Bayview Entertainment Tabs Nov. 5 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Peter Monet's Hot Knives

Bayview Entertainment has selected Nov. 5 for the DVD debut of writer/director Peter Monet’s stoner comedy, Hot Knives, starring “Harry Knuckles” himself, Phil Caracas (Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, The Dead Sleep Easy and cult star of the Harry Knuckles short films and mini-series), as Stan, the man on a mission.

Ottawa, may not be the crossroads of world cinema in Canada — Canada’s city of Toronto gets that honor — but when local television producer and documentary filmmaker, Peter Monet and local acting celebrity Phil Caracas got together one night (over drinks as rumor has it) a five-year film odyssey began.   A plan was hit upon to shoot Bayview Entertainment Tabs Nov. 5 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Peter Monet's Hot Knivesa movie in Ottawa for next to nothing, and do it over five consecutive summers.   The result, Hot Knives, a stoner/slacker comedy, satire and, well, performance art piece … like an abstract painting assembled a little bit at a time.

The story arc is simple enough, Stan is a nebbish lay about who is into drug experimentation, but he does have a hot neighbor and when her dog goes missing, he suddenly has meaning in his life … if he can just remember from one day to the next what the mission is.

His quest takes place over five days, which is not only bizarre because of Star constantly partying with his slacker friends, but because Monet shot the film over a five-year period.   Same characters, same actors, which means that if an actor was, oh say, clean shaven on day one, by day four or five of Stan’s dog-seeking adventure he might have a full beard.   Talk about weird.

During the filmmaking process, Peter Monet, who is also into the local music scene, contacted — literally — every band, group or recording artist in the Ottawa area and them contribute music to the film.   They all chipped in, which makes the Hot Knives soundtrack read like a who’s who of the Ottawa music scene.

Hot Knives is a film that would make Cheech and Chong, Jesse and Chester and all of the stoners proud. 

In other early November DVD release news from Bayview Entertainment, Nov. 5 also brings writer/director Richard Tanner’s FrankenThug to market … a gang shooting, a science experiment gone wrong and suddenly the streets of Atlanta are the home to the recently departed, a drug-dealer by the name of Detriot Jones (Soze Bagley in his film debut), who is out for revenge against the gang who gunned him down … and anyone else who gets in the way.

Also streeting on Nov. 5 is writer/director John Bacchus’ (aka: Z. Winston Brown) Vampiyaz, starring Richard Carroll, Jr. (The Coolest White Boy Ever, Bloodz vs. Wolvez) as a ghetto thug who suddenly finds that vampires are living — and hunting — in the hood.

Rounding out the Nov. 5 DVD release slate from Bayview Entertainment are two from indie filmmaker William Lee, Kill Every Last One and King Killer.