LOS ANGELES – Director and Vivid Alt head Eon McKai’s upcoming feature Debbie Loves Dallas is as much about music as it is about sex. As with his previous movies, McKai went to great pains to select an original soundtrack that would create an intentional ambience for the scenes, rather than boring sonic wallpaper.
“We’re fortunate in that now that Vivid Alt has been around for awhile, people send us tons and tons of music,” McKai told AVN. “Without exaggerating, I get about one CD every other day, on average. But a lot of that stuff is crap.”
The Debbie Loves Dallas soundtrack, which is included as a bonus disc with the release, features Driver of the Year, Hank IV, All Will Fall, PopiKoK and All Good Funk Alliance, as well as an original song and video by the “synth pop sensation,” Dallas.
Los Angeles based musician B. Wilks created the music for Dallas. McKai has used Wilks’ musical selections going all the way back to the director’s 2005 movie, Kill Girl Kill 2.
“We discovered Driver of the Year when we were shooting Dana's movie, [Dana DeArmond Does the Internet],” explained McKai. “They’ve done pretty well after being included on that soundtrack and send us their new stuff, as they record it.”
McKai, who has grown the Vivid Alt label largely with help from the internet and social networking sites like MySpace.com, also uses the web to find bands. “Take, for instance, a band like All Good Funk Alliance. I would have never really known about them, if they didn’t contact me through MySpace. And it turns out they do some pretty awesome, straight forward porno music. I did some campy porno scenes in this movie, so their stuff worked out perfectly.”
McKai's highly anticipated release is a remake of the iconic 1970s film about sexually adventurous cheerleaders. The movie is set to ship on Sept. 12. McKai's version, which was shot last August, is a predictably unorthodox take on the Debbie scenario, with Dallas being a rock band, rather than a place.
Veteran director Paul Thomas also did a remake of the Debbie classic with Vivid's April release of Debbie Does Dallas...Again. The title was the first adult release to be available in standard DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray formats.
A seven-part reality series on the making of McKai's Debbie, along with the parallel version by Thomas, aired on Showtime earlier this year.
Vivid girl Cassidey plays the Debbie role in McKai's version, and Charlotte Stokely plays the part of Bambi Woods. Dana DeArmond and Pixie Pearl star as Stokely and Cassidey's slutty best friends. Dallas, the band, is comprised of Alex Gonz, Julius Ceazeher and Icarus Corpse. Alexander makes a special appearance as O.G. Debbie. Tommy Pistol, AVN Best Male Newcomer of 2007, and James Deen also star in the movie, and AVN Hall of Famer Fred Lincoln (Last House on the Left, Defiance) makes a cameo appearance as Bambi's father.
“Somebody just came by today and picked up a copy of the movie,” continued McKai. “They told me they were going to go down to their car, pop in the soundtrack and start masturbating.
“Picking out the music is a very meticulous process. It’s always a choice, for us. Even the stuff that sounds like it’s a mistake to some people is a choice to us. We’re far too anal to make mistakes. And that’s a lot of work; making something sound like it’s a mistake when it’s really a choice. It’s pretty fucked up…we should all quite our jobs,” he laughed.
For more information, go to www.vividalt.com.
