In early 2010 Bill Zebub spoke to several potential investors/producers. The first such production company to greenlight a project was ROUGH PICTURES.
"Forgive Me for Raping You" was a great project to select as the guinea pig. This is the first movie that Bill Zebub directed for an outside producer. Bill Zebub wrote the script and was allowed to keep full artistic control.
Bill Zebub hired new faces, but he is also loyal to people who have been great in the past, so he hired Kathy Rice and Jordana Leigh.
During the negotiations with ROUGH PICTURES. Bill Zebub remarked upon the general tendency of movie makers to completely sanitize horror movies about serial killers. All serial killers are sexual predators, yet that aspect is always diminished or absent from movies about real-life offenders. It makes one wonder why gore and torture can be shown in graphic and even hyper-realistic detail, yet rape or molestation are avoided in cinema. Bill Zebub wondered why people make movies about rapists but never even touch the subject.
Bill Zebub has made movies dealing with those issues in the past, primarily because it is a taboo subject that most movie-makers avoid. He never intended to make those depictions arousing. The only reasons for those stories/movies in the Bill Zebub catalog were to explore boundaries artisitcally, and to make sure that the depictions never glorified the offenders, or the crimes. Villains in horror movies appear as the alpha males, but real sexual predators are usually at the very bottom. They are not people who should be idolized.
Another subject that was discussed during negotiations was the tendency for movies about serial killers to have a lot of fluff. The dialogue is usually completely made up, so any hope of learning about an actual historical killer is lost. There is also usually an unnecessary detective story that parallels the killer. These elements are dangerous because they can make the story gripping, or something to admire. For this reason, Bill Zebub wanted to write a script in which there was no distraction from the unsettling character of the offender. From the first moment there would be nothing but distaste, revulsion, and tension. and this should not relent.
This story is about an ugly side to man. To give it any beauty would be irresponsible.
Starring: Taylor Trash, Eidolona, Kathy Rice, Angelina Martin, Jordana Leigh, several more actresses, and Bill Zebub |