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January 4, 2009 Barb - 2000 to spring of 2006

My novel, "Stacking in Rivertown," was due to be released by Simon & Schuster in July 2000 and so I was visiting New York to keep in touch with my agent. But also, I was ready to get out of the stifling culture of Indiana and celebrate finally breaking into publishing. I met Anna (zeta) at a private party in New York in 2000. It was then through her that I met PD.

PD has a fascinating personality. He is not someone that you can be lukewarm about. Just when you think you have him pegged, he'll completely surprise you. His personality and his vision controlled every aspect of the Insex product and the climate at the studio, from how and when everyone ate to every detail of the bondage in the shoots. And PD was intrigued with me because "Stacking in Rivertown" contained very realistic BDSM content, had been published through a major house, had an urgent storyline, and received very good reviews in spite of having such edgy content. PD wanted to create more “story” around his work. He has been quite influenced by Hollywood and horror movies and was interested in the intersection of bondage and a solid story.

So for about a year or more, I visited the studio if I happened to be in New York, watching shoots and an occasional Live Feed. PD paid me to write a screenplay that was never shot. It was during this time, as I experienced my first Live Feed, that I began to see the potential of utilizing the characters and situation at the Insex studio in a movie. The individuals that came and went at the studio were better than anyone could make up. The whole brew – the atmosphere at the studio, the staff (most of which were artists trying to pick up some extra cash) – was rich with human drama.

After 9/11, I visited New York less often. I didn’t see PD or zeta for a year or two. Then out of the blue in the spring of 2003, PD called me and wanted me to work with him on a special project. He wanted to create a website for a mainstream audience, a web serial broadcast based upon strong characters and plot that would include bondage and SM. He threw out a couple possible story lines and asked me to come up with something and we’d talk. I broached the idea that we should make Insex the story – a quasi-reality show with scripted parts. PD didn’t like that idea, so instead, we came up with a very basic plot and I wrote the screenplay for the pilot. It ended up being very Hitchcockian. Zeta put together the cast, which included Donna and AZ (both of whom we interview in GSH). It was during our collaboration on that project that zeta and I learned that we worked well together. That piece was shot and edited, but never released by PD.

But I kept the idea of Insex as a movie in my head. I’d already constructed characters and scenarios. So when zeta and I began to talk doing a project together, it was clear from our excitement in talking about the studio, that we should follow the energy. When somebody drops a golden egg in your lap, you should pay attention. So we decided to do a documentary of Insex. That was in the spring of 2006.

December 31th 2008 How it all started

Three years ago, I was on vacation in Sweden, not yet knowing that my voice mail back in the US had a message waiting that PD, the founder of Insex, no longer could afford to keep me on the payroll.

I had started working at Insex.com in 1999. It had been an amazing journey from horror, through excitement heavily layered with gruelling work, to resignation. In 2004 it was forced to shut down, but PD and the team started up hardtied.com, a very watered down much lower budget version. Having been there during the Insex glory years, hardtied was just a very repetitive way to make money for me. I was very happy to be let go. I was going to take one full year off, to just spend time with my young son, and practice yoga.

Of course that didn't last. Barb and I knew each other before, but had really connected when we spent three weeks shooting a 40-min film that PD produced and she wrote the script for. I was directing, and Barb was on set to help with dialogue, but ended up co-directing, as every time I couldn't put my finger on why a scene wasn't working, she knew what was wrong and fixed it.

We had been talking about doing a project together, and now that I had so much free time, we started discussing different ideas, but always ended up talking about the crazy things that happened at the Insex studio. It was in the way of everything else, and we realized that we had to do something with it. Our original idea was to write a script for a feature, based on real events. We didn't need to make anything up, it was all there. Except the money. With no contacts in the business, we could spend years trying to raise money, or just make a documentary, that we could afford. We would need to interview a lot of people for the script anyway, so why not get it on tape.
So we started to contact people that used to work for Insex.

More about that next year, tomorrow.

Production Notes

Slamdance asked us to create Production Notes for the press kit.
But for the fellow filmmakers and fans, here it is: Graphic Sexual Horror Production Notes SYNOPSIS GRAPHIC SEXUAL HORROR “If you won’t let me teach your children, then I will corrupt them.” Brent Scott

Dec 30 2008 - GSH Forums

The forums are getting some interesting posts as of late! I want to thank all the participants and also invite you to see for yourself! http://www.graphicsexualhorror.com/forum/

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