Welcome back to another edition of Fridays With MVP! There’s so much going on that it’s hard to figure out where to begin. There are more horror films hitting theaters this weekend, Turner Classic Movies has posted their Halloween schedule and The Carolina Theatre is gearing up for the Escapism Festival.
(Get your weekly MVP and horror news fix after the leap or go leap off a cliff!)
Welcome to the first edition of Streeborama here on the MVP Blog! This week, we’re experimented with making actual personal blog posts for a change to give you all a feel for the individual voices here on the Mutantville Mothership. I decided that I’m a bit tired of writing up articles all the time so I figured I’d just shoot a v-log and post that instead – so that’s exactly what I did.
The next thing I know, it’s approaching midnight and I’m doing fine edits on G.H.O.S.T. at the same time that I’m editing this v-log. How that happened I have no idea but it had to be done. So sit back – turn on the old Youtube and fire up Streebo’s V-log to learn all the latest happenings with Tales From Mutantville, G.H.O.S.T. and the MVP Blog – here on Mutantville.com.
(Watch Streebo’s V-log after the leap!)
Sawbones meets Matthew Ewald at the Fright Night Film Fest 2011!
The Mutantville Players were out in full force this past weekend at the Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky! Streebo and Geo were on hand to talk to MVP actor extraordinaire the star of Galidor himself – Matthew Ewald! The MVP faithful will remember that Matthew was the star of the upcoming Tales From Mutantville horror anthology and played the lead in both Indigo Child and Scarecrow At Midnight.
Check out the video below as Matthew discusses his experiences on the set with MVP!
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This past weekend (June 3 – 5th, 2011), ConCarolinas held it’s tenth annual convention in Charlotte. The featured guests included Harry Turtledove, Conor McCullagh, Brinke Stevens, Addy Miller of The Walking Dead and the cast & crew of Ghost Trek.
The Mutantville Players have attended ConCarolinas for the past six years in a row. Last year was our first time submitting one of our short films – Devil Comes Down – to the film festival. This year marked our first appearance as guests at the convention. Charlotte has been home to the Mutantville Mothership for years – and we were proud to attend a con on our native soil. We had plenty of friends come out to show support and built several new friendships along the way.
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This is Streebo, your resident Doctor of Horror, and I’m back with another Mutantville Monday update!
Join us at ConCarolinas on June 3rd at 7pm for a special screening of Respawner the Web Series Pilot episode. Come out and show your support for fantasy, science fiction and horror with MVP. Special guests at ConCarolinas include MVP, Ghost Trek and Brinke Stevens. BRINKE STEVENS!!! If that doesn’t make your toes curl then you’re no friend of mine!
Looking for news on G.H.O.S.T. – then check out the latest post-production v-log:
And here’s out latest update from over the weekend as we prepared the underscore for Scarecrow At Midnight in the hopes to have the final score ready for viewing at ConCarolinas. Scarecrow At Midnight will be screened as part of the film festival that weekend along with Michael Sharpe’s Monomaniacal and other fantastic entries.
In the world of horror, fans are gearing up for the new release from John Carpenter – The Ward – which hits theaters on July 8th! MVP is planning a trip to Kentucky for this year’s awesome Fright Night Film Festival with none other than the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter. Be sure to check out our multi-part interview with Ken Daniels – promoter of Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest:
True Blood season 4 is about to start this summer. Teaser vids have been hitting the internetz every week.
The truly bad ass Mortal Kombat Legacy vids are continuing to bloody the Internet. Be sure to check them out.
The sleeper supernatural thriller from James Wan – Insidious – is about to hit it’s DVD release date on July 12. The movie itself is still playing in some theaters. If you haven’t seen it yet – get out and watch what has been to this point the best horror release of 2011.
Rob Zombie is currently shooting his latest horror flick – Lords of Salem. Reports from the set say that it is very FX heavy. I’m glad to see Zombie going back to original works now so his work won’t be subjected to such idiotic scrutiny prior to it’s release as happened with his Halloween films. I still blame that idiot at AICN “Quint” for starting that snowball rolling with his moronic review of Zombie’s Halloween script. Yes, this is what’s called carrying a grudge. I keep bringing that crap up four years later. It was in effect the Gulf of Tonkin incident for Horror Fandom at which point the entire community’s head disappeared up it’s own ass. See my review “Rob Zombie’s Halloween is a Kick Ass Remake” for my thoughts on that frustrating time period in horror.
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For months you’ve heard rumors and reports from the set of the wild new reality TV ghost hunters spoof GHOST TREK. MVP is proud to announce that we have been invited to a private screening of the new show starring Michael Melendez, Johnny Fairplay, Gia Allemand, Mikey B., Glen Gilbertti aka “Disco Inferno”, and Scott Colton. From the minds of writer Michael Plumides and co-director Robert W. Filion (Image Impact Group) to the ears of MVP, the screening of Ghost Trek will no doubt be a stunning success! MVP will be on hand to bring you the sights, sounds and smells of Ghost Trek from beginning to end.
For more information on Ghost Trek, visit the official fanpage on Facebook.
CASTING – GHOST TREK, LLC & JON DALTON
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY- ROBERT FILION
DIRECTED BY – MICHAEL PLUMIDES
& ROBERT FILION
WRITTEN BY – MICHAEL PLUMIDES
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/STILL PHOTOGRAPHY – JUSTIN KATES
GHOST TREK follows the Paranormal Underworld Detective Society (PUDS) as they investigate haunts across the U.S. and abroad between tanning beds, babes, body-building, and bong hits – all the while risking life and limb confronting the undead.
Notable appearances in the GHOST TREK television pilot are Gia Allemand (ABC’s The Bachelor, Bachelor Pad) the notorious Jonny “Fairplay” Dalton and Mikey ‘B’ Bortone(CBS’ Survivor series), Christy Johnson (2010 Los Angeles Music Award winner for “Best Female Performer”), ten-year-old Addy Miller (AMC’s current mega-hit The Walking Dead) and WWE legendary wrestlers Glenn Gilbertti (Disoc Inferno) and Scott Colton (Colt Cabana).
The GHOST TREK TV PILOT was shot December 10-13, 2010 in Charlotte, NC and its environs at the BUTTER nightclub, the NASCAR Hall of Fame Plaza, AEBN, as well as other studio and residential locations.
GHOST TREK is lead by Dr. Zeke Wallace (Michael Melendez), an ex-chiropractor turned paranormal investigator living in New York with his girlfriend, Shawna Leibowitz (Gia Allemand) who also produces the show. The other PUDS investigators are: Joey Mayhem and The Bomb, two UFC wanna-be’s from New Jersey (Glenn Gilbertti and Scott Colton), the fashion-conscious psychic Guy Swisher (Brett Gentile), the team’s tech specialists and devoted stoners Robbie (Mikey “B” Bortone) and Ray-Ray (Jonny “Fairplay” Dalton), the “living dead-roller girl” case manager “Scary” Carrie Carmichael (Christy Johnson), Weasel the kleptomaniac cameraman (Kevin Johnson), and newbie Jules Partridge (Julia Bullock). Writer/director Plumides plays Harvey Goldman, the Executive Producer and chief puppeteer of the show.
http://www.ghosttrek.tv
http://www.puds.tv
There have been rumblings about an official trailer for MVP’s supernatural thriller coming from the Mutantville offices for the past month. Fans on Facebook have been privvy to constant updates about work on a “trailer” for weeks on end with little else being offered in the way of explanation. This morning – a video marked “G.H.O.S.T. trailer” has appeared on the Mutantville Players Youtube channel and the internet seems all abuzz about this sneak peek at the latest full length feature from the MVP team.
No official word yet on a release date as writer director J.T.”Streebo” McRoberts states that “there are still a lot of visual FX and music to be done – but we’re making progress every day. The performances we captured were amazing and we’ve put every little horror movie trick we could think of in the movie. In the end – it will be worth the wait.”
G.H.O.S.T. stars Kathy Butler Sandvoss, Clint Jones, Dave Tunik, Jack Stecher, Scott Thomas, Jason Wheeley, Kayli Tolleson and Matthew Ewald. Check out the offical trailer at the link below:
MVP and Mutantville.com are proud to announce the addition of Charlotte-based actor Davis Osborne to the already
stellar cast of “G.H.O.S.T.” Davis joins Dave Tunik on the set this weekend. He will play the part of “Joshua” in the first of a series of new scenes introducing the eponymous ghost hunting team in “G.H.O.S.T.’
Davis has appeared in a multiplicity of productions in and around the Charlotte area – including “Pursuit”, “Tolerance”, and the award winning short film “Chekov’s Children” by director Robert Fillion.
Davis initially auditioned for “G.H.O.S.T.” at the casting call back in August of ’09 – but was unable to accept a role at the time due to schedule conflicts. Director J.T. McRoberts states, “I was very impressed with Davis’ auditions. Davis quite literally blew us away with his reading. I was always disappointed that we weren’t able to align our schedules to allow him to join us at the time. As soon as I started reading through the new scenes and thinking of the talent in the area – Davis’ name immediately sprung to mind. I reached out to him about participating and he graciously accepted.”
Davis’ philosophy on acting is proudly displayed on his website where he states, “every character . . . ever written, has an emotion to convey . . . to evoke in the silent bystander . . . the one in the shadows . . . the viewer. Pity. . .hate. . .fear. . .lust. . .love. . .concern. It is my job as the actor to search deep inside of me. . . . and find the parts of my human nature that I can use and magnify to deliver more than a performance. . .”
Mutantville Productions is headed back to the set this week as the new shooting schedule for “G.H.O.S.T.” begins in earnest! Principle photography was completed in November, pick ups were filmed over December, and the first assembly was completed over the winter holiday. After the first cut came in at a healthy 47 minute run time – producers Brent Bowers, Geo Blalock and writer/director J.T. McRoberts decided to invest in shooting some new scenes to expand the short film into a full length feature. After weeks of heavy work on the script for new scenes – the pieces are set in motion and MVP is on it’s way back to the set.
This week – we stop at a local bookstore where the fans will have a chance to meet and greet the one and only G.B. Cunningham from “G.H.O.S.T. “ Actors Dave Tunik and Davis Osborne are excited to head back to the set to bring the new scene to life. Filming on these additional scenes will continue through the few months and is expected to conclude in April. Keep watching Mutantville.com for your up to the minute MVP news!
This past weekend, the Mutantville Players weathered the storms across two states to converge on an one hundred year old house in the sleepy town of Smyrna, South Carolina to film the scheduled last scene for G.H.O.S.T.. Director, J.T. McRoberts, cinematographer Geo Swanko, and costume designer Luis Machicao joined actors Scott Thomas and Kathy Sandvoss to bring this dreamy sequence to life.
MVP was originally scheduled to film this scene back at the beginning of December but was forced to 
postpone due to poor weather conditions and sub-zero temperatures. This scene was designed in order to showcase the amazing costume designs of couture designer Luis Machicao. We searched long and hard for a suitable location that would pass for a Civil War period home – Luis himself was able to secure this amazing location for us.
Sunday morning saw storms cover the Carolinas – but we were in luck as the area around Smyrna was clear. MVP decided to take the risk and go forward with the shoot. It was quite a long trip down to the backwoods of South Carolina – but it was well worth it. The cast and crew had to drive through torrential downpour to make it to Smyrna – but everyone arrived safe and sound. We were pleased to round the bend to overcast – but calm skies and an amazing landscape nestled in a cloud of fog. The conditions couldn’t have been more conducive to filming our dream sequence if we had planned it that way.
Our hosts Kevin, Laura and Cameron were very gracious and patient with us as we dressed the cast in Luis’ gorgeous costumes and took them out in the field. Six year old Cameron was quite interested in our activities and even offered his ideas for a few horror scenes for our movie which he thought should include zombies. We had a few close scares as the sky tossed a short downpour or two on us during filming – but for the most part we went unmolested by the rain. Kathy and Scott took to their task like true professionals and we were able to shoot our way through the scene without any difficulty. Keep watching Facebook over the coming week as we share the bevy of gorgeous photos taken during the shoot.
Mutantville Productions would like to extend our most gracious thanks to our hosts Kevin, Laura, and Cameron for allowing us to come into their home. This was the scheduled final shoot of G.H.O.S.T. – but we can’t celebrate just yet. With the announced plans to continue working on G.H.O.S.T. to extend it to a full length feature run time – this is not the ending – but another amazing beginning.
Thanks, MVP. We’ll see you back on the set soon!
**Jamie McRoberts
Streebo
Mutantville Productions LLC
Mutantville Productions, changing the face of independent horror – one G.H.O.S.T. at a time.
