FILMMAKERS ROY FRUMKES AND BRETT PIPER JOIN DEBBIE ROCHON, LLOYD KAUFMAN AND BROOKE LEWIS FOR KILLER RACK
Cult filmmakers Roy Frumkes and Brett Piper have joined Killer Rack, which Gregory Lamberson directs in Buffalo, New York later this summer.
Frumkes, best known for writing and producing Street Trash and directing The Definitive Document of the Dead, has signed on as a producer and will play a role in the film, as he did on Lamberson’s Slime City Massacre, and Piper, who has amassed a long list of credits as director, writer, producer and visual effects artist, including Shock-O-Rama, Bacterium and the upcoming Queen Crab, will provide stop motion animation.
The duo join a growing list of genre icons involved with the production, including Debbie Rochon, Lloyd Kaufman and Brooke Lewis.
“Roy was my Film Production instructor at the School of Visual Arts before he made Street Trash and I made Slime City, and we’ve become good friends over the years,” says Lamberson. “His role is sure to delight his fans. I interviewed him and Brett for my book Cheap Scares: Low Budget Horror FIlmmakers Share Their Secrets, and it’s been a dream of mine to have Brett do some stop motion animation for me ever since then. All three of us sort of formed from the same pool of cinematic ooze back in the eighties, and Debbie and Lloyd as well.
They’re all perfect for the tone of this film, and I can’t wait to get started.”
Killer Rack tells the story of Betty (newcomer Jessica Zwolak), a hapless woman who makes the mistake of obtaining breast implants from Dr. Cate Thulu (Debbie Rochon), a servant of H.P. Lovecraft’s elder gods. Betty’s boobs take on a man eating life of their own and seek to overthrow the world. The screenplay was written by Paul McGinnis, who co-produces with Lamberson and Rod Durick (Filming the Undead: How to Make Your Own Zombie Film). Kaufman plays Betty’s psychiatrist, Dr. Foin, and Lewis voices the Boobs. Production is scheduled to begin in July.
“The script is really crazy,” Lamberson says. “The first half is outrageous but kind of sweet, and the second half explodes into all kinds of over the top, gory deaths – and it manages to stay funny throughout. We’re going to have a lot of fun with this.”
The filmmakers are seeking startup capital on
IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/killer-rack/x/78828
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