The latest news from THE VAMPIRES OF BLOODY ISLAND.
"Genuinely hilarious and tremendous fun."
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Written to you direct by the stars and creators,
Allin Kempthorne and Pamela Kempthorne.
4th AUGUST 2010
It's three o'clock in the morning and we've barely slept more than a couple of hours a night this week.
This is partly due to intense, nail-biting excitement, and partly it's due to an unbelievably heavy workload. And both of those are down to the same wonderful, glorious reason:
The Vampires of Bloody Island is released in the USA and Canada NOW!
WOOHOO!!!! We're as excited as a pair of three year olds on a bouncy castle! We've finally done it. The Vampires of Bloody Island is finally out there in the USA, sitting on shelves alongside Twilight, Avatar and all those other Hollywood movies!
Bloody Hell. Deep breath...
Now we wait to see what reviews, features and mentions we'll be getting in the American press over the next couple of weeks. We've been hitting the promotional trail being interviewed by websites and magazines across the USA, as much as we can without actually having to get on a plane and fly over there.
So far they seem to be quite obsessed with the fact everyone in the film has English accents! Blimey, are English films REALLY that rare in America?
Actually, when you think about it, English films are pretty rare even here in England! But moaning about the state of the British film industry is for another day. Right now it's a day of celebration. So crack open the Champagne, the Brit-Vic, the Tomato Ketchup or whatever gluggables you happen to have to hand and join us in a toast: "To the Vampires of Bloody Island, now on sale in the USA! Woohoo!!"
So this is of course a really scary time for us.
The Vampires of Bloody Island has massively outperformed our expectations here in the UK. We wrote and made the film pouring in enormous effort and personal financial hardship, obsessing over every single detail to get the film as really detailed, funny and slick as our experience and budget would allow. But although we obviously hoped for great things, we always knew that we were playing a fiercely tough game, as any low budget British film does, and it could all fall apart around us at any time.
But the film has actually gone on to be a really strong underground hit, both at home here in Britain and in a few other surprising places too. Bizarrely enough it's proved surprisingly popular in Brazil! Elsewhere it's steadily been building a strong cult momentum, as it's doing in Australia and Italy.
In Germany however, the film has been completely ignored! Hmm, I don't think they quite get the comedy somehow!
The American DVD cover bears a corner box with the words "The cult English vampire comedy now available in the USA by popular demand." Blimey! So how's it going to do in the USA and Canada? How will the Americans take to the English humour and the Hammer style story? How will they like the characters and the writing and... well, us?
Ooooohhhh! We can't wait to find out! We're absolutely bricking it!
We've got to pause here to say a seriously big 'Thank you' to everyone who's been writing to us. We do get one heck of a lot of mail nowadays but we hope we've replied to you all without keeping you waiting too long.
Over the last month you've continued to send us mentions of The Vampires of Bloody Island that you've found all over the place. For instance we were mentioned on The Radio Times website a few weeks back in an article titled "Forget the world cup, watch DVDs instead" where we were suggested as a suitable party film to spend an evening watching with your friends and a couple of bottles of wine! Thank you Radio Times!
We were also named in an article about Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the American Sabotage Times, once again with the angle that all the best vampires in films are invariably British!
And award winning Australian novelist Narrelle Harris gave The Vampires of Bloody Island a write-up as a discussion between the two main characters in her novel The Opposite of Life. How cool is that?
And, just to prove that Vampire comedies aren't all low brow, we've also had a brilliant review in Mensa Magazine which said "We can recommend it to all who like tongue-in-cheek vampire romps" and called us "a great fang-filled rib tickler of a film!". Hey, in a magazine as smart as Mensa. Nice!
Meanwhile over on Amazon we were totally gobsmacked to see that we'd risen up the charts by ELEVEN THOUSAND places to actually be placed one position higher than Elvis Presley's 'Viva Las Vegas'. That's right guys. We can now officially say we're BIGGER THAN ELVIS! (My Mum is so proud!)
This even prompted one of our celebrity fans, Manu Intiraymi from the cast of Star Trek Voyager, to write to us "Congratulations on the 11,000 place jump on Amazon. Via la Vampires of Bloody Island!" Thanks Manu. We love all things Star Trek, so it's great that you love our work too!
Anyway, back to the USA release:
There's now a flashy, shiny new International website to cope with the American and International demand!
If you're in the USA and Canada, give it a visit and you'll save $10 on the price by getting your DVD right there.
And if you're in the UK, but haven't got a copy yet, we've got a treat for you too. Because of the global release we've been able to knock a few quid off the UK price. In fact, buy it from our International site now and you'll get it for only half the price it's going for on Amazon! So go treat yourself to a bargain copy right now!
In fact, wherever you are in the world, go have a poke around the new International website and tell us what you think.
You'll find it at www.bloodyislandmovie.com
Thanks for being there,
We're going to try and get some sleep now.
Allin Kempthorne & Pamela Kempthorne
Writers and stars of The Vampires of Bloody Island
Out now in the USA. Yippee!
www.bloodyislandmovie.com
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