So I was informed that this year is leap year or año bisiesto in Spanish. I started wondering if there were any horror films about leap year and what is the first thing I find? Año bisiesto a film by Michael Rowe released in 2010. It was co-written by Michael Rowe and Lucia Carreras. It stars Monica del Carmen, Gustavo Sanchez Parra and Armando Hernandez. This film looks pretty interesting. It’s about Laura (Monica del Carmen), who lost her father on February 29th. Through this month she has sex with a stranger named Arturo. Their sex becomes rougher and rougher and builds to more S&M then has interesting ending that leaves viewers with a conflict feelings.
Have you seen The Wolf Man on the big screen in 35mm? Friday February 3rd is your chance at Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC! It will be playing right after Dracula. This is one of the cool things about Retrofantasma at Carolina Theatre, they show 35mm versions of the classic films you love! Retrofantasma and Retro Classics also have these classics coming soon: Child’s Play, It’s Alive, Blue Velvet, Blow Out, This Island Earth, War of the Worlds and many more.
This week for Classics Corner we’re going to focus on The Wolf Man after leap. Continue Reading…
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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.
Scarecrow At Midnight (2011) one sheet from Mutantville Productions.
Welcome to a special edition of Streeborama as we are going to discuss the lost art of horror movie one sheets! I expect this to be an ongoing series here at Streeborama. I want to discuss the good poster art of the past, what made it work and what makes modern poster art so terrible.
Whether you’re a filmmaker or just a fan – we are all extremely familiar with one sheets – or posters as they are referred to in the common vernacular. I remember being twelve years old with a green apple lollipop in my hand wandering the aisles of the local mom and pops video store and being enthralled by the sights and horrors peering at me from the cover of the VHS boxes lining the shelves. I was never allowed to watch the movies but they intrigued me nonetheless. They often featured a mix of blood, skulls and beautiful women but it was always in a way that implied that something sinsiter was at work behind it all.
This was a time when poster art was REAL art. They were conceived by artists with an actual goal of creating something eye catching to draw a potential viewer in. Poster art was exciting, mysterious, inspirational and most all of – intriguing.
David Cronenberg is one of our favorite horror filmmakers of all time. No other filmmaker’s work quite captured the disturbing visceral quality of his works. One of the his most memorable one sheets comes from the 1981 films Scanners.
I remember hanging out at my buddy Kirk’s down the street. His family had a room with a pool table and over it hung the classic one sheet for Scanners. Kirk’s older brother was always watching horror films and had plastered posters in the rec room as well as his own room. None of them stood out the way the Scanners one sheet did. It haunted me for years and now you have a chance to bring it home.
The bargain hunters and mad collectors at MVP have discovered an eBay auction for a nice French Scanners one sheet. Bid now and hang it over your pool table later.
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Come join MVP for a night of movies with the Tales From Mutantville Anthology and the 80′s classic Gremlins hosted by Joe Bob Briggs. Pot luck snacks. BYOB. Good times.
If you’re not out of town or entertaining your in-laws with parlor tricks and you’re looking for something fun to do Friday night – then come join MVP for a night at the movies.
MVP will be hosting a day of independent horror films to celebrate the upcoming release of Tales From Mutantville. The DVD release will not take place until later in the Spring – but since it’s Christmas, we thought we would give the cast and crew a chance to see the movies before everyone else. Continue Reading…
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“The living will always be more dangerous than the dead.”
This week on Scary Movie Saturday – we thought we would spotlight the work of the man who is arguably the best horror filmmaker actively making horror films today – Guillermo Del Toro. Most fans are familiar with Del Toro’s mainstream work such as Hellboy, Blade II or Mimic – but we want to take a look at one of his smaller, more personal projects - El Espinazo Del Diablo or The Devil’s Backbone if you prefer the English title. We’ve discussed Del Toro and his works many times before on Mutantville.com so it is with great pride that we share this film with you today. This is what Modern Horror filmmakers should aspire to emulate. Continue Reading…
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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.
Welcome back to another edition of Streeborama, my fellow Mutants. It’s Thursday and we’re all still a bit worn out from the tremendous pace we’ve kept up over the past few years. In short – we began pre-production on G.H.O.S.T. in the summer of 2009, began filming in October 2009 and have been busy working steadily since. Only now after we’ve locked in the final cut and FX of G.H.O.S.T. are we ready to slow down and take a bit of a breather.
(Learn the hidden secrets of the universe after the leap – if you dare!)
This will be a short post because it’s Halloween tonight and there are children with bags of candy that are not quite full! If you’ve been keeping up with the blog you’ll know that Mutantville has been a busy place this October(as usual). We’ve been helping on the set of Athena which is a film by Robert Filion. We also been working on G.H.O.S.T. to finish it up for the big cast and crew screening this past Sunday. I must say we had a great turn out and lots of fun.
With all of this work, I really haven’t watched many horror films this year. Pity eh? Just in case you were busy and didn’t get to see many horror films this year, I’m posting lots of classic horror film trailers below for you to watch and make you feel like you’ve seen more movies than you have.
Check out which films made the cut after the leap… Continue Reading…
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on the big screen in 35mm? Friday February 3rd is your chance at Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC! It will be playing right after Dracula. This is one of the cool things about Retrofantasma at Carolina Theatre, they show 35mm versions of the classic films you love! Retrofantasma and Retro Classics also have these classics coming soon: Child’s Play, It’s Alive, Blue Velvet, Blow Out, This Island Earth, War of the Worlds and many more.
