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R.I.P. Bill Hinzman, Happy Birthday George A. Romero and Streebo gets Exploited on Mutantville Mondays!

Mutantville Productions would like to take a moment of silence to honor the passing of Bill Hinzman the man famous for portraying the first zombie seen in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. MVP would like to send our sincere condolences to Hinzman’s friends and family.

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MVP Gets Crazy with the Mad Monster Party, Nevermore Is On The Way and Mutant TV Melts Your Brain on Fridays with MVP!

Welcome back to another bombastic edition of Fridays With MVP!!!  Horror is alive and well as Underworld Awakening and The Grey hit the box office last week with The Woman In Black hitting theaters today.  Retro Classics is showing a double feature of The Wolfman and Dracula tonight at the Carolina Theatre in Durham and their annual Nevermore Film Festival is just around the corner. 

After a long week suffering under the thumb of a bad cold, Streebo is back in the land of the living to fill his Friday typing quotient with news, rumor, gossip and gospel.  Video production has lagged just a hair as we’ve hit the wall of late.  I’ve been working on getting more video and article content out to you all but haven’t had the energy to work late at night as per my usual modus operandi.  I am hopeful that a long weekend of rest will see a return to form. 

Not to be left alone to hog the suffering spotlight, Brento’s wife Nancee stepped up to the plate this week when she horribly burned her leg in an accident requiring brief hospitalization.  She’s doing better now and is being given around the clock TLC by Brento.  Please join MVP in sending her a collective “get well” via Facebook, Twitter, or even in person if you like. 

Unless you’ve been living under an internet rock you should have heard the official announcement about the Mad Monster Party Film Festival this March.  Since you come here for some insider info I may as well give you a few tidbits.  I’ve been in talks with the promoters of Mad Monster Party for a couple months now about the possibility of hosting a film festival at the Mad Monster Party so I am very happy to see it come to fruition. 

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The Metatron Files – Project Update on Johnny Brento’s JuJu

This week I was able to kick things up a knotch with HD video and little more production. That won’t always be the case with these Making Metatron videos as they are definitely catch as catch can. Clocking in at 7:54 I like to think that this week’s episode has some excellent content and alternatives to more expensive techniques employeed by the big studios. The pre-production work marches forward and MVP keeps swinging away.

G.H.O.S.T. (2011) Haunts Trailer Park Tuesday!

This week on Trailer Park Tuesday, we’re going to do something out of character – we’re going to talk about ourselves.  I know!  Crazy, right?

It’s been a long hard road from pre-production in 2009 to the conclusion of post-production at the end of 2011 for G.H.O.S.T. (2011).  G.H.O.S.T. (2011) started as an idea for an original television pilot and along the way grew and morphed into a full length feature.  It was a labor of love from beginning to end and was only made possible by the contributions of so many talented individuals from North Carolina and specifically the Charlotte area.

Work is still ongoing on the final score for G.H.O.S.T. but after that it’s but a few steps away from the DVD release.  Beyond that we do have some cool things planned for the future so stay tuned for an official announcement soon.  MVP would like to send out a round of thanks to everyone involved in the making of G.H.O.S.T. (2011).

Without all of you, it wouldn’t have been possible.  So without further ado – check out the trailer for the supernatural thriller G.H.O.S.T. (2011) starring Kathy Butler Sandvoss, Matthew Ewald, Steven D. Tucker, Clint Jones, Dave Tunik, Jason Wheeley, Jack Stecher, Kayli Tolleson and more local talent than you can shake a EPK monitor at!  Featuring fashion designs by Luis Machicao and special make-up FX by Todd A. Britt, you won’t believe your eyes.

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Nevermore Nevermore, Metatron & Muticia and Happy Chinese New Year on Fridays With MVP!

Thank Muticia it’s Fridayyyyyyyy!!! Welcome back to another edition of Fridays with MVP! We’ve had another action packed week here at Mutantville.com so sit back, buckle in and chomp on your bit because we’re taking off!

To recap the past week, we didn’t make it into Nevermore, but we did get accepted to ConCarolinas. Post-production is wrapping up on G.H.O.S.T. and Tales From Mutantville both of which will appear on DVD soon. The Nevermore Film Festival is next month and no doubt they will have a stellar lineup. I know already that Ti West’s Innkeepers is playing and I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. One month later, Mad Monster Party hits Charlotte and there are a lot of great events planned for it some of which have yet to be revealed – but I’ve heard things. . .

Congratz to our buddies Robert W. Filion, Michael Sharpe and Christopher G. Moore who all had films accepted into Nevermore this year! I’m sure that Dummy, Deviling and Flush With Fear will help make for a very strong short film lineup. I look forward to seeing them all on Saturday. Of course you know this means war. . .

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Steven Spielberg with MVP’s Inspirational Filmmaking Quote of the Week.

“People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.”

~~Steven Spielberg

Mutantville Shines On, Underworld Awakening Tops Box Office and Mutant TV Returns on Mutantville Mondays!

Despite the gray wet fog that sedated most of the state – MVP had another productive weekend. We started the weekend right by going to see Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in 35mm at Retrofantasma on Friday night. Brento was able to work on The Metatron Files preproduction and while Streebo put the finishing touches on the final version of the script for episode one.

The final script for the first episode of Muticia’s Movie Morgue went out to actors over the weekend and was well received. More news on that as things develop in the coming month. There was a lot of activity behind the scenes as we got word that our films did not make the cut for this year’s Nevermore Film Festival.

Not to be deterred we were happy to find out that MVP has been accepted as guests to this year’s ConCarolinas convention in June. MVP will host a special screening at ConCarolinas but we’ll keep that under wraps until the full details are worked out. There’s also something really big and crazy coming to Charlotte very soon that MVP is going to be a part of but until there is an official announcement, we will just have to keep mum about it. Trust me when I say it is very cool.

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Nightbreed Stars Craig Sheffer and Anne Bobby Coming to Charlotte for Mad Monster Party!

It was announced this past week that the stars of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed Craig Sheffer and Anne Bobby are coming to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Mad Monster Party convention this March.  Sheffer and Bobby have been added to an already stellar lineup which includes Rutger Hauer, Angus Scrimm, Bill Mosley, Derek Mears, Brad Dourif, and so many more.  Check out the official lineup over at the website or Facebook fanpage.

Rumors are swirling that the promoters aren’t finished with the special announcements yet.  Keep checking the official website for daily updates.  MVP plans to be at the convention so we hope to see you there!

 

Streeborama Goes to The Outer Limits for a VHS Unboxing!

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.

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MVP Going Strong, Horror is Alive and Well and More on Mutantville Mondays!

Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays here at Mutantville.com! As with every update we have made further progress on the many projects in development here at Mutantville Productions. Let’s run down a quick list starting with C for Chaos – originally filmed as a full length feature but is in the process of being pared down to a web exclusive horror experience, G.H.O.S.T. originally filmed as a short film then expanded into a full length feature is currently being scored by Martin Bowes of Attrition, Tales From Mutantville is in the final stages of being authored for the DVD while we wait for final word on whether or not it made the cut for this year’s Nevermore Film Festival.

Streebo finished the second draft of the script for the first episode of Muticia’s Movie Morgue over the weekend while Brento made further progress on pre-production for our upcoming webseries The Metatron Files. And Geo – well Geo is off somewhere laughing and planting backlinks across every blog on the Internet. We’re also involved in designing shirts and posters for the upcoming releases.

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