Satan, Hold My Hand

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Satan, Hold My Hand
Directed byCourtney Fathom Sell
Written by Reverend Jen Miller
Story by Reverend Jen Miller & Courtney Fathom Sell
Produced by Jonathan Ames
Starring Janeane Garofalo
Reverend Jen Miller
Robert Prichard
Francis Hall as "Faceboy"
Reina Terror
John King
Paige Flash
Matthew Hammond
Moonshine Shorey
Scooter Pie
George Cutler
Don Eng
Bruce Ronn
CinematographyCourtney Fathom Sell
Edited byCourtney Fathom Sell
Music by Rachel Trachtenburg
Moby
Courtney Fathom Sell
Dusty Santamaria
Brer Brian
Production
company
ASS Studios aka Art Star Scene Studios
Distributed byMVD Entertainment
Release dates
  • September 2013 (2013-09)(Anthology Film Archives, New York)
  • United States (United States)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$27.00
Box office$603.00 [1]

Satan, Hold My Hand or Satan Hold My Hand is a 2013 horror-comedy feature film edited, co-produced and directed by Courtney Fathom Sell. Written by his friend, Reverend Jen Miller, the film is notable for being the only feature-length film issued by ASS Studios. The studio was known mainly for short subjects, as well as for the inclusion of writer Jonathan Ames as an executive producer. The film also marked the return of actor Robert Prichard, recognized for his roles in various Troma films including The Toxic Avenger & Class of Nuke em' High. Following a loose narrative, the film concerns a group of Satanic worshippers, who, after kidnapping two Catholic schoolgirls, soon realize that Satan isn't as evil as they hoped for. [2] [3]

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Production

According to Sell, the estimated shooting budget on the film was only $27.00, which he claimed was mostly spent on alcohol and pizza for the cast. To further these claims, Sell, who is known for his no-budget film work announced publicly that the film was shot in "Drunk-O-Vision". In the same interview, the group jokingly claimed that Janeane Garofalo had been kidnapped in order to obtain a cameo, and only released upon giving a performance. [4] [5]

Sell and Miller have mentioned that the idea and screenplay had been completed almost immediately during the time their now-defunct company ASS Studios was launched. However, due to financial issues, they began shooting short films in order to gain momentum and attention for the project, which at the time was entitled "Satan's Bitches" then "Half-ASSed Satanists" and possibly written as a soft-core feature. The title change was decided when the two felt that, though with no intentions of putting the film in the Festival circuit, would be a bit more publicly accepted. Sell helped obtain funding for pre-production working as a cook at various Lower East Side restaurants. Regarding the involvement of Jonathan Ames in the film, Sell wrote:

When our friend Jonathan Ames, writer and creator of HBO’s series Bored to Death decided to sign on as a producer, it saved us a lot of further hardship. People become interested. Sincerely interested. They were now curious. Jonathan had seen and enjoyed a bunch of our earlier work, and actually had been paid a not-so-subtle homage in our piece The Sinful Bitches. Rev had sent him over the screenplay and he was enthusiastic about playing the role of producer, though we are still trying to figure out what it all means to this day. It was sort of a Paul Morrissey-Warhol affair if you understand what I mean.

Release

Satan, Hold My Hand premiered at Midnight in September 2010 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Writer Trav S.D. recalls on his official website,

The movie was dedicated to the late Taylor Mead, and that was fitting, for the entire proceedings from soup to nuts seemed infused with his gonzo spirit, from the underground rawness of the movie’s assembly, to the absinthian cocktail of humor and anarchistic free-for-all, to the neo-Warholian constellation of bona fide "characters" who not only populated the film but the screening and the before and after festivities that book-ended it. [6]

The film was released in May 2013 by MVD Entertainment. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2018-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Satan, Hold My Hand". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  3. ↑ [ dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-09-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ Sell, Courtney. "How I Made the Cheapest Film Ever… and Lived to Tell About It". Filmmakermagazine.com. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Satan, Hold My Hand". Travsd.wordpress.com. 31 August 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Satan, Hold My Hand - MVD Entertainment Group B2B". Mvdb2b.com. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
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