BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
07 may 2011
Quincy dominatrix case inspires movie
Source: www.patriotledger.com - Patriotledger.com - USA
USA - QUINCY - While living on Fenno Street in Quincy, Scotty Stets would hang out at the nearby Alumni Cafe to write - on cocktail napkins - dialogue for a screenplay inspired by unfolding headlines about a Quincy dominatrix.
The end result of his efforts is “Cricket Snapper,” a 92-minute independent feature film that will have its world premiere at 8 tonight at the Magic Room Gallery, 155 N. Beacon St., Brighton. Stets wrote, directed and acted in the movie.
“Without the love and support of such an excellent and professional local cast and crew, I probably would have died making this movie.” Stets said. “There are scenes in here that were incredibly difficult for everyone, especially the actors, and I salute the dedication and commitment of everyone who was involved.”
The bizarre tale of Quincy dominatrix Barbara McLaughlin-Asher made national headlines starting a decade ago.
In 2006, a Norfolk Superior Court jury acquitted her of manslaughter in connection with the disappearance of a New Hampshire man whose body has never been found.
Michael Lord, 53, of North Hampton, N.H., vanished in July 2000, after reportedly contacting McLaughlin-Asher about having a two-hour bondage session in her Wollaston condominium.
Prosecutors alleged that the dominatrix and her boyfriend, Miguel Ferrer, dismembered the 6-4, 260-pound Lord and disposed of his body in a trash bin in Augusta, Maine, after he suffered a fatal heart attack while strapped to a rack with a hood over his head and a collar around his neck.
Ferrer, who was charged with being an accessory after the fact, has never been tried. He fled after being indicted.
“Cricket Snapper,” from Phoenix Rising Films and Metropolitan Pictures, follows a River Falls police detective as he sorts out four murders while delving into the sado-masochistic and bondage subculture of an otherwise quiet New England town.
It has been described as a cross between “8mm,” the 1999 mystery thriller staring Nicolas Cage, and a Charles Bronson film.
Stets, whose professional name is Lawson Welles - chosen in tribute to legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles - has had small roles in the movies “27 Dresses” and “Boston Girls.”
Chuck Slavin of Braintree, a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists and a friend of some those involved with the movie, said local filmmaking should be encouraged.
A few years ago, Slavin was a stand-in for Andy Garcia during the shooting of “Pink Panther 2” in Boston.
“Cricket Snapper” will be released and distributed online and in the United States through Netflix and Blockbuster.
For a peek at the trailer, go to
cricketsnapper.com. Some readers may find the content objectionable.
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