As a kid, I grew up watching Saturday afternoon creature features in Cleveland, Ohio. Perhaps it was my young age, but I was always greatly affected by those films. In addition, I came to respect the low-budget aesthetics, cardboard sets, and awkward atmosphere of those 50s and 60s efforts. While others may relish the sumptuous materialism of the mega-budget studio blockbusters, I find charm in the down-and-out threadbare naturalism of desperately-made low-budget movies – where the ambitions of the people involved glow much hotter than the special effects onscreen.

WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION is the political action blaxploitation sci-fi comedy melodrama that puts the Camp back in Camp David. Now, you might be thinking – how AND WHY did we think we could get all those different themes, genres, things into one 75-minute movie? Well, the answer is… we had a lot of feelings to express! While WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION isn’t necessarily based on true facts, it is based on true feelings -- the good feelings of being out in the streets exercising the right to freedom of speech – and also the bad feelings engendered by being ignored, lied to, and manipulated by our leaders. A subplot of WOMD is our main character, John Lincoln trying to being his family back together – and the desire to reunite our broken global family is another urgent feeling that motivated this project. Goofy indeed, WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION is in many ways “Based on true events.”

N. A. J.