Exciting IndieGoGo Perks to Get On Board Arbroath Based IronStar Films Short Film, Blood Loss.

Filmmaking peeps, check out this wicked opportunity to get on board my friends at IronStar Films new short, Blood Loss.  I have been friends with writer/director Graeme Carr for a greater part of my life, and I know how much of a film geek he is, and one with a wicked imagination.  These guys are just starting out, but as you can see from the teaser trailer, they are onto something pretty awesome.  They're in talks with some outstanding actors, as well as make up artists, and I'm really excited about being part of this project.  

You can check out my previous blog on the short, which also features the teaser trailer HERE!

So yay, get on board, spread the love and share, share, share.  Thanks to John Carswell, they have a superb location for shooting this too, it's so freakin' cool!!  Let's put Arbroath on the map showing the world what Scottish filmmakers are capable of. :) 

Check Out a Whole Heap of Wicked News about Amy Hoff's Original Web Series, Caledonia, Produced by TACHY Studios, Including Season 2 Premier Episode!

A while back I wrote a blog about TACHY Studios getting onboard Scottish webseries Caledonia for their second season.   

Well, I am happy to now show you what the guys have been up too on this Amy Hoff written and directed original series.  And when I say original...it truly is.  Amy is an actual real life monster expert.  Yup...I did just say that.  Haha.  Knowing Amy personally, I know the madcap life she has led, and Caledonia has her kooky style and creative intelligence slapped all over it! 

So yes, below you will find the premier episode of Season 2: Mortal Souls and then an exclusive Caledonia - Professor Elemental video!  Woot!  

And lastly, I am over the moon to announce that the first in Amy's series of Caledonia novels, which she has already written four of already, is to be published by Crooked Cat publishing in 2015.  If you have a taste for fantasy fiction that is quirkier than quirk, then you'll be digging Amy's wonderfully distorted view on Scotland.  

IronStar Films Present Blood Loss - A Film from Four Arbroath Local Film Nerds, that has A LOT of Potential!

It is with great pleasure that I present the brand spanking new teaser trailer for my fellow Arbroathians new short film, Blood Loss.

IronStar films, an independent film company created by four local lads in order to produce a variety of short films from original scripts. The first of which is " Blood Loss", a tale of retribution and redemption among a group of friends who find themselves in too deep.

When three friends are forced by a local criminal to sort out a potential problem, their plans end in a horrific accident destroying their lives forever.

Months later the three men are confronted with the possibility that not everything was as it seems, and find themselves caught between a criminal who wants the job done, and a victim who wants revenge....no matter what side they choose, there's going to be ...Blood Loss.

Graeme Carr, Peter Birnie and Al Jennings have been making little short parodies for years now, however, it was only when they met up with the youngster of the group, Dean Pearson, that they decided to take their love of film to the next level.  :)

Now I've known Graeme since I was a kid, and he has always been one of the biggest film nerds I know.  Ever since we were in our early teens, all we've ever done was talk about films.  Well, that and his constant mocking of my love of Take That.  Haha.  Don't judge me! ;)  So with that being said, I know just how good a creative mind that boy has!  Put him together with the terrible twosome that are Pete and Jennings, add in Dean, (one of my little sister Kimberley's friends, pictured below with Graeme), and you have the perfect concoction.

I've been watching my boys for some time now, and seeing them grow....spying on them...just not as creepily as Norman Bates!  

It was when I met up with Jennings and Pete for lunch back in April, that they showed me not only what they had been working on, but also something that Dean had done himself.  Taking inspiration from James Wan's The Conjuring, and the story of the Annabelle doll; Dean did this whole little faux trailer himself...which is really quite tricky when you are trying to work a camera, shake a rocking chair, turn a creepy head around.  Silly boy...it was only afterwards he realised he could have just called on his Ghostbusters to come and help him.  I'm sure they would appeared, dress to kill and all. :)  It makes me so happy though seeing a younger generation of people taking inspiration from my beloved James Wan.  James and Leigh redefined the horror genre for a new generation, and so it's totally cool to see others learn, and become inspired by their work.  The circle of gore....muuuahahahaha.  Sounds so much cooler than the circle of life.  *hums song to self*

So yes...expect some interesting and muchos awesome things from these ladie.....I mean boys! ;) 

I'd also just like to throw out a big thank you to John Carswell as well, a good friend of mine since I was a teenager.  John gave the guys the PERFECT location to shoot this, an abandoned mill that his family are to convert into flats.  It looks fucking awesome, so major high five to you Mr Carswell...you'll be getting added to my location scout books!  :)  This is so cool because it's a local Arbroath business cutie, helping out local aspiring filmmakers too.  YAY!  Let us show the people of Arbroath just how creeeeeeeeeeepy it can be, muuuuahahahaha. :)

For more information on the project, drop by the Facebook pages for Blood Loss and their new film company, IronStar Films.  

And the charming boys that they are, they take me to the nicest of places.  Mmmmm.....a walk-in toilet, also known as the Arbroath subway/fornication ground/potty/tampon disposal unit!! ;)

Subways are rank!! Haha. Although I redecorated this tampon...just to make it more Morley rank!! ;) Five boys, a Morleysaurus and a bloody tampon. Just a regular Sunday night in the Jeniverse!! ;) #Jeniverse#instascotland #instagross #instatampon #tamponofday #tampon #gross #peoplearerank #bloodysex

A photo posted by Jennifer Cooper (@morleysaurus) on May 5, 2014 at 1:22am PDT

EXCLUSIVE - First Official Stills of Former Scottish Rugby 7's Player, Face of Scotch Beef and Star of The Fairy Flag, Chris Capaldi, in TACHY Studios Safe Haven.

Safe Haven is a new dystopian film from the Scottish filmmakers at TACHY Studios.  Starring former Scottish/International rugby 7's player turned model/actor, Chris Capaldi as Dan, in a role that will most definitely make people see that there's more to this Scotch Beef model than meets the eye.  Coming off Fife production, The Fairy Flag, Chris is dying to get his teeth into as many meaty roles as possible.  The kind of meat that is acceptable in my Vegan eyes.  The creative meat.  Bwahahaha. 

Be sure to check out the picture of his co-star Clare Ross that I released the other day, and get a look at the two of them in action together below.  Also check out my wee feature on Chris Capaldi as part of my Manflesh Monday's series of posts...just so you can put the body to the face! ;) 

Keep up to date with everything Safe Haven at the following pages -

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Website 

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Facebook Page

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Twitter Page

Tachy Studios - Official Facebook Page 

First Official Still of Clare Ross as Jo in Tachy Studios Feature Safe Haven!

Check out this exclusive first image of Clare Ross in TACHY Studios new feature film The Young Ones - Safe Haven.  Things are really shaping up on this project, and it's looking to be something pretty special.  

You can read a bit more about Clare Ross via my Jennifer's Bodies blog as part of my Women Crush Wednesday's segment.  Do it! :P 

Check out -

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Website 

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Facebook Page

The Young Ones - Safe Haven Official Twitter Page

Tachy Studios - Official Facebook Page 

Andy Stewart, my Boy from Bonnie Scotland, Bringing you Beautifully Brilliant, and Completely Fucked Up Body Horror!!

 One of my favourite directors on the planet, Andy Stewart - director of the grotesque, beautiful, and powerful Dysmorphia - is at it again with a piece that had me disgusted, disturbed, and deeply touched.  - Sylvia Soska

I always love it when I discover a Scottish director through my friends in Canada or the States.  I mean, I should know my own people right!?!  Well....I totally didn't know Glasgow based director Andy Stewart until those pesky Twisted Twinling's of mine introduced me to him, describing Dysmorphia as "quite possibly the greatest short film we have ever seen"...which is a pretty big fucking compliment, so obviously I was most intrigued!

I have however made up for this oversight of awesome on my part however, and have been becoming rather good buds with Mr Stewart, a man after my very own heart and entrails!  

(Pictured above - My, my, my....pasty a la Morley from INK!!)

So just who is this fabulous tattoo'ed Glasweigan boy you ask?  Well, Andy has just finished shooting on his third short INK, which is part of a trilogy of body horror which started with Dysmorphia, and was followed by Split.  Split is doing the festival circuits right now, however you can view Dysmorphia below.  Shot on a mere budget of £160, it's pretty fucking impressive.  And such a wonderfully warped and beautiful story! 

 After the international success and critical acclaim for Dysmorphia, Andy shot Split, and on little more than the budget of Dysmorphia.  He was however lucky enough to enlist the help of SFX designer Grant Mason, who did Bride of Mother Fucking Chucky, amongst other things such as The Wolfman, Nightbreed and Sleepy Hollow.  Not bad I'd say!!  Oh yeah, and did I mention, he did BRIDE OF CHUCKY!?!!!!  Grant, I cannot wait to meet you and give you a Morley sized High Five!!  MWAH!  Grant wouldn't get on board any old horse poop though, which is a wonderful testament to just how awesome, and demented he believes Andy's kooktastic mind to be!  ;)

Andy is proof that you don't need to go to film school, or spend lots of money on a film to have it successful around the world.  Talent is talent.  End of.  Hollywood should be paying more attention to that, and less of the bullshit that goes around, and perhaps we'd not have to put up with so much shite!!  With a fucked up imagination, comes great creativity I'd say!  Muaaahahahaha. :)

Now, rather than me blether on, why not just have a wee gander for yourself.  You can view the full short of Dysmorphia, and then the trailers for Split and INK.  And hopefully you'll get a chance to check them out at a festival in the very near future....and hopefully as with Dysmorphia, people will run out in disgust/a fit of puketasticness!!  Heehee.  And I hope to be the one hosting that event.  *inserts fits of evil laughter* ;)

So yes, check these out, and drop the pages a LIKE on good old Facebook and share, share, share with like minded folks! xo

Facebook page for Andy's Shining Example Films

Facebook page for Dysmorphia, Split and INK

Official Website for Shining Example Films