Horror short ‘Violet Butterfield: Makeup Artist for the Dead‘ has racked in awards like:
Jury Award and Audience Award – Overlook Film Festival
Audience Award – Final Girls Berlin Film Fest
Abby Normal Award – Portland Horror (For the exceptionally weird and disturbing)
Best Director – Houston Horror Fest
Best Short Film – Buried Alive Film Festival
Best Dark Comedy – Lusca Fantastic Film Festival
And now filmmaker Brooke H. Cellars is ready for her first feature ‘The Cramps: A Period Piece‘…
A blossoming young woman, Agnes Applewhite, gets a job as a shampoo girl at lively beauty salon, which goes against the wishes of her traditional family which includes her sanctimonious mother and tightly wound sister. As she begins this newfound journey, she starts to deal with debilitating menstrual cramps which blurs the line between reality and nightmare.
Picture a world where John Waters’ irreverence meets the macabre of Mario Bava, all wrapped in the dreamlike allure of Federico Fellini. Welcome to a psychedelic wonderland, an imaginative universe where the unexpected is the norm, clothed in the captivating aesthetic of the 1960s.
A cinematic kaleidoscope: This feature length film will be an adventure through a surreal universe, where the boundaries of reality blur, and every scene unfolds like a mesmerizing trip. Channeling inspirational films such as Female Trouble, The Thing, Juliet of the Spirits, Amarcord, Hairspray, The Stuff, The Blob, Morgiana, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, (we could go on and on) we’re crafting an experience that is part comedy, part horror, part fantastical, and wholly unforgettable.
Continue reading more about the film, the cast and crew, and how you can support it today on Indiegogo!