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Miss Lucifer is a new Belgian porn company that mixes vibrant colors with scene-long house music to create what we are calling Club Porn. Their first feature, Hell Is Where the Party Is has just been released stateside after being nominated for Best Foreign Release in this January’s AVN awards.
Theire next feature, “Malice in Wonderland,” will be shot in the United States and stars Sasha Grey.
Gamelink spoke with Miss Lucifer director Louis Xypher in as many languages as possible.
Gamelink: What hole (pardon the pun) do you fill in the adult business? Why start a porn company in this economy?
Miss Lucifer: The market screams for more tailormade products for the younger MTV generation. This audience is tired of low-budget, homemade porn and standard dull decors.
By pushing up the standards and giving the Miss Lucifer productions a more contemporary look, with high energy in musicvideo style, we tried to make adult more accessible to the younger crowd, both guys and girls. In this time of recession, people tend to stay at home more than they used to. They buy a big HD television and enjoy good movies in the comfort of their own homes.
We know that the audience is demanding and in times like these, it keeps us sharp to only deliver the best quality possible. Coming from the music industry where tight budgets are common nowadays, we are used to push our limits in productions without overspending.
Gamelink: How long did it take to shoot “Hell Is Where the Party Is”?
Miss Lucifer: The decors were specially designed and built by a very creative team in a timeframe of 1-2 months. The production of the movie ‘Hell is Where the Party is’ (HIWTPI) took us about two weeks filming.
The part of editing and postproduction was most timeconsuming due to the fast cuttings and intensive colorgrading and took 2 months.
Gamelink: The music works so well with the scenes it seems like it was written for that purpose. Did the music come first or the scenes? What influenced what?
Miss Lucifer: We first worked on the theme and art direction of the seven chapters and decided on which type of music fitted to each scene. The record company Mostiko/CNR/Roadrunner did a good job advicing us on this.
While shooting we played pumping music that fitted the atmosphere in order to stimulate the right rhythm of filming and performing. After the shoot, the record company gave us access to their whole catalogue to choose the right music for each scene. Then we made a selection of the music that fitted best for every scene. Atmosphere was the key driver.
Each picked song was then cut and looped in a basic way by Xypher for the lenght of each scene, so he could start the first draft edit.
The edited scene with the temporary music was then remixed and rearranged by the record company in the music studio to finish the soundtrack, so Xypher could make the final editing.
Only for the scene “Hypnotise me” with Sylvia Saint and Jennifer Stone, producer Sven van Hees composed a new song especially for this movie.
So basically it is a synergy between the music and the scenes which makes it such a powerful combination.
Gamelink: “Malice” will be your sophomore effort; what have you learned from the filming of “Hell”?
Miss Lucifer: We learned a lot on filming HIWTPI. To make a first adult movie and trying to make something different was not easy at all.
The most challenging, is not only to make a film that looks good, but to make an adult movie that is sexy and horny.
Gamelink: The movie itself is horny? Merde!
Miss Lucifer: Furthermore we shot HIWTPI on HD and we believe that we can create even better results by filming on 35 mm. The story of Malice will be much more “rock n roll” and 35 mm is the best choice for that. The other difference is that HIWTPI was All Sex and Malice is going to be one big story with a lot of sex in it.
Gamelink: Is there a European sensibility in porn that is distinct from the American porn producer? If so, how will that manifest itself in your upcoming production(s) here in Los Angeles?
Miss Lucifer: That’s a tough one. We’ve tried to combine a little bit of both; the European edginess with the American glamour. That is why we are looking forward to have our upcoming production in L.A. to work with a mixed Euro-American crew.
We have our own style, which is maybe hard to define, but we aim to target at a broad audience, both American and European. If it will manifest in our production of “Malice,” it is that you will get the best of both!
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