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Parrot Mask Psycho Temp

Parrot Mask Psycho Temp

SYNOPSIS: Unassuming ornithophile Blanc Franju just wanted to spend an afternoon "appreciating" Tippi Hedren. But his cell phone had other ideas, unlocking the kind of multigenerational blood feud that can only be solved with common office supplies, kitchenware and hammers. BACKGROUND: Gross Ken was such an arresting cinematic presence in Odontophilia that we just *had* to go back to the well. (IRL he's quite dashing and dignified; imagine Nick Mangold if he didn't attend Trump rallies.) Parrot Mask Psycho Temp was originally conceived for 2021's Sick 'n' Wrong 72-Hour Debacle Film Challenge. You virtually roll two dice for "mood" and "theme" (we landed on "aggro" and "a smartphone virus invades the human body"), then your team has just three days to write, shoot, edit, color, score, etc., the resulting masterpiece. Which is surprisingly a lot of fun aside from the "tweaking DaVinci 'til 6 in the morning while your friends in the apartment below are shrooming and mashing up The Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon like college freshmen" part. I was kind of embarrassingly butthurt that we didn't win anything (the trophies were, like, bedazzled/melted Furbys), but in retrospect, what I was going for — throwing low-key shade at the killers-in-animal-masks trend in mainstream horror; Google the character surnames if you care — was nowhere near disturbing enough for the target audience. Oh well, BROO-HOO. A lot of buds came together on the spot to make the time crunch less brutal, from Lisa Scucci's motion graphics to Justin Smith's ridiculous score. We just recut/recolored this thing with Pig Destroyer's Blake Harrison kindly offering up Hatebeak Waldo the Parrot to make the intro and closing credits really squawk. It's no American Werewolf in London, but pretty decent for our first stab at (ahem) horror-comedy. —Andrew
Real Mature

Real Mature

SYNOPSIS: A failed artist is stuck in a hellish spectral state, forced to watch his soulmate fall in love with another man. Moving on is not an option for Redding, but he has concocted a few devious ways to make things messier. BACKGROUND: Real Mature, produced under the Fright-O-Verse banner, isn’t a 10 Seconds to Comply production, but crosses over via Producer and Director of Photography, Ken Whiting. Ken took this script from the writer, Andrew Bonazelli, and began ideating on how to make a visually experimental film and ground it in the raw and emotional words on the page. Once the visual tone was set in place, Ken enlisted his longtime friend and creative collaborator DJ Wooldridge to direct and co-produce. It was the first time DJ, a writer/director, directed a script he hadn't written. This afforded DJ and Ken an opportunity to pack on more layers and expand on the pressurized words Andrew birthed onto the page. The three went back and refined the work together. This led to the narrator of the film having considerable importance. Ken was able to get in contact with horror legend Adrienne Barbeau to voice that role, as they had worked together previously. With a mostly unknown cast, Adrienne's sultry and matronly presence elevates the throughline of Real Mature. While DJ enjoyed the collaboration and producing process, he solidified his desire to direct his own material, which is important to note, as it gave Ken the confidence to pursue directing. That internal yearning to direct is crucial to 10 Seconds to Comply, and the relationship between Andrew and Ken. While 10 Seconds hopes to enlist their friends as co-collaborators often, Ken, Andrew and Manny will be the anchors of our productions.

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