tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69733142331474543752024-03-13T17:32:30.341+11:00undead brainspasmThe burst appendix of Undead BackbrainUndead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-81985143643780046142013-04-17T17:42:00.000+10:002013-04-17T17:42:12.476+10:00Official Trailer: Gorilla!The Backbrain has squirmed with information on writer/director Dave Shaw's new monster/comedy retro parody <i>Late Night Classics presents GORILLA!</i> before. If you read the previous articles, you probably thought it both strange and yet familiar. Well, just check out the new trailer.<br />
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The above is the newly released poster and below is the teaser:<br />
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For more visual titillation, check out the official trailer:<br />
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Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-87882247358673201772012-09-04T18:33:00.002+10:002012-11-11T07:53:17.702+11:00Say Hi to the Riverbeast<b>A Brainspasm Exclusive</b><br />
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Welcome the Riverbeast to the hallowed halls of Monsterdom! He looks like a barrel of laughs!<br />
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Indie director Charles Roxburgh and his mates have given birth to what may be the next big thing in low-budget monster stars. He's ragged, ugly and mean, in fact "the most indecorous aquatic menace of all time", so it's perhaps best to take Roxburgh's advice: <i>Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!</i></div>
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<i>Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!</i> (US-2012; dir. Charles Roxburgh) is a newly completed feature film, first screened for cast and crew a few days ago. It
hasn't played anywhere else yet. Produced by Matt Farley, the horror/comedy stars Matt Farley, Kevin McGee, Sharon Scalzo, Elizabeth Peterson, James
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project," Roxburgh told the Brainspasm. "Ultimately we would just like as many people as possible to
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"My friends and I love fun horror movies," said Roxburgh. "I think 1970s TV movies with
lots of drama, many characters, and some sort of creature or disaster
were the most influential. <i>Bloodstalkers</i> (1978), <i>Ants</i> (1977), <i>Snowbeast</i> (1977), <i>Blood Cult</i> (1985), and <i>Memorial Valley Massacre</i> (1989) are all influences." As an afterthought he added, "Also fun homemade movies, like <i>Woodchipper Massacre</i>."</div>
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<b>Source</b>: Charles Roxburgh via B-Movie Monster Hunter Avery Guerra. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/dontlettheriverbeastgetyou" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>; <a href="http://shockmarathons.com/">ShockMarathons.com</a></div>
Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-69194576847496385752012-08-26T15:17:00.000+10:002012-08-26T15:18:12.906+10:00Exclusive: SHiVERDavid Cronenberg's 1975 film <i>Shivers</i> ran the whole viral infection trope long before the current generation of filmmakers became obsessed with the theme, offering up a tale of genetically engineered parasites, unethical experimentation, and homicidal mania spread by sexual contact in a high-rise apartment building.<br />
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Now, in 2012, writer/director Chase Merkley gives us <i>SHiVER</i> -- "a small, independent psychological thriller/horror film [he did] for about 10,000 dollars". It appears to have the moves: a small group of young people, plus apocalyptic infection, plus zombiesque plague victims. As much about how individuals survive and what they are willing to do to make sure they do, <i>SHiVER</i> is as keen to deliver spine-tingling shivers as bloody horror:<br />
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A few days ago he told Undead Brainspasm that he had "only about two more days of filming to go, with an hour and a half of the film already edited." He added: "I'm expecting the final edit to be at a running time of about two hours."<br />
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Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-72963181551555171022012-05-28T17:01:00.000+10:002012-05-28T17:07:41.766+10:00Jonah Lives: Is the New Horror Icon a Zombie?<b>A Backbrain Exclusive Interview with Luis Carvalho</b><br />
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Among the sub-species of zombies on film, the mindless cannibalistic kind has ruled the cemetery grounds for some time... since, well, 1968 anyway. That's when George Romero's <i>Night of the Living Dead</i> tore its way into the global zeitgeist and made its apocalyptically bloody mark across the celluloid landscape.<br />
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But the apocalyptic zombie isn't the only kind out there. Lurking in the shadows behind the video shelves has always been another kind -- the living dead that crawls out of the grave, still dead but intent on revenge.<br />
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More corporeal than your average ghost, less suave than your average vampire (and more interested in ripping and tearing flesh than drinking blood) and generally more self-aware than its shambling kin, the revenant (as it is more correctly named) adds personality to a monster that is notoriously impersonal -- and therefore could acquire horror icon status, along with Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Freddie Kruger, Pinhead, the Candyman and their ilk. A new icon has been missing from the horror scene now for a fair time, despite a few decent attempts. Could Jonah be the One?<br />
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"The original idea of <i>Jonah Lives</i> was to be made on Super 8mm film for
entry into Cinemagic's 1982 short film festival," writer, producer, director and editor of <i>Jonah Lives, </i>Louie Carvalho, told the Backbrain. "I wrote a 17-page
screenplay that involved four teens who steal a flag from a grave and later
have the ghoul come back from the dead to get his flag back. I budgeted
the flick at $1000.00 and was assured by family members that they would
invest in the project. When it came time to collect the money, I was
denied and the project died it's first death."<br />
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But, in the tradition of all good revenants, <i>Jonah</i> didn't stay long buried.<br />
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"The second attempt would be some seven years later. I fleshed out the script
to 44 pages and added two female characters and the Ouija board element. It was to be filmed on videotape as technology had changed. However, the project was not meant to be as the friends involved could not commit to the required
schedule, causing the project to die once again."<br />
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So, back to the boneyard.<br />
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"In 1992, I added a few more pages and again gathered a cast together
from family and friends to take another stab at making the project, this
time on Digital 8mm. In the rehearsals for <i>Jonah</i> it was evident that I would never get the
kind of performances needed to make the film something that would be taken
seriously, and <i>Jonah</i> seemed to be dead for good."<br />
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[CONT.: TIME PASSES]<br />
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"After 20 years of doing virtually nothing creatively speaking, I could
never shake the filmmaking bug and in September of 2009, I met an
aspiring rap artist, Sandro G, through a cousin who was his manager. Tony
asked me and my long-time friend Gary Andre if we were interested in
doing videos for him. We accepted and the filmmaking bug kicked in with
a vengeance when we saw that we were able to create several videos, each
one different from the other and all good if not great. We knew
then that the time was right to dust off the 60-page script and I took
to re-writing it into a screenplay that would attract some professional
people. </blockquote>
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"Gary and myself took Dov Siemens' two-day film school in Boston on a Summer
weekend in 2010. Dov suggested we make our script great and hire a
professional DP, and that is what we set out to do. After hiring Rich Marino, DP on the <i>Putt Putt Syndrome</i>, and getting
[Scream Queen] Brinke Stevens to come on board, we were able to raise the initial
50,000 dollars to begin putting the pieces into place."</blockquote>
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Taking inspiration from the films of George Romero (especially <i>Creepshow</i> "with its Fathers Day story), the vengeful stories and blood-drenched imagery of EC and other horror comics from Eerie Magazine to Marvel, along with
the gothicesque Hammer films of the 1960s, in particular the UK studio's Dracula films, and the in-your-face grotesqueries of Italian horror directors, Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento, Carvalho set out to create a film that would a worthy successor to these garish greats.<br />
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"I didn't directly lift anything from these sources," he added, "but I think their influence shows. I told make-up artist Ben Bornstein that I wanted Jonah to look like a
Bernie Wrightson zombie straight out of a <i>Tales from the Crypt</i> comic and
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<i>Jonah Lives</i>, then, is a dark tale of vengeance from beyond the grave, centering on a group of
teenagers who unintentionally supply the catalyst for the murdered
Jonah’s return from the world of the dead.<br />
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"It is truly a unsettling nightmare done in a loving style for the horror genre and using old school aesthetics," said Carvalho. "You might say it's <i>Breakfast Club</i> by way of <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>, if I had to describe it further."<br />
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<i>Jonah Lives</i> premiered in New England on April 22, and from there will screen at Rock and Shock in October and the NYC Horror Film Festival in November. Carvalho plans to enter it in several other upcoming film festivals in the hope
that it will find a distributor who can get the film to as wide an
audience as possible. As always with independent filmmaking, he and his crew are flying on hope.<br />
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"As a first time feature filmmaker," Carvalho told us. "I found the experience incredible. Going
from doing videos with one partner, to a feature film with a full crew
of 26 people was just amazing. So many things that I had read about,
what directors are, and what they do and have to be on the set, I
experienced first-hand and now I can actually say I know what a
director is and what he has to do to make sure he gets what he wants. In
the editing room, I actually felt like a thief that had stolen some
nifty scenes while my crew was unaware.</blockquote>
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"If the audience takes anything away with them from this film, I hope
that they feel that it was a different kind of movie from what they have
been accustomed to seeing, that they see that this film is a labour of
love, that it is a uniquely personal vision from a first-time director.
Ultimately, I hope they are entertained and emotionally involved with
the characters and what is happening to them and Jonah and maybe still
thinking about it after they see it for the first time."</blockquote>
As for the future, Carvalho's next project is <i>The Deported</i>. "It's a street film centered around several young
immigrants struggling in the declining economy, who see an easier way to make cash
in street hustling and scheming, while the threat of deportation
looms over their heads. This one will be done in a gritty street style
of Scorsese's <i>Mean Streets</i> and <i>Taxi Driver</i>."<br />
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But what about a <i>Jonah Lives</i> sequel? "Well, if <i>Jonah</i> is well received, I have several ideas for a sequel that would be very interesting to explore."<br />
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Says Jonah: "I am a select noble breed of the evil undead destined to become the
next great horror icon of your time. My rise to power will be
legendary...." <br />
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Well, if Jonah is going to become the next horror icon, there'll have to be a sequel. We all know you can't keep a good monster down!<br />
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<b>Source</b>: Luis Carvalho via Avery Guerra. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JonahLives" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. <a href="http://www.jonahlives.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a>. Also <a href="http://www.jonahlives.info/" target="_blank">http://www.jonahlives.info/</a>. <br />
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<br /></div>Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-17360460677392653672012-05-21T14:03:00.000+10:002012-05-21T14:03:25.084+10:00Update: ResurrectionTwo years on and it looks like <i>Resurrection</i> -- a sci-fi/horror film from Jeff Burr that the <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2010/05/08/resurrection-yes-but-what-is-being-resurrected/" target="_blank">Backbrain first introduced in May 2010</a> -- is on the verge of release. We still don't know what exactly is being resurrected, but producer and co-writer (with Stuart Price) Bill Dever has sent along the official poster for the feature film, along with a teaser trailer and some pictures.<br />
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A USA-UK co-production conceived and produced by Stuart Price and Bill Dever, <i>Resurrection</i>'s story revolves around a batch of genetically modified corn that has caused the township that grew it -- and eaten it -- to go berserk -- that is, turn into typical midwestern small-town folk (as depicted by horror films anyway). When a couple of college kids return home over the Easter holiday weekend, they find themselves threatened by a bunch of refugees from a Rob Zombie film. One thing's for certain, there will be blood -- and politics!<br />
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The film features Kayla Gill (below), Ervin Ross and Shay Baker as the <span class="st"><i>ingénues</i></span>
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Jim O'Rear plays Dr Tim
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Filmed in Franklin, Indiana, <i>Resurrection</i> includes a guest cameo by Troma's Lloyd Kaufman. <br />
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<b>Source</b>: Bill Dever via Avery Guerra. Text by Robert Hood.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-88294118139506307852012-04-22T16:55:00.002+10:002012-04-24T16:12:59.763+10:00Update: Gorilla! meets John LandisYes, you read that right!<br />
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If Landis thinks there aren't enough gorilla suit movies, who are you to disagree! <br />
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Now, the posters!<br />
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<b>Source</b>: Some weird guy wearing a ratty fur coat via Avery (who was mauled rather badly).<br />
For more information, see this <a href="http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/exclusive-late-night-gorilla-lives.html" target="_blank">Brainspasm article. </a>Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-19394180786963605482012-04-16T18:33:00.002+10:002012-04-16T18:33:24.847+10:00Update: MetamorphosisBack in early January Undead Backbrain posted <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2011/01/01/metamorphosis-unleashing-the-bug-exclusive/" target="_blank">an extensive article</a> on an in-production film of Franz Kafka's existentialist masterpiece <i>Metamorphosis</i> -- a 1912 novella in which the main character is transmogrified into a large insect, quite at random and without naturalistic explanation. The rationale for the change lies in its metaphorical meaning -- a literary technique that is a key element of surrealist writings.<br />
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It seems clear from what we've seem so far that Swanton's Metamorphosis will be a dramatic combination of absurdist horror and dark fantasy. In the words of the press release:<br />
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Kafka's
prose is vividly visualistic in its attention to striking detail and
cartoon-like grotesqueness. It presents a surreal world within a
naturalistic framework, a wholly credible externalisation of inner
doubt, guilt, despair, self-disgust, self-pity and the laming fear of
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Yet it should not be overlooked how intentionally funny <i>Metamorphosis</i> is, and with what laughter it was received when Kafka read it aloud to his friends.</blockquote>
But where is the production up to? Director Chris Swanton has sent us this update:<br />
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After far longer than I ever anticipated, the film was finally completed
last week, except for the technical exercise of marrying up the picture
and sound in the post-production house, but that should be fairly
straightforward. I don't know that we will make a new trailer, unless I
can think of a way of not revealing too much of the insect... The first screening,
intended for sales agents and distributors, will be in London on Tuesday
1st May. I am now in the process of trying to get the film into
various festivals. Wish me luck.</blockquote>
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The film has an excellent cast, as outlined in <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2011/01/01/metamorphosis-unleashing-the-bug-exclusive/" target="_blank">the Backbrain article</a>, but it also boasts a very experienced crew. Here are the details (click to enlarge).<br />
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<i>Metamorphosis</i> looks as though it will be an extraordinary film. Hopefully it will find its way to a wide audience.<br />
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<li><b>Source</b>: Chris Swanton via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood. <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2011/01/01/metamorphosis-unleashing-the-bug-exclusive/" target="_blank">Undead Backbrain article</a>; <a href="http://www.metamorphosisthemovie.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Metamorphosis.Movie" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</li>
</ul>Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-31619912775032227222012-04-16T17:34:00.000+10:002012-04-16T17:34:37.471+10:00New Gorilla! TeaserFurther to <a href="http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/exclusive-late-night-gorilla-lives.html" target="_blank">our article</a> on the upcoming retro ape-suit creature feature <i>Late Night Classics presents Gorilla!</i>, written and directed by Dave Shaw, here's the latest theatrical teaser trailer:<br />
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<li>Uncaged by Avery Guerra, humanoid hunter extraordinaire.</li>
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Take a cautious look at the following trailer and see what you make of it!</div>
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You got it! Vampire potatoes. No romantic glowing vampires here, just lumpy root vegetables with a thirst for blood!<br />
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Sounds absurd? Well, much horror -- and in particular horror comedy -- works by taking the absurd and running with it, pretending, just for a moment, that the absurd is not only possible but believable. Clearly the upcoming horror comedy <i>Potato Vampires</i> (2012- Ireland; dir. John Clerkin)is shooting for the über-weird end of the genre, giving us a new and somewhat counter-intuitive perspective on that most ubiquitous of tubers, the spud. Producer Derm McGuigan described the film as being "in the Style of old Troma-ville movies -- it's a creature feature, it's the gore and the ridiculous" and as "a high-concept Belfast comedy that’s <i>The Hangover</i> meets <i>The Grudge</i>." Personally, I would've thrown in <i>Little Shop of Horrors</i>, too, along with that inevitable low-budget "template", <i>Evil Dead</i>. And maybe Peter Jackson's early zombie gory flick, <i>Braindead</i>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The good news? Genetic engineers have
developed a strain of potato that gets you high!</span> The
bad news? It also drinks human blood and leaves users violently insane … oh, and
it’s just got loose from the lab, so we’re probably all going to die.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Pictured (above)</b>:</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Helen L Murphy</span>
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<b>Synopsis</b>: <br />
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An experimental potato hybrid is stolen by a cleaner (Alan Waterman) from the agricultural research lab. He has discovered an interesting side effect, letting the seedlings suck your blood gives you a high. He takes it back to the house of some friends with an indoor weed-growing operation where under the sunlamps it grows at an incredible rate. The agri-research company boss dispatches a ‘collector’ to get the sample back. <br />
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The potato plant grows out tendrils which dig into anyone nearby. It gives a huge high even as it drains blood from the victim. The dealers see vast potential in this and arrange a fancy dress party to launch their new drug. <br />
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Prolonged interaction with the plant, however, causes violent insanity. At the party just as the collector arrives people start to go nuts and the few survivors immune from the effects must find a way to stop the evil plant before it spreads.</blockquote>
So, Spuds of Doom, Pomme de Terror, Attack of the Killer Potatoes... there was a compost heap of possible titles! But <i>Potato Vampires</i> it is!<br />
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So why this film at all?</div>
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According to the press release, the script started off as a joke by writer/director John Clerkin.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">When he couldn’t
come up with a suitably macho sounding title for the steam-punk action movie he’d just written, he saved it under the name <i>Potato Vampires.</i> “It was just the lamest, least blockbuster name I could think off, but as I was trying to tell people about this other film they’d see <i>Potato Vampires</i> written there and <i>that </i>was the film they wanted to hear about,” he said, adding, “Eventually I realised <i>I </i>wanted
to know what it was about too… and the only way to find out was to write the damn thing.”</span> </span></blockquote>
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He wrote the evil vegetable script mostly for his own enjoyment then
stuffed it in a drawer. And there it would have stayed, if not for the
persistence of <i>Potato Vampires</i> producer, Derm McGuigan. </blockquote>
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The two met when McGuigan was working as sound man on a short film, Clerkin was shooting in the wilds of rural Fermanagh. “The place worked for the film, but it was a tin shed ... in Northern Ireland … in December. Dear god, but it was cold!” he says shivering at the memory, “We bonded while hunched over the one tiny heater in the place and when John mentioned <i>Potato Vampires</i> in passing I was instantly intrigued.” </blockquote>
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McGuigan pestered until he got to read the script. “The minute I read it I knew I wanted to make it. It had everything I like in films: scares, splatter, burst-out-laughing comedy moments, weirdness, kick-ass heroines and acts of gratuitous violence balanced with wit that make you feel changed for witnessing it.” </blockquote>
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So filming took place in September 2011, mainly in an ordinary suburban terrace house, which is apparently where most of the film takes place. Alan Waterman (pictured above), who plays the cleaner who starts all the trouble, commented: “God knows what the neighbours thought. The windows were all blacked out and people in masks are running in and out covered in blood and carrying severed limbs.”<br />
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Check out the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEAABAD2AE9AB1AC" target="_blank">Potato Vampires V-Log</a> for a potato sackful of Behind-the-Scenes videos.<br />
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McGuigan had nothing but praise for the efforts of the cast and crew:<br />
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“Given the sheer number of practicals and complicated suspense set pieces in the film it’s something of a miracle that we finished on time and on budget. We got away with it thanks to the limitless patience and concentration of our actors, a director who could shoot fast, getting spectacular shots with a minimum of fuss, and a great crew who all pitched in so much effort to make this a great film. There was a really great atmosphere on set, cast and crew started turning up on days they weren’t even scheduled just to help out with that particular effect or build that prop, or even just be part of the buzz. To feel that warm potato-ey magic.”</blockquote>
Watch out for it soon!<br />
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<b>Sources</b>: Derm McGuigan via Avery Guerra; Press Kit; <a href="http://potatovampires.pasticheoflife.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PotatoVampires" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. Photos courtesy of<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Potato Vampires Ltd. </span></span><br />
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<b>An Earlier Teaser Video</b> ("quickly thrown together for early promotion"):<br />
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Bambi doesn't want a f#*king salad!</h3>
<b>Source</b>: via Avery Guerra.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-29937604694011795972012-03-11T19:16:00.002+11:002012-03-25T12:41:47.661+11:00Rugaru: A Cajun MonstrosityWendigo? Loup-Garou? Wolf-headed man? Rugaru? Whatever, it's a swamp monster and that's always a good thing, right? Check out this early rough teaser (which was a test run and is not reflective of the final product, we're told).<br />
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<b>Rugaru</b> (US-2012; dir. Tony Severio) is a new in-production horror film that features a monster, a voodoo curse and lots of doomed people. It's about to go into full production but just the trailer is looking good, so this is another independent feature we can be hopeful about.<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>:<br />
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Voodoo is unleashed in a small backwoods bayou town in the form of a large hairy beast which comes face to face with an unlikely hero with his own curse.
A thug from the bayou releases horror in the deep backwoods after soliciting the services of a nefarious voodoo witch for protection - giving rise to a terrifying creature of Cajun folklore.
After a convict disappears, parole officer Claude Bruneaux investigates -- only to discover the curse plaguing the tiny swamp community. An unlikely hero with his own demons, he races to unlock the mystery which has summoned the beast. With nothing to lose, Bruneaux struggles between his own trial of finding peace within...and getting out alive beyond what waits for him in the murky bayou.</blockquote>
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<b>Cast</b>:</div>
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<li>Randall Oliver - Lead, Plays Claude Bruneaux</li>
<li>Joe Estevez - Mitch. The wicked sheriff.</li>
<li>Amye Gousset - Lana. Claude's Wife</li>
<li>Chrisopher Severio - Blake. A bad guy that teams with Claude</li>
<li>Krystal Tomlin - Malida. The Voodoo expert.</li>
<li>Robert Douthat - Ian Causey. The nemesis in the film other than the <span class="il">Rugaru</span>!</li>
<li>Brittany Merrett - The Voodoo Witch </li>
<li>Chris Ranney</li>
<li>Blain Sanchez</li>
<li>Chesney Mitchell - Suzanne. Claude's daughter who becomes tangled in the web!</li>
<li>Chad Graham</li>
<li>Jerry Lopez</li>
<li>Michael Bienvenu</li>
<li>Carlos Young</li>
<li>Teresa Alvarez</li>
<li>Renesha Tobias</li>
<li>Chip Mefford</li>
<li>Brock Hoffpauir</li>
<li>Latasha Williams</li>
<li>Tony Severio</li>
<li>Natalie Sharp</li>
<li>Michael Arnona</li>
<li>Kelly Robin</li>
<li>Suzanne Severio</li>
<li>Ronnie Hooks</li>
<li>Joey Mcrae</li>
<li>Mark Rayner</li>
<li>Michael Patrick Rogers </li>
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<li>Tony Severio - Writer/Director</li>
<li>Chip Mefford - Assistant Director </li>
<li>John Wee - Director of Photography</li>
<li>Rhonda Aguillard - Producer</li>
<li>Brandon Scott Murphree - Special Makeup Effects/Creature Creator</li>
<li>Sound - Jonathan G. Berguno</li>
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<b>Source</b>: Tony Severio via Avery Guerra.<br />
<b>Further Information</b>: <a href="http://www.rugarumovie.com/" target="_blank">Official website</a> (lots of pics); <a href="http://www.facebook.com/RugaruFilm#%21/RugaruFilm?sk=wall" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-33532508724107501852012-03-11T18:41:00.000+11:002012-03-11T18:41:58.954+11:00Getting Out Alive: New Independent Horror Film<b>An Exclusive Interview with Director Clay DuMaw</b><br />
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What with assorted cryptozoological monsters and an endless supply of psychopathic lunatics, the US backwoods is a place well worth avoiding. Go there and you may not get out alive. <br />
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<i>Get Out Alive</i> is a new independent film that takes the standard cryptid horror ethos a few steps further into darkness -- bringing into play not only the dark of the unknown that lurks all around us but the darkness that exists within humanity as well. Written and directed by Clay DuMaw, <i>Get Out Alive</i> begins with the stranding of a pair of innocents -- a brother and sister -- at a sinister truck-stop, and proceeds to drag them through hell. Take a look at the rather lengthy trailer, which incorporates a long sequence from the film.<br />
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While driving home from their summer vacation, siblings Paul and Marilyn find themselves stranded at a desolate truck-stop when their car breaks down along the back roads of upstate New York. Before long, they discover a strange creature in a cage behind the local auto shop, to which the shop's mechanic, along with his assistant, plan on feeding them. In their attempt to escape, Paul and Marilyn fall prey to a pair of homicidal locals bent on preserving the secret of their bloodthirsty pet monster. </blockquote>
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The Brainspasm's news-gathering crypto-hunter, Avery Guerra, tracked down director DuMaw (pictured below, with camera) to get the inside story of <i>Get Out Alive</i>!<br />
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According to DuMaw, the film began as something rather different:<br />
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It [originated as] a thirty-page screenplay about several people trapped in a motel during an alien invasion. A lot of changes were made since then. The sci-fi idea was dropped in favor of monsters, murderers, bear traps, and of course, a chainsaw.</blockquote>
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I'm a big fan of horror films from the late '70s and early '80s, so I
tried to incorporate as many influences from that era as I could. <i>Get
Out Alive</i> is like <i>Texas Chainsaw Massacre</i>, mixed with <i>Friday the 13th</i>,
with a dash of <i>Basket Case</i> and <i>Tremors</i>, sprinkled with some modern
influences like <i>Jeepers Creepers</i>. The funny thing about this movie is
that we couldn't afford to make our original version of the script
because the monster was in almost every scene. So instead, I re-wrote it
as a sequel, which takes place after the monster has been captured and
the guy who spent his whole life chasing this thing has gone mad and is
now the bad guy. Who knows, maybe someday I'll film the original version
of the script and make it a prequel! </blockquote>
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Stylistically, DuMaw had a distinct vision for what he wanted to achieve:<br />
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A number of techniques were implemented in this film in order to amplify the intensity of certain scenes. Most sequences were shot from several extra angles, setting a faster pace when necessary and allowing greater editing options. Action scenes were shot in twenty-four frames-per-second (cinema frame rate), contrasting the look and feel of the rest of the film, which was shot in the standard thirty frames-per-second. And because of the project’s tight schedule, I was forced to shoot many scenes in a handheld style which ultimately complemented the film’s esthetic. </blockquote>
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I also wanted to differentiate the look of the film from the ones typically shown in theaters. To accomplish this, high definition cameras were used without the aid of 35mm lenses or depth-of-field adapters, resulting in a deeper image with a greater focal range. This gave the film an appearance similar to footage shown on the news. There’s something beautiful about video, a sort of gritty realism that you just can’t get with 35mm film.</blockquote>
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DuMaw remembers two moments in his life very clearly, moments critical to getting where he is today:<br />
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When I was about
seven years old, my parents took me to see <i>Jurassic Park</i>,
and it sparked an obsession with dinosaurs. I was convinced that I
wanted to be a paleontologist just like the character of Dr Grant in the
film. However, the more movies I saw, the more I changed my mind on
what I wanted to be when I grew up. Then one day when I was twelve or
thirteen, I realized that I was basing all my career choices around my
obsession with movies. So I thought, "I could pretend to be <i>all</i> of these
things, if I just became a movie director!" As years went by, I went
down a path that a lot of teenagers who weren't popular in high school
went down: I joined a rock band, played the drums and thought I was going
to be a rock star. Eventually I decided I wasn't exactly living the dream, so I quit the band to study art in college. It was after I finished my first semester that I was struck by an
epiphany: "<i>What the hell am I doing?</i>" I was living in a crappy
apartment with a bunch of sketchy roommates, working a job that I <i>hated</i>
with a passion, and I was going to school in pursuit of something that definitely wasn't going to give me a career. My life sucked! That
realization dawned on me while I was straightening a rack of tee-shirts
at my job. A few seconds later, I went to my boss and told him that I
was leaving and that I wasn't coming back. I went straight from work to
my apartment, packed up all my things and moved out. I was so happy that
I didn't even realize I was driving 88mph on an interstate highway
and got pulled over for speeding. It was somewhere between when I
started driving and when I got pulled over that I thought to myself,
"I've already got this screenplay that I've been working on. This is the perfect time. I should just go for it!" Other than the ticket, it was a pretty awesome day.</blockquote>
Like many filmmakers working with fantastical subjects, DuMaw gained initial inspiration from the Big Box-office Names in the field:<br />
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When I was younger, I used to look up to a lot of mainstream filmmakers
like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, etc... Then one
day when I was looking through a bargain bin full of DVDs with my dad, I
found a copy of <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>. All I can say is that George
A. Romero changed my life. A few years later, when I watched a "making
of" video on <i>Dawn of the Dead</i>, I figured out that there
was actually a community of independent filmmakers out there who scraped
together money to make their own movies. I loved <i>Dawn of the Dead</i> so
much that my first tattoo was the zombie-head logo from the poster.
Eventually I became more and more interested in independent
filmmakers, who were like the "underdogs" of the movie industry. Right
now I'm really into filmmakers like Gareth Edwards, Steven Soderbergh
and Adam Green. Those guys are doing the films that <i>they</i> want to make, and I really respect that. </blockquote>
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Don't ask me what my favourite films are or I'll give you a list
longer than you'll ever be willing to read. It's always my goal to
watch at least two movies every day that I haven't seen before. I guess
instead of my favorite films, it’d be easier to tell you what I've been
watching lately. I just saw a film called <i>Chop</i>, which was an
independent horror/comedy. I think that combination of genres is really
great. I finally got around to seeing <i>50/50</i> and <i>The Lookout</i>. I
think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a very underrated actor with a lot of
potential. I also just watched <i>We Bought a Zoo</i>, which I thought was an
extremely well-constructed film. I mean you can tell that my tastes in
movies are kind of scattered, but I just love really great stories, and
I'm not picky about it. I think that if I watch a movie and I got some
form of amusement out of it, then that film did its job. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From left: David Fichtenmayer, Clay DuMaw and Jesse Maner</span></div>
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Though DuMaw has made a few shorts before this, <i>Get Out Alive</i> is his first feature and he found the experience "stressful, annoying, lonesome, exhausting, scary, exciting, fun, and
just all around amazing."<br />
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It was everything that I hoped it would be, and
I can’t wait to do it again! During production there were plenty of hardships, just like any other film, yet somehow everything fell into place. I’ve always been the type of person who learns something by trying it, and making <i>Get Out Alive</i> has been one of the greatest learning experiences of my life.</blockquote>
Currently finishing up a rough cut of the film, which means he's about to undertake "the 100+ FX shots that need CGI work done to them", he remains undaunted. "The CGI work isn't a very
difficult thing for me to do by myself," he commented. "So it should only take a couple
of months. Meanwhile, I have a guy scoring the music for the
film. After that, all I'll have left to do is redub a few lines, do the
Foley recordings and then mix the sound. We hope to have the film done
and entered in festivals by late spring / early summer."<br />
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<i>Get Out Alive</i> stars David Fichtenmayer, Rhiannon Roberts, David Iannotti, Tyler Sutton, Jesse Maner and Jay Storey, and is written, directed produced and edited by Clay DuMaw, with Tyler Sutton as Assistant Director, and Lighting and Sound by Jesse Maner. Produced by Clay Pigeon Studios and filmed in Cathage, NY, the film had a budget of an estimated $10,000, most of which came from Clay himself -- though an appeal for additional funding on Kickstarter saw $1,443 pledged toward a $500 goal.<br />
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<b>Source</b>: Chris Brock and Clay DuMaw via Avery Guerra; Press release.<br />
For more information: <a href="http://getoutalivemovie.com/home/" target="_blank">Official website</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/getoutalivemovie" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>; <a href="http://claydumaw.com/" target="_blank">Clay DuMaw's website</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ClayDuMaw" target="_blank">video updates</a>; <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/claydumaw/get-out-alive" target="_blank">Kickstarter page</a>.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-3664675762596386882012-03-05T15:32:00.001+11:002012-03-06T21:48:18.099+11:00The Ape Always Gets the Girl... Sorry, Baseball Bat!<b>A Brainspasm Exclusive</b><br />
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There was always something strangely attractive about those silly 1940s/1950s B-film horror flicks that feature apes that go on a rampage, their human "occupant" not really hidden by cheap ape-suits that must have seen a lot of action over the years, as they seemed to get increasingly tatty as time went by. Must have been all those blondes they ran around with. Mind you, the fake ape suits work well in comedies of the kind made by The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello: "Quit monkeying around, Lou!" Hard to take seriously really.<br />
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Probably <b>Joel Potrykus</b>, director of <i>Coyote</i>, isn't making that sort of film.<br />
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Sob Noisse Movies brings us the upcoming feature film <i>Ape</i>, written and directed by Potrykus. It's his first feature. Once again, Potrykus teams up with
Joshua Burge, the star of their super-8 werewolf short “<a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2010/06/27/keeping-the-werewolf-drugged/" target="_blank">Coyote</a>.” As he did in that film, Burge
plays a man with problems, but this time he fights back.<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>:<br />
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Trevor Newandyke is a struggling small-time comedian. Not
only does he bomb on stage, but he bombs in everyday life. To him, it’s the
little things that matter most. He’s fed up with the threats from the cable
company, 7-11 raising the price of the Slurpee, and all the jerks who think
they can push him around. All he wants is a break, and for someone to get him.
Not everyone, just someone. </blockquote>
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But instead of taking a breath and getting himself
together or taking his anger to the stage, he turns to the loud din of his
headphones and the crackling glow of fire to ease his mind. He’s not only a
lousy comic, but a pyromaniac, as well.
After a typical night disappointing the crowd he finds that
one of his jokes begins to come to life. A fruit salesman posing as the Devil
strikes a bargain with Trevor. A golden apple for a joke. </blockquote>
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He treasures the apple, seeing it as a sign or a magical
object. But after some troubling news he tells the audience that it’s likely
just an apple and meaningless. He decides to just eat it. It’s good, too. Makes
Trevor feel something.
The next day he finally reaches his boiling point during the
clamor of his neighbors fighting. </blockquote>
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But instead of hiding behind a match or
homemade flame thrower, he instead turns to the baseball bat. He not only hits hard against those in his way, but he finds his voice on stage as well. He tells it
like it is. No fluff.
From here, Trevor lets go. He’s mad as hell and he’s not
going to take it anymore. Of course, deals with the Devil don’t ever turn out
well.
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</style><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Ape</i> hits independent theaters in the summer of 2012 in the US, with a
DVD release in October.</span>
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<b>Source</b>: Joel Potrykus via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-79627443488276868732012-03-05T14:44:00.001+11:002012-03-06T21:53:29.563+11:00New: Thoughtful DeadThoughtful Dead.... Zombies who always send you a card on your birthday? Who always wash the dishes after dinner? Who let you watch to the end of the movie before they eat your eyeballs? Who let you pee before sending you off into the afterlife (where, of course, there are no toilets)?<br />
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Well, not quite.<br />
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<b>Thoughtful Dead: The Good and Evil Dead</b> (directed by Ira Cooper) is a short, 10 minute zombie noir film about a zombie, aptly named
Brains, who unlike his fellow undead, has retained his ability to think. <br />
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"The walking <span class="il">dead</span> do not think," Cooper explained. "They are vermin,
an infestation, an annoyance. Brains is possibly the only of his kind
who can think. Unable to relate to his undead comrades or speak to
people, who see him as a detestable subhuman, he is trapped within his
own thoughts, his own internal conversations and a landscape of towering
piles of books."<br />
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<b>Teaser:</b><br />
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Okay, a thinking zombie? Not quite like a sparkling vampire, but what's the point? Cooper sees the concept of cognizant zombie to have significant metaphorical applicablility.<br />
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The idea of a thinking zombie comes from a very true place. Without
getting into specifics, there are a plethora problems all around our
globe now that fully cognitive and aware human beings are causing or
letting happen. Brains, the thinking zombie, hates his own kind for their destructive nature, and yet that is just it -- it's simply their
nature to do so. They don't think about killing, they don't pre-conceive
destruction, they have not a single forethought. Brains holds up human
beings on a plateau and yet when it comes to evil deeds that Brains
detests about his own kind, humans are the only one's who can think and
are therefore accountable for their actions. So you might say this is a film about the
responsibility we have to our world and to others, to be able to think
and act on our thoughts. In Brains' universe, zombies are a minority --
slow, thoughtless and easily spotted. The analogy there is obvious and
yet it still happens in the smallest ways, where our perception of a
group of individuals is jam-packed with pre-conceived notions based on
folklore and stereotypes.
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Cooper describes his approach as noir, by which I assume he means shadowy and dark. When we asked, we found it was not only the typical noir film's basic aesthetic he was referring to but also the classic embattled Chandler hero.<br />
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Why noir? Well, Brains is stuck in his own head, quite literally, and what better
classic gimmick than the ol' loner detective running narrative. Using
that convention, I am able to have him converse with himself, as well as
speak in a heightened era type of speech, lending itself to his outcast
persona. Brains is not the reinvention of the wheel, no, there have been
many Brains before. This is just a stylistic tweak on the archetypal
tortured soul, in that this victim of circumstance has no soul. </blockquote>
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Clearly though it's not all metaphysics. When asked about the production itself Cooper explained that it was being produced by Tape Mouth Films, and that "the cool effects" were variously done some post and some in camera. "All the scars,
makeup effects, shot gun holes etc. were designs and put together by my
brilliant makeup team," he added. "The flying blood from gun shots, pistols and a
lot of the lighting compositions was done in post by me."<br />
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Cooper says of himself:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I started off as a little kid with a grandiose imagination who wanted to
act. I took every acting class I could find in my city, went to theatre
school in University, worked in local theatres here and around. I
realised it was the creative forces behind the actors, the words that
they say, the scenes that they were stuck in, that I wanted to be a part
of.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[My earlier work] was a lot of absurdist comedy. That is what I liked creating
in the theatre world, looking to writers like Alfred Jarry and Nickolai
Gogol for inspiration. It was the same for my film-world inspirations. I
was intrigued by the boundless, limitless ideas of auteurs like Buster
Keaton, Luis Bunuel, Guillermo Del Toro and Orson Welles to name a few. I
made shorts with my friend Angel under Fortunato Films for short film
competitions, with titles like <i>Time's A Dick</i>, <i>Bird Poo</i>, <i>Talk Block</i> and <i>
The Immigrants</i>. I also delved into the world of comedic horror, making
films such as <i>Ghoulfellas</i> (Best
Script), <i>Green Streets</i> and <i>Raging Bieber</i> for the Bloodshots 48 Film Festival.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I started to want to make films more obscure, more Mel Brooks, more off
the wall. I wrote and shot a few veiled satires such as <i>Anti Porn</i>, a
film about the over-sexualization of relationships and the responsibilities of "being in the moment." I've screened this film many
times. It has a few fans and A LOT of polite people approaching me
after watching it, saying they had no clue what was going on. I also
completed a film dealing with our perception of homelessness, which is
very swept under the rug topic in Vancouver. I'm also an avid cyclist,
who is working on a film about positive globalization through shared
experiences, couch surfing and travel. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As you can probably tell, I like to write and find it hard to place a
stopper at an appropriate point. I never wanted to make a career out of
film. There are just too many nasty associations that come along with
tainting my love of it as a career. I enjoy working with local
filmmakers with no budgets, to evolve ideas as a collective and to make
wonderful stories to entertain whoever is willing to watch. I make art
so that the audience and artists can benefit and that's the whole
concept behind self-financing and self-promoting my own films. I don't promise
my crew a simple DVD copy for all their hard work or that I will try to
get it into festivals. That simply isn't good enough. </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In this day and age, it is more possible than ever to find
creative ways to get your film out there and self distribute. That is my
goal with <i><span class="il">Thoughtful</span> <span class="il">Dead</span>: The Good and Evil <span class="il">Dead</span></i> --
to get it seen by as many crazed zombie aficionados as possible. That
is my inspiration to keep making films, the possibilities that the films in
their very nature encapsulate the vibrant human spirit that every
soul I work with exudes and puts into each project.</span></blockquote>
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Crew<br />
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Director/Writer/Editor: Ira Cooper</li>
<li>
DOP: Patrick Shannon</li>
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First AD: Amanda Wolski</li>
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Lead Makeup: Andylinn Stockman</li>
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Makeup: Cayley Giene</li>
<li>
Makeup: Sapphire Kozak</li>
<li>
Makeup: Nicole Pilon</li>
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Catering: Rachel Chiasson</li>
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Cast<br />
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Brains: Aslam Husain</li>
<li>
Terry: Jeff Kaiser</li>
<li>
Harold/Huckleberry: Teddy Kellogg</li>
<li>
Maude: Katie Copeland</li>
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Coriander: Mishelle Cuttler</li>
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Katie: Barbara Kozicki</li>
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Finn: Eric Carbery</li>
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Amethyst Saunar: Intensia the Zombie</li>
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Bear Mackenzie: Draggie the Zombie</li>
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There are also a slew of extras and people who assisted me with this project as well:<br />
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<li>Mireille Urumuri (Thanks for getting THAT location!!)</li>
<li>
Victoria Angell and Ian Gustafson - Weapons</li>
</ul>
Extras:<br />
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<li>
Julia Franco</li>
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Ian Torn</li>
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Kiel Skriver </li>
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Juno Nguyen</li>
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Cory Jong</li>
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Bronwen Marsden</li>
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Katie Fournell</li>
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<b>Source</b>: Ira Cooper via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood. Cooper's <a href="http://pedaleachmile.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-43474970262311113322012-02-25T10:19:00.000+11:002012-03-05T11:34:31.540+11:00The Animals Have Had Enough: Now They Rise!<b>A Backbrain Exclusive</b><br />
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The natural world turning on us has always been good for a scare or three. After all, according to <i>Genesis</i> (the first book of the Bible, not the band), God gave humanity "dominion" over the animals, so they should know their place, right?<br />
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Wrong! With power comes responsibility and humanity hasn't been exactly forthcoming in that regard. So an alien eggs the animals to get nasty in <i>The Beast With a Million Eyes</i> (US-1955; dir. David Kramarsky and Roger Corman), <i>The Birds</i> go berserk thanks to <span class="st">Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock (1963), rabbits rebel in <i>Night of the Lepus</i> (US-1972; dir. </span>William F. Claxton), and nature in all forms goes for the throat in <i>Long Weekend</i> (Aust-1978; dir. Colin Eggleston) and its 2005 remake. And that barely scratches the surface. It certainly doesn't even cover all those species that have never been inclined to refrain from biting and eating us, such as piranha, sharks, lions, tigers, bears, snakes and spiders small and giant-sized. Humanity might be at the top of the food chain, but it's a pretty tenuous thing.<br />
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Now a bunch of young filmmakers are looking to add to our natural paranoia with <i>Rise of the Animals</i>, under the direction of Chris Wojcik. A horror-comedy along the tonal lines of <i>Evil Dead</i>, <i>Rise of the Animals</i> tells the romantic tale of a young man, who, in a world where animals have turned on humanity, travels across the country in search of the girl of his dreams.<br />
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The above poster, put together "unofficially" for the film's premiere screening back in May last year, suggests semi-fantastical heroism (sans chain-mail) and an angry bear, but don't be fooled by those docile-looking deer in the background. The film's current tagline is "Bambi doesn't want a fucking salad". Assorted members of the family Cervidae, no doubt rather miffed about all those decades of sanctioned "sport hunting", have their own CGI-spawned agendas. At the very least, there will be blood.<br />
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<b>Synopsis:</b><br />
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After infiltrating an all girl's slumber party in a remote cabin, Wolf,
an awkward pizza delivery driver spends a passionate evening with a
beautiful teen named Samantha. The next morning Samantha is gone, and
the cabin in the woods is attacked by a family of deer. After a brutal
massacre the cabin is bathed in the blood and gruesome remains of deer
and teenage girl. Wolf, his best friend Jake, and Jake's sister Rachel
are the only one's left standing.<br />
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Wolf finds Samantha's cell
phone amidst the blood bath, and the trio set out on an epic,
cross-country journey to return the lost phone to the girl of Wolf's
dreams. As animals across the globe turn on humanity and society quickly
collapses into chaos, Wolf's determined spirit pushes him forward
against all odds. But is she worth it? </blockquote>
Rabid animal activist Kaiju Search-Robot Avery (who is, I believe, a hybrid of man and mongoose) spoke to director Chris Wojcik about his film.<br />
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<i>How did </i>Rise of the Animals<i> come about?</i><br />
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<b>Chris Wojcik:</b> The film started out as my senior project at film school, and it ended
up exploding quite a bit beyond that. I didn't want to come out of four
years of film school with just another short film about an awkward young
man in love. So I blew it up to feature length and threw in animals
attacking everybody to spice it up a bit.</blockquote>
<i>What was your inspiration for </i>Rise of the Animals<i>?</i><br />
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<b>CW</b>: The idea to do a movie about animals turning on humans kind of came
about as a way to do a twist on the zombie genre. So, <i>Dawn of the Dead</i>
was definitely an inspiration, as was Spielberg's recent <i>War of the
Worlds</i> movie ... which I think for the most part is an entertaining end of
the world movie. And you'll definitely be able to spot a couple
references to the <i>Evil Dead</i> movies in there. The deer attack scene in
our movie was actually inspired by that bit in <i>Evil Dead 2</i> when the deer
head mounted on the wall comes to life.</blockquote>
<i>Where was the movie filmed?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>We shot the movie in upstate New York. Every location was within about an hour of Rochester, New York.</blockquote>
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<i>What type of budget were you working with?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>The budget was extremely small, around $7000. We were in school at the
time, so we had access to all of the school's equipment. Everyone worked
for free. Honestly, more of the money went to feeding the crew and
paying for gas than anything else.</blockquote>
<i>How did you go about casting the film?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>The main three characters, as well as a large majority of the cast are
played by friends of mine that were in film school with me at the time.
So, the whole time we were shooting <i>Rise</i> they had their own projects
going on, and I can't imagine how overloaded and stressed they must have
been. But we made it work. Aside from friends and fellow students, I
went to everywhere from Craigslist to local talent agencies to pull the
rest of the cast together. You definitely run into some interesting
people when you're using Craigslist to cast your movie.</blockquote>
<i>Beyond the basic plot, what is the film about?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>At its core it's your typical teen, road-trip love story. But everyone's
seen a million movies like that. The raging animals are in there to
bring a lot more excitement to the whole thing. I mean, it's hard to go
wrong when you have humans and animals tearing each other apart in every
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<i>What all sort of animals are seen in the film?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>I didn't want to get too crazy in terms of how exotic the animals were.
So you won't see lions and tigers. There is a bear, though. And they do
encounter a gorilla at one point, but for the most part I wanted to keep
it restricted to the sort of animals a typical American would run into
in this situation. Deer, squirrels, household pets, birds, turtles, a
giant croc, a horse, a sea monster … There's definitely no lack of animal
action in this movie.</blockquote>
<i>What types of fx were incorprated to bring the creatures to life?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>We used everything. CG, puppets, and real animals were all used. And a lot of fake blood. About 35 gallons worth.</blockquote>
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<i>When and where might fans be able to see it?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>The movie is being distributed by Midnight Releasing / Brain Damage
Films, and it will be available on DVD later this year. We'll be keeping
everyone up to date on our Facebook page (<a href="http://facebook.com/riseoftheanimals" target="_blank">facebook.com/riseoftheanimals</a>).</blockquote>
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<i>So, what next for you?</i><br />
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<b>CW: </b>Right now I'm working on a script for another horror/adventure/comedy
idea that I've had rattling around my brain for a while. I've also got a
few cool ideas for a <i>Rise of the Animals 2</i>. So, that's always a
possibility...</blockquote>
Produced by Whacked-out Entertainment, <i>Rise of the Animals</i> looks like it could be quite a B-flick hoot. Check out the following brief Behind-the-Scenes videos, one for each day of the main shoot (and two on Week 7):<br />
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<li>Week 1: <a href="http://youtu.be/a6Ht6YAjRTE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/a6Ht6YAjRTE</a> </li>
<li>Week 2: <a href="http://youtu.be/2Y05XIXDqII" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/2Y05XIXDqII</a> </li>
<li>Week 3: <a href="http://youtu.be/8y8FJ4umbnU" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/8y8FJ4umbnU</a> </li>
<li>Week 4: <a href="http://youtu.be/-F0OY2eEr0U" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/-F0OY2eEr0U</a> </li>
<li>Week 5: <a href="http://youtu.be/cnzP39jA4LM" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/cnzP39jA4LM</a> </li>
<li>Week 6: <a href="http://youtu.be/AnsnJx0PuI4" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/AnsnJx0PuI4</a> </li>
<li>Week 7 (part 1): <a href="http://youtu.be/Lc7OASz87WE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/Lc7OASz87WE</a> </li>
<li>Week 7 (part 2): <a href="http://youtu.be/NSjSDn8kEaE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/NSjSDn8kEaE</a> </li>
<li>Week 8: <a href="http://youtu.be/FyOCrD2040M" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/FyOCrD2040M</a> </li>
<li>Week 9: <a href="http://youtu.be/Q3H4zic93R4" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/Q3H4zic93R4</a> </li>
<li>Week 10: <a href="http://youtu.be/uNof3JNHNdw" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/uNof3JNHNdw</a> </li>
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<b>Source</b>: Christopher Wojcik via Avery Guerra. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/riseoftheanimals" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>; <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954780/" target="_blank">IMDb entry</a>. Interview by Avery Guerra. The rest was written by Robert Hood.</div>Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-27672093214611151232012-02-18T15:25:00.000+11:002012-02-18T15:30:04.427+11:00My Fair Zombie Trailer Starts to Sing<span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Brainspasm Exclusive</b></span><br />
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Remember we promised details of Brett Kelly's upcoming zombie musical, <i>My Fair Zombie</i> some time ago?<br />
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Well, it's a comedic musical version of <i>Pygmalion</i> with a zombie twist.
It stars Sacha Gabriel (singer of the lounge-core band My Tiny Circus)
as Zombie Elisa and Lawrence Evenchick (star of many stage productions in Ottawa,
Canada) as Henry Higgins. Barry Caiger (<i>Attack of the Giant
Leeches</i>) plays Colonel Pickering.<br />
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And the trailer has just gone live! Brief but tantalizing!<br />
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Writer/producer/directer Wes Young is the inspiration behind the new zombie apocalypse horror/action flick, which is currently in existence as a concept trailer, with money being sort to produce the full feature-length film. The trailer looks well-film and promising, despite some rather pointless quibbles on the part of some commenters on its YouTube site -- "pointless" because most of the criticism doesn't recognise the fact that a feature-length film is likely to have more detailed development than a teaser allows for.<br />
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Undead Brainspasm newshound Avery Guerra sought out
Young to ask about both the film and the in-progress IndieGoGo appeal for funding.<br />
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<i>Why this film?</i><br />
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I've been producing my own films for about 6 years now. I shot a short zombie film <i>Dead Exit</i> a couple years ago, which went to a bunch of festivals and won several awards. I also produced a pilot webseries <i>A Cure for Dead</i> that was pretty popular online. I came up with <i>Dead Team</i> because I wanted to continue with zombie films, but I also wanted to do something a little more like an Action Adventure movie. So <i>Dead Team</i> is a combination of Horror and Action Adventure.</blockquote>
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<i>Can you tell us what </i>Dead Team<i> is about?</i><br />
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In response to the viral outbreak five strangers discover that their everyday mundane skills can be adapted into hardcore zombie killing techniques. With the lack of military support for rescue, they use their combined skills in extraordinary ways to fight their way through the hordes of undead and make their way to a military safe zone.<br />
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Their journey to make it to a safe zone brings them across other non-infected citizens who are trapped by the undead. The group overcomes their fear and decides that they have to help. They put themselves in harm's way to save the people. The further they travel the more undead they encounter and the more people they rescue. Their trip gets detoured even further when they discover that the wife of one of the group members is trapped in a city 300 miles away. It becomes a race to save her and escape the dead lands alive.</blockquote>
<i><span id="goog_150202975"></span><span id="goog_150202976"></span>Who's to be in the cast/crew?</i><br />
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Right now the only actor cast is Ilea Matthews. I've worked with her several times and she really fits this role perfectly. She was just in the film <i>The Violent Kind</i> and she recently finished shooting <i>Sprawl</i> with Michael Madsen and Jennifer Taylor. I also have brought on music composer Jeff Duran whom I have worked with exclusively since I started making films. He is extremely talented in picking up in the subtle emotions of a scene and he emphasizes them with his music. Ryan Goff who co-wrote and co-directed <i>Dead Exit</i> with me is coming on board as my master prop builder. He has skill making almost anything you can imagine and making it cooler than you thought it could be. He built his own full size R2D2 from scratch. Yeah, he's got skills.</blockquote>
<i>How about telling us more about yourself?</i><br />
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I have always wanted to be a part of the film industry. I originally wanted to be an actor/stuntman. When I was younger I wanted to be Bruce Willis in <i>Die Hard</i>. After dreaming about it for a long time I tried to find a way to make it happen for me. I read an article in <i>Back Stage West</i> and it said that a good way to get known as an actor was to make your own movie and star in it. I ended up making my own Star Wars fan film called “A Deception of the Force”. I quickly noticed my lack of skill as an actor and realised it’s not what I wanted to do. I did however LOVE producing and directing my own movie. I knew quickly that I was going to be a director.</blockquote>
<i>Who are some of your influences?</i><br />
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My earliest influence would probably be James Cameron. Mostly from back in the days of <i>Aliens</i>, <i>Terminator 1</i> and <i>2</i>, <i>True Lies</i> and <i>The Abyss</i>. I am a huge fan of action movies with a really solid dramatic subplot. Cameron has a real knack for that and that is one of the most important things I want to inject into my projects. </blockquote>
<i>You have just put up a proposal for funding through IndieGoGo, with a target of $10,000. Why is it necessary?</i><br />
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We are looking for final development and pre-production funds. We have done a lot of the major steps to get this project fully funded but its an expensive process just to get a film moving along. While on the "no-budget indie" level you can get away with a lot by using people who will volunteer their time. We want to take this movie to the next level and actually hire professional people to help make this project amazing. Imagine that!</blockquote>
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One of the biggest things that we need is to hire a legal representative. Movies are a huge business and there's a lot of paperwork and legal matters that need to be handled. </blockquote>
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While we have some people attached to the project, right now I am heading up production development mostly myself and it is time to get some other professional people involved with the process. In film production it takes a good number of talented crew members to be hired on in the development stage to make the project go smoothly. We need a UPM, script consultants (to help make sure the script is perfect before shooting), budget consultants, makeup artists need to be brought on early to start designing the zombies, Special Effects experts need to be consulted to figure out the gags. Storyboard and animatic artists to get to work conceptualizing the look of the film, location scouts and other key personnel to put together a professional project.</blockquote>
<i>Is $10,000 enough? That's just start-up, I guess.</i><br />
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It would be amazing if we could fund the entire movie through crowd funding and create a zombie movie made by all the amazing fans out there. We ask you to look over the incentives and make a donation and help us fund this project!</blockquote>
If anyone reading this is interested in exploring investment in this exciting new zombie venture, you can read more about what you get for your dollar <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/DeadTeam" target="_blank">here</a>. Meanwhile check out this campaign pitch:<br />
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This is pretty exciting news for giant rat film fans (and who isn't?), as <i>Rat Scratch Fever</i> looks like a lively and affectionate entry into what is a long tradition of rat-based B-monster flicks.<br />
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<b>Source</b>: Jeff Leroy via Avery Guerra.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-89128150965639559962012-02-07T18:31:00.002+11:002012-02-07T18:31:58.862+11:00New Jurassic Shark TrailerMore shark, more blood, more immersion in the monster shark subgenre...<br />
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See more about <i>Jurassic Shark</i> on <a href="http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/update-jurassic-shark-trailer-debuts.html" target="_blank">Undead Brainspasm</a>.<br />
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<br />Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-46021462826158958042012-01-16T12:10:00.000+11:002012-01-16T12:12:12.019+11:00Update on POISONED<b>A Backbrain Exclusive</b><br />
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Undead Backbrain revealed info on the Israeli zombie comedy <i>Poisoned</i> (Israel-2011; dir. David Lubetzky [ דידי לובצקי]) back in March when it was in post-production (read the article <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2011/03/04/exclusive-new-zombie-horror-from-israel/" target="_blank">here</a>). We just received an update from director David Lubetzky, which includes an English poster and some teasers. In essence, after a successful premiere in its home country, the zomcom is now setting its sights on the West.<br />
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Lubetzky says:<br />
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<i>Poisoned</i>'s international premiere was on the Icon TLV science fiction and fantasy film festival in Tel Aviv. It was later shown in the fringe section of Israel's Haifa film festival "fringidir". Since then the film has had late-hours cult screenings in cinemateques throughout the country.<br />
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Until now the film has not left Israeli borders. We applied to several film festivals and keep our fingers crossed. In the meantime it's a hell of a ride, with good reviews, a big local buzz, with audience members coming back for second and third screenings.</blockquote>
The picture below shows lead actors David Shaul and Orna Shifris in action on set.<br />
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<b>Source</b>: David Lubetzky via Avery. Article by Robert Hood.Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-66502105171214037072012-01-12T17:03:00.000+11:002012-01-12T17:03:41.976+11:00El Monstro Del Mar Comes to US DVDThis should be the cause of much excitement in the US! Australian giant monster/exploitation flick, <i>El Monstro Del Mar</i> (Aust-2010; dir. Stuart Simpson), though already available from Monster Pictures Australia, at last comes to DVD in Region 1, released on February 28 from <a href="http://www.breakingglasspictures.com/" target="_blank">Breaking Glass Pictures</a>.<br />
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Haunted by the ghost of Russ Meyer and full of murderous vixens <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> style -- though with added giant tentacles -- <i>El Monstro Del Mar</i> is an outrageous exercise in bloody mayhem, sexy chick action, old fart wisdom from Oz film veteran Norman Yemm ("Don't go in the water!") and huge mutant sea-beast rampage.<br />
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Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile. But this town has a dark secret. The old sea baron Joseph desperately tries to warn them to never go in the water. But these crazy vixens listen to no one. So the kraken awakes! Now along with Joseph and his beautiful granddaughter, Hannah, they must fight for their lives against this furious creature of the deep as the sea rises in a tidal wave of blood.
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Note that the DVD includes Stuart Simpson's short horror film, <i>Acid Spiders</i>. (<a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2011/10/15/exclusive-dont-try-injecting-these-spiders/" target="_blank">See Backbrain article on the Spiders</a>.)<br />
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You can read a terrific interview with the director, Stuart Simpson, on <a href="http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2010/05/13/faster-monstro-kill-kill-an-interview-with-stuart-simpson/" target="_blank">Undead Backbrain</a>, while you look at the pictures. Also, check out the <a href="http://www.monstromovie.com/" target="_blank">official website</a>.<br />
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The Backbrain has also learnt that Dawes has provided the producers with songs originally written for the Everly Brothers -- with new lead actor, Brian Gross, who will be reprising Sullivan's original Chase Winstead character, singing a new recording of the "Mushroom Song".<br />
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According to Vampires.com, the Tokoloshe, which haunts the Xhosa people of Lisotho and the southernmost African plains, is more of a psychic than blood-based vampire, feeding off the life-force of its victims -- though the whole hematic/sanguinary tradition is itself an analog for the spiritual draining of the life-energies of a person, blood being traditionally seen as the carrier of life (hence the use of such designations for blood as "life-blood" and "vital fluid" -- and of course the centrality of blood in the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist.)<br />
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Like the vampires of Joss Whedon's <i>Buffy, the Vampire Slayer</i>, the Tokoloshe is part demon, harking back to the origins of the vampire, when it was less the victim of a sort of semi-romantic, immortalising genetic infection and more a possessed corpse. <br />
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powers and can shapeshift if it chooses to. It can take human form,
which will make it look almost normal [though] some of its monkey-like
traits will still show. It may also take the form of a big black
bird-like creature with a skull head so that it can fly over villages in
search of victims.</blockquote>
They also tend to be controlled by a sorcerer.<br />
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Meanwhile, like the European vampire (especially as recreated by Hollywood and popular fiction), the Tokoloshe has a voracious sexual appetite... though as depicted in the form of the traditional puppet pictured below, I don't like their chances of actually attracting even the most desperate member of the opposite sex, Bella included:<br />
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How much of this will enter into Harland's film, I don't know, as the traditions vary and cinema is notorious in freely adapting legendary tales according to the creators' own agendas. But from the trailers, <i>Blood Tokoloshe: Dawn of the Beast</i> (South Africa-2012; dir. Jordan Harland) certainly isn't sticking to the currently popular vision of vampires as perpetrated by the Paranormal Romance literary subgenre and such cinematic blockbusters as the <i>Twilight</i> franchise -- except, perhaps, in terms of the titular creature's sexual proclivities.<br />
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<b>Tag-line</b>: Under Your Bed, Waiting to be fed.<br />
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<b>Synopsis</b>:<br />
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Strange attacks plague the township’s women, leaving the town leaders at a loss to defend them. At the same time Mthnuzi, a shrewd businessman,is becoming wealthier and more popular with the ladies – something is amiss. The local reverend, Simon Nkosi, learns that Mthunzi is controlling a Tokoloshe to fulfil his greedy desires. In his greed he breaks a golden rule of maintaining control over the beast and it goes on a rampage. Now its thirst for blood is strong and comes after Mthunzi’s women, saving the one he loves for last. Together with Reverend Simon they must take on a mythical beast that has never been defeated, to try and save.</blockquote>
<b>Trailer</b>:<br />
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I particularly liked this visual allusion to the "original" vampire movie<i>, </i>F.W. Murnau's silent classic, <i>Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens</i> (1922), based on Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>. <br />
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<i>Blood Tokoloshe: Dawn of the Beast</i> is currently in development, with the above trailer filmed as a showcase. The full script is now complete and plans are that shooting will begin in early January. Below is a clay mock-up of the monster itself. From this basis, a latex mask will be made.<br />
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Check out this mini-doco Harland made from his script development research into Tokoloshe lore, which took place in Orange Farm, a small village 50 kms south of Johannesburg.<br />
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When completed, this film could provide a very welcome re-vitalisation of the vampire in cinema. I look forward to seeing the result.
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<b>Sources</b>: Jordan Harland via Avery Guerra; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blood-Tokoloshe-The-Movie/161269350606548" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>; <a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-african-tikoloshe/" target="_blank">Vampires.com</a>.</div>Undead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973314233147454375.post-4545196496662491762011-12-04T06:31:00.001+11:002011-12-04T09:56:59.771+11:00Update: Images from The Night of the Chupacabras<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An initial <a href="http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-night-of-chupacabras.html" target="_blank">Brainspasm back in January</a> revealed the existence of a new cryptozoological horror film hailing from Brazil: <i>A Noite do Chupacabras</i> [trans. <i>Night of the Chupacabras</i>] (Brazil-2011; dir. Rodrigo Aragão) -- with a <a href="http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-night-of-chupacabras.html" target="_blank">subsequent update in March</a> that revealed the true extent of the film's gorily outrageous nature. Since then our readers have obviously been keen to see more, as these pages have been getting decent visitor numbers. <br />
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Well, Backbrain cryptid hunter Avery Guerra has tracked down the official DVD cover, lots of pictures from the film and its production, as well as a Making-Of video, the latter of which isn't in English unfortunately, but is nevertheless worth a look:<br />
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<b>The Official DVD cover</b>:<br />
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Normally in the world of cryptozoological study we rarely get an effective in-your-face view of the titular monster, as cryptids have a tendency to be elusive -- blurring camera shots, mimicking elements of the natural landscape, evading capture and generally causing great frustration in the ranks of monster hunters. But in this case you get to look the Chupacabras right in the eye -- or at least the teeth!<br />
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<b>Sources</b>: via Avery Guerra. Text and arrangement by Robert HoodUndead Brainspasmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578853185213245576noreply@blogger.com0