Listen up, my faithful mutants! This Good Friday, April 2nd, at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, Mutantville Productions’ zombie short Devil Comes Down will serve as the curtain raiser for the Retrofantasma fundraiser. But wait – there’s more! This is a momentous occasion as the night will showcase a double feature of films from the Godfather of modern horror – George A. Romero. Retrofantasma will feature an early showing of Romero’s latest zombie opus Survival of the Dead as well as the movie that started it all – Night of the Living Dead– all in glorious 35mm!
As you know by now – Devil Comes Down was a finalist in the American Zombie Film Contest hosted by George A. Romero right here in Charlotte, North Carolina! Yours truly was able to share the news with Romero himself at the recent Horrorhound convention in Indianapolis. Romero offered his congratulations and was excited to hear about the early screening of Survival of the Dead – almost two months before it’s official release date.
To celebrate this occasion, Mutantville.com is donating a few items for the traditional Retrofantasma door prizes. MVP’s contributions will include three issues of vintage Fangoria. The featured stories include George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead, Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead remake, and in remembrance of the late Corey Haim – one issue covers the Lost Boys. We will also give out one spiffy new G.H.O.S.T. t-shirt provided by Fast Custom Shirts.com and perhaps a few other knickknacks.
All proceeds will go to the Nevermore festival. Please come out and join the Mutantville Players for a great night at the theater courtesy of the Carolina Theatre in Durham. Be sure to join the fanpages for the Carolina Theatre, Devil Comes Down and Retrofantasma on Facebook!
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In order to help you prepare for the convention season – MVP has posted some videos with some helpful tips and suggestions to help you prepare for and to enjoy your con experience! Don’t get conned – be prepared to rule the con! We’ll see you at Horrorhound this weekend! Stop us and say “hi!”
Check out the latest behind the scenes videos from the set of G.H.O.S.T. Editor Brent Bowers has been working overtime to provide you with some great footage and give you a peak behind the curtain of filmmaking on the Mutantville Mothership.
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io9 has posted a clip from Roger Corman’s recent Syfy flick Dinoshark!
Last week, Syfy aired the awesomely cheesetastic movie Dinoshark, directed by Roger Corman himself. And in this scene, Corman shows us why he is the master of stock footage repurposed for giant monster fu.
Let’s face it: Most of Dinoshark is padding, packed with random teen girl water polo players and idyllic shots of Puerto Vallarta. There’s a jovial feeling to the whole thing, as if Corman and his buddies really wanted a vacation in Mexico and got some resort to underwrite the shoot as long as they promised to do a lot of scenes highlighting tourism. We learn all about how you can go whale watching, snorkeling, boating, and parasailing. We see Corman and his pals eating tasty food with “scientists.” (Yes, Corman is in the movie, playing a “scientist” who trains dolphins and eats tasty food at a resort with his cute wife while sequencing Dinoshark’s DNA using a home PC.)
Anyway, back to what makes this scene so genius. You’re watching the surfing footage. You’re thinking, “Oh jeezus this is totally stock footage.” You’re watching more of the surfing. You’re starting to wonder how long this can go on. They’re still surfing! Still! Wait for it . . . wait for it . . . and . . . YES! Dude!
Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce is playing at the Carolina Theatre this Friday! Join the Mutantville Players as we make the trip out to see Mathilda May wreak space vampire havoc on the unsuspecting populace! Jim Carl of the Carolina Theatre sent out a reminder about the latest installment of RETROFANTASMA today:
Hey everyone!
RETROFANTASMA is tomorrow night, March 19th at the Carolina Theatre. It should be a fun and awesome show. We’ve got 1985’s LIFEFORCE and 1988’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. There will be a re-screening of the 10-minute short film, SINKHOLE, (a Nevermore favorite) prior to LIFEFORCE. And as a special bonus, we will have a tribute to PETER GRAVES and COREY HAIM during the 15-minute Intermission.
We’ve just test-screened both 35mm prints, and they’re beautiful! No fading or scratches, just almost-flawless prints, as if they were kept in a time vault. It really will be a great presentation.
If you like animated films, then don’t miss A TOWN CALLED PANIC. It starts SATURDAY, MARCH 20th at the Carolina Theatre for one-week only. It’s a fantastic animated film from Belgium. It’s odd, to say the least, but a really fun film. Visit the film’s website at www.atowncalledpani
And if you like action movies, we’re opening DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM on Saturday, March 20th, as well. I checked the theatre listings in the newspaper and I think we’re the only theatre in the Triangle showing this film. It’s written by the great Luc Besson (The Big Blue, The Fifth Element, etc.) and our head projectionist, Thomas Reed, is screening the film as I write this e-mail. I popped my head into Cinema One a few minutes ago and asked him, “How is it?” He smiled and said, “This is AWESOME!” Thomas is a hard critic, so DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM must be pretty good to garner such a response. We’ll only be screening the film for this one-week only, so please check it out!
See you tomorrow night! There will be some really cool door prizes!
Jim
From the IMDb:
LIFEFORCE: Halley’s Comet returns to the solar system and the English/American team aboard the shuttle “Churchill”, making a close-up survey of the comet, discovers an alien spacecraft in the head of the comet. Inside the spacecraft are some large bat-like creatures and in three cocoons are three “dead” humans – two men and a woman. The “Churchill” takes the humans and a creature back to Earth. There the bosses of the project are amazed to find the shuttle burnt out and all but one of the crew – Carlsen – dead. The humans from the spacecraft suddenly awake and all those who come into contact with them are drained of their “lifeforce” and in time all the victims – including most of the population of London – are turned into zombies all preying on the horrified survivors for their “lifeforce”. It’s up to Carlsen and Major Caine of the SAS to stop them before the whole world turns into a big blood-hunt… Written by Lee Horton {Leeh@tcp.co.uk}
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Mondo Video has posted an interview with Nick Zedd over at their website.
“Nick Zedd is a revolutionary filmmaker, writer, painter, actor, political satirist, journalist and First Minister of Protocol for the Cinema of Transgression, a movement he spearheaded in New york 25 years ago and whose reverberations are still being felt across the globe.”
From Fear.NET: Shutter Island opens this Friday, and a lof of folks are probably wondering how director Martin Scorsese — who's tackled all kinds of film genres in his forty-plus year career — will handle a traditional thriller. Having seen the film, I can say that despite what its trailer promises, it's pretty far from traditional, but still terrific; and it wears its genre influences proudly on its sleeve. (In fact, with apologies to The Departed, I think the film is probably Scorses's best since Casino.) Of course, the Oscar-winning filmmaker isn't exactly a stranger to our neck of the woods. His Cape Fear was a pretty straightforward excursion into terror, and, upon close inspection, his entire oeuvre is littered with moments scarier than what's offered by most of today's horror movies. So in honor of Shutter Island, we here at FEARnet present the twelve Scariest Moments in Martin Scorsese Movies. Why only twelve, instead of the more frightening number that follows it? Because you, dear reader, are hereby invited to vote for your own after you watch Shutter Island this weekend. Its bound to give you a few chilling ideas.
In this video – reviewer Pizowell discusses the documentary Overnight – about the trials and tribulations of director Troy Duffy and his journey to bring Boondock Saints to the screen. This should be considered required viewing for all aspiring filmmakers and film students. Listen to Pizowell’s thoughts and then go and watch Overnight on Netflix as it is available for instant viewing.
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Listen up, my faithful mutants! This Good Friday, April 2nd, at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, Mutantville Productions’ zombie short Devil Comes Down will serve as the curtain raiser for the Retrofantasma fundraiser. But wait – there’s more! This is a momentous occasion as the night will showcase a double feature of films from the Godfather of modern horror – George A. Romero. Retrofantasma will feature an early showing of Romero’s latest zombie opus Survival of the Dead as well as the movie that started it all – Night of the Living Dead – all in glorious 35mm!
traditional Retrofantasma door prizes. MVP’s contributions will include three issues of vintage Fangoria. The featured stories include George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead, Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead remake, and in remembrance of the late Corey Haim – one issue covers the Lost Boys. We will also give out one spiffy new G.H.O.S.T. t-shirt provided by Fast Custom Shirts.com and perhaps a few other knickknacks.
We’ll only be screening the film for this one-week only, so please check it out!
