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Christopher Bickel

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Movie Review: Bad Girls (2021)

Those eponymous Bad Girls, Val (Morgan Shaley Renew), Mitzi (Senethia Dresch), and Carolyn (Shelby Lois Guinn) by name, are (metaphorically) balls deep in one hell of an orgy of sex and violence as they rob and fuck their way on a roadtrip down Mexico way and sweet, sweet freedom. Along the way, our anti-heroines kidnap some rock stars, Bard Gainsworth (Cleveland Langdale) of Christmas Tits and Zerox Rhodesia (Micah Peroulis) of Poltergasm to be precise, which adds to the “sex” quotient mentioned up yonder, not to mention adding fistfuls of drugs (including theta from co-writer/director Christopher Bickel’s 2017 flick The Theta Girl)… so yeah, this turns into a complete psychotronic experience right fuckin’ quick! Will Val and the gals make it through this ballet of bullets (and the occasional knife), boobs, and bloodshed intact? Yeah, like I’d really tell you that… Because you cats n’ creeps dig on comparisons, let’s go with: Bad Girls is like the end result of

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DanXIII

Feb 20, 2021

IndieMoviesNews

Iconic Genre Magazine Film Threat Lives on With New Distribution Label

If you are like me, you studied the pages of Film Threat magazine in the ’90’s, dreaming of all of the exciting new indy projects that most likely would not be coming to a theater near me. Well, good news; Film Threat has returned (I mean they’ve had a website for years…but you get what I’m laying down) with a new distribution label announced at this year’s SDCC titled…better sit down for this shocker…Film Threat Presents! Their first release will be F’ed up sci-fi drug yarn The Theta Girl! Here’s the official rundown copy/pasted straight from the PR material just for you boils n’ ghouls: 33 years after its premiere as the rogue, iconoclastic fanzine championing indie film, Film Threat is back. First as a website, FilmThreat.com, relaunched last year, and now as a distribution label, catering to the same demographic that loved the disruptive magazine so much during its print run between 1985 and 1997. The first release, scheduled

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DanXIII

Jul 20, 2018

IndieMoviesReviews

Movie Review: The Theta Girl (2017)

Gayce (Victoria Elizabeth Donofrio) always seems to be where the fun and action are in a seedy city that seems to exist in a haze of glam infused punk rock and no-hold-barred orgies…sounds like my house on any given Tuesday, eh my creeps? Hello…anyone…I’m so alone…where the hell was I? Oh yeah, Gayce…she’s popular because she supplies everyone with a drug called theta…a lil’ number that can rip asunder dimensions and send people hurtling to a land that’s at times one part silent movie film stock, one part school play from hell, and all parts totally fucked-the-shit-up. in said dimension lies a being that can grant the theta user their desires…and folks have been wishing for some apocalyptic shit for sure! Anyway, when our heroine’s best friend, the local homeless dude that helps her dispense her delirious drugs, ends up quartered and with his guts arranged in an arcane sigil, Gayce goes on a quest along with her supplier Derek

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DanXIII

Jun 28, 2018

MoviesNews

Release Date Announced For Bloody, Brutal Flick ‘The Theta Girl’

She brought the pills. He brought the kills. From director Christopher Bickel and writer-producer, David Axe comes The Theta Girl, starring Victoria Elizabeth Donofrio, Shane Silman. Darrelle Dove, Quinn Deogracias, Mike Amason, Len Marini, and Aaron Blomberg. The film is an “exercise in sex, drugs, punk rock, brutality, gore, revenge, and self-actualization … but really it’s an art film. We are excited to announce that The Theta Girl will be coming to theaters across the country starting this summer.” In The Theta Girl, “Gayce, a take-no-shit young woman, deals with a hallucinogenic drug called “theta,” facilitating an audience for her friends’ all-girl rock band. When Gayce’s friends are brutally murdered, she must solve the mystery behind the murders and protect herself from the killer. She discovers the connections between theta and the murders — and learns a terrifying truth. That the world — indeed her whole reality — is not as it seems.” For more on the film please visit

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jun 23, 2018

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