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There is a new book coming out November 15th called The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy with Doug Bradley doing the Forward!
The THRILLER! CHILLER! Award Winners
Best Feature - Zombie Honeymoon
Best Short - The Listening Dead
Best FX - The Quick and the Undead
Best Thrill - The Slaughter
Best Chill - The Lost
Congratulations to the winners. These were some amazing films to see on the big screen and especially in a theater like the Frauenthal. All the films were great and we appreciate the hard work it took from every filmmaker that submitted to our festival this year.
It truly was quite an experience in Muskegon last weekend. The festival went very, very well. James Karen, James Winburn and Reggie Bannister all had a great time, had great things to say and show our audience, and everyone who came out had a chance to talk them.
The response from the audience was excellent. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves immensley. What could be better than sitting in one of the most beautiful theaters in the country, drinking a Blue Moon or Bells, and watching a great horror movie on the big screen?
If you missed it this year, you really missed out. Don’t let it slip by you next year when Thriller! Chiller! 2 comes back to town!
FREE promotional screening of “THE HORROR CONVENTION MASSACRE” this weekend!
This week Big Panic will be showing Old School Sinema’s “The Horror Convention Massacre” for a FREE midnight run at http://www.bigpanic.com/.
The window to view the film will be Friday late night (beginning at Midnight, technically Saturday EARLY morning) and run until about 5 a.m. The window will repeat Saturday late night (beginning at Midnight, technically Sunday EARLY morning) and run until 5 a.m.
So if you’re going out those nights to the bars or a party, you can still come home and enjoy the flick!
Signup-registration is free, but required to prove that you are 18 or older.
Spread the word to your friends. These promo screenings are to generate word of mouth and promote the DVD (which features several special features) that is just $15 (plus shipping).
Thanks,
Joe
Old School Sinema
www.oldschoolsinema.com
Tiffany Apan
Remainder of 2006:
~Album, “Everlasting Element”
~Finish filming “Revenge Sweet Revenge” for Life or Death Productions
~Wrap up “The Monster’s Night” with Ashes to Ashes Productions
~Wrap up “The Killer Inside You” with 1 Shot Studios
~Zombie Apparel Halloween Fashion Show on October 29th
~Dark X-mas appearance November 5th and 6th with release of “The
Killer Inside You.”
~Showing of “The Killer Inside You” at the Road House Theatre in
Eerie, PA (dates TBA)
~Zombie Apparel Spring Line Fashion Show on November 11th
~’Christmas with the Scream Queens’ interview on BumsCorner.com in
December
2007 (so far):
~”Windslow Asylum” with Dark Wind Woods Productions to begin
shooting January of 2007 and released in September of 2007 (very
Vincent Price/Alfred Hitchcock)
~Filming of “Bitch Bond” with J&A Productions and Pin Point
Productions to be released in the summer of 2007 (dark satire action
film; female version to James Bond) where I act in as well as
working on some music for the film.
~Filming of feature length version of “The Killer Inside You”
~Untitled project with soap star/horror film star, Robyn Griggs to
be filmed in spring of 2007. From what I understand, it is
very ‘Twilight Zone’ inspired.
~Record and Release of “Everlasting Element.”
~Troma Appearance at Monster Mania 7 in February.
The Resurrection Game, for anyone who might not know, was a zombie feature we shot on 16mm back in 2000 (well, shooting was completed in 2000). It was our first feature, a labor of love and an awful lot of work. See, the wilds of 2000 were pre-digital video days. So we shot on film, cut workprint on a flatbed and an upright Moviola (Google the terms, you’ll see the kinds of beasts we’re talking about). We also hand-cut the negative to have it transferred to digital once the technology caught up to our stupidity. This is what gives it it’s ’70s grindhouse look. The film stock is what gives it the saturated colors and the deep blacks. It’s a gorgeous film, filled with heart, complex characters and a labyrinthine plot.
Consequently, it’s been a hard-sell to distributors. We like to joke that we made a zombie movie without zombies. The fact is, the movie is filled with zombies, but they’re not the main characters. There isn’t much gut-munching. They’re mostly in the background, driving the plot forward. Think L.A. Confidential if ’50s Los Angeles were zombie-ridden. That’s what we tried to make The Resurrection Game into. We’ve had a couple of film reps tell us that “it’ll be tough to market” and then drop it without even trying. Part of this is, in fact, due to the “soft market” that DVD sales are currently facing. The rest is due to the fact that we made a movie that is tough to define. It’s horror, yes, but it’s also a mystery with a touch of science-fiction. We bucked the system and the system bucked us right back. If you would like a copy, you can order it through our site: www.happycloudpictures.net. Currently, that’s the only way you can get it. Things might change over the next year. There’s always hope.
In the meantime, there’s an online petition you can sign to show distributors that there is actually a market for this movie. We’d take it as a kindness if you’d drop by and put your name on it. The Resurrection Game Also has it’s own Myspace Page. Run over and join.
The new movie, Abattoir, was borne out of the frustration we faced with not only The Resurrection Game, but some of the contract work we were doing outside of our own company. We spent most of 2005 trying to make sure other people’s movies got made. This resulted in nice paychecks for us, but a lot of creative frustration. So we updated our equipment and set out to make something more commercial–to actually “sell out”.
I called my distributor friends and asked them, “What’s selling?” They gave me a list of things and all of them said, “And, you know, vampires always do well.”
I didn’t particularly want to make a vampire movie. I wasn’t sure I could bring anything new to the table. I do, however, want to make some money off of something I actually created. Amy, in a fit of frustration, said, “Let’s make a movie about vampires in a brothel!”
“What’s it about?” I asked.
“Vampires,” she replied. “In a brothel.”
And that clicked something in our heads. The resulting script took about 6 weeks to shoot, all told (roughly 15 days from start to finish). We called upon a lot of friends to fill in the cast and even wrote a scene so we could work with our friends at It Came From Planet X — JimmyO Burril and April Burril (Chainsaw Sally) and their friend (and now ours), Lesley Vernot.
We made sure that there would be the requisite nudity and gore, but we worked hard to make sure those elements were motivated by the story (not the gore, so much, that’s just fun). And in the end, we came up with what I hope will be a very satisfying little movie.
We screened it at our Genghis Con show in September and it was very well-received. It helped that half the audience was comprised of cast and crew, but still…
So check out the trailer, let us know what you think. The movie is in the final death throes of sound mix and color correction and should be completed by the end of the month. We’ll keep you posted here as things progress.
In other news, a short we completed earlier in the year, High Stakes, will be seen as part of the anthology Brinke’s Tales of Horror, through JD Casey Productions. And we just entered into an agreement to produce another short for Countess Bathoria’s Graveyard Picture Show, which is something we’re very excited about. This last anthology centers around a zombie outbreak and each of the stories is related in some way. It’s a cool idea and allows us to get back to our zombie roots. Who knows? Maybe this time, we’ll have some zombies in the story…
“CASTLEVANIA” is going to be made into an animated feature that is direct to DVD. Also, David Fincher’s “The Zodiac” is going to released nationwide Jan. 19, 2007. And in the Romero news, Dread Central is saying that Principle Photography on Romero’s new film, “Diary of the Dead” has started!