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The Commune - feature film's Interests
General
TABOOS:
Cults! Sex! Murder! Love! Horny Teens! Occult! Punk Rock Music! Subculture! Wicked Wit! David Lago! Emus! Ocelots! Lohan-lookalike! Wiggy sh*t! Egyptian stuff! Dissidents! Masks! Nudity!
Music
Danny B. Harvey, Jenn Oberle, Chuck E. Weiss, Lo-Fi Sugar, Sharon Knight, Winter, Pigeon Brigade, David Lago and Chauntal Lewis
Movies
Wicker Man, Chinatown, Repulsion, Don't Look Now, Holy Mountain, Rosemary's Baby, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Fight Club, They Call Her One-Eye, The Fury, The Watcher in the Woods, The Howling, Blue Velvet
Television
The Twilight Zone, Red Shoe Diaries
Books
The Mists of Avalon, The Count of Monte Cristo
Heroes
Lynch, Roeg, Polanski, Cohen, Jodorowski, Tarantino, Russell
LOGLINE: A shallow teen investigates her deadbeat father’s involvement in a bohemian cult. When she discovers a frightening world of rituals, sex, and murder, even sexy new boyfriend Puck may not be able to save her. Stunningly gorgeous footage featuring an exotic wildlife preserve/ kitschy Egyptian theme park never seen on film, THE COMMUNE is Greek tragedy retold as classic 1970s-style psychological thriller.
Opening Scene: SHORT SYNOPSIS: Jenny (Chauntal Lewis), a high-maintenance teen, is forced to spend the summer with her estranged father (Stuart G. Bennett) on his commune. With her every move monitored by security cameras and creepy residents, Jenny escapes to town and meets the dangerously sexy Puck (Emmy winner David Lago), who gives her a reason to stay. Jenny searches the commune for financial records on her father that could force him to drop his custody suit. What Jenny finds instead is a disturbing decades-old conspiracy that will endanger her, and the lives of those who try to help her. The kind of dark legacy that could make a girl blind herself to the truth forever.
The Official Trailer:
Written and directed by Elisabeth Fies (associate producer of the Independent Spirit Award winner CONVENTIONEERS), produced by Heidi Hornbacher (screenwriting finalist CREATIVE SCREENWRITING MAGAZINE 2007). Edited and co-produced by industry stalwart Todd Miro. Stunning cinematography by Marc Shap, the John Toll of the Facebook generation, whom crews clamor to work with.
THE COMMUNE fuses psychological thriller elements of Polanski and Lynch, with the creeping oddness and gallows humor of CHINATOWN, BLUE VELVET, and Robin Hardy’s THE WICKER MAN.
The incredible chemistry and realism of the two teen leads brings a poignancy to their doomed romance not felt since Roeg’s DON‘T LOOK NOW.
This gorgeously shot film grapples with family boundaries and coming of age in ways that won’t be soon forgotten, with a beginning and an ending that has test audiences gasping and swearing.
Told in the tradition of the great psychological thrillers of the 70s - films that got under an audience’s skin and made them think for their thrills.
THE COMMUNE has all the ingredients to be both an artistic and financial success. It tells a dark story with a sense of humor. It pulls influences from a long line of cinematic masterpieces. It plays on our primal fears and thrills us with a slowly creeping, twisting story with amazing insights about human behavior. It pulls in the audiences clamoring for the next BLAIR WITCH PROJECT or THE SIXTH SENSE, and delights them with stylistic choices and twists that fans of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and Robin Hardy's THE WICKER MAN have been missing for years.
THE COMMUNE speaks with an unprecedented frankness about rape, incest and violence against women, as well as conservative America's penchant for throwing away the teen baby incubator. It also shines a light on the many catch-as-catch-can belief systems at large today masquerading as religions. The film also serves as a deeper satire for the violence people justify with religion - a relevant topic in today’s geo-political climate and recent polygamist cult headlines.
The film is gorgeously shot, has smart and funny dialogue, and stars stellar actors in real humanitarian moments that make audiences care when disaster befalls them. It has references to Roeg, Lynch, Polanski, in a playful fun way without ripping them off. THE COMMUNE has an unexpected offbeat flavor and surprise ending that begs for repeat viewings – all the ingredients of successful cult films which have a long shelf life and generate festival buzz.
I am amazed by your trailer! God I want to work with you. And not just to be close to one of the sexiest women in Hollywood, but to work with the person who came up with this visuals.
