Plan 9 From Outer Space.... the Cartoon Remake?!

While I already knew that there was a modernized PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE remake out there (click here for more info on PLAN 9), a cartoon remake of the original comes as a big surprise. The members of Bad Aftertaste Animation are currently trying to raise funds to do a full-on animated redo of Ed Wood's classic, quintessential b-movie, and they need your help! Read on for more info.

Bad Aftertaste Animation needs your Angora!

Greetings, earthlings. You better turn on your dictorobitaries for the following announcement. Bad Aftertaste Animation would love to affect you in the future with this future event: a cartoon remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space, featuring a complete new sound track - voices, music and, as a change, acting! - and animated goodness, from special effects to Vampira’s wooden movements.

Yes, ‘ooh!’ I hear you say awestruck. However, world domination cannot happen without your help funding this project, since our electrode guns aren't working, and dropping them on the ground doesn't help. We have started an IndieGoGo campaign trying to collect the necessary material for our attack on mankind. You can head over to http://igg.me/at/plan9/x/3152901 for our crowd-funding campaign, or you can help spread the word. Either way, you'd be helping getting this saucer where it came from: from up there!

About Bad Aftertaste Animation: Bad Aftertaste Animation was founded in 2012 by Nicholas Triarchos, a short-film & TV director, writer & sound artist from Cyprus, whose work has been featured in the 2012 film Sinister by Scott Derrickson. Bad Aftertaste Animation aims to produce dark comedy animated features & shorts to further the boundaries of independent animation.

This IndieGoGo campaign will only be around another 19 days, and it is a "flexible" one, meaning that even though the director wants fifty-five thousand Euros to make the best cartoon possible, any little bit you chip in will go directly to the production even if the main financial goal is not met.

There are perks if you pledge five Euros or more, but if none of them sway your judgement, you can just  donate one Euro (roughly $1.29 in U.S. currency) to the production. Every little helps!

So if you have a few bucks kicking around, why not become a backer for what could be one of the greatest animated b-film tributes of all time?

THE TAINT available on Blu-ray + SCIENCE TEAM now in production!

This is old news (since the Blu-ray came out on March 12th of this year) but Drew Bolduc's THE TAINT has been picked up by Troma and given a nice 2-disc Blu-ray release. I reviewed the film a while back (read it HERE) and reveled in its ridiculous plot, over the top violence, and parodical view of misogyny. (The film has been attacked for its questionable content, but trust me folks, its only a boundary-pushing spoof, not a representation of the filmmakers' views on women.)

THE TAINT Blu-ray comes with a DVD of the film and is packed with some cool extras, including:

* Director's Commentary
* Cast Commentary
* Behind The Scenes Slideshow
* Deleted Scenes
* Introduction By Lloyd Kaufman
* Tromatic Extras

You can grab yourself a copy over at Amazon.com by clicking HERE.

In other Drew Bolduc news, the star/director of THE TAINT is working on a new film called SCIENCE TEAM. The production is set to begin in June in Richmond, Virginia with the aid of pledges obtained from their IndieGoGo campaign, (CLICK HERE to help fund it!) and it looks like they are really going to try and push the envelope this time around.

ABOUT SCIENCE TEAM:
We are Science Team. We need your help. We have lasers.

Science Team is a national organization whose main purpose is to maintain interstellar peace and protect America from the many alien threats that seek to destroy us.

We need your help to recruit more members to fight alongside us. We must build a super scientific alliance and raise funds to combat a giant sessile alien menace with telepathic powers capable of doing this:

Science Team must eliminate this evil extraterrestrial threat at all costs. We must proceed with extreme caution. People will die horrible and disgusting deaths. Inner and extraterrestrial demons will be engaged. Cool-looking technology will be used. People's minds will be blown out of their heads. 

Remember to bring your mind protectors.

Check out the SCIENCE TEAM promo below and, once again, please consider lending these guys some financial aid to get this insane film made!

Science Team Promo from Drew Bolduc on Vimeo.