Andrew Shearer

The Scare-ening: The Pretty/Scary - Final Girl Podcast, hosted by Pretty/Scary Editor Heidi Martinuzzi and Final Girl writer Stacie Ponder will join forces to bring you a radio show! Join the people who brought you Ghostella's Haunted Tomb for our LAUNCH EPISODE! Wednesday, March 10 at 8pm PST. We'll be talking about February 2010's 'Women in Horror Month', horror bloggers, Rondo Awards, and the Terrible Film of the Week. There will even be (GASP) special guests Andrew Shearer, Monica Puller, Hannah Foreman, Rachael Deacon, horror bloggers B-J C and B-Sol, and Sean Patrick Flanery!* Call-ins welcome.

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

Bobbie Weiner, AKA Bloody Mary, is an FX artist with her own line of specialty makeup for literally any kind of transformation. If you're wondering where you might have seen her work, try the Oscar-nominated romace-catastrophe flick Titanic; she was the special effects make-up artist who transformed hundreds of actors into blue-lipped, icicle covered corpses. She also was in charge of the makeup for the horror films Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings and Voodoo.

Bobbie's got a whole lineup of her own FX supplies and original makeup; scary stuff, of course, but also any kind of makeup anyone might need. And you can read the comic she created, Tales of Bloody Mary, in any comic book store. Bobbie shares her recent work with Pretty/Scary's staffer Andrew Shearer...

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...

Fem-positive DIY film making collective Gonzoriffic is pleased to announce principal photography has wrapped on Fox Holes, a short film that marks the directorial debut of co-founder Monica Puller. Since first meeting at a punk club in 1999, Puller and creative partner Andrew Shearer have worked closely together to produce over 25 films, including the acclaimed 2007 feature-length mockumentary Fake Blood, which they wrote and starred in. Fox Holes was written, produced and directed by Puller, who also plays the lead role of Autumn Knox alongside Diver Velour (The Erotic Couch) and Devon Peter (Cannibal Sisters).

“Fox Holes is about family, it's about love, and it's about how one moment can impact you," describes Puller...

Fem-positive DIY film making collective Gonzoriffic is pleased to announce principal photography has wrapped on Fox Holes, a short film that marks the directorial debut of co-founder Monica Puller. Since first meeting at a punk club in 1999, Puller and creative partner Andrew Shearer have worked closely together to produce over 25 films, including the acclaimed 2007 feature-length mockumentary Fake Blood, which they wrote and starred in. Fox Holes was written, produced and directed by Puller, who also plays the lead role of Autumn Knox alongside Diver Velour (The Erotic Couch) and Devon Peter (Cannibal Sisters).

“Fox Holes is about family, it's about love, and it's about how one moment can impact you," describes Puller...

Directed and written by by Steve Balderson
Featuring Karen Black, Mink Stole, Jane Wiedlin, Jeff Dylan Graham, Starina Johnson, Pleasant Gehman, Susan Traylor, Stacy Cunningham,
Review by Andrew Shearer

Unbelievable. Un-fucking-believable. A new women in prison film (WIP for short) starring Karen Black, Mink Stole and one of the Go-Go's was shot less than two hours away from me and I didn't even know about it! I consider it a lost opportunity. I'm currently developing a nice, dark bruise on my left leg from kicking myself repeatedly with my right...

Interview by Andrew Shearer

“If she’s a bitch, I don’t want to know.” That’s what I said to a friend of mine who shot a movie with Ruby LaRocca last summer. Having been a fan of her work for several years, a champion of the goofy erotic spoofs like Sexy Sixth Sense and Erotic Werewolf In London, I couldn’t handle knowing I owned so many DVDs starring some stuck-up diva asshole. As it turned out, not only did she receive high praise from everyone involved with the shoot, but she proved to be much more than just a skilled performer. Not only did she fulfill her obligations as an actor, but she helped the crew pack up the gear and even volunteered to provide transportation at the last minute. With a decade of low-budget film making experience under her belt, it’s no wonder Ruby LaRocca has out-lasted so many of her contemporaries who have vanished. Not just a die-hard, endlessly knowledgeable fan of the horror genre, Ruby is also an enthusiastic and driven student of film and film making in general...

By: Andrew Shearer

In 2008, fans of cult film and b-movies merely need to Google search any given title and they’ll come up with dozens, perhaps hundreds of pages containing information on the most obscure, bizarre, rare flicks they’ve ever heard of. Some of us, however, remember a time not so long ago when the Inter-nerd wasn’t such a vast landscape of reviews, Wikipedia pages, and IMDB trivia. It was common to come up empty when researching a particular film, especially those of the low-budget variety, a problem which eventually gave way to some of the very first genre sites on the web. Usually they were crudely designed, the layouts were confusing, and the content was spotty at best...