In honor of our good friends at Exploited Cinema who first turned us on to Renny Harlin’s low budget debut Prison and who may in fact be nearing the end of their tenure as we know them. Change isn’t always a bad thing and is often required for more good to come so we wish Jdog and Bat32 nothing but success in their personal and professional lives. The boys had a greasy good ride and to that the Mutantville Players tip our hats. Thanks for keeping it greasy fellas.
Speaking of Renny Harlin and his low budget adventures, here’s a quote from wikipedia: Harlin moved to the U.S. where he was initially put to work directing low-budget horror movies, but commercial success was soon to follow. In 1988, Irwin Yablans of Empire Pictures hired him to direct Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field and Lane Smith in the low-budget horror film Prison filmed at a former state prison in Rawlins, Wyoming.[9] That same year Robert Shaye of New Line Cinema, after some initial doubts, hired him to direct another low-budget horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, which became the highest grossing independent film at that time by earning $49 million in the US. Harlin cameos in the film as a student while a publicity poster for Prison can be seen in the background of a scene in a movie theatre.
This month at Mutantville – we’re all about some Joss Whedon. We’re so in love with The Cabin In The Woods that we can’t wait to get back to the theater to see it AGAIN. Avengers hits the screens next week and our friends from across the pond have been raving about it for weeks. Joss Whedon wrote the script for Cabin In the Woods and directed The Avengers. The Avengers features the incredible Hulk – thus leading us to our entry for today’s episode of Scary Movie Saturday – Planet Hulk.
Check it out. When you finish head back to the theater and buy two more tickets to see The Cabin In The Woods. MVP will be right across the aisles from you. It’s Joss Whedon appreciation day with a movie only marginally connected to the man – Planet Hulk – and it’s right here on Scary Movie Saturday.
Welcome back to another edition of Scary Movie Saturday aboard the Mothership. It’s been a busy week on the Mutantville Mothership as we’ve been working on so many projects that it becomes a real game of juggling to keep them all going. On top of shooting the first episode of Muticia’s Movie Morgue and finishing post on both the DVDs for G.H.O.S.T. and Tales From Mutantville we have kept the promotional train going with recent interviews with regional filmmakers such as Ken Comito and the Ghost Trek crew. I’m looking at a stack of indie horror movies that I’m reviewing this week and I thought you know what some of these would make great features for Scary Movie Saturday. And then I saw Party Girl and thought it was perfect. This is the indie flick for the grease fiend in you.
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This week on Scary Movie Saturday we’re featuring a new release that we stumbled across on Youtube - We Need To Talk About Kevin. We Need To Talk About Kevin is currently making a limited theatrical run across the US. We’ve been hearing nothing but good things about We Need To Talk About Kevin ever since it hit the festival circuit this past year.
We Need To Talk About Kevin tells the story of Kevin’s mother as she struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
Nothing excites the fanboy in me more than an exciting monsterama pitting two unbelievable monsters against each other in deadly combat. From Enter the Dragon to Godzilla vs. Mothra – I love them all – and this week we’re featuring the original monster vs monster battle of the ages in Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)! It was the first of the Universal films to crossover their monsters and was considered the fifth in the Frankenstein canon while being the direct sequel to the original The Wolfman. The studio interfered in this film quite a bit during post-production removing Lugosi’s dialogue as Frankenstein and references to his blindness as condition suffered by the Monster in the Ghost of Frankenstein. So what are you waiting for? It’s Easter weekend and we have movies with monsters fighting! You can watch it streaming on your computer right now! It’s alive – it’s alive – but only on Scary Movie Saturday!
Check out the trailer below and then follow the links after the cut to see the whole movie.
The Dark Tales Chronicles presents The Return (2009)
This week, as the Mutantville Players are playing host to the Mad Monster Party FIlm Festival in Charlotte, NC, we are thrilled to feature another sizzling indie horror short film. Mutantville.com is proud to bring you the third and to this point final entry in the fantastic new series from Godbout Entertainment – The Dark Tales Chronicles – The Return. The Return (2009) tells the story of a son’s curse, a father’s vengeance and the evil that binds them together.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well if you’re a fan of classic series like The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery then you are going to love The Dark Tales Chronicles. Watch the full movie after the leap then visit their official Facebook fanpage. Continue Reading…
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The Dark Tales Chronicles presents Lost Soul (2008)
Happy Saint Patty’s Day you crazy Mutants! It’s Indie Movie March Madness all month long here at Mutantville.com as we celebrate the wealth of independent films around us! Week after week, Mutantville.com finds the best streaming horror movies online and brings them right to your computer! This week we continue our look at the thrilling work on Gerald Godbout III and the second entry in The Dark Tales Chronicles – Lost Soul.
Lost Soul tells the story about of a group of girls who think its all fun and games when they play with a Ouija Board and open the door to the other side. Written and directed by Gerald Godbout III, the man behind Legends I and Legends II A Halloween Tale filmed at the world famous Myers House NC, Lost Soul is sure to chill you to the bone.
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Dark Tales Chronicles presents In The Dark (2006) from Godbout Entertainment.
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.
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In effort to dispel the rumor that Streebo is a film snob – we’ve decided to feature one of the lousiest low rent A Clockwork Orange rip offs that we could find. It sounds like a cool greasy setup but ultimately the movie has no direction and can only be enjoyed for the production value and the sheer moxie that it takes to so brazenly rip off one of the medium’s masters in Stanley Kubrick. There is even a point in the movie where the characters are about to watch A Clockwork Orange. That’s right – we’re talking A Clockwork Terror aka Murder In A Blue World starring Sue Lyon of Lolita fame!
Sue Lyon in Murder In A Blue World
From the IMDb reviews: “This movie is OBVIOUSLY (and quite blatantly) inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”. In fact early in the movie, right before a family is attacked by a group of “droog”-like bikers with bull-whips, they are actually settling down to watch “A Clockwork Orange” on TV!(it’s hard to imagine even in a futuristic film like this THAT movie showing on television in what was still Franco’s Spain at the time). There’s also other blatant references to other Kubrick movies. The female protagonist has a copy of the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel “Lolita” on her nightstand, and the film adaptation of that was also directed by Stanley Kubrick–and Kubrick’s “Lolita”, of course, was played by Sue Lyon, who plays the female protagonist of this movie!”
It hits you over the head and wears a sleazy heart on it’s sleeve. I think it’s a piece of greasy flotsam so why not share it with all of you. So without further ado here’s the best and worst of the A Clockwork Orange ripoffs – Clockwork Terror aka Murder In A Blue World.
“Today is Thomas Edison’s birthday. It’s remarkable here what quick results Dr. Frankenstein gets in the first two years of college.”
Taking our cue from Mr. Ebert we’ve decided to celebrate Mr. Edison’s birthday on Scary Movie Saturday. Without further ado here is the first horror film ever made – Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein on Scary Movie Saturday.
