The Dark Tales Chronicles presents Lost Soul (2008)
Happy Saint Patty’s Day you crazy Mutants! It’s Indie Movie March Madness all month long here at Mutantville.com as we celebrate the wealth of independent films around us! Week after week, Mutantville.com finds the best streaming horror movies online and brings them right to your computer! This week we continue our look at the thrilling work on Gerald Godbout III and the second entry in The Dark Tales Chronicles – Lost Soul.
Lost Soul tells the story about of a group of girls who think its all fun and games when they play with a Ouija Board and open the door to the other side. Written and directed by Gerald Godbout III, the man behind Legends I and Legends II A Halloween Tale filmed at the world famous Myers House NC, Lost Soul is sure to chill you to the bone.
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Mutantville Productions would like to take a moment of silence to honor the passing of Bill Hinzman the man famous for portraying the first zombie seen in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. MVP would like to send our sincere condolences to Hinzman’s friends and family.
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.
This week on Streeborama, we’re celebrating the 400th episode of Mutant TVwith a special Streebo Q&A session. In this long awaited Q&A, Streebo answers all of your questions about filmmaking, horror and MVP in addition to drawing the names for the Fangoria giveaway. You’ll have to watch the whole video to find out if you won. You can watch it just after the leap! Continue Reading…
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In honor of The Immortals coming out in theaters across the nation, this week we thought we would go old school with a quote from the great poet Homer. What better to get you through the day than some wisdom of the ages?
“Light is the task where many share the toil.”
~~Homer
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Sounds kind of odd doesn’t it. Oh well. This post is about getting rid of some stress. Any one in filmmaking goes through some stress. Working with other people in general can cause stress and the time crunches on set, flakiness(not like a biscuit), dead lines, different areas of production, different departments, everything coming together at a specific time, etc… is enough to make you need some serious medications. So you need a way to relax and get rid of stress or you will explode.
We all have our ways to relax…whether it’s watching movies(pretty normal for filmmakers for obvious reasons), being outdoors, exercising, shooting black tar heroin, going shopping, listening to music, playing music(one of my personal favorites), dancing, playing video games, I think you get the idea. All of these things keep us sane and if we run ourselves all the time, we don’t do these things and it affects our craft and our relationship with everyone else in our lives because we become moody and mean.
“I have always had different aspects to my personality. I think I’m a long-term pessimist and a short-term optimist. I do feel a great darkness about humanity. But — simultaneously and contradictorily — I also feel that life can be pretty fabulous. I should also express some of that in my work; I don’t want to limit myself as a filmmaker. I want to be true to the parameters of all films. They should create a mood and tingle you emotionally. That is what I’m after. I want the audience to experience some feeling. I want them to know they’re alive.” ~~John Carpenter
Be sure to check back to Mutantville.com this Friday when we release our exclusive interview with John Carpenter. You can watch it free online right here on Mutantville.com.
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Mutantville Productions first learned of Robert W. Filion during our epic adventure to take Devil Comes Down to George A. Romero’s American Zombie Film Contest in 2009. During said contest Robert’s movie, See The Dead, went on to sweep his competitors into the grave including MVP’s own Devil Comes Down. Robert reaped the rewards of the contest and MVP was left rubbing our collective bruised egos and has been plotting revenge ever since.
Over the years, MVP has come to know and respect Robert as a man of many talents. Robert follows MVP’s filmmaking philosophy in that he is always ready to do whatever needs to be done to get his movies made whether it’s working as the writer, director, producer, director of photography, editing or doing his own digital FX. Robert is a filmmaker with twenty years of experience and any time he brings his considerable talents to bear it is always worth taking notice. Most recently, See The Dead played at the prestigious Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC.
Robert’s company Image Impact Group has been responsible for countless shorts and films over the years including Lot 66, Chekov’s Children, The Promise Jar and The Parcel. Robert never seems content to create run of the mill horror, instead he always tries to push the boundaries of the art-form technically as well as through the narrative. His films may feature undead, zombies and other sorted beasts of mayhem – but there is always an attempt to marry the surreal or psychological to the narrative.
In a recent interview with Fangoria magazine, Filion states that “I find the scariest place to navigate is my own head. I was raised in a military family and never had longterm friends, so I never really fit in, since we moved around a bunch. Though very outgoing, I found the cruelty of children a bit much to take. Even back then, I wrote stories of a fantastical nature and retreated into my own world.” Filion comments that “people are emotionally fragile, and the question I come up with time and again is, what if you push the right buttons?”
Years later, the stars would align as MVP and Filion no longer found themselves at odds, instead teaming to create a new horror anthology entitled Tales From Mutantville. This past October, Robert teamed with Mutantville Productions to shoot three short films back to back. Producer J.T.McRoberts commented on working with Filion by saying that “Robert is an inspiration to work with. He is very professional and possesses a drive and determination to create something new and exciting. He may know how to do everything that needs to be done on a film set from production manager to gaffing and beyond but he never lets work get in the way of having a good time on the set. Working with him was a real blast and I look forward to future collaborations.”
Never one to rest on his laurels, Robert has been keeping busy with projects such as Seeing and is still currently in post-production on Indigo Child for Tales From Mutantville. This weekend he is hosting a private screening of his latest project Ghost Trek. Ghost Trek was developed by writer/co-director Michael Plumides and stars Michael Melendez, Johnny “Fairplay” Dalton, Mikey B. Bartone, Gia Allemonde, Christy Johnson, and Addy Miller (of The Walking Dead).
For his dedication and professionalism to the art and craft of filmmaking, MVP is proud to chose Robert W. Filion as the inspirational filmmaker of the week.
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The latest Tales From Mutantville V-log has been posted over at MVP’s Mutantville Players Youtube account. Click on over to get the latest behind the scenes footage of the making of Scarecrow At Midnight. Don’t forget to pre-order your digital download copy of Tales from Mutantville by donating $10 over on our Indie Gogo page which you can find by clicking here.
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