes off like a hip-hop icon.  Scarface and Caligula all rolled into one.

This movie is so outrageous and creative it has legions of fans begging to see it.

Spend an hour pouring through it’s amazing website: www.canzoempyrean.com.  It has tons of content and the only way to get at it is to dig for it, which gives the movie the feeling of a great puzzle you have to unlock.

The movie is the brainchild of Justin Fornal, an underground filmmaker who also goes by the altar ego of “Baron Ambrosia”.  Ambrosia is a character he plays on a public access show called Bronx flavor, which seems almost as weird as Canzo Empyrean.  Fornal is creating a name for himself in New York Underground circuits, but his mastery of marketing deserves bigger.  Canzo’s marketing campaign is a masterpiece of marketing genius.  He has people begging to see this thing.

Whether or not the actual movie will deliver is another thing.  Often, weirdness that plays well in three minute clips gets tiring when spread out over hours and I have a low tolerance for weird for the sake of weird.  There is also the chance that it will work and be a cult masterpiece.

There is no way to know.  I am not much for graffitti so I guess I will have to stick with the imaginary movie in my head, pieced together from two hours of research.  It might be better to stick with that flick.  Whether it is any good or not, it’s marketing is genius and is an excellent model for filmmakers looking for a new method of distribution.