It’s one week until MVP meets John Carpenter at this year’s Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky. We thought we would honor the occasion by focusing on the man, the myth, the auteur John Carpenter this week on Classics Corner. We’re going to take a look at his movies, his musical scores and even his recent ventures into video game territory with the F.E.A.R. series.
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Scream 4 is still trying to make bank at the theaters this week so the doctors of horror at Mutantville decided we’d bring you a movie with the word “Scream” in the title! Well you’re in luck because we’ve found a little cult classic starring the luscious Pam Grier and the regal William Marshall in a movie that has “Scream” in the title not just once – but TWICE! It’s Scream, Blacula Scream on Scary Movie Saturdays! It’s the full movie. It’s free. It’s Saturday. Enjoy!
“It’s not the house that’s haunted!”
That’s the tagline to the new haunted house horror film from the producer of Paranormal Activity and writer and director of SAW – Insidious. James Wan directs this tight little spookshow about a young family trying to cope with the effects of unwanted supernatural presences in their lives.
Be on the lookout for a nice supporting role from ghost assault survivor Barbara Hershey (The Entity) as the supportive mother that calls in the psychic to help out. Insidious pays homage to all of the great haunted house films of the past and keeps the audience jumping and guessing from beginning to end. Streebo gives Insidious a 7 out of 10 on the Streebo Scream-o-meter. Go see it while you can!
Check out my full review below.
The Mutantville Players are proud to announce that we’re gearing up to head back to the best horror convention on the east coast this summer – the Fright Night Film Fest on July 22-24th, 2011! This year, promoter Ken Daniels is scouring the land to bring together the best selection of guests that one could shake a boomstick at! The convention is heading back to the Fern Valley Hotel and Conference Center in Louisville, KY.
The guest of honor is the one and only John Carpenter director of such horror classics as Halloween, The Thing and In The Mouth of Madness. This year’s event is reinforced by a second event that weekend in the form of the Fandom Fest with guest like “The Fonz” Henry Winkler, ”Boba Fett” Jeremy Bulloch, and will feature reunions from the cast American Grafitti and Revenge of the Nerds.
We’re still months away from the event so more guest announcements are sure to come! The anticipation is killing us all – but the wait will be worth it. For regular updates on the convention, please check out the official fanpage on Facebook by clicking here.
Be sure to check out MVP’s multi-part interview with Ken Daniels about the upcoming show by checking out the Mutantville Players Youtube Channel.
Check out this fantastic video about scary occult artist H.R.Giger. His work somehow manages to find the right balance between beauty and horror. Giger has been responsible for designing many fantastic worlds in cinema such as Alien, Poltergeist II and Species.
Make-up FX Maestro Todd A. Britt brings another ghostly creation to life during the wee hours of the night.
Last night, Mutantville Productions wrapped principle photography on G.H.O.S.T. after a long fifteen hour shoot. Kathy Sandvoss earned her final Scream Queen stripes and Super Diva status by battling her way through another challenging shoot. Thanks to our good friend, couture designer, Luis Machicao for lending his tremendous talents in supervising the filming of his costume designs for the finale of the movie. Lead actor Scott Thomas persevered another bloody and bruising shoot to bring our central ghost to life. Clint Jones showed his horror heart by enduring several make-up sessions. Dave Tunik gave his all in taking another bloody bite out of his role and a gelatin prop. Jason Wheely gave a heartwrenching performance as a haunted young TV producer. Jack Stecher pulled out all the stops to give a bravura performance as the crazy caretaker of the opera house.
Special thanks goes out to MVP’S own maestro of make-up FX – Todd A. Britt for bringing all of his Sith talents to bear in creating several macabre make-ups over the course of the fifteen hour marathon. Additional thanks goes to Sylvia and Sierra for lending their talents to the make-up department by resurrecting our supernatural visitors once more. Thanks again to Allan Whitley for toughing out another long night to lend a strong hand and keep our boomstick steady for another night. Special thanks goes out MVP’S own Costume Diva, seamstress and assistant to Mr. Machicao, Angela Pritchett who although unable to attend our final shoot due to schedule conflicts, put in many a long night on the set of G.H.O.S.T., lending her considerable costuming talents to help bring the production to life. Thanks to John R. Sexton for putting on a layered performance as Grandfather last month. Thank you to Kayli Tolleson and her mom Janna for lending their talent, energy and support to G.H.O.S.T. over the course of the shoot. And last but not least a very special thanks goes to my mom, Momma Streebo, for being a beacon of strength and inspiration to me over the years and for dusting off her sewing machine to create Johnny Reb’s jacket in whole – mere days before the first shoot. And to anyone that helped that I may have overlooked here, thank you for your help, we could not have done it without you all. Thank you.
This project has been an amazing journey and I thank you all for sharing it with me. Production may be complete – but post-production begins immediately as we will continue with editing, sound design and shooting final make-up FX shots of the movie. Be sure to keep tuning in to Mutantville.com and Mutant TV for your up to the minute news on G.H.O.S.T., C for Chaos, and MVP.
~~Streebo
A loss of power on the set last week set production on G.H.O.S.T. back by one week. It will take more than that to keep a good G.H.O.S.T. down. The Mutantville Players are rested, ready and assembled to get back on set tomorrow and finish what we started. We can never thank you all enough for your hard work and dedication. This has been an amazing project from beginning to the near end. Thanks for coming on this amazing journey with us. Please take a minute to check out the preliminary designs for the t-shirts and promos for G.H.O.S.T. We have more on the way and you can only learn about it right here on Mutantville.com!
From Horror Hacker: When I mention the trite phrase that horror movies are horribly sexist, I bet some female readers of this column shout an instant, fist-pumping “Preach on!” When I clarify that horror movies are horribly sexist against men, that’s when those same ladies decide that this preacher actually spews misogynistic lies. The prevailing belief is that horror flicks are sexist and that the targets are women. But if you do the basic math, the sexism is against men.Let’s look at this from a scientific perspective, and by “scientific” I mean in light of the theories of that early legend of science, Charles Darwin. Maybe you’ve heard of him? He’s the guy who coined that pesky phrase “survival of the fittest.” If only the fittest survive, and most horror movies feature a “final girl,” then what does that say about the genre’s stance on men? Or let’s go at this issue another way: Do you actually think horror movies portray females as weak? Tell that to Halloween’s Laurie Strode. Tell that to Scream’s Sidney Prescott.The winner of any fight is the one left standing — no one cares how you survive, as long as you do. If that survival comes wrapped in screaming, crying, pleading, more crying, running, a little more screaming, tripping, not being able to put the car keys in the lock and then finally sticking a knife in a bad guy? Yeah, you still won. So I don’t care how “weak” a final girl may look, if she’s the one who walks away, she’s the survivor and therefore the fittest.
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Check out this video from Gamespot for a nice list of awesome video games for all platforms XBOX 360, Playstation, Wii, etc. This is about as close to a greatest horror video games list that you will ever find. These games are guaranteed scary as hell and will make you crap your pants! Depends pull up undergarments required in order to play. Doom. Resident Evil. Bioshock. System Shock 2. Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl. The Thing. Alone in the Dark. Silent Hill 2. Dead Space. Clive Barker’s Jericho. Silent Hill Homecoming. Resident Evil 4. Resident Evil 5. Cilve Barker’s Undying. Left 4 Dead. F.E.A.R. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Condemned. Condemned 2.
from Icons of Fright:
Halloween is a week from now, and there’s one very special way to celebrate it in Evans City, Pennsylvania this year, at Gary Streiner’s 2nd Annual Living Dead Festival. Recently, I interviewed Gary about his role in the production of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Through Gary, I was able to interview another of the key people involved in the film: his brother, the producer and the actor who played Johnny, Russell Streiner.
Russ was an important part of the Latent Image, a commercial filmmaking company which he founded with George Romero. He’s since gone on to work on many films with another NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD collaborator, John Russo. Russ was gracious enough to take some time today and discuss the legacy of the zombie classic with me, for his fans at Icons of Fright.
Phil Fasso: How did you first get involved with George Romero?
Russ Streiner: I started off wanting to be an actor, which I pursued through high school. And after high school, I went to the Pittsburgh Playhouse School of the Theatre, and graduated from their two-year acting program. While I was there, I was working in stage shows at night, and at one of those, I was cast with another fellow. His name was Rudy Ricci, and we shared a dressing room. Rudy had been attending classes at Carnegie Mellon University (back then it was called Carnegie Tech). He was taking art classes there, and he met George Romero in an art class. George was transplanted, from the Bronx to Pittsburgh, to go to Carnegie Tech’s School of Painting and Design. Rudy brought George over to one of our shows one night, and that’s how I first got to meet him. Then, within maybe six or eight months, George called me and asked me if I would be willing to be an actor in a movie that he was putting together, called EXPOSTULATIONS. And I told him I would. I showed up for my very first day of production, and really became intrigued with the whole film production part of the business, which I knew nothing about. I stuck with EXPOSTULATIONS as an actor, and then also helped out on the crew. That’s how George and I first met. And we went on to set up a business and worked together for about 10 years.
PF: How did your experience in commercials and industrial films help you to put together a feature film?
RS: Any time you get a chance to practice your craft, whether it’s in short form like TV commercials or longer form like industrials, all of that goes to help you refine your craft. And that’s certainly how our whole group got helped out, all of which led up to 1967, when we did the actual filming of NOTLD.
Read the rest of this interview with a piece of Night of the Living Dead history click the link below.
via Icons of Fright News and Updates: An Interview with Russ Streiner.
