Harlan Ellison's Demon With A Glass Hand - one of the most memorable episodes. Art from evilking.net
There’s a lot of activity going on behind the scenes on the Mutantville Mothership this week. I originally thought to do another Streebo v-log for Streeborama today because I have a lot of things I want to get off my chest about indie filmmaking and horror fandom in general. I was tied up doing readings last night for an upcoming project at MVP so I didn’t have time to shoot my incindiary v-log yet.
Instead, I am going to share a gentler, kinder video of my Outer Limits unboxing. Back at Halloween I scored a complete set of the original Outer Limits television show on VHS. I shot the special unboxing to share the sights and sounds of it all with you.
I’ll work on my crazy v-log for next week – but this week you can enjoy a nice gentle unboxing. Cheers to ya.
In honor of this week’s double feature of The Shining and Lost Boys at Retrofantasma, we’ve decided to feature the classic trailer to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Often hailed as the greatest Stephen King adaptation of all time – yet disowned by King himself – The Shining has gone on to earn a hollowed place among the greatest horror films ever made. King went on to producer a television adaptation of his novel years later but the final result wasn’t a patch on Kubrick’s masterpiece.
Come join us for The Shining this weekend. The Carolina Theatre is still hosting their kickstarter campaign to raise funds to build an historic exhibit in the theater. Check out the kickstarter campaign now and share the link with your friends.
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Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays here at Mutantville.com! As with every update we have made further progress on the many projects in development here at Mutantville Productions. Let’s run down a quick list starting with C for Chaos – originally filmed as a full length feature but is in the process of being pared down to a web exclusive horror experience, G.H.O.S.T. originally filmed as a short film then expanded into a full length feature is currently being scored by Martin Bowes of Attrition, Tales From Mutantville is in the final stages of being authored for the DVD while we wait for final word on whether or not it made the cut for this year’s Nevermore Film Festival.
Streebo finished the second draft of the script for the first episode of Muticia’s Movie Morgue over the weekend while Brento made further progress on pre-production for our upcoming webseries The Metatron Files. And Geo – well Geo is off somewhere laughing and planting backlinks across every blog on the Internet. We’re also involved in designing shirts and posters for the upcoming releases.
As we move closer to Chinese New Year, I thought we’d focus on the classic Chinese horror movie, The Seventh Curse or Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li (it’s Chinese title). This film stars a few people that are pretty much household names (well at least to Hong Kong cinema fans like us here at Mutantville). It stars Maggie Cheung which you will remember from Police Story, Police Story 2 and Supercop with Jackie Chan. It also stars Chow Yun Fat who has stared in many films such as Confucius, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bulletproof Monk, The Replacement Killers, God of Killers, etc… The movie also stars Ken Boyle, Siu-hou Chin, Yuen Chor, Joyce Godenzi and Shu-yuan Hsu. The Seventh Curse was directed by Ngai Kai Lam. The screenplay was written by Jing Wong, who has 156 writing credits on IMDB including Legend of the Red Dragon with Jet Li, God of Gamblers with Chow Yun Fat, City Hunter with Jackie Chan, Last Hero in China which is another Jet Li film which he also directed with Yuen Woo-ping (How cool is that?). This film was released in 1986.
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Next weekend, Retrofantasma at the Carolina Theatre is featuring Stephen King’s The Shining. This week they are in the middle of their Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an historic exhibit. MVP wants to play along so we’re featuring a different work by Stephen King – The Dark Half.
To be fair The Shining is perhaps more a work of Stanley Kubrick while The Dark Half was a collaboration with George A. Romero. According to legend, Romero had a lot of conflict on the set with star Timothy Hutton. To be fair – Hutton puts on a tour de force performance in the dual role of George Stark and Thad Beaumont.
Watch The Dark Half this week. Donate to the Carolina Theatre’s Kickstarter tomorrow. Go see The Shining next Friday at Retrofantasma.
I’ll see you there. Today, it’s The Dark Half on Scary Movie Saturday! Get busy watching – or get busy dying.
The Carolina Theatre is Kickstarting an Historic Campaign.
Welcome to another edition of Fridays With MVP! This is your humble host and narrator Streebo back with you once again. I’m going to start this edition out a bit differently as I am going to shift the focus over to the Carolina Theatre and their ongoing Kickstarter campaign.
They are raising funds to create an historic exhibit inside the Carolina Theatre. I cannot say this enough that if you are a filmmaker anywhere in the United States that you want your movie to play at the Carolina Theatre. Help recognize it’s rich history by helping them now.
From Meredith Vey’s latest update:
“Thank you Backers – we are more than halfway there to our goal of $13,000 by January 20th to support the Historic Exhibit at the Carolina Theatre of Durham!
For today – 9 days left – we are asking all 72 of our campaign backers to post the Historic Exhibit link to your facebook status. That way you can tell your friends, your friends can tell their friends, their friends can tell their friends and on and on!”
This week on the Indie Filmmaker Spotlight we are featuring a panel from ConCarolinas 2011. The Mutantville Players were honored to be a part of a panel that featured not only legendary scream queen Brinke Stevens, but local filmmakers such as Christine Parker, Michael Ray Williams, Robert W. Filion, and Jaysen Buterin of Mad Ones Films. Topics discussed included everything from filmmaking to networking to how to promote in the digital age. We had some technical difficulties which delayed this video in post but we decided to go ahead and share it with you all anyway.
For those of you waiting to hear of a new Mutantville project, your wait is over. After spending 2011 clearing the books as it were, completing previously shot projects, holding screenings and the like, we’re back to another year of shooting projects. Among those projects is the one I’m announcing today.
The Metatron files will be MVP’s foray into the unknown universe of Dark Fantasy & Sci Fi. We’re all nerds here. Being such of course we love shows like Supernatural and The X-Files where the forces of good and evil arel ocked in pitched battle eac hand every week. We wanted to try our hand at something similar, albeit a web series. The pilot (It Begins Again), as per our usual modus operandi will be the entire season in mirco-cosum, so that it can serve as a complete story in itself.
Once more, we’ll carry the Mutant TV viewer along with us as we include behind the scenes coverage from inception to final release. The production will hold an open casting call for regional thespians for the episode set to shoot in late April/ early May 2012.
Men in Black, Weapons of Mass Destruction and scantily clad demon babes from hell. What is not to love, Mutants?!!!
You can follow the progress on Mutantville.com as well as on the official fan page, or simply check back each week for another “Making Metatron” video for vicarious film making enjoyment!
This past weekend, horror returned to the box office as The Devil Inside took in over $16 million which was the best horror genre opening weekend behind Paranormal Activity 3. In case you haven’t seen the movie or the trailer yet and want to know what the fuss is about – here’s the trailer! Check it out now and then go and see The Devil Inside this weekend.
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