This Cuckoo Island

An artist accepts a commission to film the murders of an out of control company board.Enthusiasts of surrealist films by David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive), Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre) should find a lot to enjoy in this horror novel.'I've some pond-life I don't...
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An artist accepts a commission to film the murders of an out of control company board.Enthusiasts of surrealist films by David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive), Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre) should find a lot to enjoy in this horror novel.'I've some pond-life I don't get along with working on the board of one of my companies. I would love for them all to die. Can you arrange that?''I'm not a hit man. I got away with one murder under the protection of art. I don't think my luck will stretch any further than that.''Nonsense. The precedent has been set. Now it's time to raise the bar by pushing up against it.''I really think my career of evil is over. We sold the only copy for a stupid amount of money. It's now just a legend, a cool story to tell people. Unless the buyer allows it to be seen again then it's gone. Hopefully forever. I'm really not that proud of it.''It was an epic achievement. I wish I had seen it before it disappeared. I placed a bid on it. Anonymously of course. I was outbid by twice the amount I was willing to pay. Crazy price. I doubt a single bidder had even seen the thing. One scandalous public screening. Brilliant marketing. Simply brilliant.''Thank you. It's always nice to get a compliment from someone who has as much as you have.''Imagine if the winner watched the thing after spending all that money and they hated it. How could anything live up to the expectations of all those rumours? Is one little murder worth all that money?''The way you're wording it makes it sound like the person isn't into it for the art, but for the thrill of watching a murder. Without the legal problems usually associated with such activity.''Let's not kid ourselves. You know the power of what you made. The sort of person who would want to own such a thing is a coward more into the crime than the art.''I think I want to leave now.''You haven't heard my proposal.''I'm not a hit man.''I was willing to pay a lot for that film. After losing out to a higher bidder a thought occurred to me. If I was willing to pay a lot of money for the death of an anonymous person, what would I be willing to pay to see someone I hate die? I concluded I would pay a lot more for a movie of my own.''An art commission to disguise a murder? Well it's certainly a novel idea.''I'm willing, in fact keen, to fund a new original production. I'll roundup the unfortunates. Isolate them in the one place. Then you run around slashing and stabbing them. Then we release the murder spree as an art movie.''The first feature length slasher movie with real murders? Is that the idea?''Precisely. Are you interested?''I don't think I'll be able to pass it off as art.''Just be really pretentious. You've done it once before and it passed the art exam. So you can do it a second time, but on a bigger scale and with a real budget. Keep telling everyone it's art and they'll believe you.''It will cost a lot.''I'm capable of digging deep.''I guess you're not into this to turn a profit at the box office?''My profit will be indirect. Sweet personal satisfaction at the annihilation of my staff and getting my company back. Every penny will be worth it. Any extra fame for being the financier and producer of the world's most notorious movie is just a nice added bonus.''I want to kill my own enemy. We could do it as a pre-credit sequence. Learn how to use the equipment and stuff.''Who do you have in mind?''The gallery owner I showed the film in. I sold the film to her for a fraction of what she later sold it for after the screening. She isn't sharing the spoils fairly. That doesn't sit right with me. She has to go.'