<p>'The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell is a low-budget independent feature film based on the horror of the post-apocalyptic future. The few remaining Americans converge in epic, bloody conflict for the throne of the New United States at the notoriously dangerous Threshold of Hell. Shot entirely in Pensacola, Florida, it is low-budget filmmaking at its finest.
<p>As a film production company, we hold
ourselves to extremely high standards.
This standard of excellence derives from our love for the craft and
our commitment to entertainment.
In terms of resources, we have developed
a company fully capable of producing
a feature film from conception
to completion.
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<p><i>The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell</i> is an extremely marketable film; it fits into a genre that already has a well
established following.
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There is an enormous, built-in audience for the underground comedy/horror films made each year. In fact, the gory horror genre is
considered, along with
romantic comedies, the only genre
practically guaranteed to make a profit.</p>
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<h1>Kevin Wheatley - Writer/Director</h1>
<p><img src="images/Kevin_LLC.jpg" class="floatLeft" alt="" width="225" height="150" border="0">
In New York, Kevin is the founding member of Jump The Moon Productions which presents original material in theater and film from emerging artists.
He produced and wrote two highly successful New York plays in the past few years as well as a festival of short plays. Also, Kevin is one of the founding members of <i>Peeper</i>, a comedy improv troupe based in New York City's upper west side. Kevin's strongest commitment is bringing something new and exciting to entertainment and utilizing the incredibly talented individuals around him.
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<h1>Cameron Pearce - Imager <font size="-1">Cinematographer / Editor</font></h1>
<p><img src="images/Cameron_LLC.jpg" class="floatLeft" alt="" width="225" height="150" border="0">Cameron is a cinematographer for clients such as Honda, Suzuki, and the ASC.
He recently shot a National Dodge Commercial (Hemi Campaign). Cameron's
editing has taken him on such productions as Michael Mann's <i>Collateral</i>,
F. Gary Gray's <i>Be Cool</i>, and Gore Verbinski's <i>The Weather Man</i> in Chicago.
Pioneering the idea of "Imager", Cameron takes ownership of each project
by encompassing cinematography and editing as one craft. </p>
<h1>Ryan Turi - Producer</h1>
<p><img src="images/Ryan_LLC.jpg" class="floatLeft" alt="" width="225" height="150" border="0">Ryan has worked in post-production for such CBS shows as <i>The Amazing Race 3 and 4</i> and <i>Big Brother 3</i>. He is known for his determination and organizational skills. At present, in addition to co-producing, Ryan can be seen playing drums for an up and coming rock band, "Wilcox Hotel". The band just finished their demo which he helped produce.</p>
<h1>Jamie Bullock - Producer</h1>
<p><img src="images/Jamie_LLC.jpg" class="floatLeft" alt="" width="225" height="150" border="0">Jamie has worked in management positions for various plays and as crew for several T.V shows including one full season of Arrested Development. Jamie founded her own company, Diantha Designs, and successfully created, marketed and sold her own products. She is currently serving on the executive staff of <i>Circle X</i>, a non-profit theatre organization. She will use her executive experience to negotiate with distributors and handle financial affairs.</p>
<h1>Scott Wheatley - Production Designer</h1>
<p><img src="images/Scott_LLC.jpg" class="floatLeft" alt="" width="225" height="150" border="0">Scott designed the film <i>Champagne Society</i> currently in the film festival circuit. He was a scenic artist for such clients as Outkast ("I Can't Wait" and "Roses"), Gatorade, Sunkist, Acura, Nike, and Reebok. He has done
carpentry work for Target, Honda, Home Depot, and Extra. Scott was Swing and Set Dressing for <i>Two Soldiers</i>, an Academy Award winning short film.
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Jonny Gillette
Director
Kevin Wheatley
Writer, Co-Director
Cameron Pearce
Director of Photography, Editor
Scott Wheatley
Production Designer
Jamie Bullock
Producer
Ryan Turi
Producer
Mischa Webley
First Assistant Director
Katharine Trask
Second Assistant Director, Location Manager
Carter Bissell
First Assistant Camera
Tara Tona
Costume Designer
Caiti Hawkins
Make Up Designer
Stephanie Van Fossen
Associate Producer, Scenic Artist
Scott Addison Clay
Associate Producer,
Still Photographer
Dave Powell
Sound Mixer, Stunt Coordinator and B Camera Operator
Katie Flynn
Line Producer
Kim and Claire
Assistant Camera
Heidi Etter
Key Grip, Best Boy
Nick Bodkins
Production Manager
Wally Lang
Grip Electric, Craft Services
Casey Wooden
Gaffer, Stunt Double
Andrew Myers
Gaffer
Steve Olson
Gaffer
Ryan Smith
Grip/Electric
Jamie Anderson
Grip/Electric
Michael Deweese
Special Gore Make Up Effects
Gary Stubblefield
Investor Relations
Nick Wheatley
Lead Man
Lance Brannon
Art Director
Chris Brown
Art Director
Justin McElfresh
Construction Coordinator
Terry Kreitzberg
Water Effects
Stewart Carrico
Crane Construction
Morgan Carson
Boom Operator
Rebecca Coffey
Wardrobe Assistant
George Lohr
Boom Operator, Grip
<h1>Press Release - State of the Threshold</h1>
<p>1/08/2005 - Los Angeles</p>
<p>Threshold Productions is pleased to announce that <i>The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell</i> is now in full post-production phase. After all the excitement of shooting, it's great to see the footage cutting together and the buzz around the film growing.<br>
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Producer Jamie Bullock and Associate Producer Scott Addison Clay will be attending the first week of the Sundance Film Festival to discuss the future of the film with distributors and other industry folks. Threshold Productions is currently seeking investors to provide finishing funds who are interested in joining us as we take this historic dark comedy epic on the road to film festivals.<br>
Halloween marked the premiere of the first official trailer for <i>The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell</i> at the Van Helsing exhibit in Universal Studios. The location and date provided the perfect backdrop for the first public viewing of the Threshold.<br>
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Interest in the film from both the press and the public has been astounding. An article in Backstage West is due out in a few weeks, and there have been over 20,000 visitors to the website, '<b>www.thresholdofhell.com</b>'. The site is constantly updated — a Trailer is now online, soon to be joined by a flash animated e-comic which provides back-stories on the characters featured in the <i>Threshold of Hell</i>. The first installment will cover the history of the robots Yul and Quincy.</p>
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<h1>What is this Threshold of Hell thing anyway?</h1>
<p>10/15/04 - Los Angeles</p>
<p>The history of New America unfolds...<br>
The year is 2097 A.D.<br>
The United States was annihilated in nuclear horrors two decades ago.
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Now the survivors emerge from the ashes as the founding fathers of a brutal new nation.
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Political power is up for grabs for any brave soul who dares to enter the nation's new capital; a small barrier island fort off the coast of what was once Pensacola, Florida. However, this cursed stretch of land is considered by many to be the most evil place in the world with a leader who is rumored to be none other than Satan himself. It is said that no
trespasser has survived entrance into this dark corner of the world, The Threshold of Hell.
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And so, a new kind of political race begins</p>
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We join Tex Kennedy with his two robot companions Yul and Quincy and a mythical young woman known through legend as Cannibal Sue as they strive to rescue the propheted future king Benny Remington and bring him to power. They find the mysterious Benny in his dark underground bunker, now blinded and hiding the secrets of a new world.
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As the epic journey progresses we learn how a giant sea snake, the great, great, great grandson of
Fidel Castro, and a powerful communication radio tower, all hold a vital presence in the New American mythology.
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The horrors that follow will write the history of our new nation. The events of this twisted tale will create our early heroes, our early villains and shape the lives of tomorrow's Americans forever.</p>
<h1>Press Articles</h1>
<p><a title="Backstage West article" href="http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000760885" target="_blank">Backstage West</a><br>
<a title="IndependentFilm.com article" href="http://independentfilm.com" target="_blank">IndependentFilm.com</a><br>
<a title="FilmStew.com article" href="http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=10018" target="_blank">FilmStew.com</a><br>
<a title="Pensacola News Journal" href="http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/html/626270E7-817C-451D-BDAF-DAD6963A13DC.shtml" target="_blank">Pensacola News Journal</a><br>
<a title="Independent News" href="http://inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=112" target="_blank">Independent News</a><br>
<a title="ABC- WEAR" href="http://weartv.com/news/Stories/June/0618/movie.shtml" target="_blank">ABC-WEAR</a></p>
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<p>Writer/Co-Director Kevin Wheatley - <a href="mailto:kevin@thresholdofhell.com">kevin@thresholdofhell.com</a>
<p>Producer Jamie Bullock - <a href="mailto:jamie@thresholdofhell.com">jamie@thresholdofhell.com</a>
<p>Producer Ryan Turi - <a href="mailto:ryan@threholdofhell.com">ryan@threholdofhell.com</a>
<p>Director of Photography/Editor Cameron Pearce -<a href="mailto:cameron@thresholdofhell.com">cameron@thresholdofhell.com</a>
<p>Production Designer Scott Wheatley -<a href="mailto:acutron2@aol.com">acutron2@aol.com</a>
<p>Associate Producer Scott Addison Clay - <a href="mailto:info@addisondesignassociates.com">info@addisondesignassociates.com</a>
<p>The Threshold of Hell is a dark comedy in the largest sense of the word. To be more specific, the genre of the film can be said to be a sort of Dark Comedy/ Historical Narrative/ Action/ Western/ Horror film. The film is intentionally campy with plenty of comedy, large characters and over the top gory violence. The short synopsis of the film is this... In the horrors of the post apocalyptic future, several groups of the criminally insane converge at the Threshold of Hell to engage in violent conflict in order to win control of the New America. The larger explanation of the film goes something like this...
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<h1>
PROLOGUE
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In the middle of the 2060s, a bomb has dropped upon the United States leaving it's borders a wasteland. Slowly, throughout the film, we get a view of what life was like for the few hundred thousand men and women who managed to escape the radiation in underground bunkers where they were to remain for over two decades...
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Communication to the underground bunkers was sent through gamma radios that had to be intercepted and re broadcast as it carried it's way throughout America. At the center of these broadcasts, somewhere on the west coast, is Clark Remington, aging self appointed King of America.
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With no other leadership or word from the outside world, the underground inhabitants hung to every precious declaration from Remington until it became a sort of gospel to them. After twenty years of underground life, as the time to reenter the surface neared, Remington announced that the successor to King of the outside world would be Benny Remington, Clark's nephew who is bunkered underground thousands of miles away on the northwest coast of what was once Florida. This news greatly upsets Clark's only son Vincent Remington who had thought to be the heir to the throne. Eighteen months before the emergence to the surface, Clark Remington died, Vincent changed his name to Mr. Jackal, and the great struggle for control of new America began...
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So, a deadly race across the country began, because all involved understood that power lied thousands of miles away on the Florida coast. Because, they all knew, not far from the legendary bunker of Benny Remington was a much more notorious legend... The Threshold Of Hell.
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<h1>
THE THRESHOLD OF HELL
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The Threshold of Hell resides, geographically, in a relatively small area of Northwest Florida around the fallen city of Pensacola. During the demise of the U.S. and its aftermath, this small collection of acreage seemed untouched by the destruction. It's inhabitants, a group of strange individuals known as the Children of the Second Sun, not only seem unaffected by the radiation, but became, in a way, super human, as they are invulnerable to bodily injury and never age.
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It has been told that, upon the grounds of the Threshold of Hell is the world's largest gamma radio capable of reaching the farthest boundaries of the United States in real time as opposed to the inconsistent retransmissions that limited the communication of Clark Remington. It is said that this radio is the only tool capable of uniting the nation and whoever controls the radio, controls America. Thus the race to find a leader and reach the radio has become Shakespearean in its scope. Reaching the radio has proved extremely difficult, the people of the Threshold of Hell have become fiercely territorial knowing that any outsider who enters the area is a threat to their utopian society. Outsiders entering the area around the Threshold of Hell are generally found brutally murdered. As the legend of the this place grew, and the rumors spread, the area got it's name "The Threshold of Hell", because of the horrors found there.
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And So, in BRIEF
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We join Tex Kennedy, descendant of two U.S. presidents, (John F. Kennedy 1961- 1963 and Barney Kennedy 2048- 2050) in Florida. Tex, an avid follower and believer in Clark Remington, knows that in order for the new America to succeed, Clark's dying wishes must be honored and young Benny Remington must be brought to power. Knowing the dangers both facing Benny and himself, Tex travels with two robot secret service agents Quincy and Yul, and a powerful caged female cannibal named Sue. They make their way, on foot, across 3,000 miles of wasteland America from what was once California to what was once Florida. Along the way they encounter opposition, often leading to blood and gore. Their goal in sight, they reluctantly enter the vicinity of the Threshold of Hell to find Benny Remington before anyone else does.
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Throughout the film's following events, Tex and his small clan must face obstacle after obstacle including many near death episodes. They do in fact reach Benny Remington and make their way to the heart of the Threshold of Hell. Having come so far they can taste victory and the establishment of the new US government. Once there however, they realize their troubles are only beginning. They must face the homicidal Mr. Jackal and his team of expendable mercenaries, a mysterious tracker named Thorn, the great, great, great, great, great grandson of Fidel Castro, the powerful and invincible Children of the Second Sun, a giant radiated sea snake, a seemingly subservient Arizonan with deadly plans of his own, and the leader of The Threshold of Hell who is thought to be none other than the devil himself.
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<h1>
OUR MISSION
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<p>The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell was written as the first part of a three film trilogy entitled The Threshold of Hell centered on the events that shape America's sociology and mythology in the post apocalyptic future. The film is taken as a historic re telling of the lives of the great fore fathers of the new United States much the same way as if it were being told about Thomas Jefferson and the events centered around the Declaration of Independence and birth of a new nation. However, the tone of the film is that of extremes and larger than life legends.</p>
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The goal of the film's creation is to take risks, create something new, and still leave a strong mark of intelligence in the face of the electric violent energy of the story. I want the film to be kinetic, smart, funny, violent and most of all fun. I want the film to never drop its momentum and I want to present audiences with something they have never seen before. The cast is a group of classically trained established comic actors from New York and Los Angeles. The script, though fully written, will employ a large amount of improvisation and collaboration with all the great minds involved. This is the first filmed collaboration with some of entertainment's brightest new minds and we feel that with an uncompromised, fearless pursuit we can create something new and great.
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