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.
The San Diego Reader apparently has the Collector’s Corner hookup because they periodically post alternate and rejected versions of movie one sheets. This week – they have shared a horror film lover’s delight with an alternate design for the Halloween III Season of the Witch one sheet.
Normally we like to post links to auctions where rabid collectors like ourselves can bid on the items in question. Unfortunately this particular one sheet is so rare that you will most likely never see it for sale – anywhere. But that’s the joy of collecting isn’t it? Trying to find that impossible to find item makes life worth living. Well now Halloween III fans have a nice Holy Grail they can chase after. Check it out after the leap!
Welcome to another edition of Fridays with MVP! This week we have something special for you as MVP’s own Kathy Butler Sandvoss has started her own fanpage on Facebook. Friends of MVP will know Kathy from the recent trailer for G.H.O.S.T. and all of you will be able to see the amazing performance she conjured up for the making of G.H.O.S.T. when the movie hits DVD and theaters this winter. Check out Kathy Butler Sandvoss’ Corner with the touch of a button. There’s wine and cheese for all.
American Horror Story is the best horror program on television today. It leaves The Walking Dead, True Blood and Dexter stumbling in the dust in terms of creating real horror. I’ve discussed what I think real horror is on Streeborama a few times before both in video as in my Uncanny Horror Halloween V-Log or by article as in my piece on Francisco Goya’s Saturn. You’ll have to check those out if you want to know what I mean by real horror. Or you could just watch American Horror Story instead as it utilizes a lot of those same horror elements.
Matthew Ewald is sad to see Athena come to an end.
MVP had another crazy weekend on the set of Image Impact Group’s Athena. Production began at the beginning of October and continued through the Halloween season – only now reaching completion in the week following Halloween. Aside from a handful of inserts that need to be picked up, principle photography has been completed.
Director Robert W. Filion has been cutting the film together during the course of production and should have the first rough assembly ready in a matter of days. Mutantville Productions would like to send out a round of congratulations to Image Impact Group, Greysun Productions and to the wonderful cast of Athena which consisted of Matthew Ewald, Vanelle, Patrick Keenan, Tommy Allen Taylor and Michael Melendez. For more information on Athena please visit the official fanpage here.
This week on Scary Movie Saturday – we’re featuring the work of our friends at Godbout Entertainment – Legends 2: A Halloween Tale.Legends is a series focusing on the legendary horror characters of recent cinema. The first installment into the series featuring characters from the Friday the 13th series – whereas Legends 2 features the bad boys of the Myers bloodline.
Happy Halloween, creeps! The latest video effort from our good buddy Kenny Caperton of the Myers House NC has hit the interwebs and it’s truly awesome! Kenny has been flexing his cinematic muscles since he wrote the script for the Halloween tribute film JUDITH and has been producing various movies and shorts since. This time out – he teams up with Sheri Moon Zombie and MVP’s own Kayli Tolleson (G.H.O.S.T., Indigo Child and Family Fiend) to bring you a rocking new promo vid to celebrate Halloween!
The Mutantville Players had another crazy weekend as we saw the fruits of two year’s worth of labor come to fruition. Saturday night while MVP was frantically working to complete work on the final cut of G.H.O.S.T. – another MVP project – Scarecrow At Midnight played across town at the Myers House NC Halloween Bash! Working through the night – MVP was able to get G.H.O.S.T. ready for the screening on Sunday.
Sunday all of our friends, filmmakers and fellow Players came out to celebrate the occasion with us by watching a program of horror including Michael Sharpe’s Deviling, Desdemona 6 from Last Call Pictures and MVP’s own G.H.O.S.T. Everyone came in costume and had an amazing time. There was plenty of beer, cheer and screams to go around.
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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.
(Witness the darkest day of horror the world has ever known after the leap!)
John Carpenter at the Fright Night Film Fest 2011.
I never realized how much of an influence John Carpenter was on my worldview growing up. He was responsible for so many of my favorite childhood movies – Big Trouble In Little China, Escape From New York, Starman and so many more. It wasn’t until I became a dedicated horrorphile that I realized John Carpenter was responsible for those movies and oh so many more of my favorites in the horror genre. Halloween, The Fog, Christine, The Prince of Darkness, In The Mouth of Madness and so many other undeniable horror classics came from his directorial hand.
As a fan and certified horror geek – I knew that Carpenter’s movies shone with greatness but it wasn’t until we started Mutantville Productions in the winter of 2003 – that I began to look at horror films with a more critical eye. I suddenly realized that Carpenter’s works were not only the work of a true auteur – but the work of inspired genius.
(Continue reading the article and watch the interview after the leap!)
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