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WHAT IS A RA FILM? 

Since we began making films in 1969 and released our first film in 1970, our little group has been making films that share many of the same characteristics.

The main characters in every film are people who find themselves on the edge of society, alienated from it by a wide variety of factors. 

 

 

Now playing on Channel 15 VCAM Burlington

36 Ra Films rotating on throughout the year with several playing on a monthly basis on two shows.

MOVIES FOR A FRIDAY MORNING - Fridays 10:30 AM and

THE ALMOST MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT MOVIE SHOW (Sunday nights at 9:30 PM).

Films for sale on this website are $10 each plus three for postage.  

 


For example:  

  • In High School Break-Up and Chapters of an Unwritten Book the stories revolve around men in their Fifties who have been traumatized by events that happened when they were teens and are unable to move on.
  • Ice Age and Autumn Bomb describe the lives of burnt-out  nuclear war survivors.
  • In GERARD de la CROIX, SECOND COMING, and STRANGE EVENTS IN JERUSALEM the protagonists are mystics, aloof from society, consumed by their religious obsessions.
  • Our documentary BIKERS portrays a group of people who relish their lives as outsiders.
  • But these are just a small sampling. RA Films also include tales about Vietnam Vets, French Foreign Legionnaires, crazy archaeologists, lonely women, double crossed criminals, abused wives, and lowly homicidal clerks - all finding tthemselves on the outside, looking in.  

 

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It has been wonderful making films with friends over the years in the Champlain Valley.  Many of the locations have been used over and over in much the same way that French horror film-maker Jean Rollin used that deserted beach for his vampire films to such great effect throughout the years. For us, it was places like the French forts in Crown Point, the old high school in Port Henry, the Port Henry beaches, St. Patrick's church and school, the back roads of Moriah and the old section of Montreal.  We have also made films around the world in places like Morocco, Turkey, Italy, Egypt, Spain, and the Dominican Republic. 

Some fun tidbits of note:

  • HAUNTED DREAMS was made three years before NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.
  • BITTER won for Zach Donohue the Oliver Stone Scholarship for Screenwriting.  
  • High School Break-Up, Haunted Dreams and Ice Age all played the Chicago Horror Film Festival.
 


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