This week I thought I’d take the opportunity to promote an upcoming project for my friend, bandmate and fellow MVP’r, Jeremy Mullis. About 8 months ago Jeremy shared his first attempt at short film with me, shot on an extremely low res camera and loosely edited. He called it, “Black Magic.” Even with the technical limitations, I found the concept interesting and encouraged Jeremy to expand the story beyond a single character in the original and to put it into proper script format. In short, he’s done that and is ready to put the people and resource together to shoot the film.
Speaking of the high concept, here it is. A young man, seeking to become powerful & rich, obtains an ancient demonic manuscript and attempts to summon a hellish demon to do his biding. He gets more than he’s bargaining for.
Here’s where you come in. So here are the facts as I know them. The film will require a cast of 3 actors and as many crew members as we can find to lend a hand. Two males & one female who can portray 17 – 22. The shoot should entail a single Saturday or Sunday once the locations are secure. The casting will be via individual reads either. This would be a no budget project, so there would be no pay to any participants, but you would be helping out an awesome guy who’s always been quick to help out on all of our projects.
As of now there’s no schedule as the final tweaks are still being put on the script. Jeremy hopes to shoot within the next few months. If you are interested in being a part of “Black Magic” either as an actor or a crew member, shoot Jeremy Mullis via facebook.
Hopefully, you all will have another rocking MVP week!
Jeremy Mullis aka The Ground Breaker Zombie from G.H.O.S.T.
Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell on A Clockwork Orange.
“One of the things that gave me the most confidence in trying to make a film was seeing all the lousy films that I saw. Because I sat there and thought, Well, I don’t know a goddamn thing about movies, but I know I can make a film better than that.” ~~Stanley Kubrick
The Mutantville Players are deep in Kentucky at this year’s Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest. We’ve gone for one reason and one reason only – to meet the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter! There’s little time to update the website during the convention so the best you’ll get are a few robot posts. Continue Reading…
“When somebody who makes movies for a living — either as an actor, writer, producer or director — lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film — a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.”
~~John Carpenter
Check out John Carpenter’s latest film The Ward now playing on VOD. Come meet John Carpenter at this year’s Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky on July 22 – 24th.
TGIF my fellow Mutants! It’s Friday and the weekend is upon us. No the title of this article is not in reference to the upcoming remake that has so many horror fans’ anal sphincters in a knot – we’re talking about a film festival – the Fright Night Film Fest to be exact. Hopefully you’re aware by now that the guest of honor this year is none other than John Carpenter director of Halloween, Cigarette Burns and the soon to be released on July 18th – The Ward.
This is the year fans get two cons for the price of one! When you buy your ticket to Fright Night – you are also buying your ticket to the Fandom Fest. In case you’re not familiar with it – all you need to know is that the guest of honor is Henry Winkler!
Why not take a moment to get caught up on our interview with the promoter of the Fright Night Film Fest – Ken Daniels? We’ve posted the first five segments of the interview so far and have several more to go in the lead up to the Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest on July 22 – 24th! Get caught up to speed on Fright Night, then go order your tickets from the Fright Night website by clicking here.
Click below for highlights of this year’s lineup so far: Continue Reading…
On May 3rd, download “Escalation”, the second Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, to play as the zombie-killing dream-team of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Michael Rooker, and Danny Trejo against a new and unnerving zombie menace. Set in a mysterious, ice-covered, remote Siberian island and inspired by legendary writer and director George A. Romero, a group of four fearless explorers fight for their lives amidst an army of bloodthirsty Soviet zombies.
The Escalation Content Pack will be available first on Xbox Live on May 3, 2011.
Hello. As a past Rondo voter, we wanted to let you know that there are
only three weeks left to vote in the incredible NINTH Annual Rondo Hatton
Classic Horror Awards.
This year’s ballot is for work produced in 2010. As you know, voting is
by e-mail only — to me, David Colton at
taraco@aol.com by midnight, March 27, 2011.
All votes are kept strictly confidential. No e-mail addresses or any
personal information will ever be shared with anyone. (If you have
voted already, apologies for bothering you again; and thanks).
TO VOTE: Simply hit reply so the e-mail is addressed to taraco@aol.com
and make your selections. Or you can type a list separately.
Thanks and hope you’ll take the time to vote again this year!
HERE IS THE OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR THE
NINTH ANNUAL RONDO HATTON
CLASSIC HORROR AWARDS
This year’s awards are dedicated to the memory of Gloria Stuart, Ingrid
Pitt and Verne Langdon.
1. BEST MOVIE OF 2010 (Please pick one)
– THE BLACK SWAN
– THE CRAZIES
– DAYBREAKERS
– DEVIL
– HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART ONE
– INCEPTION
– LAST EXORCISM
– LEGION
– LET ME IN
– MONSTERS
– PIRANHA 3D
– PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2
– PREDATORS
– SHUTTER ISLAND
– SPLICE
– TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE
– THE WOLFMAN
– Or write in another choice:
This week on the Collector’s Corner, we’re watching a rare and wild poster from Turkey! It doesn’t get any wierder and wilder than the original video nasty. That’s right – we’re talking about the Evil Dead!!! So listen up you primitive screwheads! If you’re a crazy collector like me – and I know you are – then pop on over to eBay and put this bad boy on your watch list before it’s gone. Nothing says “horror fan” like Evil Dead and nothing is cooler than having a bizarro alternative print from another country and that includes this Turkish delight. Check it out at the link below:
EDIT: My good friend Jon Kitley at Kitley’s Krypt notified me that this is not even a Turkish poster – it’s actually Thai! That makes this poster even wilder. Check out Kitley’s Krypt here.
