Over the years, Strike a Pose!!! Films has worked with a ton of talented people.  As a group, some of our best memories feature Sam Anderson in wacky, and sometimes serious roles. So to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Strike a Pose! Films, Sam wrote up a little memoir for us to read about his experience on one of our most legendary movies, CURSE OF BODANGOFISH!

If there was ever one Strike A Pose!!! Films movie I was in that I will never forget, it had to be “Curse of the Bodangofish”. Dylan and I filmed this movie in Cape Hatteras after a body surfing incident left a scrape on my hip. What better inspiration to make a monster movie? Through a Ferry ride, a drive home, and at least 10 dug holes, we produced a movie that only a select few ever got to witness. My favorite part of the whole adventure was in the last 5 minutes of shooting when a scene had a frisbee being thrown, and in one of the takes it went a bit too high and hit me square in the lip. Did I mention that there was a cut-out piece of a plastic cup in my mouth at the time to create buck-teeth for my costume? And that there was ketchup in my mouth used for fake blood? There is no beter feeling than hearing the words “Cut!” and running into the ocean to clean out the sand, ketchup, and blood from your mouth. As our motto goes, “Good Times”. – Sam Anderson

In celebration, we will now post a never-before released full scene from CURSE OF BODANGOFISH, reformatted in HD and featuring some new tracks by the Funkyman himself! Enjoy, and hopefully, if the response is solid, we’ll have more scenes to show you before releasing the entire film on an order-only DVD!

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Be sure to keep up with our blog! There will be more Cast Retrospectives coming throughout the end of the year!

I was hanging out with our web developer, Neutralx2 the other night. We decided to dick around with his new captcha card and see if we could make a quick Halo 3 skill scene. It was fun to get my hands on the tools in the Halo 3 video production kit. Here’s some very quick results:

A full demo video will hopefully come in either by the end of this month or October.

In the meantime, here’s a link to the footage Neutralx2 put together himself.

New posts are coming soon, ladies and gents!

As the new year rolls in, so will new flicks, reviews, essays, writers, and applications!

NEW MOVIES:
Coming to Strike a Pose!!! Films in early 2010 will be two long-in-development shorts

CLARITY and LINE OF SIGHT

Filmed in the Summer of 2007, these movies have sorta been in editing hell for almost three years. Both films have since been completed but never officially posted to the site. Line of Sight was actually a 3rd place runner-up in the Future Film Makers Film Festival in 2009, but now its time to put it up for everyone to see! More details to come!

NEW DOCUMENTARIES:
TRUE WARRIORS: Collegiate Swordsmen, will soon be premiering on SAP, as part of a 4 part feature-length documentary tentatively titled “Martial Paths“, featuring Kung Fu and Tai Chi from Self Mastery Systems, the Unofficial Salisbury Biography of Fernando Guerrero, AKA “Spirit of Salisbury”, and Knights of the Eastern Shore, a short one-day doc of SCA members in Maryland.

Hopefully I’ll also be able to finally get my docs and news packages posted, among which are CHEERS OR JEERS, THE RETURN OF SUTV, and WHERE DOES THE @#% GO? A short doc about the water cleaning system in Ocean City, MD.

There are a few others I’d like to get up here, but all in due time.

ESSAYS:

We’ve got Taxi Driver, we’ve got JAWS, we’ve got westerns and thrillers and film theories, oh my! SAP will be brimming with Essay content in the next few months, so be sure to check it out! And if you’d like to start submitting essays, please let us know!

MORE ESSAYS THAN EVER!  EQUILIBRIUM / BLADERUNNER / BATMAN /SPIDERMAN / IN A LONELY PLACE and more!

TWITTER ACCOUNT AND LINKS PAGE
Strike A Pose!!! Films has just created its first twitter account, aptly named StrikeAPoseFilm, so that you can follow our every move! You may have noticed our new LINKS page/section, which is intended to help us post as much new info as possible, collected stories from other websites such as favorites Dark Horizons and John August, as well as Indy Mogul and Rotten Tomatoes. It will also help you guys keep up with our newest posts and filming, as well as our Youtube Account.

PODCASTS

I made an entire presentation about ALIEN through podcasting, and totally got an A+ in class for it. More like that, each around 11 minutes, to come soon! Special guests are welcome, so please apply in the comments below! GIVE US SUGGESTIONS!!!

FUTURE FILM MAKERS FILM FESTIVAL

Coming in April! Be sure to check here for more updates!

AND MORE!

We’ll have some pictures and whatnot up in the galleries. Keep checking our forums! Check the links and the twitter! Our fanbase is growing but we need your comments to help us out!