With the upcoming DVD release of Slime City Massacre right around the corner, I thought now would be an excellent time to look back at Greg Lamberson’s 1988 flick that started it all – Slime City. Put on your raincoats, my friends, because things are about to get messy.
Jason Bene: Although Slime City is a low budget film, it is quite ambitious. Where did you find the funding to make this cult classic?
Greg Lamberson: My producing partners (Marc Makowski and Peter Clark) and I put up about one third of the $50,000 budget ourselves; we bugged friends and family for another third, and a foreign sales rep named Alexander Beck put up the remainder. It was a different time when we started, because video was huge and no-budget films sold well. But by the time we finished, the bottom had dropped out of that market. So in one sense,...
Jason Bene: Although Slime City is a low budget film, it is quite ambitious. Where did you find the funding to make this cult classic?
Greg Lamberson: My producing partners (Marc Makowski and Peter Clark) and I put up about one third of the $50,000 budget ourselves; we bugged friends and family for another third, and a foreign sales rep named Alexander Beck put up the remainder. It was a different time when we started, because video was huge and no-budget films sold well. But by the time we finished, the bottom had dropped out of that market. So in one sense,...
- 4/29/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
After yesterday’s blog on My Best Enemy, a film set during Germany’s fascist past, today’s blog reviews a film set during the country’s communist period, as well as the present-day. The Prize (Der Preis) is about a young architect, Alexander Beck, who has won a competition: a housing complex based on his design is going to replace the communist-era apartment blocks in an east German town. Alexander now has to go to the town to supervise the project, and he appears tense. This is his hometown, and he and his friends grew up in the apartment blocks that are going to be demolished. But the source of his unease lies deeper than this, and the details are revealed over the course of the film through a series of regular flashbacks.
This film must have sounded promising at the concept stage: it explores the question of guilt,...
This film must have sounded promising at the concept stage: it explores the question of guilt,...
- 2/19/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
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