Blood Bath Pictures News

Blood Bath Pictures will be making their first public debut this September at Genghis Con 2 in Pittsburgh, PA. September 15-17

It’s been about a year since we were created from the slime of the Connecticut River and we thinks it’s time to infect the rest of the world with our sickness. Have you seen the CT River lately? We’re not lying.

They cashed our check, and it didn’t bounce, so I guess it’s official. We’ll be there. An 8 hour drive in a old smelly car with no air conditioning. Carrying 3 people plus luggage and all the crap we want to put on our table. Just for you! Don’t ever say we don’t suffer for (what we call) our art. 3 people you ask? Confirmed are: Writer/Directors Jon Gorman & Tom Seymour, Actor/Producer Sheri Bomb, and The Chef. “That’s 4 people” you might say. “Good counting abilities” we would reply. The Chef is confirmed, but he will be flying in to Pittsburgh on his own from wherever he comes from. When we invited him, he stated: “I’ve driven in a car with Jon Gorman before… There is no way in fucking hell I’m going to spend 8 hours with his smelly farts and his freakishly small bladder.” Just as well. The Chef is stranger in real life than he is on the screen. We feel a lot safer with him going on his own.

We do have a few “unconfirmed” guests that might show up for your viewing pleasure. Once we know for sure, we’ll post and let you know. I’m sure you will be delighted. Ok, Ok, we’ll give you a hint. Someone named Rachael might be there to sign autographs. Now stop bothering us.

Be sure that we’ll have plenty of stuff at our booth. That is if we don’t forget to bring it all. We’ll have t-shirts, pics (some with autographs), buttons, DVD’s… Oh yeah, did we forgot to mention that we’ll be sharing the booth with our sister company, Hale Manor? They’ll be selling their award winning film, The Land of College Prophets. Don’t worry, it’ll be cheap.

Here is a link to the Bristol Observer article written during the filmiing of Bikini Blood Bath 2.

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From page 1:

Bikinis! Blood baths! Bikinis! It’s movie mayhem!

By MIKE CHAIKEN
EDITIONS EDITOR

If you saw some strange behavior in central Connecticut last month, don’t blame it on a full moon. Blame it on the movies. For one week in June, cast and crew members of “Bikini Blood Bath II” swarmed into Bristol, Southington, Plainville and the surrounding environs to craft this low-budget independent mock horror flick. Among the locations that were subjected to the “horrors” of a killer chef run amok were Aliehn Productions in Bristol, the Hen House in Southington, the Southington Athletic Club, and a small neighborhood off the main drag in Plainville.

(please see links above for full article.)

The following is from the Record Journal article which ran June 29th, 2006.

A‘Blood Bath’ for filmmakers

By Ralph  Hohman
Record-Journal  staff

PLAINVILLE — Coming in off  the street, it looks as though you’ve happened upon a frat house or maybe a graduation party, what with all the cars and a tent set up in the driveway. Until, that is, you hear the screams coming from inside — Oh My God! Oh My God!

“This is a pretty funny scene,” explains Rob Cosgrove, aka the psycho, murderous “Chef” of the campy, low-budget slasher flick, “Bikini Blood Bath.” Risen from the grave for a sequel, he’s back for more meat, only in this scene he’s off camera, holding the boom mike.
“There is a dead guy in the closet,” Cosgrove continues, “and  there’s a party going on and there’s this couple in there playing Seven Minutes in Heaven. The guy actually starts making out (unknowingly) with the dead body.” When our young lovers discover their unintended menage, the screaming starts, part of “Bikini Blood Bath 2: Bikini Bloodbath Carwash,” being filmed at a house on this presumably normally quiet street.

“We just  tried to make the name ridiculously long,” says Cosgrove, who lives in Meriden. The film, which was shot over a couple of weeks in Plainville and Southington, follows “Bikini Blood Bath,” which comes out in July.
They are “B” movies, and revel in their cheesy, gorefilled low  budgetness.
“The script is essentially comedy,” says Thomas Edward Seymour  (the shoot is in his brother’s house), who with Jon Gorman wrote, produced and directed the “Blood Bath” movies. “We tried to write straight horror in the first one, and we kept putting jokes in.” B-movie queen Debbie Rochon joined the shoot last weekend after taping her new Sirius Satellite show, “Fangoria Radio,” with Dee Snider. Cosgrove says Rochon’s lecherousgym- teacher character meets her demise in the first “Blood Bath,” but is  somehow been written back into “Bikini Bloodbath Carwash.” She’s joined this time by Rachael Robbins, another star of the low-budget genre, who broke her wrist goofing around on the set.
“I was so bummed,” Robbins says, “because  this is one of the most wonderful shoots I’ve been on. The script is absolutely hysterical.” She says her right arm, supported by an elastic wrap until the swelling goes down and a cast can be applied, has been hidden during the shoot, “under shirts, behind hunky guys, behind not-so-hunky guys.” There’s not really time or money to shut down. This isn’t a union shop. Gorman and Seymour say “Bikini Blood Bath 2” will cost about $12,000, plus the cost of a new, digital camera they bought for the project. With cable networks expanding into high-def channels and looking for programming, they say their technology upgrade might help get “Carwash” on television.
“Our intention is to build a horror  company — pump them out as fast as we can,” Gorman says.

Seymour, a New Britain native, wrote and acted in “The Land of College Prophets,” which was produced by the Hale Manor Picture Company, of which he’s a partner. “Prophets” took home a bunch of festival prizes last year, including Best Picture at the New Haven Underground Film Festival, which was held in Meriden (it moved to Hartford this year).
  In the first “Bikini Blood Bath,” Cosgrove says, a group of young women are celebrating their high school graduation when they cross paths with the Chef who, using a meat cleaver and other utensils, goes on a killing spree. In the sequel, the survivors of that first massacre try to make contact with their murdered friends, but unwittingly resurrect the Chef with a Ouija board.
  In real life, Cosgrove, Gorman and Bruce Seymour (owner of the Plainville home used as a set) are business partners, owners of Another Bookstore in New Britain, an alternative source of textbooks for Central Connecticut State University students.
With his shaved head, Cosgrove looks the part of the  Chef, whose backstory includes a twisted mother (of course). Onscreen, he says, “This is me — basically it’s typecasting.” How good anactor is he?
“I’m  terrible,” he says. “I’ve just got to look mean and they throw blood at me.” And the blood budget is bigger this time, with more special effects than in the first “Blood Bath.” “We have some real crazy stuff like ripping out intestines this time,” Cosgrove says.
Which brings up ratings. “Bikini Blood Bath 2”  won’t have one. But if it did, “it would definitely be an R,” Cosgrove says, for violence and skin.
“We don’t do sex scenes,” he says, “but we do have  breasts exposed.”
rhohman@record-journal.com

Just in case you missed the article in last weeks Hartford Courant, here is a link to the article they did on us while filming Bikini Bloodbath 2: Bikini Blood Bath Carwash.

Actually the link is down, so here is the article:
Guts! Camera! Action!

June 28 2006

Guts! Camera! Action!

And you thought Plainville was a nice, quiet town. Man, are you wrong.

Just last weekend, a serial killer/French chef was mistakenly brought back from the dead with a Ouija board, after which he slaughtered several young bikini-clad women who worked at a car wash.

It was a blood bath. More specifically, it was “Bikini Blood Bath II: Blood Bath Car Wash.”

“Why did he kill them? Because they were there,” said Rob Cosgrove of Bloodbath Pictures of Plainville, whose motto is: “We make B movies because you’re too lazy to get off your ass and make one for us!”

Cosgrove produced the low-budget indie film, shot over the past few weekends, and played the slash-happy lead.

“I loved it. I got to wear fancy zombie makeup this time around,” he said. “Everybody wants to be a zombie.”

The comic horror film is a homage to classic slasher pictures such as “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th.”

It is the sequel to “Bikini Blood Bath,” also shot in Plainville and New Britain. The first film is due to come out on DVD just before Halloween.

Miss Johnson, owner of the babelicious car wash, was played by B-movie scream queen Debbie Rochon, who, Hartford film fans will remember, was the mistress of ceremonies at the New Haven Underground Film Festival at the Wadsworth Atheneum in May. She also started a new show on Sirius Satellite Radio on Friday. (She is Dee Snider’s on-air sidekick.)

“We have three more films in the works that will be produced over the next year, and I’m sure Debbie will be a part of most, if not all, of them,” Cosgrove said.

The primary shooting location was a house at 18 Grant Ave., near the AMC Loews Plainville 20 movie theaters. It is the home of Bruce Seymour, one of the executive producers. The car wash is in town, too, but it’s not really a car wash.

“We just borrowed a factory building in an industrial complex and shot outside of it,” Cosgrove said. “We ran some hoses. It looked enough like a car wash.”

The film was written and directed by Seymour’s brother, Tom Seymour of Hale Manor Films, which last year produced “The Land of College Prophets” in Southington and Plainville. That film was a small-scale success, selling, by last count, more than 11,000 copies on DVD.

- Susan Dunne

Hartford Courant, June 28, 2006.