Master P Tagged Articles at Cinematical

Holy crap! We're getting a horror flick that's not a remake! And it's one that sounds strange enough that it might actually be fun, if they pull it together right. Variety reports that Master P and his young offspring Lil' Romeo are going to star in a slasher film called The Pig People, which will be directed by David Grueringer. As they describe it, some college students head out to a haunted forest for some reason, where they get terrorized by "half-swine, half-human creatures."

Scary pig people warrants further research, so this is what I've found. AllHipHop says that Romeo will play TJ, one of the students who head into the woods. The reason for this excursion: They're shooting a documentary for their film class about these unsolved murders that have led to myths about scary pig people. Talk about dumb -- I can see a myth with no facts, but I'm not so sure I'd set out to debunk a myth in the woods when the killer is still at large! Oh, stupid people and horror films. Master P, meanwhile, is co-starring as the villain, which, I imagine, means we'll see him in pig face.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to listen to some Pigface.

The rapper and No Limit Records head Master P has entered the movie business with his new HollyHood Cinema label (distributed by Urban Works Entertainment), releasing his first title Repos on July 4th. The straight-to-video comedy stars Master P alongside Katt Williams, A.J. Johnson and Michael Blackson and is about a pair of repo men who accidentally repossess a truck containing a stash of diamonds that belong to a criminal kingpin.

Repos kicks off a proposed slate of 100 titles planned to hit stores by 2007, with each DVD including a free soundtrack CD. Master P says the reason his movies are bypassing theatrical release is because his audience doesn't like going to movie theaters. He also states that Repos and the rest will be a great spotlight on talent that is unfairly being unrecognized because of Hollywood politics. "I feel hands down that Katt Williams is the next Richard Pryor, A.J. Johnson is the next Bill Cosby and Michael Blackson is the next Sidney Poitier," he told AllHipHop.com. He compares HollyHood's movies to Poitier's Uptown Saturday Night.

100 movies is a lot of output, even for straight-to-DVD, and I'm very interested to see the list of titles. Unfortunately I can't find any of them on the IMDb, not even Repos, and the Urban Works site seems to be under construction. On top of that, the Repos website is very short on info and its links don't work. For awhile I even thought the whole thing was a joke, but then I noticed that Amazon has the DVD for sale, so now I just figure the company and its productions are running on a super-low budget.