Category: DVD Releases

May 20, 2016

At last! The Erika Spawn ‘Body of a Whore’ EP

Our cult movie The Devil’s Music features shock rocker Erika Spawn as the mysterious core of the movie. In the process of making the flick, we recorded a number of tracks from Erika Spawn’s past, from her biggest hit ‘Body of a Whore’ through to the power ballad ‘Dying Bride’. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know…
May 13, 2016

Amazon Video Direct, Vimeo on Demand and the Independent Filmmaker

So Amazon have now launched a new VOD service called Amazon Video Direct, which will allow filmmakers to charge for their work and has been labelled as a cross between Netflix and YouTube. This is an interesting new wrinkle in amongst the VOD options available to filmmakers and indies. We’re planning on trying it out this…
April 5, 2016

The Devil’s Music – The Plan

Hi folks, Pat here. You may have seen my entry a couple of weeks back about how the release of The Devil’s Music fell through. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the movie and the situation, and I want to share my plan with you. Quick recap: The Devil’s Music is our rock…
March 14, 2016

How the BBFC, DCMS and EU VAT Regulations Killed our Movie

Between them, they killed the release of our film The Devil’s Music. It’s a good film that people like, and they killed it. I was worried this would happen when the BBFC introduced changes to their exemption criteria as a result of a DCMS consultation. I hoped that calmer heads would prevail, and the misguided legislation wouldn’t…
February 4, 2015

Pat Higgins Live – “My Glorious Career in a Selection of JPGs”

Another chunk from the 2014 live show “Fake Blood, Real Guts” from Horror-on-Sea. This is a four minute breakdown of how and why I made the choices that I did, starting with our low-fi cult flick TrashHouse and ending up fading out discreetly at around the point I wrote Strippers vs Werewolves. I’m speaking on…
April 22, 2013

TrashHouse: The Uncensored Truth

I was born in 1974. Movies were always my love and passion, ever since seeing Star Wars on the big screen on opening night at the Southend Odeon. It was December 1977, and I was three years old. In that same year, my amazing mum also took me to see the rerelease of 20,000 Leagues…
April 8, 2013

Making The Devil’s Music – Part Two

This next thing follows this previous thing. Read the previous thing first. I’m not a guy who tends to approach the big subjects in life. I’m a guy who makes horror films. I have no background in investigative journalism, beyond that my uncle used to do restaurant reviews for the local paper. I didn’t set…
March 26, 2013

Making The Devil’s Music – Part One

The first time I met Erika Spawn on the hottest day of the year in the summer of 2005. We were scheduled to shoot a video for her track Needles, which was third single from her second album, in a tiny green screen studio in the shittiest part of West London. Granted, Erika wasn’t a…
March 25, 2013

TrashHouse – We Have the Rights Back

Weird thing about Jinx Media still being in business after ten years; we’ve got the rights for our first movie back. We signed a seven year distribution deal for Trashhouse back in February 2006. We signed the UK and the US, but the US elements of the deal went wonky when one of the companies…
March 1, 2013

Indie movies and the Illegal Download Thing

Here’s another topic I’ve avoided talking about. I’ve avoided talking about it largely because both sides of this discussion seem so entrenched in their thinking that nice, civilised discourse often gives way to people chucking insults, hyperbole, misleading figures and great big chunks of horse shit at the other side. ‘The other side’. Even that…