KILLER BITCH - There's no accounting for (bad) taste...

There have been a lot of news features on the Killer Bitch movie, sight unseen, but very few actual reviews of the full film.

First there was the GoreZone 5-star magazine review:

"This is Grand Theft Auto meets I Spit on your Grave... A violent 21st century British pantomime for the MTV generation… A middle finger in your face attitude… This is a must-see… This film is in a league of its own and has to be seen to be believed… You may read this review and think the film sounds vile, disgusting and morally depraved and you’d be wrong - you forgot to add bloody fantastic as well."

Then there was the 1-star review from the News of the World:

"This is the shoddiest excuse for a film I've seen in my life... Highlight, of course, is the Reidernator's much-vaunted sex scene, where he's channelling the passion and intensity of Beethoven (the giant St Bernard)."

Now there is the 4-star review from the AVmaniacs.com website:

"A bad taste ultraviolent black comedy, loaded with cursing, screaming, yelling and a higher body-count than even most films it could be compared to… If sunny nihilism and anti-social behaviour (not to mention blood, biceps, big boobs, and a topless midget!) with a Cockney twist floats your boat, hunt down KILLER BITCH."

If you can get a 5-star review and a 1-star review for the same movie, you know you must have done something right somewhere...

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KILLER BITCH, crime and Citizen Kane

I was talking to one of the Killer Bitch cast yesterday and (as one who knows) he came out with the legendary line: "I've got no money at the moment and xxxx xxxxxxx ain't got no money either. The bottom's fallen out of Crime."

Has Britain fallen this low? Sir Francis Drake made England great by robbing Spanish ships of their gold and the East India Company built Queen Victoria's glorious British Empire on the heroin trade.

We live in difficult economic times. Or do we? Opinion varies.

A recent report said organised crime caused "an estimated £30 billion a year in social and economic harm" to the UK. I'm not quite sure what "harm" means in this context. Presumably it means there is a £30 billion black economy underpinning the 'legitimate' economy. But it's all guestimates on guestimates. A recent report by the Association of Chief Police Officers claimed the UK underworld economy is now worth around £40 billion a year.

I'm more concerned that fake DVD production is now reckoned to be worth £300 million in the UK. I had vaguely hoped Killer Bitch might be fairly immune to this because I had hoped that the people most likely to rip us off were actually involved in the movie in some way - and therefore highly unlikely to rip us off. I had, however, reckoned without the international nature of modern movie rip-off-dom.

Still, I am filled with hope for the future of Killer Bitch because Michael Deeley, the highly-regarded head of British Lion Films reportedly said, when his company released The Wicker Man in 1973, that it was the worst film he had ever seen. Years later, the equally highly-regarded Cinefantastique magazine devoted at entire issue to The Wicker Man, famously calling it "the Citizen Kane of horror films", while the Los Angeles Times said it was: "Witty & scary! No one who sits through it to the end is likely to find it easy to shake off."

Likewise, no-one who sits through Killer Bitch with an increasingly dropped jaw and open mouth is ever likely to forget it. Bland it is certainly not.

KILLER BITCH No 6 in the Top Ten DVDs

KILLER BITCH was released in the UK and Ireland last week and became No 6 in HMV high street stores’ top-selling DVDs. Some animated family film called Avatar pipped us to the post.

The HMV placing came after Killer BItch was banned by the Asda, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Tesco supermarket chains.. and YouTube also banned the trailer.

iTunes did sell it last week… for two days... then they suddenly withdrew it from sale because their "global policy is not to have extra violence and frontal nudity within the store".

This is a tad surprising because, although Killer BItch is a merry British romp through an OTT plot with OTT characters and OTT violence, it features pantomime violence - really, honestly, how many times have you seen someone killed with a fish or threatened by a topless female dwarf with a large handgun and are these scenes likely to deprave, corrupt, incite copycat killings and topple British cultural values?

This is a description of Willem Dafoe's recent film Antichrist which was passed uncut by the BBFC and sold by iTunes:

"After knocking him unconscious, Gainsbourg bores a hole in Dafoe's leg with a hand drill and bolts him to a grindstone to keep him from escaping. Then, she smashes his scrotum with some sort of blunt object (the moment of impact happens slightly below the frame). We don't actually see his testicles become disengaged from this body, though it's implied. Next, she brings him to a climax with her hands and he ejaculates blood (yes, it's shown). But that's not all! Later, in an extreme closeup — lensed by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle! — Gainsbourg cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors."

Sadly Killer BItch violence fades into insignificance in comparison to this though I think we may have a chance in the Rocky Horror Show market.

At the Killer Bitch cinema premiere in Mayfair - attended by sundry policemen and surreally with two machine-gun-wielding policemen standing at the end of the street watching the comings-and-goings - Alex Reid’s sex scene was mightily popular. Sections of the audience started imitating his audible grunting and he got a round of applause halfway through the scene. I can see future screenings possibly being attended by people dressed as Alex who join in the fun by inter-acting with what’s on screen.

First there were Rocky Horror Picture Show nights; then Sound of Music nights; can Killer Bitch nights be far behind?

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KILLER BITCH - Alex Reid compared to Beethoven

Following KILLER BITCH's 5-star review in Gore Zone magazine, we have now received a News of the World review which compares star Alex Reid to Beethoven... http://tinyurl.com/y4w2hv8

I see on the reviewer's Twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/robbiereviews

he says: "The film everyone's talking about! Iron Man 2? Don't be daft! It's Killer Bitch, with Alex Reid!"

KILLER BITCH passed uncut by British Film Censors

Well, despite Sunday newspaper reports at the weekend, the BBFC has now passed KILLER BITCH uncut, although only just. At one point we were told it was "more likely than not" that there would be cuts demanded.

The movie was passed after a normal screening by a BBFC Examiner; an abnormal second screening by more than one Examiner; a special screening for the BBFC Director; a special screening for the BBFC Chairman; and a letter from the movie's director defending what is shown in KILLER BITCH.

There were two scenes that were said to be of special concern. One was the much-commented-on Alex Reid sex scene which has been widely referred to in the press (but never by us) as a 'rape' scene. The other cause for BBFC concern was, we were told, a scene involving porn megastar Ben Dover, who Hustler magazine named as one of the 'Top 50 Most Influential People In Porn'.

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KILLER BITCH: Alex Reid was paid £50,000 ?

I see, as well as today's News of the World piece, the Daily Star Sunday is also carrying a piece (on page 3) about the possible (they claim certain) censorship of "Killer Bitch" by the BBFC, the British film censors. Sadly, it's not in the online edition of the Star. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?

Meanwhile, as per normal, other websites and newspapers around the world have started to pick up on the News of the World story, including:

http://www.realbollywood.com/news/2010/0

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http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/reality-tv/alex-reids-rape-scene-to-be-cut-from-killerbitch-movie/

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http://www.glam.com/blogs/unreality_tv/alex_reids_rape_scene_to_be_cut_from_killerbitch_movie

Again, they have the release date incorrect - it is Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May in the UK and Ireland. And no comment on their claim that we paid Alex Reid £50,000 for his role in the movie...

News of the World to win Booker Prize?

I see today's News of the World is going up-market with a spirited bid to get nominated for the Booker Prize for fiction. At least they could get the scheduled release date right - The "Killer Bitch" DVD is actually now scheduled for release on Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May...

www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/760448/Alex-Reid-could-have-controversial-sex-scenes-deleted-from-his-new-movie.html

THE "KILLER BITCH" IS BACK - and The Censors Don't Know What to Say

Our upcoming KILLER BITCH film had to change its title to "Killer Babe" to satisfy a major UK retailer who objected to the word "Bitch" or "B***h" or "B****". Apparently "bitch" was considered offensively sexist but "babe" was/is not. That retailer has now seen what is in the actual movie itself and has backed out of stocking it.

So we are reverting to the original title KILLER BITCH, known and loved by many including, I can only presume, Joan Collins.

Meanwhile, indecision still reigns in the labyrinthine corridors of the BBFC (the British Film Censors). They had their normal screening of the movie by a single Examiner... then an uncommon second screening for other Examiners... then a third screening for the BBFC's Director... and they still couldn't reach a decision... So now there will be a fourth screening for the BBFC Chairman this week and, allegedly they will then decide on Friday or Monday. Frankly, if they are going to have this many screenings to this many people, I think the least they could do is buy a copy.

But, as a result of all this delay, the release of the DVD has been put back to Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May, coincidentally 24 hours after the British Erotic Awards Film Day on 2nd May.

The people I feel sorry for, though, are the poor souls at the BBFC. If the content of KILLER BITCH is so close to the edge of what is acceptable in a British feature film, I am worried about the moral health of the poor peeps at the BBFC who are continually being subjected to this apparently shocking and soul-degrading attack on the moral senses. Four screenings!

They recently passed with an 18 certificate the Willem Dafoe movie "Antichrist" which, I understand, showed close-ups of a penis ejaculating blood and, in extreme close-up, a shot of a woman cutting off her clitoris with a pair of scissors - as filmed by the Oscar-winning cinematographer of "Slumdog Millionaire".

But maybe that was Art aimed at readers of upmarket newspapers whereas KILLER BITCH is roundly aimed at ordinary people with a taste for straightforward entertainment and without an Oxbridge degree in Classics. We have always seen KILLER BITCH as an over-the-top British pantomime with blood and breasts. No more offensive than an Eminem stage show.

I suppose we should feel honoured that the BBFC is worried that KILLER BITCH might be more morally corrupting and closer to the edge of acceptability than "Antichrist". After all, we know exactly how small our budget was! But I have a slight worry there might be elitism creeping in - one rule for the Arts graduates who read the Guardian and the Independent; another rule for 'the plebs' who read the Daily Mirror, Star and Sun.

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KILLER BABE band release debut single

One of our "Killer Babe" soundtrack bands - THE HYADS - are releasing their debut single "Didn't Want It This Way" next Monday (15th March)

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=350155074444

Their MySpace page is

www.myspace.com/thehyads

LANGUAGE! LANGUAGE!

The BBC News channel today is reporting that the Best Supporting Actor Oscar went to a bloke in Quentin Tarentino's "Inglourious".

Mark Kermode, discussing the Oscars in the same BBC News channel bulletins, quite happily talks about "Inglourious Basterds".

Our title "Killer Bitch" changed to "Killer Babe" because a major UK retailer felt "Bitch" was sexist but "Babe" was not.

We live in interesting times.

KILLER BITCH is now KILLER BABE

KILLER BABE is the new title of Killer Bitch - The title change is to please a rather sensitive major retailer, but the content of the movie remains the same.

www.killerbabe.co.uk

Alex Reid, Celebrity Big Brother and 31 music tracks

Well, our KILLER BITCH star Alex Reid won Celebrity Big Brother last night with 65% of the vote and I do believe Davina McCall might have called KILLER BITCH a "cult smash" even before it's released, which can't be bad, but there's much more to the movie than just sex, violence, real criminals, real on-screen fights, former world championship boxers, cage fighters, bare-knuckle champions, Page 3 girls, Babestation babes and potential Daniel Craig James Bond replacements.

The 92-minute movie also includes 31 music tracks:

“STAR SPANGLED ANNA”
Performed by Pussycat and The Dirty Johnsons

“PEACHY”
Performed by Will Crewdson

“TROUBLE ON THE TERRACES”
Performed by The Hyads

“SEXUAL FAVOURS”
Performed by Rotten Ped

“MIDNIGHT TRAVELLER”
Performed by Prophecy

“OUT OF CONTROL”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“BUKKAKE QUEEN”
Performed by Pussycat and The Dirty Johnsons

“OBSESSION”
Performed by Stefano Barone

“Mr TOAD”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“DEATH FROM ABOVE”
Performed by Serotonin

“BIG MISTAKE”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“I CAN’T HEAR YOU”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“OSAGE CITY”
Performed by Sweet Felicity Arkwright

“CYGNUS”
Performed by Stefano Barone

“METAL MAN”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“COLD WIND”
Performed by Stefano Barone

“BASTARD”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“THE GRAIN TRAIN (GET ON BOARD)”
Performed by Dean Rees

“PARK AVENUE”
Performed by Dead Family

“CREEPS”
Performed by Rachel Stamp

“FREAKYLOVEWAY”
Performed by Sid Sings

‘SCREAM FOR ME’
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

“QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE”
Performed by Rachel Stamp

‘HEAVY RAIN’
Performed by Sweet Felicity Arkwright

“BANGED OUT”
Performed by MC Spanish Fly

“HONEY”
Performed by Rachel Stamp

“AFRAID OF THE DARK”
Performed by Pussycat and The Dirty Johnsons

“DEATH PENALTY”
Performed by Electric Eel Shock

‘LONG HAIRED WOMAN’
Performed by Sweet Felicity Arkwright

“TAKEN A HOLD ON ME”
Performed by Sweet Felicity Arkwright

“FRIENDS AND FOES”
Performed by Isaac's Aircraft

KILLER BITCH - THE CUTTING EDGE MOVIE

On page 15 of today's new issue of Heat magazine, they say of Killer Bitch: "The fast-cut sex and violence... is unexpectedly avant-garde".

We prefer to call it cutting-edge. As unexpected as a slit throat.

A lot has been said about Killer Bitch, but naturalistic kitchen sink drama it ain't.

It's Tom and Jerry meets Reservoir Dogs... a violent panto.

And it's possible (though not certain) that this Friday's edition of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4 will show even more footage from the movie.

TO VOTE FOR ALEX REID TO WIN CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER PHONE
09011 323 001
in the UK.

Big Brother's Big Mouth is on E4 Wednesday at 11.25pm and Friday at 11.05pm

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"KILLER BITCH" notches up its first sale

After E4 screened a short clip from the Killer Bitch trailer on Big Brother's Big Mouth last night, the on-screen conversation between presenter Davina McCall, Michelle Heaton and Boyd Hilton (TV & Reviews Editor of Heat magazine), went:

DAVINA: "I'm telling you I'm buying that. On the strength of that trailer, I'm buying that."

MICHELLE: "I guarantee that's a hit already, right?"

BOYD: "We'll be doing a big 4-page review of it."

Phew! So, when the movie comes out, that's one sold, at least!

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Killer Bitch - Alex Reid, "I Spit on Your Grave" and "Apocalpsye Now!"

KILLER BITCH “makes You’ve Been Framed look like Apocalypse Now!” according to Now Magazine’s online edition today… a comparison I enjoy so much it is almost up there with Gore Zone magazine ‘s opinion that KILLER BITCH is “Grand Theft Auto meets I Spit on Your Grave”.

Now magazine were also generous enough to say: “The website for KILLER BITCH is kind of inspired… Now that is manipulation of the press!”

You can make up your own mind by taking a look at www.killerbitch.co.uk

Celebrity Big Brother’s Big Mouth also gave us a very welcome mention on E4 last night.

In response to Alex Reid’s quote in the Celebrity Big Brother house, saying: “I can influence the world a better way by… making life-changing films” they ran an unedited clip from his debut in KILLER BITCH. Davina McCall’s reaction was: “Daniel Craig watch out!” while Terry Christian said, “I thought he was like a young Marlon Brando there. I felt the heat!”

I’m not so sure Stephen Baldwin would approve of KILLER BITCH, though.

Maybe "A sick movie... vile scenes...stomach churning" (Daily Mirror) is not on-message for him.


Meanwhile, editing on the movie continues apace in Northamptonshire, Walthamstow and Chatham.

Killer Bitch, Celebrity Sleaze and Link Mania

Well, Alex Reid has gone into the Celebrity Big Brother house dressed as a man rather than as his alter ego Roxanne.

Pity.

But the good news is that, according to Celebrity Big Brother, we are a "mucky movie" and, according to the News of the World, Alex's career low so far has been appearing in "sleazy gangster film Killer Bitch".

As Oscar said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. And they haven't even seen any clips from Killer Bitch yet.

For a taster of the sort of music we are using, you could do worse than go to the music page of the Killer Bitch website.

"Killer Bitch" Cross Dressing in the Celebrity Big Brother House?

I see the Daily Star is claiming today that, on 3rd January, our Killer Bitch co-star cage-fighting Alex Reid will be going into the Channel 4 Celebrity Big Brother house as his cross-dressing alter-ego Roxanne. If so, it should be worth seeing. And he'll be out in time for our movie release on 8th March; and the publication of the Killer Bitch novel on 1st March.

In our movie, of course, the tabloid storm has always been Alex's participation in the allegedly 'vile' alleged 'rape' scene, one tame frame of which is shown on the Killer Bitch Facebook page

I'm told the News of the World has been attempting to get something straight from the Horse's mouth for around three months now. If they ever get anything straight from the Horse's mouth that their lawyers will allow them to print, it'd better be as good as what we have on film. I'm certainly on tenterhooks.

Just wait till March.

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"Killer Bitch" - How to Get Rid of a Dead Body

So that’s how to get rid of a body leaving no trace? Who would have thought it? I am a simple person and imagined the pigs just ate the flesh or, if you dumped a weighted body into the sea, you just used small-gauge chicken coop netting.

I had an interesting chat with our death consultant ‘Lou’ yesterday afternoon and he set me straight. Amazing a man who knows about such things can have such a delicate palate for food.

The editing has started on Killer Bitch with seven people ensconced in Northamptonshire working right throughout the Christmas and New Year period on three editing machines; plus editing work in Walthamstow and - ooh - somewhere in the depths of the snow in Kent as well. Meanwhile, In Borehamwood, home of both the Indiana Jones and the On The Buses movies, I am using an Apple quill to try to novelise the script. Thus my need to know about the intricacies of pigs’ digestive tracts.

Our ‘Lou’ knows almost as much about animals as the very nice indeed former drug super-dealer Howard Marks. His stories of the sophisticated uses of lion shit and reindeer urine take some beating. He seemed happy with his own upcoming autobiographical movie Mr Nice in which he is played by Rhys Ifans; he had seen a screening of the finished film. It’s certainly a cracking story.

We went to Leeds to film Howard’s scenes for Killer Bitch. They were either the final or penultimate sequences to be filmed.

I’m not 100% certain if they were our last bit of filming because, even though we have now started editing and will finish the final cut in January, there is an extra surprise scene which we may or may not be able to shoot. If we can do it, it will certainly put a smile on my face and should make audiences and journalists sit up in their seats.

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'Dodgy' Dave Courtney Lives Again in "Killer Bitch"

On “Killer Bitch”, we do like a bit of publicity and had plans to kill celebrity gangster ‘Dodgy’ Dave Courtney , but we were scuppered by police action.

We filmed all the set-up and preparations for his death at a big gangland party in South East London but, a couple of days later, before we could shoot scenes of his actual killing, the police arrested him on firearms charges and he was (in the technical phrase used in such circumstances) banged up in Belmarsh with no parole, despite the fact he had no witnesses to threaten, was no risk to anyone and was never going to do a runner. The authorities just enjoyed having him in prison, much like the Krays and Ronnie Biggs.

Dodgy Dave was arrested months ago. Poor Liam, our beleaguered writer/director, had to re-write the script so Dave’s excellent and expensive scenes were kept in the movie but so it also made sense he was not killed. Poor Liam later had to re-script the movie again when allegedly cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid (our main co-star) decided not to complete the sequences he had started shooting. Only he and Kate Price/Jordan know why; we certainly don’t. We had to shut down for a month.

The result of all this anarchy was a multiply-re-written script, extra scenes, extra characters, extra performers, extra action, extra colour and, ironically, probably an even better movie - though with escalating extra costs.

All we’re admitting is that the budget is now over £45 and less than £100,000. In other words, it has cost more than Welsh zombie movie “Colin” but has cost less than “Avatar”. It is also fairly safe to say it will be more entertaining than “Batman and Robin” and “The English Patient”. But then so was Andy Warhol's eight-hour movie of the Empire State Building at night; and, yes, I did sit through that.

The good news is that, this week, a London jury took only two hours to clear ‘Dodgy’ Dave on three charges of illegal firearms possession. Anyone who has been in the living room his Plumstead house ‘Camelot’ (you can see it in all its glory in “Killer Bitch”) will know its walls are lined with firearms, swords and I think there may be a suit of armour and a platoon of Japanese soldiers in there somewhere too. But would ‘Dodgy’ Dave do something illegal? I can hardly believe it. As he told the court: "The police keep arresting me for things, but I am no longer a naughty man."

Except in our fictional movie, where he plays himself and is certainly a very naughty man caught with his trousers down and his pecker up.

He will be one of the few to survive “Killer Bitch”. So far, we have had over 160 performers in the movie and most of them seem to have been killed. Still a couple more weeks to go; plenty of time to up the body count.

We might even have time to kill ‘Dodgy’ Dave, but I think poor Liam might not be able to face another re-write and will let him live - perhaps for the sequel which, in the current draft script, opens in a Scottish religious building. Who knows how subsequent events may change it?

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“Killer Bitch” - A Slasher Movie?

I was circumcised earlier this year. I didn’t think it was necessary, but three doctors recommended it and, eventually, I realised it was no skin off my nose.

Rather more drastic on “Killer Bitch” this week was cutting off the penis of one of our lead performers. It was quite complicated.

Our death consultant ‘Lou’ had to go into a Soho sex shop to buy a rubber penis and testicles. He told them some cock and ball story.

On the day, our performer had to be ‘tubed up’ with rubber piping so blood could be pumped out of his groin as the cock was cut off.

Our director Liam reversed his normal instructions and, to start the scene, shouted: “CUT!” When the scene finished and the penis fell, he shouted: “We’re rolling!”

‘Lou’, always a perfectionist, ensured that the bloodied and severed penis left lying on the floor of the laundrette (don’t ask) was seen to be sliced at the correct angle to correlate with the previously filmed angle at which our girl slashed the knife through the cock with the yell: “This is for all the women of Britain!”

Attention to realistic detail is important on “Killer Bitch”.

The previous day, when gunning down around 20 innocent people in cold blood in a warehouse in Gravesend, one of our lead actors who had better remain nameless interrupted to advise: “He wouldn’t say that before he shot him,” and, “They wouldn’t be killed like that. We did it this way.”

It is always best to have experienced advisors when making a movie.

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