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Cabin Fever: Another Group of 5 Visit a Cabin in the Woods

While Cabin in the Woods is a big focus right now, I figured it would be a good time to jump back about 10 years and write about Cabin Fever. Cabin Fever was the first feature film Eli Roth directed. It starts with 5 college graduates that rent a cabin in the woods to get away from the stresses of the world. Of course that doesn’t work out or it would not be a horror film but a romantic comedy or something. The young folks or youts (My Cousin Vinnie reference) run into some homicidal locals and a flesh-eating virus. One thing that makes Cabin Fever stand out is what was happening in horror at the time. Films were beginning to be “watered down” and the ratings were being dropped to PG-13 ratings. This is a strong contrast to when I was growing up and movies like Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie” had to be edited just to be dropped to an R rating. Eli Roth saw this and refused to compromise on the violence or nudity. He believed them to be essential ingredients in 1980′s stye horror films.

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Mad Monster Party Film Festival Schedule Now Live, TFM Shirts in the mail and More on Fridays with MVP!

CHARLOTTE, NC — The light at the end of the tunnel flared bright today for indie filmmakers across the country as the Mad Monster Party Film Festival schedule went live on their official website.  Filmmakers are coming from all along the East Coast and across North Carolina to show their films to a rabid crowd at the First Annual Mad Monster Party Film Festival on March 23 -25th.

Get the full scoop after the leap!

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Dark Tales Chronicles Presents In The Dark (2006) on Scary Movie Saturdays!

Over the past few years, Mutantville.com and Scary Movie Saturdays have become a horror fan’s number one source for discovering the latest and greatest horror films being made by independent filmmakers today.  The Patrick Rheas, Scott Goldbergs and Jaysen Buterins today’s indie film scene are tomorrow’s John Carpenter, George A. Romero and Robert Rodriguez. Now you can add Gerald Godbout III to that list.

Mutantville.com and Scary Movie Saturday are proud to present another horror diamond in the rough independent wasteland waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.  This week, Godbout Entertainment’s Dark Tales Chronicles presents In The Dark (2006). From the Dark Tales Chronicles comes the first story in the series about a boy and his imagination and his babysitter who learns what it means to fear the dark.

(Watch the full short film after the leap – you dare!)
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Año bisiesto – That’s Right, it’s Leap Year!

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.

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The Wolf Man (1941) Comes to Carolina Theatre for Retro Classics.

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.
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The Shining comes to Trailer Park Tuesday!

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.

Streeborama and the Lost Art of the Movie One Sheet.

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.

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Scanners One Sheet on Collector’s Corner with MVP.

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.

The Night The Mutants Stole Mutantville Monday!

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.
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The Devil’s Backbone aka El Espinazo Del Diablo takes over Scary Movie Saturday!

“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.
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