Four Eyed Monsters Becoming a Hit as Pure Indie Film

Arin Crumley and Susan Buice's Slamdance and SXSW indie Four Eyed Monsters is growing as social marketing experiment while forecasting the digital threat to film.

I got a message from Arin and Susan in my MySpace inbox. The message: please check out our podcast. I went to iTunes and subscribed -- least I could do.

Then I opened up the new issue of Fast Company sitting on my desk - the cover noted a cool article I was looking forward to reading: Guerrilla Moviemakers Invade Hollywood. The subjects of the article? Yep, Arin and Susan and Four Eyed Monsters

I think an ad-pert would call that media saturation.

The great thing is, Four Eyed Monsters is a labor of love about a story of love (at least I think it is.)

Four Eyed Monsters is a feature indie shot on $10,000, a stack of credit cards, and a Panasonic DVX-100. It made it into a bunch of festivals, but didn't secure distribution. So Arin and Susan are beating the Internet streets (or tubes) to generate buzz to fill the seats -- literally one seat at a time.

Screwy thing is, it seems to be working.

I've watched the first few podcast episodes and have requested that the movie screen in Baltimore. Click here to request the same for your city.