The guys at National Film Society are absolutely hilarious and I am extremely ecstatic to see Awesome Asian Bad Guys which is currently in post-production. For those of us who grew up watching movies like The Karate Kid, Diehard, Bloodsport, and Big Trouble in Little China this Web Series is sure to be extremely entertaining. Here is a synopsis from the their website and check out a video about the series below.
"Awesome Asian Bad Guys (AABG) is a 5-episode action comedy web series that’s a cross between The Expendables and Dumb & Dumber.
The story follows two filmmakers who rush to assemble a volatile group of Asian bad guy actors to take down LA’s most nefarious mobster. But in order to pull off this deadly mission, this unpredictable batch of misfits must do the one thing they hate most – work together."
- "After seeing so many others make web-series, we decided it was time for us to make our own. We had been making original films since the early 80’s using super 8.
- As technology advanced, others have taken our ‘ahead of our time’ film making ideas to extraordinary levels.
We focused our efforts on Public Access television with movie review programs Screen Scenes and The Media Zone, providing our viewers with a preview of upcoming films and chances to win free movie tickets. Our show has been on Public Access for nearly 30 years.
As appreciators of horror films, we have always had an interest in how far horror films would go. Culminating with the gross out films like Human Centipede, we felt the original horror film genre by studios like Universal Pictures (and later Hammer Films) was being forgotten, or at the very least neglected.
Classic tales of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dracula and the Mummy have largely been overlooked in recent years. We wanted to bring them back with a touch of ‘Abbot and Costello’. These are the creatures and multi-layered stories we had grown up with. The pathos of Frankenstein, the romance of Dracula, the misery and despair of Lawrence Talbot (aka The Wolf Man), and the anguish of The Mummy – these had stories, not just body counts of today’s horror films.
While our web series cannot delve into a deep story, we wanted in our own way, to bring them back to prominence and pay homage to the original creatures that spawned an entire genre."
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