Our cover for the DVD release of “Frankenstein’s Planet of Monsters” (1993).
To me this film is a magnificent example of what I call “guerilla independent film making”, with the lack of a budget I imagine everything for this film was made with sheer creativity and inventive intuition by using whatever they had available.
The sets, the make up, the devices, the clay-mation all have a sense of the human touch and a highly stylized charming homemade quality.
This film is so refreshing to me in a world of glossy sterile CGI and “Hollywood slick”.
The DVD cover we chose definitely has a “homemade” look on purpose, trying to keep with the style of the film itself, and reflects my love of the DIY spirit and outsider art etc. From reading the film’s credits which give thanks to the likes of “Ed Wood” and “Ray Dennis Steckler”, we can tell these film creators feel much of the same adoration for such work as we do.
My thanks to actor/screen writer/producer Mike Brunelle for giving me permission to do something like this.
DVD copies will continue to sell at our SLC film screenings. Half of the proceeds go to Mike himself + a little to the directors of the featured short “Alone”.
All DVD copies are currently available through us for $12 by contacting us through email or at the merch table during our film events.
- BC Sterrett
