Outsider cinema: Neil Breen, Vegas real estate magnate turned sci fi auteur

[I Am Here....Now (trailer) from Cinefamily]

Hadrian Belove of the Los Angeles-based cult cinema society Cinefamily shares the totally wack video above with Boing Boing, and explains:

One of our in-house guys cut a really hilarious trailer for Neil Breen's latest crazy fucking masterpiece of accidental weirdness. The trailer itself is hilarious. If you don't know him, writer/director/actor/caterer Neil Breen is a real estate agent in Las Vegas who self produces these indescribable movies, casting his friends from the biz...total outsider madness. This guy is so different he has four dots in his ellipses.

I'm getting a The Room meets Birdemic vibe here. But with more chicks and messianic aliens.

In "I am Here.... Now" (note the four dots!), Breen plays

A messianic alien Being angered at the greed and corruption of the human species, particularly our lack of renewable energy and environmental consciousness -- oh, and business-man crucifixions and time-stopped gang wars..and...well, as Neil put it himself, "This thought-provoking supernatural film is filled with surprising mystical metaphors, exciting twists....and a stunning dramatic conclusion."

Video link, more on Cinefamily's screening this Saturday in Los Angeles, and more on Breen. "He'll be here in person on Saturday to answer all of our questions," adds Hadrian. "And we'll have some."

(I believe they're planning to film the Q&A, and if so, we'll post here on Boing Boing for those who can't make it to the event in person.)

• [igpajo]

  “…casting his friends from the biz”

  So this is SciFi as imagined and acted out by Las Vegas real estate agents? Crazy!

• [Michael Slater]

  How did they convince Richard Gere to lead in this movie?

• [braininavat]

  Neil Breen obviously knows what he’s doing – he catered the movie as well. Anyone who’s been on set knows the boredom of waiting for the next shot to be set up (and the next, and the next….). After a certain point the only thing keeping you there is the catering service. I bet he pays his actors in food.

• [Samizdata]

  Space Cyber Jesus is GO!

• [Anonymous]

  Chuck Norris is no longer my god….

• [scifijazznik]

  In “I am Here… Now” (note the four dots!)

  Uh….

  • [Anonymous]

    My guess is auto-correct changed the 4 dots back to 3….

• [Jean-Luc Turbo]

  My favorite part was:

  DON’T (5 second pause) MISS IT!

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  He should have stayed inside the refrigerated suit.

• [jere7my]

  Looks fabulous! You can order the DVD yourself for twelve bucks: http://www.iamherenow.biz/order.htm

• [Anonymous]

  I’ll be honest, if I was a multi-millionaire, I’d probably make my own SF movies too. HOPEFULLY they’d be a little better looking, but probably not.

• [Anonymous]

  Wow, that was one of the most entertaining things I’ve seen online in a while. Is this guy for real?!

• [Donald Petersen]

  “This thought-provoking supernatural film” was probably not shot on film.

  Still, if I can squeeze it in between Battle: Los Angeles and Cowboys And Aliens, I’ll totally see it.

• [dross1260]

  Classy cinema

• [The MoMax]

  HFS!

• [Gainclone]

  “HOW MANY DOTS ARE THERE!?”

  “THERE…. ARE…. FOUR…. DOTS!”

• [Spencer Cross]

  Funny that Belove’s so pedantic about the number dots in an ellipsis but apparently can’t tell the difference between a hash mark and an apostrophe.

• [crankypage]

  I for one am happy that “John from Cincinnati” finally got a second season.

• [AllanX]

  I eagerly await the official Monican response to this obvious Breen propaganda.

• [David Orr]

  This one is such a slog. His first movie, “Double Down” is also awful, but it’s sort of better. The big advancement in “I Am Here…. Now” is that at a few points, people talk to each other… in the same frame!!!

  Read more here!

  http://gentlemanschoice.blogspot.com/2009/01/american-breen-double-down-and-joy-of.html

• [wlybrand]

  crankypage – That’s hilarious. I liked ‘John from Cincinatt’, so I’ll pretend you are intentionally being funny.

• [Boba Fett Diop]

  Wow….I think Zombie Robot Jesus really has a lot to teach us.

  • [Anonymous]

    I thought it was Skeletor Robot Jesus

• [Brainspore]

  I’m disappointed in your species… the human species.

  Dang, for a minute there I was hoping Zombie Robot Jesus was addressing some other group of sinners. The sloths, maybe.

• [Anonymous]

  I smell a new religion.

• [Anonymous]

  wow. that’s the theme from The Delta Force (norris/marvin epic)