Blood Bath Pictures News

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.