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Posted by Tim on
October 11, 2008
Ladies, Ladies, Ladies, This oportunity is for YOU!!!
Have you always wanted to break into the entertainment industry but never knew how? I don’t have one fucking clue how to help you with that.
What I can do is offer you a paid gig, with Hack Movies, for one day’s on screen work to perform in a safe, fun, and artistic enviroment.
We are currently casting roles for our upcoming feature film. We are seeking ST LOUIS (and metro east Illinois) AREA LADIES ONLY!!!!!
This casting call is not for the faint of heart! Our films are OFFENSIVE COMEDY in the vein of Troma and John Waters. We simulate rape, torture, mutilation, and you will be covered in a fake version of every body fluid known to man!
As if that wasn’t reason enough to sign up here are a few more benifits to joining the Hack Crew:
*Credit on a Feature film that will see a DVD release by the end of the year, and be featured in film festivals across the country.
*Automatic IMDB credit.
*It’s a PAID gig!
If it sounds like you have the stomach to kick it with the most ruthless fucking underground film company in the world, contact Kevin Strange via this website, or at mail@hackmovies.com
Posted by Tim on
August 18, 2008
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fright Night Film Fest 2008
By Tim Gross
The Good
In my opinion and from where I was set up at, it seemed the turn out for the convention was even bigger than last year… Much bigger and unexpected as it has been rumored that many conventions this summer have reported low attendance? There was a line of people that filled the hotel lobby an hour before the show opened Friday evening and Saturday morning. The celebrity guests were pretty cool and plentiful as you had a Phantasm reunion that included Angus Scrimm, Friday the 13th Jasons and other various cast members from Part Three, cast members from the original Halloween, the awesome and very cool wrestlers Al Snow and Mick Foley, Jason Lively from “Night of the Creeps”, Tiffany Shepis who was the life of the party as usual, Danielle Harris, and many others that had the convention guest room jam packed all weekend. A lot of Dead Pit members showed up in force to not only support www.deadpit.com but got a sneak peek at the film documentary about the fantastic duo that went over like gang busters in the screening room that included lots of board members with a special guest “Slipcase” (Dead Pit fans know who I’m talking about). A special “Savage Streets” screening after the “Into the Pit” sneak peek that is sure to be talked about for many years to come in Louisville as the room was packed and a few or so people leave as the room became very rowdy and party like that it had a life of its own that was talked about by many who did not attend or hotel staff that I also chatted with! Also I cannot forget as many vendors won’t, Robert Elkins dressed head to toe in a much disfigured zombie costume to promote his latest project that was playing at the film fest and I turned it into “NWA Saturday Night” with me as Dusty Rhodes and Robert as Dirty ‘Dead’ Dick Murdock doing promos for our upcoming matches!
The Bad
There wasn’t a whole lot bad about the convention except two sticking points with the convention goers and vendors alike: A) $25 autographs or pictures for almost all the guests… There was a couple who charged only $10 or $15 but this was the hot topic among convention goers and vendors. Is this economy related, gas related, being a complete money gouging asshole related? This has not been answered and I’m sure this will not be answered anytime soon but it has already affected the way people go to horror conventions and not only spend their money but decide whether to seek out all the celebrities they want to meet or try and take a chance on the latest DVD from a independent filmmaker who is trying to make a name for himself. There is a line being crossed in the sand already by some horror fans including myself about paying these higher autograph prices. I think part of the problem is due too, some minor celebrities who think they are actually bigger than what they are instead of understanding “you do not want to cut off the hand that feeds you?” B) The celebrity room was very cramped and uncomfortable especially since it seemed the hotel did not believe in having the AC on during the day. I was sweating pounds off like a fucking pig and all I was doing at times was talking to horror fans and sitting. But for the most part there wasn’t a whole to complain about as most of it had to do with the amount charged for autographs and pictures…
The Ugly
Where do I start with this subject? There was plenty of ugly going on in Louisville, Kentucky. A) Lady horror fans who feel they can fit in size 8 clothes but in reality you are a size 20 or 22 please refrain from wearing corsets, cut off shirts, or skirts that reveal more that needs to be revealed like having no ass just fat hanging there for example as one girl took the prize early Saturday morning when I seen a girl who had a tramp stamp bulging out from under her corset like it was somebody trying to pop a zit! I swear it was changing color because of the blood flow being cut off (but cool effect). B) Horror guys, stop wearing sun glasses inside the convention the whole day, you look like a fucking asshole that we all make fun of to entertain ourselves during slow points of conventions! Plus, “TAKE A FUCKING BATH, YOU SMELLY, DIRTY, SIMPSON COMIC BOOK GUY LOOKING MOTHER FUCKERS”!!!! My god I was about to bust the fire hose two or three times before I puked all over my table! C) Half naked people playing in the hallways of the hotel at 3 in the morning, I don’t mind, you are entertaining but it’s usually annoying to most. D) The “Savage Streets” screening was good and ugly for various reasons as Rick of DSK-Productions and I not only chased off several people from a packed room but entertained the ones that stayed for a drunk-induced commentary that was like no other and will talked about for years among all who come to Fright Night Film Fest every year. As I ended the screening with me running to my hotel room puking in the bathroom for an hour, sleep, get up ready to go hang out again and then realize I have to shit the rest of guts out and then sleep again in the bathroom, eventually deciding I need to actually find my bed but found out Holiday Inn has one very comfortable bathroom. E) Jason Payne (Pain, however you spell it) and Robert Elkins stayed back before the screening to drink vodka and orange juice together for two hours and neither wants to talk about it?! F) It was ugly but fun but Rick and me meeting other Dead Pit members as “Creepy Bill” and Uncle Kentuckian”. G) What top the weekend, I only sold four books but was able to sell a 22 year old street hockey mask for more than I paid for it in 1986! Fuck, next time I’m looking in the back of my truck to sell shit than the books.
Overall, Ken the convention promoter put together another great convention that was not only bigger and better than last year’s but promises it will be again next year as he strives to put a show on that not only people in the Midwest area enjoy but other horror fans around the country will want to come to also. Fright Night Film Fest 2008 definitely gets the Tim Gross stamp of approval and a must see show for all horror fans!
Thank you Aaron and Wes again for helping me out and to Ken for having me as apart of a great convention as I had another great time in Louisville and thank you to all who stopped by the table and hung out and that includes the crowd of Dead Pit members!
Stuff you might want to check out:
Robert Elkins (Backwoods and Backwoods 2) www.eyesoreproductions@rocketmail.com
Forgive My Sins Production Company
revjesse@hotmail.com (Jesse is a make-up artist looking for work and wants to talk to you filmmakers) He will have a website up soon called www.forgivemysins.com
David Rupp
www.infernaldreams.2fear.com (Custom Horror Graphics and Reviews) Filmmakers he is looking for your screeners…
Aldo Romero
Multi Media Production out of New York
www.symbioticfilm.com
Art Held Hostage
Elias Dancey is looking to distribute your film Indy guys! (He’s helping Robert Elkins with his latest project that stars Tiffany Shepis!) www.artheldhostage.com
Posted by Tim on
July 11, 2008
Go buy “Gone the Way of Flesh” dam it!!!
“GONE THE WAY OF FLESH” is finally available on DVD from Cut ‘N’ Run Productions! Get your copy today!! You can order by sending a check or money order of $15.
00 to:
Cut ‘N’ Run Productions, L.L.C.
P.O.
Box 133
East Pittsburgh, PA 15112
You can also purchase it at these Pittsburgh locations:
Borders Books And Music
The Exchange- Monroeville, Squirrel Hill
CD Warehouse- Monroeville
Half Price Books- Monroeville
Heads Together/706 Records- Squirrel Hill
We will have secure credit card sales available on our website www. cutnrunproductions. com soon!
Posted by Tim on
July 2, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA – June 30, 2008 – What’s the best way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the George Romero classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead? By holding a zombie-themed festival at the site where it was filmed.
The It’s Alive Zombie Fest™, taking place on October 25 & 26 at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will be a zombie fan’s delight. “Pittsburgh has long been considered the zombie capital of the world”, says Mark Menold, organizer of Zombie Fest™, and creator, producer and host of The It’s Alive Show, Pittsburgh’s late night horror host program. “People come from around the globe to make a pilgrimage to the Monroeville Mall because of Dawn of the Dead being filmed here. It’s like a zombie Mecca.”
Zombie Fest™ will feature vendors from across the county offering collectible and hard-to-find horror and zombie-themed wares for sale; zombie films; discussion panels featuring award-winning horror writers; bands; celebrity guests; games and other fun activities for zombie fans of all ages. The events at the Mall will be open to the public and free of charge; some after-hour events are in development that will carry a nominal admission fee of which all proceeds will go to the Fest’s designated charity, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
“We decided that since 2008 is such a monumental year for zombie fans that we’d change our format from a traditional horror convention to a show that is accessible for everyone”, says Menold. “It will be a little different from what our vendors and fans are used to, but it’s an opportunity to reach a wider audience of zombie fans.”
On the eve of Zombie Fest™, Friday, October 24, a Zombie Masquerade Ball will be held at the Churchill Valley Country Club. The Ball will feature live entertainment as well as a DJ and will be an age 21 and over event. Prizes will be awarded for best overall costume as well as best zombie costume. There will be a separate admission fee for the Ball (to be determined).
The highlight of the weekend will be World Zombie Day™ on Sunday, October 26 featuring zombie walks with accompanying food drives aimed at raising awareness of the problem of global hunger. At press time, approximately 40 cities have signed on to participate, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, London and Hong Kong as well as cities in Canada, Australia and Costa Rica. The hub of WZD will be the Monroeville Mall walk on Sunday morning, led by Menold as Professor Emcee Square, his character on The It’s Alive Show. The prior two walks organized by Menold at the Mall earned Guinness World Records™; the 2007 walk received a Rondo S. Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Fan Event of the year.
Menold promises a memorable time for fans who participate in the weekend’s activities. “This event is going to rock 33.3% harder than last year. I want people who come to Zombie Fest™ to be able to mingle with the guests and dance at the Zombie Ball, to play zombie games, have a chance to appear in a TV show about zombies, rock out to live bands, and to participate in another world record attempt at the Monroeville Mall. This is the location where George Romero shot Dawn of the Dead! At Zombie Fest™, you can actually be a zombie for a day. Three days, really.”
For more information and updates, please visit www.theitsaliveshow.com.
Posted by Charlie on
June 19, 2008
OlliN Sword Design has created a new line of products to take care of your current zombie problems or at least prepare for a grim future of hacking through undead hordes. The basic survival kit contains a backpack, binoculars, first-aid kit,sleeping bag,signaling mirror, canteen w/ belt, multi-too,water purification tablets,compass,pontcho,flashlight w/ 2 AA batteries, bandanna, strike matches(6 boxes) and polorized sunglasses. You can check it out here.
Posted by Tim on
June 16, 2008
A new Era Dawns!
Minions. I write to you today from a secret location miles below Strangeville. My doctor suggested I stay as far below ground as possibe to help combat the effects of some weird seisures I’ve been having lately. You see, for about 3 months, I’ve been afflicted with an odd disorder. First my dick would inexplicibly get hard for no good reason at all. Naturally I’d go ahead and start jerking off cause a hardon is a terrible thing to waste. But within seconds I’d begin to shake and convulse and eventually I’d black out. when I’d come to, I’d have scrawled a scene of a movie I’ve yet to write all over the floor in my own bile and fecees. Naturally I collected all of these unconcious writings and pain stakingly typed them out into what became the script for the next Mighty film from Hack Movies. A film know to the world as-haha, not yet. I have much to tell you about, so let me just go ahead and adjust my dick jewlery and get started:
Colonel Kill Has Come and Gone
We’ve washed off the camo paint and retired the hoodies, gang. the Kill Motherfuckers era has passed, and what a great fucking era it was! We touched thousands of you with our relentless brand of horror/satire/gross out/slap stick gore/comedy and I want to personally thank each and every on of you motherfuckers we’ve met online, at conventions, and at shows that gave Hack Movies and Colonel Kill a chance.
You ruthless ass lovers of the underground are what keep the wheels turning on this company. We honestly and sincerely could not do it without you fucks. We are truly an Underground. The mainstream does not, will not, and can not understand this thing we do. When you show most people a Hack Movie, they look at you sideways and ask you what the fuck is wrong with you. They don’t feel this magic minions! Don’t sweat them! Don’t sweat the haters! Be proud to represent the underground! Be proud to represent Hack Mother Fucking Movies!
This wicked circus freakshow keeps on moving
With two conventions already behind us and a HUGE response from Chicago minions at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, we’ve added four additional convention appearances to our already jam packed 2008 schedule. First up on August 15-17th, we’ll be heading down south to Louisville Kentucky for the Fright Night Film Fest to kick it with none other than the Creepy Kentuckian and Uncle Bill, collectively known as DEADPIT radio!
Then, a few short weeks later, the crew will head back to Indianapolis Indiana to school another group of unsuspecting horror fans at the HorrorHound Weekend Show!
Next up, in Sepetember, We’ve been invited to attend the second annual Dark Carnival Film Fest in Evansville Indiana. Hack Movies is gonna show Evansville what it means to be a true Hack minion. Full on face paint with costumed characters running around throwing flyers at every Tom Dick and Harry that walks by, spreading that Hack sickness like the fucking plague, you know how we do!
Finally, this perverse Horror train comes to a stop right here in our hometown, St. Louis Missouri at the Monstrous Weekend on October 27-29th! Don’t miss the chance to meet the Hack Crew , score some exclusive Hack Merch, and the chance to personally suck our dicks at one of the infamous Hack Movies convention after parties!
A New Era Dawns
As if all this freshness weren’t plenty for you to wrap your fake ass tupe pieces around, Hack Movies is about to begin production on our 3rd feature length film and 4th DVD release since 2006! The enery is strong with this one gang. Myself and other key members of the hack crew have found ourself drawn together late at night to remote and abandoned cornfields. What we found in these fields was always the same. The title of the next feature length film from Hack Movies, scrawled in the dirt:
CockHammer.
The plot of CockHammer is relatively straightfoward: A ruthless snuff porn filmmaker named CockHammer has been kidnapping and sacrificing all the hookers in Strangeville on film. A couple of hot and horny swinger girls get caught up in the satanicy mess and find themselves the next victims of this psychotic filmmaker. Now it’s up to their douchbag boyfriends to find and rescue them before CockHammers evil plot sees fruition!
Gang, when I came to you those many months ago and told you that Colonel Kill was gonna be the most perverted and ruthless Hack Movie to date, I did Not Lie! I did not exagerate! I hyped up a crazy ass slasher film and I delivered! Now I come to you again, and I must tell you…CockHammer is the most perverse, disghusting piece of trash I have ever written! You sick fucks are in for a real treat with this one. We take the sex, drugs and gore quotient up 10 mother fucking knotches for this piece, best believe that!
So when does this sick fucking movie drop? We’re currently, deep, DEEP into pre-production. We expect to shoot the flick sometime in September and October, so expect a release near Christmas or New Years 2009. But do not fret Minions! In the interm Hack Movies will be releasing a series of short promotional videos introducing you to the crazy ass henchmen employed by CockHammer: Wolfram and Windgate. Expect a new wolfram and Windgate video every month, starting with July 17th and running all the way up to the release of the CockHammer trailer.
There you have it Minions. Welcome to the Era of CockHammer! We’ll see you at those Conventions! Buy a fucking Hack Value pack from HackMovies.com and rep the fuck outta your brand ass new T shirt and DVD piece! I now leave you with the first promo video of this exciting new era: Strangeville Cafe: CockHammer
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