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Want to Meet Brad Dourif?

You are in luck, Brad Dourif will be at the Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, NC this March. If that doesn’t make you happy then you may not be familiar with Brad Dourif. Stay tuned for the next few minutes and you will be more familiar. I’m going to dive in and out of horror since Mr. Dourif does all types of films. So lets jump in the way back machine and go back to 1975. There was a movie that most of us have either seen or heard about called One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I wasn’t able to see this in the theater because it would have been over my head at one year old. Brad Dourif played Billy Bibbit along side some incredible actors including Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Michael Berryman (also appearing at The Mad Monster Party) and Vincent Schiavelli. For his role, Mr. Dourif earned the Golden Globe for Best Actor Debut and a British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. One interesting fact is that it was not his debut. He was in a low budget film called “Split” (which wasn’t released) and in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings. His part was cut out of the film though.

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Nevermore Film Festival Comes and Goes and MVP Forges Ahead on Mutantville Mondays.

Welcome back to another cold sleet covered edition of Mutantville Mondays.  The Mutantville Players have returned from a long weekend in Durham, NC where we attended the thirteenth annual Nevermore Film Festival over the weekend.  Nevermore always offers us a chance to recharge our creative batteries by taking in new movies as well as the classics in addition to supporting our fellow filmmakers as they share their works with the public. 

MVP would like to send out a big round of congratz to our friends Robert W. Filion, Jeremy Bonham, Christopher G. Moore, Robert Haulbrook, and Lee Miller who all had movies play at the festival.  Congratulations on the fine reception you received and keep up the good work.  The gentlemen hosted their films Dummy, Flush With Fear and Deviling respectively. 

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“A Clockwork Terror” aka “Murder In A Blue World” comes to Scary Movie Saturday!

In effort to dispel the rumor that Streebo is a film snob – we’ve decided to feature one of the lousiest low rent A Clockwork Orange rip offs that we could find. It sounds like a cool greasy setup but ultimately the movie has no direction and can only be enjoyed for the production value and the sheer moxie that it takes to so brazenly rip off one of the medium’s masters in Stanley Kubrick. There is even a point in the movie where the characters are about to watch A Clockwork Orange. That’s right – we’re talking A Clockwork Terror aka Murder In A Blue World starring Sue Lyon of Lolita fame!

From the IMDb reviews: “This movie is OBVIOUSLY (and quite blatantly) inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. In fact early in the movie, right before a family is attacked by a group of “droog”-like bikers with bull-whips, they are actually settling down to watch “A Clockwork Orange” on TV!(it’s hard to imagine even in a futuristic film like this THAT movie showing on television in what was still Franco’s Spain at the time). There’s also other blatant references to other Kubrick movies. The female protagonist has a copy of the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel “Lolita” on her nightstand, and the film adaptation of that was also directed by Stanley Kubrick–and Kubrick’s “Lolita”, of course, was played by Sue Lyon, who plays the female protagonist of this movie!”

It hits you over the head and wears a sleazy heart on it’s sleeve. I think it’s a piece of greasy flotsam so why not share it with all of you. So without further ado here’s the best and worst of the A Clockwork Orange ripoffs – Clockwork Terror aka Murder In A Blue World.

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