R.I.P. Bill Hinzman, Happy Birthday George A. Romero and Streebo gets Exploited on Mutantville Mondays!
R.I.P. Bill Hinzman
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Stephen King’s The Dark Half on Scary Movie Saturday!
The Dark Half (1993) from www.stephenkingshop.com
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.
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The Walking Dead Mid-Season Review on Streeborama!
The Walking Dead season two mid-season finale closed with a bang.
The number one drama on television – The Walking Dead – has hit it’s mid-season point for it’s sophomore season. The Walking Dead mid-season finale aired this past weekend and has left everyone on the edge of their seat as some questions were answered, some guts were munched and some new questions sprung up to take their place.
What will happen between Ric, Shane and Lori? Will the survivors leave the farm? Will Merle come back for revenge?
There are so many possibilities and we all have to wait! The Walking Dead will be on hiatus until February 2012! While you’re waiting – join Streebo for a discussion on the progress of the season so far. This week we’re talking The Walking Dead on Streeborama.
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Among The Fallen on Scary Movie Saturday.
Among The Fallen (2011)
Welcome back, Muties. If you’re tired of the onslaught of remakes and found footage horror – then the Doctors of Horror at MVP have the cure. This week, we’re featuring an indie gem called Among The Fallen from filmmaker Jay Shatzer. In my journeys across the Internetz, I often critique independent horror films that are posted online. It’s an exercise that keeps me sharp, keeps me in touch with the community, and best of all introduces me to true ground level no holds barred indie horror.
This week, I had the good fortune to watch Among The Fallen which tells the story of a writer struggling to survive the night when besieged by his personal demons and a horde of ghouls. Among The Fallen features gorgeous cinematography, Fulci-like ghouls and a story that everyone can identify with.
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Day of the Dead on Scary Movie Saturday Halloween Edition!
George A. Romero's Day of the Dead
It’s the darkest day of horror the world has ever known – it’s George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead! In 1969, George A. Romero changed the genre of horror as we know it and the way films are made as we know it with his seminal zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. He followed that up almost a decade later with the now equally important Dawn of the Dead which ushered in an era of gore films. In the 80′s Romero found himself unable to secure the financing he wanted for his third entry in the zombie series and was forced to scale the entire project back.
When Day of the Dead was finally released – fans of his previous two films didn’t know what to make of the bleak nihilistic tale of terror that unfolded before them. With time – Romero’s Day of the Dead has come to be heralded as another classic in a series filled with classics. It’s a personal favorite of the Mutantville Players and we’re happy that someone uploaded it to Youtube so that we could share it with you here.
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David Hess Remembered, Paranormal Activity Returns & October Rolls On this Friday with MVP!
MVP and Image Impact Group together again.
The Mutantville Players are off to the set of Robert W. Filion’s Athena again this weekend. We’re helping Image impact Group all month long and it’s been a great shoot so far. We’re one week away from the private cast and crew screening of G.H.O.S.T. and all we have left to do is slide all of the final sound and FX pieces into place. It’s going to be so much fun to share the final product with all of our friends for Halloween.
In the midst of all of this creative activity – we still find the time to bring you reviews, articles, interviews and special features that you won’t find anywhere else! Speaking of interviews – - I hear there’s a brand new interview with John Carpenter coming to Mutant TV very soon!
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Eli Roth lists his Top Five Horror Films.
The good scribes over at Slasher Studios have just posted a link to an interview with Eli Roth from the Daily News Los Angeles in which he discloses a list of his favorite horror films. Some of his choices seem to be no-brainers but a couple might surprise you. Check out the trailers to his choices below and then hop over to Daily News Los Angeles to read the complete interview with Mr.Roth.
“Sleepaway Camp” (1983): Ah, “Sleepaway Camp.” I remember watching this film at a sleepover with Lenny Mead and a bunch of friends in the mid-’80s, and when the movie ended we literally stood up out of our chairs and screamed at the top of our lungs until we ran out of air. I will not say why – and don’t go looking up the spoilers on the Internet because that will take all the fun away. Treat yourself to a wonderful surprise.
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DEADPIT MAY of the DEAD takes over Scary Movie Saturday!
The guys over at Deadpit have posted the final part of their MAY of the DEAD horror extravaganza and this time out it is a fan commentary to George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead. All month long, the Creepy Kentuckian, Uncle Bill and Jessco have been bringing you reviews and rare interviews with horror luminaries such as Dawn of the Dead documentarian Roy Frumkes, Friday the 13th part 6 director Tom McLoughlin, and Stuart Gordon director of H.P.Lovecraft’s Re-Animator.
From DEADPIT.COM:
“May of the Dead finale featuring free LAND OF THE DEAD Fan Commentary!
It’s the last week of ‘May of the Dead’ for 2011 , and what better way to celebrate than put ourselves through Romero’s triumphant return to the big screen with 2005′s Land of the Dead. Join the original thrillbillies Uncle Bill and The Creepy Kentuckian for a commentary you soon won’t forget, this week exclusively on DEADPIT Radio!!”
Stop by DEADPIT and download the May of the Dead specials now. They’re the best in horror talk radio.
It’s Saturday. It’s May of the Dead. Get busy watching – or get busy dying! It’s Scary Movie Saturday.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation “Call of the Dead” & George A. Romero kick ass!
One word. Epic.
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.
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Robert W. Filion chosen as Inspirational Filmmaker of the Week!
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.
