Amazing heist thriller DRUG HOTEL in development!

Brace yourself for a movie that bites!

"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 brown skies and bare trees…

…dirty, crimey Big City…

Isn’t it EXCITING?

And you’ll get to watch…

…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 ARTWORKS) is…

“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 Central 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 mug in my video.
(I needed a video from that location with that wonderful burnt car abandoned there… to show to the cinematographer).

So the junkie started coming 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 RAN AS FAST AS I COULD!

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 is just perfect for our movie.
So I’ll definitely shoot there!

So, yeah, I hang around some weird and dangerous places in order to feel what these characters feel 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 one of the most upper class suburbs in 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 out of money.

(My father went bankrupt when I was 16 and he had to go to Sydney, Australia to paint houses to repay his debts.)

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 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 upper-class 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”.

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.

And given that the suburbia is always middle of the road and much more on their toes not to offend anyone… and the fact I didn’t fit into the mould over there…

…probably made me far more outspoken and less likely…
…to submit to the politically correct BS dictators.

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!

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 at one point they record the gang who’re after a load of cocaine pulling guns on each other. The Peeping Tom sees the video and gets worried he’ll get in trouble. But he doesn’t call the cops and doesn’t leave 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 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.

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 deem problematic, if you’re a member of the…

…“Modern Audience.”

And in that case you know where the button to get outta here is.

Because I don’t cater to the “Modern Audience” and to people infatuated with their pronouns!

Here’s some context about that scene from “DRUG HOTEL”:

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 alone –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. A mob right now is preparing the torches and sharpening the pitchforks on social media.)

A movie like that can’t possibly be politically correct.

I mean…

Can you imagine these thugs worrying about not getting someone’s pronouns right?

Me neither.

And it’s a story that its grit and dirt wouldn’t come to life with a multi-million budget.

No, this story begs for low-budget,
shot-in-shithole-places…
…with actors that look real…

…to really shine!

It 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…

…like the ones you so often see in low-budget movies (and you feel rotten for having wasted your precious time watching that drivel…)

Because the actors we’re 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 those mean mofos…

I mean…

…compared to the characters of DRUG 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 subject matter and of my whole style, then I want to tell you…

…what you could be getting if you jump on this fast enough (there are only 37 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 just 37 people will get it in 4K, DD 5.1.)

So, this is the only chance for you to watch… this European gangster thriller in 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… 37 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 retrieving a key from the pocket of a dead guy (who’s badly beat up) and then carrying the dead body into a professional freezer from where the cold creeps out like a prehistoric fog!

And as he carries him to the freezer, he nags the 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 37-.)

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.

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, 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!

(Especially since there will be –fake- guns involved in the scene, the cops might wanna know what is going on and you might watch our arrest in the Behind-the-Scenes video, if you’re lucky and we’re unlucky!)

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 bag with the drugs (as a whole),

…the knife one of the characters uses (that is hidden somewhere on him and is released with a little mechanism –I won’t go into any more detail right now…)

You’ll see all the props in the movie when I finish it and deliver it to you.

So, what I’ll do is put ALL the names of the funders in a hat and pull names at random about who’s getting each prop. And everything will be given to the people who’ll have funded this movie.

And given that there will be only 37 funders in total…,

…that means…

…you stand a pretty good chance of winning something
as there are several props!

And you’ll get the movie 1 WHOLE MONTH before its release to the market!

When the others will be discovering it, you’ll have seen it a couple of times in your free time along with your friends!

And you’ll be able to write SPOILERS online while the movie won’t yet have been released… so people might get upset.

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 on the encyclopaedia of movies, here’s your chance!

When you push the button to go to the next page, you’ll also discover…

…a couple of extra BONUSES… that I’m keeping as a surprise…

…and you’ll find out what they are once you go there.

Okay, I need to wrap this up.

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 nickname 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 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.

P.S. #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 brown skies and bare trees.

(I’m definitely shooting this movie in winter because…

…this story begs for skeleton trees, moody skies and people crawling around in the cold like ghosts from the dead.)

…Just so you know what you’re getting into.

P.S. #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 more “sanitized” version delivered to you where those scummy gangsters tear each other apart… but they do it in a polite, civilized manner.

(They also hold the fork and knife the correct way.)

Anyway, the choice is yours.

Just send me an email with either one of the following:

I don’t mind. Give me the whole filth. I wanna feel it with all my senses!

Or:

No! I’ve devoted my life to celibacy and I’m generally a boring, pathetic amoeba. Give me the sanitized version where those scummy gangsters are as polite as members of the House of Lords!

P.S. #3:

“DRUG HOTEL” is going to be a film around 45 minutes long…

(Yes, it’s short but it kicks ass like a mule.)

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. But only a little bit.)

(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-).

P.S. #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 underground for 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 tame offering 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 on everyone else!

Believe it or not, “DRUG HOTEL” has become for me the most heartfelt gift I want to offer to the world!

And I will.

And you’ll be glad to discover independent wacky filmmakers exist in Greece too!

P.S. #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 this universe, they’re no clowns – laughing stocks for the chicks of the movie to boss around.

P.S. #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 understand and get the money from someone else.

This is for 37 people ONLY (I want to keep it as exclusive as possible), so if you’re not ULTRA-SUPER-EXCITED to 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!

So I can make what I offer as exclusive as I want.)

P.S. #7:

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 RAW POWER (with a certain scene that drips 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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Jump to this before you’re left out. Only 37 people will be allowed in. Go to the next page to see the EXTRA BONUSES I didn’t talk about on this page. Just push the button to head to the next page. You’re not committing to anything just yet.

Just check the EXTRA BONUSES!

“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!"