"DRUG HOTEL" will be shot in places you WON’T see on a travel brochure. …The real, heroin-infested backstreets of a place that’s meaner…,
…dirtier, and grittier, than what you’ll ever see as a tourist.
…Run-down factories, filthy sidewalks and decrepit warehouses…,
…all in winter with moody skies and bare trees…
…dirty, crimey Big City…
Isn’t it EXCITING?
And you’ll get to enjoy…
…a movie people don’t dare make nowadays because… they’re
afraid of offending the Social Justice Warriors and… basically… they’re afraid of getting CANCELLED!
But me, I don’t care about the Cancel Culture because very few film buffs know me.You have to have a certain reputation that you’re afraid of losing, in order to worry about the Cancel Culture.
Me? What reputation should I worry about?
I’m not someone known and established. So I can…
…make the movie any which way I want without worrying about offending the snowflakes-retards that play Social Justice on social media!
So, like I said before, brace yourself for a movie that bites! A movie as politically incorrect as it gets.
Actually, the tagline of the movie (that I’m gonna put on all the materials and Artworks of the movie) will be…
“A movie so sleazy, it almost stinks!”
So if you’re one of the easily offended…
…and you insist on political correctness, with these realistic no-nonsense mean badasses…, …then this isn't for you!
Because obviously this isn’t a movie you’re gonna be able to handle!
And, like I said…
…DRUG HOTEL is a movie we’ll shoot in places no sane person sets their foot at night! (If we can pull it off and get out of there alive!)
And let me tell you something: I hung around some really seedy places… in order to give those characters grit and bite and TRUTH.
So if you enjoy watching real characters… …that look real and act real… (instead of collagen-sculpted mannequins that recite drivel written by screenwriters who are completely out of touch)…
…then this is gonna blow you away!
But sometimes bad things can happen, when you hang out in places you probably should be avoiding…
Because…
I almost got beat up by a junkie!
I was location scouting… in front of the Varvakeios Meat Market in the centre of Athens, Greece.
This is a building that started housing the central meat market of Athens in 1886…
I suppose it looked amazing back then but now…
…decay reigns!
So I was location scouting, minding my own business and…
…a junkie didn’t like what I was doing. Probably, he wasn’t happy I got his ugly mug in my video.
(I needed a video from that location with that wonderful burnt car abandonedthere… to show to the cinematographer).
So the junkie started creeping towards me muttering things about what he wanted to do to me.
He wanted to beat the crap out of me!
So once I turned around the corner …I RANASFASTASICOULD!
Hopefully, when we get there to shoot the scene, he’ll be somewhere else selling or buying drugs… Business must be booming around that place!
This place is at Samouil Kalogirou St. (on the corner with Pireos St.) in the centre of Athens …and that grit isjustperfect for our movie. So I’ll definitely shoot there!
So, yeah, I hung around some weird and dangerous places in order to feel what these characters that populate the universe of “DRUG HOTEL” feel and experience and also to find locations for the shoot of “DRUG HOTEL”.
But you know what’s weird?
Would you believe I grew up in boring suburbia?
It’s true.
I grew up in an area of Athens with one of the highest concentrations of stuck-up jerks in the world…
…and obviously I didn’t fit.
I went to school with the kids of the nouveau riche who were looking down on me because my family was dead-broke.
(My father went bankrupt when I was 16 and he had to emigrate to Sydney, Australia to paint houses to repay his debts.)
(And repay his debts he did.)
So I was broke while the other kids in school were flaunting their wealth.
For two years I was wearing the same pair of old beat-up shoes that belonged to my older brother, George (he’s nine years older) because…
…my mom couldn’t afford to get me new shoes.
So those kids whose families were loaded…
…were looking down on me and I suppose that whole thing…
…turned me into someone who didn’t care what others thought. I didn’t fit in that environment and there was no use to even try to fit.
And I suppose that’s how my fascination with seedy, dirty places and the people who hang out around these places got started.
(They were completely different to the boring cesspool where I grew up.)
I have a friend from the place I grew up and along with his brother, I got them to watch a theatre production a couple of years ago and…
…the place where the theatre was located is a real shithole!
So, I got my friend and his brother to watch “A Winter’s Tale” by Shakespeare. They loved the play, they hated the place.
When we left, they were running away to get to the train and get back “to civilization” (their words, not mine). They certainly didn’t like the serious, no-nonsense faces they saw around and the whole area smelled of trouble.
(I haven’t got my two friends ever since to come to the theatre with me because almost all the theatres of Athens are in the centre. And these guys want nothing to do with the centre of Athens. Too scary and dirty and gritty.)
But me?
These are the places that I love exploring. Because…
…this is what real life looks like. There’s nothing embellished or fake about it.
It’s truth. It’s real. Nothing sterile or lab-like.
And I want the same truth in “DRUG HOTEL”!
This is a street in the centre of Athens where I intend to shoot a scene where
one of the heroes pulls a gun on another… …in the dead of night…
The street is called Kakourgodikiou St. (on the corner with Athinas St.)… …and that dark, gritty aura serves the story perfectly!
(It fits like a dirty glove.)
Now let me shift gears and tell you about the story and how it came together.
It all started with the following idea:
(And it was an idea that left me breathless-)
“A Peeping Tom watches couples have sex in a hotel and he watches a gang pull guns on each other!”
…and that’s how the story evolved over time...
In a cheap hotel room a Peeping Tom has installed a micro-camera and along with his friend who works as a receptionist, they record couples having sex.
And by accident he witnesses a gang who’re after a load of cocaine pulling guns on each other. But he doesn’t run away because…
…he falls in love with a girl that’s part of the gang!
(Eventually I got rid of the Peeping Tom because –believe it or not-…
…he was making the story less gritty and more sugary with his incurable romanticism… (Peeping Toms can be quite romantic!)
So, I removed him because he was making the story less gritty. And we don’t want that. We want ruthless, hard-hitting and vile. And that’s what we’ve got!
We’ve got a bunch of hardcore thugs who’re after a load of cocaine and each and every one of them suspects the others of having the cocaine (because somebody has taken it).
We’ve got a girlfriend of one of the guys impersonating a streetwalker to help him with his ruse. What is she trying to help him do? You’ll have to wait and see.
We’ve got another character that's a romantic but also has no qualms about killing brutally. Who said romantics can’t be ruthless killers?
(And in the Grand Finale you’re getting an ending which is quite cynical and heartfelt at the same time. And you’ll see that “DRUG HOTEL” is…
…a gangster film with heart.
(Contrary to the impression I might have given you, there’s a huge heart that pounds inside the movie.)
But I have to warn you.
In this movie there are no girl-bosses. This movie is NOT girl-boss friendly.
In fact, if there was a girl-boss…,
…she’d get her ass kicked by some guy (very low in the food chain) who would be thoroughly pissed off with her.
So, if you want Mary-Sue female empowerment, you’ll have to get your dose from somewhere else.
Males are pretty tough cookies in this universe, they’re no clowns–laughing stocks for the chicks of the movie to boss around.
Also, there’s another scene you might find problematic, if you’re a member of the…
…“Modern Audience.”
But first some context about that scene:
Two guys have to sneak into the hotel (the “Drug Hotel”) without raising suspicions. So, one guy suggests they get a hooker off the street and go through the reception desk as two guys who are gonna have sex with a professional (as a threesome).
And his reasoning is, since it’s a love hotel and people go there to have sex, nobody would believe these two are (male) lovers, if they go without a hooker –as two men-. And he tells the other guy:
“Nobody will believe we two are together because…
…you look like a faggot but I don’t!”
(I know. The social media mob is preparing the torches and sharpening the pitchforks as we speak.)
A movie like that can’t possibly be politically correct.
(But if that’s what you’re after, there’s plenty of films to cover your needs.)
“DRUG HOTEL” will be bitingly offensive to people with “modern” sensitivities.
I mean…
Can you imagine the guys above (with the hooker) worrying about not getting someone’s pronouns right?
Me neither.
And obviously because it’s a story that is so ANTI-mainstream,it wouldn’t come to life with a multi-million dollar budget.
No, this story begs for low-budget, shot-in-shithole-places… …with actors that look real…
This movie literally has to be shot in seedy places!
But let me assure you…
…just because DRUG HOTEL is a movie on a tight budget…
…doesn’t mean the actors will be some useless good-for-nothing amateurs who pretend to be actors…
…like the ones you so often see in low-budget movies (and you feel empty inside for having wasted your precious time watching that drivel…)
Because the actors I'm getting on DRUG HOTEL… have YEARS of paid theatre experience… in front of paying audiences!
You see, the script of DRUG HOTEL is so much better than the garbage they’re being offered to play on Greek TV…
…that they’ll do it for less money than… what they’d get from a TV series…
…that they’d do only for the money and hate every god damn minute they’re in it!
Actors are thirsty for juicy parts.
…These theatre actors who have been playing all their lives… Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams (for the art)…
...and boring shitty stuff on Greek TV (to pay the bills)… …will now be playing gangsta!
(In fact, one of the actors… …was a key performer in the theatre production of “12 Angry Men” here in Athens!
The theatre play from the 1957 movie of Sidney Lumet!)
He was playing the role Lee J. Cobb had in the movie…
…and my man was simply astonishing when he delivered that monologue in the end about his estranged son!
And these actors are eager to do it and can’t wait for the shoot to begin so they can become thosemean mofos…
I mean…
…compared to the characters ofDRUG HOTEL… …Frank Booth (the character of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet)… …is quite a decent human being!
So, by now I think you know what you’re getting into. If you haven’t yet run for the hills because of the movie’s subject matter, then I’d like to tell you… …what you could be getting if you jump on this fast enough (there are only 20 available):
Here we go:
DRUG HOTEL will be released to the market in 1080p, Stereo… forever…
But you’re getting it in 4K, DD 5.1!
(The movie will ONLY be released in 1080p… and just20 people will get it in 4K, DD 5.1.)
So, this is the only chance for you to watch… this European gangster thrillerin 4K… without breaking into my place to steal the hard drives or… without sneaking into the cinema where I’ll show the movie to the actors and crew!
There will be TWO versions of “DRUG HOTEL”and …only… 20 people will get to have BOTH VERSIONS!
And if you’re wondering:
“What’s the difference between the two versions?”
…here’s your answer:
You’ll see one of the characters stealing a key from the pocket of a dead guy (who’s badly beat up like a truck ran over him) and then… he carries the dead guy into a professional freezer from where the cold creeps out like a prehistoric fog!
And as he carries him to the freezer, he nagsthe dead guy:
“I was telling you to lose some weight, but you didn’t listen. Now I have to break my back!”
And he carries the dead guy into the huge freezer where he’ll remain for weeks before he’s discovered.
(And you’re getting both versions –if you’re one of the 20-.)
And you’re also getting a BEHIND-THE-SCENES video from the Grand Finale where those thugs pull guns on each other next to the parked car with the cocaine.
(Between us, I won’t pay to have a permit for shooting on the street. Why? Because when I went to the city council and asked for a permit for the promo we shot, they quoted a fee so high, they probably thought I wanted to buy the Town Hall!)
So we ended up shooting the promo without a permit. And we’ll do the same again! (Rest assured I’m gonna break the law again!)
So, if we bump into any cops who wanna know what we’re doing and they don’t happen to be film buffs…,
…you might watch our arrest in the behind the scenes video! (I’ll tell the cops to smile to the camera and maybe even send you a kiss!)
(Especially since there will be –fake- guns involved in the scene and we’ll shoot it on the street in the dead of night,someone might call the cops and they’ll wanna know what we’re doing and they might get us to the police station to answer a few questions.
You’re watching it in the Behind-the-scenes video, if you’re lucky and we’re unlucky!)
You’re gettinga FRAMED ARTWORK from the scene of the EXTENDED VERSION (the one that won’t be released to the market!)
The ARTWORK shows…
…one of the heroes carrying a blood-stained dead body of a guy (badly beat up like a truck drove over him) into an… extreme low-temperature professional freezer from where… the cold…
…creeps out like a slow, nasty fog from some otherworldly land while…
…both he and the dead are covered in a cloud of white flakes(of TOP-QUALITY COCAINE!) that comes down from the sky like some mythological powdery rain!
And at the top you’ll see the title of the movie…
“DRUG HOTEL”
…and at the bottom you’ll see the tagline of the movie which is…
“A movie so sleazy, it almost stinks!”
Imagine having that framed on your wall…
Again, only 20 people are getting this and you will see a number handwritten on it (the # you’re getting out of the 20 available in total), my signature and the date when I signed it and sent it to you (handwritten, too).
One tiny thought about it:
If I were you, I’d keep that FRAMED ARTWORK in pristine condition.
(The collectibles industry is BOOMING!)
And posters and artworks of obscure movies from 30-40 years ago… sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars!
Back to what else you’re getting:
You’ll also get the movie 72 HOURSbefore its release to the WORLD! You’ll have the WORLD PREMIERE, if you’re one of the 20!
When the others will be discovering it, you’ll have seen it 1-2 times in your free time with your friends!
And of course… your name will be written in the opening credits of the movie… before the names of the actors and crew and everyone else involved.
Your name will be forever tied to the movie!
And you’re also getting an IMDb credit as “Funded by…” or “Special Thanks…” (whichever you prefer), so… in case you haven’t got your name in the encyclopaedia of movies,this is your chance!
And you’ll be in the lottery for ALL THE PROPS OF THE MOVIE after the movie is finished!
We’re talking about the guns (separately to individual funders of the movie)…, (the guns are going to be fake, so you won’t be able to go out on the street as a vigilante like Charles Bronson.)
…another prop that goes to the lottery will be the bag with the drugs (again, not real ones…),
…the knifeone of the characters uses (that is hidden somewhere on him –I won’t say WHERE- and is released with a little mechanism –I won’t say HOW-…)
You’ll see all the props in the movie when I finish it and deliver it to you.
And everything will be given to the people who’ll have funded this movie.
And given that there will be only 20 funders in total…,
…that means…
…you stand a pretty good chance of winning as there are several props!
So now you know everything you could be getting.
In case you want to get in touch with me, my email is:
zois@zoisg.com
Or you can contact me on Messenger or LinkedIn:
Try “Zois Gasparinatos” (which is my full name) and you’ll either end up on my FB page or my LinkedIn account.
Or simply google me.
(You’ll find me as “Zois Gasparinatos”, which is my full name and I only use “Zois G.” as an artistic name because “Gasparinatos” is so difficult for non-Greeks.)
I live in Athens, Greece, in a place called Voula.
My house is pretty close to the Greek Orthodox church of St. Nektarios. Very close to my place there’s a convenience store, located on a street called Zakynthou.
You can ask about me in that convenience store: it’s a family business and I’ve been going there since I was in primary school and I was buying my biscuits to soak in milk (I loved those biscuits soaked in milk!). They know me pretty well in that convenience store. The owner is called Christos (it used to be his parents that ran the store when I was buying my biscuits) and he is a film buff. (You can discuss movies with him!)
I’d have no problem to post my real address here, but I’m wary of weirdos, creeps or plain criminals online.
A couple last thoughts to bear in mind:
LAST THOUGHT #1:
Bottomline:
If you’ve been to places that look like a glitzy travel brochure…
…this movie will NOT be shot in one of those.
We’ll shoot it in… dirty, decaying, dangerous places in a failing city… in winter with moody skies and eerie, bare trees.
(I’m definitely shooting this movie in winter because…
…this story begs to take place in a City that is creepy, with moody skies, trees that look like skeletons in the dark, and people crawling around in the cold like ghosts from the dead.)
…Just so you know what you’re getting into.
LAST THOUGHT #2:
Just one more thing: My screenplay contains a fair amount of profanity.
If you want that (the profanity) deleted from your subtitles, please say so and you can have a version of more “sanitized” subtitles delivered to you where thosescummy gangsters tear each other apart… but they do it in a polite, civilized manner.
(They won’t hold the fork and knife the correct way, though.)
Anyway, the choice is yours.
Just send me an email with either one of the following:
I don’t mind it, Zois. Giveme the whole filth. I wanna feel it with all my senses! Give it to me, baby!
Or send me this email:
No, Zois! How reckless of you! I’ve devoted my life to celibacy and I’m generally a boring, pathetic amoeba.Give me the sanitized version of the subtitles where those scummy gangsters are as polite as members of the House of Lords!
LAST THOUGHT #3:
“DRUG HOTEL” is going to be a film around 45 minutes long…
There’s no fluff and that’s why it’s only 45 minutes.
(The EXTENDED VERSION with the guy who carries the dead body in the deep freezer will obviously be a little bit longer.)
(By the way, movies over 40 minutes long are considered feature films by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences –the Oscars-, the American Film Institute –the AFI- and the British Film Institute –the BFI-).
LAST THOUGHT #4:
I’m not a known director. I don’t have much of a following on social media or otherwise. So…
…this movie is bound to remain undergroundfor several years, I think.
But regardless of my social media following (which is minuscule), there’s no way this film will go on to become mainstream anyway. Because…
“DRUG HOTEL” is a script the mainstream wouldn’t touch with a 10-feet pole!
So if you’re expecting another lifeless and tameoffering from a streaming giant or some other mainstream outlet…
…better think again!
When this movie gets made, it’s gonna be a movie that horrifies most and turns ononlya few! (It’s very politically incorrect!)
But believe it or not, “DRUG HOTEL” has become for me the most heartfeltgift I want to offer to the world!
And I will.
LAST THOUGHT #5:
In this movie there are no girl-bosses. This movie is NOT girl-boss friendly.
In fact, if there was a girl-boss, she’d get her ass kicked by some guy(very low in the food chain) who would be thoroughly pissed off with her.
So, if you want Mary-Sue female empowerment, you’ll have to get your dose from somewhere else.
Males are pretty tough cookies in that universe, they’re no clowns – laughing stocks for the chicks of the movie to boss around.
LAST THOUGHT #6:
If you decide this isn’t for you or you think it’s not worth that much… (this is quite EXPENSIVE…)
…or you don’t trust me because you haven’t heard of me before and you don’t know me…
…I’ll totally understand. (And then get the money from someone else who wants to be a part of this and he wants to get all the exciting perks that go with this and he’s willing to take a leap of faith for it.) This is for 20 people ONLY (I want to keep it as exclusive as possible), so if you’re not ULTRA-SUPER-EXCITEDto be a part of this, I’ll totally understand. Not everything is for everyone.
(That’s the good thing about making a movie on a shoestring budget:
…I don’t have to go after loads of money. Which means that I don’t have to “attract” a lot of people.
And as a consequence, I don’t mind if I offend a bunch of keyboard warriors who need their daily dose of wrath and fury and they’re looking like junkies for something online to that purpose.)
And I can make what I offer as exclusiveas I want.
And it’s going to be fun.
LAST THOUGHT #7:
Again, I’ll let only 20 people in!
And if you’re left out, your only other option to see the EXTENDED VERSION of the movie will be…
…to take the plane, come to Greece, rent an AirBnB here in Athens, and sneak into the cinema where I’ll show the EXTENDED VERSION for the actors and crew (that EVEN THEY WON’T SEE IT EVER AGAIN)!
That would cost you airfare… of a couple thousand dollars…
…plus, AirBnB…
…plus, your expenses in Athens…
How much in total?
…My guess would be around…
…$3,000!
LAST THOUGHT #8:
Something last:
If you still haven’t watched the first two scenes of DRUG HOTEL that we shot to showcase what we can do, here’s the video for your viewing pleasure:
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Also:
If you haven’t watched my second short film (I sent you the link when you gave me your email)…
…you can watch it here (or you can watch it again, if you’ve already watched it. I think it’s worth it).
It’s an electrifying short thriller of RAWPOWER (with a certain scene thatdrips blood)…
…which shows what can happen when a guy has two lovers who also happen to be sisters and they happen to have knives close by.
Here it is for your voyeuristic pleasure, called “THE KNIFE”:
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Again, jump to this before you’re left out. Only 20 people will be allowed in.
Right now, while the Artist is preparing the Artwork (he’s a genius!), you can get your money back at any time and to the penny. No jumping through hoops, no filling in forms, no having to explain yourself, no awkwardness whatsoever!
You ask for your money back, you’re getting it within 24 hours! To the penny! (Why 24 hours? Because I check my email once every 24 hours.) You can call it…
…MY 24-HOUR GUARANTEE!
If, once you see the Artwork, you’re not happy with it (highly unlikely but you never know…), you can get your money back to the penny within 24 hours at the latest!
And because you’re paying in advance (before the Artist finishes the Artwork) and you’re taking a chance with me (though, like I said, you can get your money back), you’re getting a hefty discountthat will make your jaw drop!
(Wait till I get there and you’ll see.)
So, to sum up:
Here’s what you’re getting:
(20 people in TOTAL!)
The movie will be released to the market in 1080p, Stereo… forever…
But you’re getting it in 4K, DD 5.1!
There will be TWO versions of “DRUG HOTEL” and …only… 20 people will get to have BOTH VERSIONS!
And the difference between the two versions will be…
…a scene where one of the characters steals a key from the pocket of a dead guy (who’s badly beat up)and then carries the dead guy into a professional freezer where he’ll remain for weeks before he’s discovered.
And as he carries him to the freezer, he says to the dead guy:
“I was telling you to lose some weight, but you didn’t listen. Now I have to break my back!”
And you’re also gettinga BEHIND-THE-SCENES video from the Grand Finalewhere those thugs pull guns on each other next to the parked car with the cocaine!
And you’re gettinga FRAMED ARTWORK from the scene of the EXTENDED VERSION (the one that won’t be released to the market)!
And you’ll have it framed on your wall: an Artwork that shows one of the thugs carrying a blood-stained dead guy (badly beat up like a truck drove over him) into an… extreme low-temperature professional freezer from where… the cold…
…creeps out like a slow, nasty fog from some otherworldly land while…
…both he and the dead are covered in a cloud of white flakes(of TOP-QUALITY COCAINE!) that comes down from the sky like some mythological powdery rain!
And at the bottom of the Artwork you’ll see the tagline of the movie which is…
“A movie so sleazy, it almost stinks!”
You’ll also get the movie 72 HOURSbefore its release to the WORLD! You’ll have the WORLD PREMIERE!
And of course… your name will be written in the opening credits of the movie…before the names of the actors and crew and everyone else involved.
And you’re also getting an IMDb creditas “Funded by…” or “Special Thanks…” (whichever you prefer), so… in case you haven’t got your name in the encyclopaedia of movies, here’s your chance!
And you’ll be in the lottery for ALL THE PROPS OF THE MOVIE after the movie is finished!
So what I’m offering costs an advance payment of $97…,
…plus 6 monthly instalments of $504, but…
…but because you’re paying NOW (before you see the Artwork that the Artist is creating)…
…you’ll get everything I described above… …with a whopping DISCOUNT of… …$720!
So instead of the price above, you’re paying INSTEAD… …an advance payment of $97, plus 6 monthly instalments of $384.
And there are two buttons underneath for the two different colours you can choose for the FRAME of your Artwork.
Here they are:
Push the following button if you want a BLACK FRAME for your Artwork:
And don’t forget: ONLY 20 film lovers will be allowed in.
And if you want your money back at any point, just let me know and I’ll refund it to you within 24 hours. No hard feelings. No questions asked, no jumping through hoops. You can’t lose.
It’s my 24-HOUR GUARANTEE!
(Let me know with an email and you’re getting ALL your money back within 24 hours. I check my email at least once every day.)
“My name is Zois G. (Zois Gasparinatos)… and
this movie will be as politically incorrect as it gets!
“(If I got any more politically incorrect, they’d LYNCH me and hang my carcass from a bridge to dry in the sun.)
“So, you’ve been warned. This is for a special breed of film lovers… who don’t want woke NONSENSE in their entertainment…
“…and due to this movie's controversial nature, …Social Justice Warriors and politically correct-obsessed weirdos will be especially offended by it.
“…So if you’re one of the above lower forms of life and… …you insist on political correctness…, “…with these realistic no-nonsense mean mofos…, …best to get your teddy bear and go play somewhere else!"
Something last:
As soon as I saw that street, I thought it was perfect for DRUG HOTEL! A match made in heaven!
Run-down factories, filthy sidewalks and decrepit warehouses…,
…all in winter with moody skies and eerie trees (though you can’t the trees in the photo)…