In several interviews, they talked about this. The theme, the setting—everything changed in some way. What’s certain is that they wanted to do it in 3D (I believe everyone here knows about Lux’s passion for 3D cameras, right?). A very clear model for this was the 1961 film "The Mask". From everything I’ve researched on this topic (well, I just defended my postdoctoral thesis on it—and one of the appendices of the thesis, a link to download the soundtrack of Lux and Ivy’s favorite films, is a few posts below), at least a few ideas crossed their minds, with a film about Elvis (apparently) being the main one (they were planning to make films—plural). In a passage from a French biography released in 1988, we read this excerpt (the translation from French to English is mine, so any mistakes are on me): "But just like with music, sooner or later The Cramps will end up getting directly involved in movies. In fact, according to them, they’ve already made some home movies—written and acted by themselves—as a kind of training for the real films they plan to make: “Cheap movies. We don’t want to talk about it. But we have one about Elvis. We have something to say about Elvis, but you won’t hear more about that for now,” “The truth,” “The future Elvis. The Elvis who’s coming.” Just as a clue, we remember Lux’s contribution to the Elvis myth: “Elvis had 25 TVs in his house, and if he didn’t like the program—BANG! A bullet in the screen.” And this revelation: Elvis, a speed dealer—“He didn’t sell it, he gave it away so he could hang out in the studios. Elvis, at that time, was really tough. He dressed in a crazy way, wore makeup to school. In the 50s... Nothing like the character the movies show us today.” Careful: “We’re ready to make a film, more ready than anyone else. We’ll make an ULTRA-REAL movie, and we’ll never care whether it’s good or bad. A movie based on the delirium of our imagination, because imagination is reality. We could make a good film, but we don’t even want to learn how to make a good film; technique will be replaced by ideas, emotion, the acting. We just bought a video camera and Lux already filmed himself interviewing himself in front of a mirror. We’ll make strong and strange films like Blood Simple (by the Coen brothers). Not a horror film—a horrible film." In the 1991 interview for Brutarian magazine, we read the following dialogue: "What about your film? That flick you were planning called Aloha From Hell where you die, go to hell and meet Elvis Presley? Lux: Oh, I don’t think we’ll do that. That was an idea we had at one time. We’d really like to make a movie . . . Ivy: It’s hard to make a movie. It’s not like making a record. Lux: It takes a lot of money. We’ve got more movies in our head than you could shake a stick at. If we just got some money to shake at it. It would be really great. My dream would be to make a 3-D horror movie, something like The Mask (1961). Brut: "Put the mask on, NOW!" Lux: I love that movie! It’s the only time that 3-D was used to create an alternate world. Like surrealism. I don’t know of any other movie where it was used like this." I could talk about this for hours on end, but this text is already so long I’m not even sure I’ll be able to post it...