***yet another edit***
yay- runner up!
also, now the contest's over i don't feel like a cheater replacing the picture with the better quality image that i'd originally intended to post. but computers are like groundhogs-you can't trust them
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I have been through computer hell this week. i had to printscreen this image off my facebook, so the quality's really bad, but it'll do until i get my computer fixed and i can replace it with the decent looking file.

This is for the Seventh Sanctum "B Movie Bonanza" contest.
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i will include all the little details, plot synopsis, actor drama, all the rest of the goodies, once i finish coming up with them. but right now i haven't the strength. i'm just glad i at least have an image in a place where people can view it and i can submit it for the contest.

EDIT: The Plot Thickens

with my computer (and all my music, homework, scholarship applications, and, yes, contest entry files)shipped to Tennessee for repairs, and me stuck on my mom's dinosaur until at least next week, this murky little beauty looks to bemy final draft. So, down to business...

B Movie Gen: "I Was a Modern-Day Caligula"

also, i used various seventh sanctum name generators to get the actors and other notable notables.

The Synopsis...
I Was a Modern Day Caligula


Originally debuted in 1963 as an off-off-off-off-off-off broadway play by Tony Antone Mercer, who later collaborated with Vivian Carroll and Long Walker to transform it into an off broadway musical, "I Was a Modern Day Caligula!" finally made it to the big screen as a movie musical extravaganza in 1970.

The story follows a charming young hyperthyroid-ic, epileptic young man in the future called August Gaze (Meyer), his only desire in life to find a place where he can stare at the moon and live in love with his half sister, Julia.
He inherits a failing theatre and a failing production his uncle. The production is a sincere tribute to the life of Caligula. The cast is uninspired, the set is lackluster, the costumes are very, very bad.
August does a total overhaul on the theatre and on the play. Sharing several medical maladies with Caligula, he feels a certain kinship to the Emperor and naturally casts himself in the titular role, and aspires to produce/direct/choreograph/music direct/star in the best Caligula Tribute EVER.
He realizes that people will frown less on his relationship with his sister if it is merely on stage. He casts Julia as Caligula's love interest.
In his furvor to create the best Caligula Tribute EVER, August becomes totally consumed, and begins to actually take on the persona of Caligula, wearing his costume in his daily life, including incredibly dramatized sexual violence in his staging of the show, working all his employees for days at a time without rest, spending more money than he has, etc, all in the sincere belief that this show will be a smash.
As August becomes more crazed, he becomes more alienated from his sister, his only family, and his colleagues, he hallucinates and foams at the mouth, and for some reason insists that strobe effects be used profusely during the production's dream sequences even though strobe effects drove him into convulsions.
Anyway, August Gaze begins to truly believe he is Caligula reborn. His sister and the other actors plot to kill him
SPOILER ALERT: they do.

"I Was a Modern Day Caligula!" is better known for its behind the scenes drama than for its quality, or lack thereof, as a film. Tony Antone Mercer, like his main character and like Caligula, suffered from hyperthyroidism and epilepsy, and indeed, shared many other qualities with them.
His almost unbearable desire for total creative control in the production of the play, the musical, and the movie musical, led to most of his staff quitting work on the film, so many scenes in the film seem poorly editted, lit, with poor sound quality, as, like his two alter-egos August Gaze and Caligula, by the end of shooting was literally alone in the studio. He had to sing Caligula's final monologue himself, in very dim light so the audience wouldn't recognize he wasn't Dominick Shad Meyer, who had had to be hospitalized because earlier that day Mercer had forced him to swallow several candles' worth of liquid wax, to teach him a lesson of some sort.
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The image is just a photo from the website of whatever museum has a bust of Caligula, I can't remember. Brilliantly, I used Windows Powerpoint to do the poster-making, because I don't have photoshop. I thought it was quite clever of me.