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Scimitar Productions Unlimited

We make our own damn movies too! No budget to low budget horror/sci-fi/comedies to be precise. Thus, the birth of Scimitar Productions Unlimited. P.S.

It all started out back in 1989, in our high school graphic arts class. Three young, talented students were selected to work on developing and publishing a graphic novel. Steve was the writer, Chris the illustrator, and me, Bret, the inker (yes, I was a tracer). The title of this masterpiece was "Blistered Earth" borrowed from a line in a Metallica song. It was a post-apocalyptic tale of survival

that placed humans against mutants. After putting together a press pack and pitching it to various comic book companies, Dark Horse Comics developed an interest. Unfortunately nothing ever became of this as the whole project was scrapped before it was ever finished. The teacher that gave us this assignment was let go and his replacement was not interested in having us continue the project. Scimitar Productions Unlimited lay dormant for about 3 years. Steve, Chris and I drifted apart. Then, one fine day, after not seeing Chris for some time, we got together to have a few beers. Bored and drunk, we started hashing out ideas for another graphic novel. Being a night owl, I managed to see almost every cheesy b-rated horror film that "USA Up All Night" ever played. So, I came up with "Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell", a graphic novel with the whole "Troma" movie feel to it. Chris loved the idea, we had the whole story outlined and the first few pages drawn by the next day. Over the next year we pecked away at the graphic novel whenever we had a free moment, but between work, school, and girlfriends, that wasn't very often. As the art of film making became more attainable to production companies with a limited budget we decided to stop drawing and start filming. Over the next couple of years we made a short film and wrote 3 other screenplays. The film, a really low budget comedy entitled "A Day in the Life of a Blow-up Doll" featured many of the same characters as Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell. We also wrote a couple of short stories that were intended to become a weekly web series entitled "Tales from the Elder Shelter". Then we decided to take Steve's outline for "Blistered Earth" and convert it into a screenplay. That inspired us to dig up Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell (pardon the pun but I couldn't resist). It was a great story with tremendous potential and could easily make the natural progression to an independent feature film. The rest is history! Steve, Where are you anyway??

11/08/2024

Excerpt from my upcoming book Weird Tails.

02/28/2024

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It all started out back in 1989, in our high school graphic arts class. Three young, talented students were selected to work on developing and publishing a graphic novel. Thus, the birth of Scimitar Productions Unlimited. Steve was the writer, Chris the illustrator, and me, Bret, the inker (yes, I was a tracer). The title of this masterpiece was "Blistered Earth" borrowed from a line in a Metallica song. It was a post-apocalyptic tale of survival that placed humans against mutants. After putting together a press pack and pitching it to various comic book companies, Dark Horse Comics developed an interest. Unfortunately nothing ever became of this as the whole project was scrapped before it was ever finished. The teacher that gave us this assignment was let go and his replacement was not interested in having us continue the project. Scimitar Productions Unlimited lay dormant for about 3 years. Steve, Chris and I drifted apart. Then, one fine day, after not seeing Chris for some time, we got together to have a few beers. Bored and drunk, we started hashing out ideas for another graphic novel. Being a night owl, I managed to see almost every cheesy b-rated horror film that "USA Up All Night" ever played. So, I came up with "Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell", a graphic novel with the whole "Troma" movie feel to it. Chris loved the idea, we had the whole story outlined and the first few pages drawn by the next day. Over the next year we pecked away at the graphic novel whenever we had a free moment, but between work, school, and girlfriends, that wasn't very often. As the art of film making became more attainable to production companies with a limited budget we decided to stop drawing and start filming. Over the next couple of years we made a short film and wrote 4 other screenplays. The film, a really low budget comedy entitled "A Day in the Life of a Blow-up Doll" featured many of the same characters as Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell. We also wrote "Fleshburn", that was our first full length screenplay. We wrote a couple of short stories that were intended to become a weekly web series entitled "Tales from the Elder Shelter". Then we decided to take Steve's outline for "Blistered Earth" and convert it into a screenplay. That inspired us to dig up Teenage Zombie S***s From Hell (pardon the pun but I couldn't resist). It was a great story with tremendous potential and could easily make the natural progression to an independent feature film.

The rest is history!