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This
section is dedicated to the independent film I've made over the
years, plus the one I'm working on right now. Feel free to browse
around and check out some of the trailers, stories and even download
entire movies! If you're really into it
you can even order them on DVD!
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Adventure!
1996
Color 105 minutes
Written by Benjamin J Heckendorn and Dale Nauertz
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Produced by Ben Koelsch - Directed by Benjamin J Heckendorn.
Synopsis:
The first "big"
movie we made. By that I mean full-length, done with decent cameras
and professional editing equipment. Has an action-adventure plot
involving the Amazon, a lost band of Nazis attempting to take over
the world and all sorts of craziness on that level. Thus far, also
my longest movie to date.
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The Adventurous
1999
Color 60 minutes
Written by Benjamin J Heckendorn,
Mike Adsit and Ben Koelsch - Produced by
Benjamin J Heckendorn and Ben Koelsch - Directed
by Benjamin J Heckendorn.
Synopsis:
The high-tech
sequel to "Adventure" Not as long, but done better and faster paced.
Includes many more robots and explosions.
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The Lizard of
Death
2006
Color 45 minutes
Written by Benjamin J Heckendorn -
Produced by Ben Koelsch - Directed by Benjamin J Heckendorn (as "Herbert
Clay")
Synopsis:
My loving emulation
of a bad 1950's horror movie. Filmed in black & white DV with
vintage costume, props etc. Computer filtered to look old. This is
still one of my favorite projects, since I had a
relatively easy time filming it and was quite
pleased with the results. The fact we did the entire
thing in 9 months didn't hurt either!
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Future Benjamin J
Heckendorn Films...
Oh man I don't even
want to think about it right now. But you can, so here's some ideas
we've floated around, oldest first. See which make you smile or
puke...
Squirrels
- A movie about killer squirrels (The poster for which can be seen
in the NOACp "Mission" pages)
Greater Michigan Ghost Hunters
- Back in 2002 I was all gung-ho to make a supernaturally thriller
about some people that go around visiting haunted sites. It was
going to be a psychological thing with hardly any special FX at all.
Then "The Ring" came out, 50 zillion ghost movie rip-offs followed
that, and now every other TV channel has a ghost hunting show. So
yeah why make it now?
The Kings and Queens of Karaoke
- A love story about a guy in college who meets the woman of his
dreams one summer at a karaoke bar. Basically "Dirty Singing" Would
love to have Bruce Campbell as a washed-up one-hit wonder singer
from the 80's. Even though it's a music-filled mushy romance this is
actually one I'd really like to do, mostly for the character study
of it.
Mystery Hunter -VS- The Doomsday Alchemist
- This was an idea for a bit but unlikely to ever be done. Mystery
Hunter is this guy who, well, solves mysteries. Now I suppose it
should be called "Mystery Solver" but that doesn't sound as cool as
"Hunter" Anyway it was going to take place in the 1920s (so
basically a Doc Savage rip-off) and he'd go to Prague to fight this
"doomsday alchemist" Oh and he has a sidekick named... Eh I forgot.
When Van Helsing came out (and sucked) it pretty much drained my
desire to make "Mystery Hunter"
Jack Kirby: Alien Hunter
- At this point you've noticed what my friends have - half my movie
ideas contain the word "hunter" Anyway Jack Kirby is this guy who
basically hunts aliens. The mushy big eyed "Gray" kind. He's armed
with pistols, shotguns and a Bondo-filled crappy 1983 Trans-Am. He
also drinks Hamm's, lives in a trailer and is basically a redneck.
But he gets the job done. This movie would be fun but runs the risk
of being monotonous (once we exhaust every possible way of killing
an alien)
everkittens
- Remember that movie "Deep Blue Sea"? Where they genetically alter
sharks to make them smarter? That's dumb of course, so I thought
"What animals WOULD people want to alter? And then of course in a
movie they'd go back and kill people" My first thought was deer (to
save insurance companies money) but how can deer kill people if
they're no longer running in front of cars? (Which even then is
usually un-fatal, well, except for your bumper and hood)
So I thought "Well
it'd be cool if cats stayed kittens forever... EVERKITTENS!" So
yeah, this "evil corporation" creates a genetically altered type of
kitten that never grows old, rather stays young and cute. They do a
test release in 1 town for starters (the location of all the mayhem)
Their bodies stay young but other things grow - namely their urge to
KILL! everkittens (tagline: "Meet your pet of the future") would be
an uber-dark action horror movie along the lines of Gremlins, with
some I, Robot parallels as well. A cool idea, one I might do but
making robotic / destroyable / CGI kittens would be really hard.
Untitled Musical about an Architect
- This is actually my favorite idea at the moment but it would take
a lot of work to do. It's a movie musical based INCREDIBLY loosely
on the life of an architect (and no, not Frank Lloyd Wright), with
90% of it made up or exaggerated beyond belief. The guy is still
around and actually lives nearby in Wisconsin so I probably wouldn't
be able to do it. Oh well, sigh.
(If you want to be
sleuth and figure out who he is, here's a clue: the sound a
turkey makes.)
Got any cool movie
ideas of your own?
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