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Portrait For Hell Premieres This Weekend At The Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte.
The Halloween season is off to a bang as Charlotte filmmakers come out in full force this month starting with the premiere of Thorin Thompson’s Portrait For Hell which screens this Saturday and Sunday at 7pm at the Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte. Portait For Hell was co-written by Thompson and make-up FX artist Hannah Jet King, features paintings by Katherine Blackwell and stars Michelle Harkness, Berry Newkirk, and Jonathan Elliot Coarsey. Come out and support your local filmmakers this weekend and keep up to date with the latest news on Portrait For Hell by joining the official Facebook Fanpage by clicking here.
(Read the full press release after the leap – - into hell!!!)
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago. Add a comment
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Live on Stage This Weekend!
Come join MVP this weekend as we visit our friends in the League of Extraordinary Thespians as they present a live performance of Joss Whedon’s runaway web hit from 2009 – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog! Today we have a very special edition of the Mutantville Player’s Club as we are visited none other than Dr. Horrible himself – Michael Ray Williams. Check out the video below as Michael gives us the full rundown on the event and then call 336-222-TIXS to order your tickets for this weekend’s show!
(Check out the interview after the leap!)
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago. Add a comment
J.J.Abrams with Inspirational Filmmaker Quote of the Day.
J.J.Abrams has been doing press junkets to get the word out on his splended filmmaking kids on an adventure throwback flick 0 Super 8. In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting.com, he dropped an interesting metaphor for how he understood the importance of the human element in a movie like Super 8.
“There’s a stupid thing that I do sometimes when I’m doodling, which I’m always doing, which [is] I draw like a circle, and then I…shade it, and draw a little horizon line so it goes from just being this circle to being a…three-dimensional [object]“, he began.
“But then…whenever I draw a little figure next to it of a certain size, maybe very small, suddenly that circle…becomes this thing of scale. It’s weird how suddenly… there’s an importance to it, only because of the person, the figure that’s standing there. There’s a weird thing that happens, when you connect a person to an event…Suddenly the event has [a] different meaning.”
Please visit Bloody Disgusting for the complete interview. Check out our review for Super 8 right here on Mutantville.com.
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago. Add a comment
Eli Roth lists his Top Five Horror Films.
The good scribes over at Slasher Studios have just posted a link to an interview with Eli Roth from the Daily News Los Angeles in which he discloses a list of his favorite horror films. Some of his choices seem to be no-brainers but a couple might surprise you. Check out the trailers to his choices below and then hop over to Daily News Los Angeles to read the complete interview with Mr.Roth.
“Sleepaway Camp” (1983): Ah, “Sleepaway Camp.” I remember watching this film at a sleepover with Lenny Mead and a bunch of friends in the mid-’80s, and when the movie ended we literally stood up out of our chairs and screamed at the top of our lungs until we ran out of air. I will not say why – and don’t go looking up the spoilers on the Internet because that will take all the fun away. Treat yourself to a wonderful surprise.
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago. Add a comment
Deviling Trailer from Sharpe Edge Films Now Online.
Back in January of this year, the Mutantville Players had the chance to join several of our friends on the set of Michael Sharpe’s second directorial effort – Deviling. After months in post-production, the first official trailer for Deviling has hit the internet. Check out the video below. For more information on Deviling visit the official Facebook fangpage by clicking here.
DEVILING trailer (2011) from Jodi Essex on Vimeo.
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The Myers House NC featured in Scarecrow At Midnight!
This weekend you can see the first installment of Tales From Mutantville at the Twelfth Annual Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in Durham. But did you know that Scarecrow At Midnight was filmed entirely on location at the one and only Myers House NC? Kenny Caperton, owner of the Myers House NC, invited Mutantville Productions out to his home in Hillsborough last October to film Scarecrow At Midnight.
In 1978 John Carpenter took a budget of $320,000, a small cast and an even smaller crew and created what would become known as THE seminal slasher film of modern horror – Halloween. John Carpenter’s Halloween went on to gross over $47 million in the US and $60 million worldwide. It has since grossed countless millions more on endless home video, DVD and blu ray incarnations making it the most profitable independent movie of all time (that is until the The Blair With Project in 1999 (BWP later being replaced by Paranormal Activity in 2009)).
In 2007, while on a trip to California to see the premiere of Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Smashing Pumpkins superfan Kenny Caperton decided to walk the streets of Pasadena and revisit the birthplace of a slasher legend. It was on this particular tour of the original Halloween filming locations that Kenny decided what better way was there to preserve the memory of the “Myers House” than by building his own. By 2008, Kenny made that inspiration a reality as construction began on his new home – an almost exact replica of the “Myers House” from John Carpenter’s Halloween.
In 2009 Kenny decided to shoot a tribute film to John Carpenter’s Halloween and based it in his new home. Kenny wrote the script for Judith and brought in Josh Hasty (Mannequin In Static) to direct. The story of Judith shows how Michael’s sister, Judith Myers, influenced him and leads up to the terrifying opening moments of John Carpenter’s film. Kenny doesn’t mind being called a superfan, but he doesn’t want his house to become the main location for every Halloween fan film out there.
In 2010, Kenny asked Mutantville Productions to come out to the Myers House NC and film an original horror film. MVP
filmed for two days over a weekend in mid-October and post-production began almost immediately. The rough cut of the film was completed by mid-November and by December, a work print was submitted to the Nevermore Film Festival committee for consideration.
Scarecrow At Midnight was accepted into the Nevermore Film Festival and will make it’s premiere there. The first installment of the Tales From Mutantville anthology will play during the short film block “When the Stars Begin to Fall” on Saturday the 19th at 12pm NOON and again on Sunday the 20th at 2:10pm. Tickets are $8 and are available at the Carolina Theatre box office (package deals and discounts are available).
Writer/director J.T.McRoberts remarks that “I first met Kenny at the First Annual Myers House Halloween Bash in 2009 and then ran into him again at the Nevermore Film Festival in 2010 and he asked me to shoot something original at his house. That’s what I really admire about Kenny, he loves Halloween and horror films so much that he is willing to open his home to strangers to give them a chance to make their own dreams come true.”
” Kenny and I discussed how we wanted Scarecrow At Midnight to be an homage to John Carpenter’s Halloween. We wanted it to have nothing to do with John Carpenter’s movie other than the fact that we used the same house and set the story on Halloween night. In my mind that makes Scarecrow At Midnight a true homage because it doesn’t focus on the past like a fan film – but instead looks towards the future by creating a new horror myth for a new generation. Maybe one day, someone will want to live in “Sonia’s House” from Scarecrow At Midnight.”
If you’re interested in visiting the Spookhouse, then plan to attend one of their events. Kenny hosts regular celebrations at the Myers House NC including the Annual Myers House NC Halloween Bash. Visit the official Myers House NC website for more information.
Come see Scarecrow At Midnight at the Nevermore Film Festival this weekend. Tickets are available online and at the box office at the Carolina Theatre.
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago. 1 comment
You Can Help Make Tales From Mutantville!
Mutantville Productions is embarking on a journey to shoot three short horror movies in October. We need your help in making this happen. Check out our page at Indie Gogo for more details!
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago. 1 comment
Vampire Narc
Let’s set the wayback machine for 1991 as we check out an early Mutantville Production written and directed by our very own make-up FX jedi Todd A. Britt and starring none other than a bodacious young Brent Bowers as the titular Vampire Narc! This is exploitation filmmaking at it’s finest.
