"'Look, if it's about that time I puked green slime and masturbated with a crucifix, it was my first keg party, Bobby!'- Cindy Campbell, Scary Movie"
Countess Samela
Women in Horror Appreciation Film Festival (Athens, GA)
By Superheidi on December 16th, 2009 02/27/2010
EVENT: The Women in Horror Appreciation Film Festival (a two-hour program of horror shorts directed by women!) Athens Film Fest will include shorts by: Stacie Ponder, Val O. Morris, Monica Puller, Heidi Martinuzzi, Dayna Knoffke, Countess Samela
DATE: Saturday, February 27th 2010//ONE DAY ONLY EVENT
PLACE: Athens Ciné (www.athenscine.com) Athens, GA
CONTACT: Andrew Shearer //gonzorifficfilms@myspace.com
Foxholes (2009)
Submitted by Zomberella on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 13:35
Written and Directed by Monica Puller
Produced by Monica Puller, Andrew Shearer and Devon Peter
Featuring Diver Velour, Monica Puller, Devon Peter, Holly Ween, Thio Rose, Kert Rats, Priscilla Lee Press-On, Countess Samela
32 minutes
Review by Dayna Noffke
Although Athens, Georgia may not be the filmmaking capital of America, we are fortunate to be home to a particularly prolific and creative group of underground filmmakers who go by the name of Gonzorrific Productions. This independent filmmaking collective creates, in the words of its founders, ‘female-driven, genre-jumping underground cinema.’ Their large catalog of past efforts includes films like Cannibal Sisters and Psycho Vixens. That said, I was very excited to check out Monica Puller's directorial debut short film Foxholes at its big screen premier during Gonzoriffic’s Peepshow...
Fake Blood (2007)
By Superheidi on November 26th, 2007
Fake BloodWritten by Monica Puller, Mitsu Bitchi, and Andrew Shearer
Starring: Andrew Shearer, Monica Puller, Mitsu Bitchi, Cara Lott, Teresa Sullens, Countess Samela
Gonzoriffic films
Release date: 12/18/07
Truly “indie” in every sense of the word, Gonzoriffic films has consistently created some of the most ingeniously fun female characters in low budget camp cinema in films like Disaster For Christmas (2004) Cannibal Sisters (2006) and Psychovixens (2004) because they’ve been beholden to no distributors and were fiercely intent on presenting women in entertaining and non-traditional roles. Largely due to the influence of the other half of Gonzoriffic films, Monica Puller, the shorts have always had a strange mix of female strength and off-the-wall zaniness. Director Andrew Shearer’s first feature length film Fake Blood delivers not only the humor for which his shorts have been famous, but also takes an actually endearing look inside the world of an indie horror filmmaker with a mockumentary completely unlike previous efforts in the genre like Horror Business and American Movie. In fact, I’d have to say watching this disastrously bad low budget movie unfold is a lot like watching the terrible musical production in Waiting For Guffman…
