Bill Zebub is a writer, editor, director, producer, and sexy person. This site, billzebub.com, is the concise site for now, and the sister site, billzebubproductions.com, has a bit more information.

Bill Zebub’s first movie was “Metalheads” which was written as a practice movie when he read a book by Syd Fields, and he filmed it on a camcorder for practice. This practice-movie was actually picked up for distribution.

Prior to that, Bill Zebub had made skits on VHS tapes – when two hours of material was ready, a new VHS under the name “The Underground” of which there were five titles.

Bill Zebub’s first seven feature movies, which were on DVD, were camcorder movies. At that time, Bill Zebub did not have training in any aspect of movie-making. Books about cinematography were not in bookstores that Bill Zebub had visited.

Even after Bill Zebub had been able to find intructional books and even after he had upgraded his equipment significantly, he still did not have large budgets. This meant that he had days, not weeks, to make movies.

The extreme flaws of the movies should have resulted in failure, but despite the disadvantages, the movies cultivated an impressive fan base. This showed Bill Zebub that “content” is the most important part of movies, or at least his movies. All else is forgiven, or overlooked.

As of today, Bill Zebub actually has three separate fanbases. Some fans are completists and love all, but there are generally three categories. Some fans love the comedies, some fans love the erotic horror, and some fans love the music documentaries.

One of Bill Zebub’s obstacles is that he loves combining things that usually are not mixed. He is not a purist or follower of any genre. Of course, retail is designed in categories, so making movies that are difficult to place into genres is unwise. Yes, Bill Zebub is a fool.

Additionally, Bill Zebub likes to stray from the thee-act structure of screenwriting to see if ignoring traditional formula might result in something that is still good.

You might not know what the three-act structure is, but you have been trained to watch movies a certain way and to expect certain things, so when you see something that strays from that formula, you probably will not react well, even if it is big budget.

Bill Zebub does not claim to be better than anyone, or to even be good at what he does. His only boast is that he uses his freedom as an indie director – he is not constrained by the rules that the bigger budget movies must follow. He cannot offer you something to match the visual quality of Hollywood, but he CAN offer you something that Hollywood never will. Again, it is not to say that it is better. It’s simply different.

Do not mistake the independent spirit for hatred of Hollywood. Bill Zebub reveres many mainstream movies, like “Amadeus” for example. Bill Zebub can make movies with mainstream sensibilities, but no one has ever approached him to do that, and Bill Zebub looks too much like a dirtbag to request an audience with mainstream people.

There have been investors, however. ROUGH PICTURES has invested in five movies and has allowed Bill Zebub to make the movies the way that he wished. One such movie was DIGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE, which after five years reverted back to Bill Zebub, which he re-edited under the title DO UNTO OTHERS.

There was a producer who wanted to sign Bill Zebub to a three-movie deal with significant capitol, but Bill Zebub felt that the movies would flop, and he did not want to begin his first steps into the next level as a failure.

Bill Zebub usually risks his own money when he makes a movie, even these days. However, he started to run crowdfunding campaigns.

It started with DICKSHARK. Bill Zebub did not want to make the movie unless he could make a seven-foot shark. He ran a campaign on indiegogo specifically to pay for those materials, which amounted to $2,000. Of course, the shark could have been made for less money, but Bill Zebub did not at that time know his options. He simply wanted to make the shark, and he went about it the best way that he knew at the time.

The significance of that story is that the crowdfunder showed Bill Zebub that he could get help from fans rather than investors, and he can continue to take risks with bizarre stories and imagery.

Bill Zebub Productions LLC

PO Box 270821

Flower Mound, T.X. 75027

bill@billzebub.com