Anti-abortion rights flicks look for home in Hollywood, film criticizing CPCs rides indie circuit

In a search for film distributors, two independent anti-abortion-themed thrillers are hoping to make it to the big screen before next fall’s legislative session.

“Doonby,” a Texas-based psychological thriller, and “The Life Zone,” written and produced by Republican New Jersey Senate candidate and conservative B-film producer Kenneth Del Vecchio, both demonize abortionists and involve supernatural elements among its anti-abortion morals, according to various film reviews.

Where they differ is in their sponsorship and in the transparency of their funding.

“The Life Zone,” which premiered June 6 at the Hoboken International Film Festival (of which Del Vecchio is the chair), is overtly political and tells the tale of three young pregnant women abducted from clinics just before their scheduled abortion procedures commenced. In “Saw” fashion, they are locked together in a prison, unsure how they got there and monitored by a creepy jailer (Robert Loggia). The angry gynecologist (Blanche Baker) charged to deliver their unwanted babies also happens to be barren.

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While both films are looking for homes in Hollywood, there’s another film that tackles abortion and is currently making the rounds in independent cinema houses throughout the country. “Lebanon, Pa.,” an independent film with a small budget, looks at abortion through the lens of choice and offers a critical look at crisis pregnancy centers. Reported to have been filmed on a $15,000 Red One camera, the film, which premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, has had more success than the aforementioned two, albeit on the indie-film level.

Full: http://washingtonindependent.com/110901/anti-abortion-rights-flicks-look-for-home-in-hollywood-film-criticizing-cpcs-rides-indie-circuit

Del Vecchio also created an anti-Obama film, "" and as a result resigned from being a New Jersey municipal judge.

Phyllis Schlafly criticized the movie by promoting a "fatherlessness rocks" message (search for it yourself, I don't wanna give that evil reactionary any traffic but I've seen that column on EagleForum.org before)