BB Movie Review - Infernal Cinema

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Indie film making at it’s most productive, BB is a striking and powerful look at a modern phenomena!"


Out: Now / Runtime: 88 minutes / Rating: N/A / Fortyfps / Director: CJ Wallis

Leah who, under the name “Candy Cummings”, performs strip shows online from her apartment for thousands of strangers every day, never fully knows the extent of the evils that could be watching on the other side of the screen. But she will soon find out…

Made on a near non-existent budget and with a tiny cast and crew, BB takes a classic concept and adds a very modern, 21st century twist to it while proving quality movies can be made with little resources.

The idea, a man becoming infatuated with a young woman from afar despite having never met her, has been seen in dozens of movies. The stalking, the harassment and the eventual kidnapping are all time worn tropes of this type of story. Infernal Cinema recently reviewed Honeymoon/Luna De Miel which touched upon similar. BB, however, adds ‘cam girls’ into the mix. These women, who perform on webcams for whoever is watching and willing to pay them to do ‘more’, have became popular in recent years. Some have became ‘celebrities’ and they have thousands of fans.

BB Movie Review - 3 Minute Review

"A gritty, raw character drama wrapped in the veneer of the low-budget thriller!"

The hook for micro-budgeted indie film BB reads like many a B-movie thriller: A hard-up woman becomes a web-cam model to make some fast cash, only to find herself being stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan.

BB differs notably from typical direct-to-video genre fare, however, in its presentation. Filmed documentary-style, sans narration, fly-on-the-wall clips of heroine Leah (played by real-life web-cam model Jennifer Mae) are interspersed with found-footage style sequences of her #1 fan Hal (Kristian Hanson) being generally creepy and obsessive. Director/writer/editor CJ Wallis cleverly works around the absence of studio sets and effects through rapid cuts, parallel editing, and musical montages that show Leah’s life spiraling out of control while events build toward the inevitable collision between the protagonist and her tormentor.

BB Movie Review - Cinema Bluster

"C.J. Wallis has crafted a strong independent thriller worth your time, as it balances the lines of public and private, lurid and perverse, love and obsession. This world is definitely one you will not be comfortable in"

BB Film Review: A Lurid Tale Of Online Persona

We live in a connected world, where with the single touch of a button or swipe of a screen we are immediately present in the life of another. The majority of the time, this is simply maintaining a connection with friends and family, however, in other instances, it serves more as a social contract between strangers, where each party has a mutual understanding of trust in the exchange of goods and services. And in the case of BB, the full-length feature debut of C.J. Wallis, we are given a glimpse into the prurient life of a cam girl, stripping for anonymous strangers, and the inherent dangers of presenting one’s self to the masses.

Zer0 Tolerance's Score Artwork "Napoleon Complex"

FortyFPS Productions has been hired to write, perform & arrange score pieces for Joseph Forsberg's independent film Zer0 Tolerance, a film about school bullying and now the cover art for the album has been released.

Tracks & previews will surface over the next little while.

Designed by CJ Wallis.

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BB Movie Review - TalkHorror

"This is the early efforts of some talented people that have a bright future!"


Introduction

I was approached to review this film by C.J. Wallis, who is the man responsible for filling out most of the crew member positions on this film, such as writer, director, editor, cinematographer, producer, and so much more. Most notably, he’s just simply a pretty cool dude to shoot the shit with, which I discovered while shooting messages back and forth on Twitter.

Daily Dead Interviews Director CJ Wallis

Q&A with BB Writer/Director CJ Wallis:

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, CJ. When did you originally come up with the idea for BB?

I never really know, to be honest. I tend to just have a bunch of cool ideas for characters or show-off scenes or shots floating around in my head that, individually on their own, don’t add up to much.

I was pretty into Bjork for a long time and in high school I saw 18 hours worth of underground Hi-8 tapes of a kid named Ricardo Lopez who filmed himself over a year having conversations to the camera about his love for Bjork while progressively, and successfully, building an acid bomb hidden in a book for her. He filmed and timed his own suicide with when she was meant to open the book herself.

I met cam-model Jennifer Mae and the more I thought about her profession, I started to realize how vulnerable and terrifying it could be under the surface. Coupled with my fascination with people’s theories about being able to hack into embedded cell-phone or laptop cameras and add Ricardo Lopez to the gumbo and all those chunks rapidly form and became Megazord-like.

A few days later, the script was done. A month after that, we were filming.

BB Movie Review - Zisi Emporium

"Mae excels as a fantasy girl and a passionate lover. CJ Wallis, who wrote and directed "BB" will no doubt rake in awards at film festivals in 2017!"


BB, Alienation, Desperation, Fear....
Written by Christopher Zisi

...after fear, what is the next word?  You'll see. In 2016's "BB," CJ Wallis takes us on a voyage which has the feel of a downward spiral.  From the outset, we sense carnage heading our way.  Acute characters who are so familiar to us, ushered along by horrific circumstances, and highlighted by heavy, ominous music make our feature today. A whole article could be written about the Mother Marygold music which permeates "BB," suffice to say it will carry you through one horrific ordeal. Besides, it's time for a new purple haired beauty, as Lt. Gay Ellis (UFO) from the early 1970s was our last one.

Poster Design - Zer0 Tolerance Movie

POSTER DESIGN: ZER0 TOLERANCE MOVIE

Designed by CJ Wallis, @fortyfps

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MR MARCELO "OG LUV DAT OG 4" ALBUM ARTWORK

The final installment... @jetlifegeneralcelo #OgLuvDatOG4 #birdseyeview design

A photo posted by CJ Wallis (@fortyfps) on Aug 30, 2016 at 2:25pm PDT

MR MARCELO "OG LUV DAT OG 4" ARTWORK
Designed by CJ Wallis, @fortyfps

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