Thursday, February 18, 2010

"Cricket Snapper" movie signs distribution deal

***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****

Cricket Snapper -“When the blood flows hot in a cold New
England town, its blackest secrets are finally revealed…”

February 17, 2010 – Allston, MA – Phoenix Rising Films and Metropolitan Pictures are proud to announce the release into distribution of the new feature-length movie, Cricket Snapper written and directed by local filmmaker Lawson Welles and filmed entirely in New England.

Cricket Snapper is a 92-minute work of fiction initially inspired by true events, and follows Detective Allan McDermott of the “River Falls” police department as he investigates a quadruple homicide among the S&M/Bondage subculture of his quiet New England town. The movie has been described as “a cross between 8mm and a Charles Bronson film.”

Cricket Snapper is being released by Brain Damage Films of Tempe AZ, the worldwide leader in indie horror, Goth and shock movies and DVD’s, and will be distributed online and in the US through Netflix and Blockbuster and internationally in the UK, Russia and more. Cricket Snapper is Metropolitan Picture’s 2nd full-length movie released under the Brain Damage Films imprint.

Cricket Snapper is an independently-financed production written and directed by Lawson Welles, with Directors of Photography Jerry Bagdasarian and Stephen Sandberg, and features an outstanding local cast including Jon Saphire, Nancy Sadsad and Kelly Cook, among others.

Cricket Snapper has bone-chilling soundtrack music provided by Church Of Satan founder and author of The Satanic Bible, Dr. Anton S. LaVey (1930-1997) and his successor as High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore (both courtesy of Reptilian Records of Baltimore, MD) as well as local musicians Phoenix Rising, Jose Ramos, Device Cycle, Don Hammontree and more.

Cricket Snapper was edited and mastered at Metropolitan Pictures Studios of Allston, MA by Warren Lynch (Pony Trouble, 2005) and Scott A. Matalon (Boston Boxing, 2010, also founder of Stingray Body Art tattoo, piercing and permanent makeup emporium in Boston, MA). Additional scenes filmed by Metropolitan Pictures feature local rock hangout O’Briens Pub and civic leader/philanthropist Bob Webber of Model Hardware as “Police Chief Ferguson.”

Scott Matalon of Metropolitan Pictures says: “Cricket Snapper, like Apocalypse Now, is a journey into the heart of darkness not only for the audience, but also for the Director. Filmed over a 5 year period at tremendous personal, financial and emotional cost, Cricket Snapper is a riveting, often times gut-wrenching journey from its opening moments to the final climax.”

Director Lawson Welles agrees, and adds that: “Without the love and support of such an excellent and professional local cast and crew, I probably would have died making this movie. There are scenes in here that were incredibly difficult for everyone, especially the actors, and I salute the dedication and commitment of everyone who was involved.”

16 Farrington Ave., Allston MA 02134 • www.metropolitanzone.com • 617-901-3418


Metropolitan Pictures is a local independent movie studio in Allston, MA and in 2010 produced a 7-episode reality TV show “BOSTON BOXING” aired in prime-time on New England Sports Network (NESN), and in 2005 released the feature-length movie “Pony Trouble,” (Directed by Warren Lynch) which is available at Blockbuster and Netflix.com and is distributed domestically and Internationally by leading underground film distributor Brain Damage Films of Tempe, AZ.

www.metropolitanzone.com

Phoenix Rising Films is currently in production on a series of documentaries entitled Why We Fought honoring American and Canadian World War Two Veterans. Traversing three continents and with interviews from nearly 100 veterans from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Poland and Germany – including Rochus Misch, Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard and eyewitness to that dictator’s famous last days. Director Welles is featured in Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Jonathan Maberry’s new book, THEY BITE!, regarding his overnight stay in Castle Dracula while researching for best-selling Dracula author, Dr. Raymond T. McNally of Boston College.

www.cricketsnapper.com

Brain Damage Films is an independent film distribution company dedicated to servicing and selling high-quality niche Horror, Goth and Shock VHS & DVD movies. Darrin G. Ramage, with twelve years of domestic US video distribution, founded Brain Damage Films in 2000 to continue the powerful distribution of independent films to video stores in the USA and the licensing & distribution of film rights on the world market.

www.braindamagefilms.com

The producers would like to gratefully acknowledge and thank the New England S&M/Bondage community at large for their generous support and assistance in making this movie, and remind everyone that although this movie was inspired by true events, it is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental and unintentional.

For more information please contact either Scott Stets of Phoenix Rising Films at
scottstets@aol.com or 508-674-8790, or Scott Matalon of Metropolitan Pictures at
scott@metropolitanzone.com / 617-901-3418.

16 Farrington Ave., Allston MA 02134 • www.metropolitanzone.com • 617-901-3418

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