Gotham City Sirens

Gotham City Sirens is a fan film that tells the story of a unstable alliance between Pamela Lillian Isley, Harley Quinn and Selina Kyle. Each of them has a dark past and reputations that have made them into some of Gotham’s most notorious criminals.

Catwoman has always been a highly skilled thief and a loner. So when she teams up with Ivy and Harley it’s to pursue a very lucrative business opportunity. Naturally it’s illegal. But during this partnership Selina has to make some harsh decisions, choices that beg the question is she friend or foe to her new surrogate family.

This looks awesome! Gotham City Sirens is the latest fan film, funded via Kickstarter, from Detroit-based digital media artist Terrell Culbert. Culbert founded the small press publication BAM (Breathe Again Magazine) which is “mostly a pop-culture magazine created for comic book fans and all who are awesome!”

How do I get that magazine?! Anyway, Culbert, via his Breathe Again Entertainment independent film production company, has produced quite a number of comic and horror-inspired fan videos and web series. Some are better than others, but each successive film is definitely better than the last and Gotham City Girls looks to be one of his best. Culbert originally imagined Selina Kyle in his fan film The Catwoman. Watch it here …

They say a cat has 9 lives, lucky for Catwoman! After being shot and left for dead Selina Kyle aka Catwoman has plans to get even with her ex-partners in crime.

I love the opening scene where Black Mask (Brian Roe) shoots Selina Kyle (Leez Nikollaj). Well done. Nikollaj will reprise her role as Catwoman in Gotham City Girls, while Kelly Kirstein will play Poison Ivy and Kristina Martin will play Harley Quinn. I like the new Catwoman costume with the goggles better. Her costume in The Catwoman was inspired by Anne Hathaway‘s Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and I always thought her mask looked like she bought it on the fly at Wal-Mart during Halloween. Leez Nikollaj previously played a psychotic Harley Quinn in Culbert‘s Batgirl Part Three, while adorable Ashley Elyse played Catwoman in Batgirl Part One. I’m not sure what happened to Batgirl Part Two.

Other good short films from Terrell Culbert include his take on Marvel’s blue-skinned shapeshifter Mystique, his Freddy Kreuger fan film Emily Elmstreet [starring the lovely Brittany Millitello as Dr. Basset], and his submission for The ABCs of Death 2 (2014) M is for Matrimony [which is better than most of the short films in The ABCs of Death (2012)]. Also, I love the concept for his fangirl romantic comedy Cosplay Crush starring Aaron Toland II and, once again, Leez Nikollaj …

Alan Parker has always been in love with what he creates on comic book pages. Now he is about to meet the woman of his dreams. Welcome to Cosplay Crush an independent film about comic books and the awesome people they bring together.

Watch the trailer here …

Sadly, the IndieGoGo campaign was unsuccessful but, hopefully, that won’t stop him. My only disappointment, I think, is Culbert‘s X-23 web series. I found Culbert by randomly searching for X-23 fan films. His was the only one I found. It doesn’t suck – I was just hoping for more X-23. Watch the trailer here with Monoral‘s hit “Kiri” [from the anime Ergo Proxy] as its soundtrack. If nothing else, X-23 showed me that Culbert‘s got a lot of passion for what he does and, based on his later work, he’s getting much better at realizing it. So, I’m looking forward to watching Gotham City Girls when it’s finished and, hopefully, Cosplay Crush, too.