Welcome back to another edition of Streeborama here on Mutantville.com. I’m still drowning in an endless stream of editing in a race to get the final cut of G.H.O.S.T. locked in so the visual FX and score can be completed – so I had to shoot another v-log to serve as my blog entry. I shot that so I wouldn’t have to type too much – so why don’t you go check it out now.
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Welcome to the first edition of Streeborama here on the MVP Blog! This week, we’re experimented with making actual personal blog posts for a change to give you all a feel for the individual voices here on the Mutantville Mothership. I decided that I’m a bit tired of writing up articles all the time so I figured I’d just shoot a v-log and post that instead – so that’s exactly what I did.
The next thing I know, it’s approaching midnight and I’m doing fine edits on G.H.O.S.T. at the same time that I’m editing this v-log. How that happened I have no idea but it had to be done. So sit back – turn on the old Youtube and fire up Streebo’s V-log to learn all the latest happenings with Tales From Mutantville, G.H.O.S.T. and the MVP Blog – here on Mutantville.com.
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School is in session as Streebo learns from the Master of Horror - John Carpenter!
It’s Hump Day and that can only mean one thing – no not what you’re thinking – it’s time for Collector’s Corner with MVP! Streebo and Geo made the trip out to the Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky last week to meet John Carpenter, Henry Winkler, J.D.Fiegelson of Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Jim Kelly and many more at what was quite simply the best convention of the year! Streebo made off with a decent load of goodies from the con and is opening the doors to his vault to share them with you!
Check out the video below for the full recap and a peek at the rarities and new treasures that adorn the shelves of the Streebo’s fabled secret lair!
The Mutantville Players were on hand to meet John Carpenter at the Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky this past weekend. For today’s Indie Filmmaker Spotlight, we’ve decided to bring you some handy dandy convention tips for first timers to help you get the optimal experience at the con of your choice! This episode features a very special guest – the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter!
Check out the videos below for useful convention tips whether you’re a first timer or even if you’ve been around the block a few times. If you have some tips of your own that you would like to share with MVP – please leave a comment for us!
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The Mutantville Players made the trip out to the Georgetown Drive-In theater as part of the Fandom Fest 2011 Saturday night for a double feature of Happy Days and American Graffiti! Not only was the place packed with vintage cars, beautiful girls in poodle skirts, and an Elvis impersonator – but the one and only Henry Winkler was in attendance alongside American Graffiti stars Paul Lemat, Bo Hopkins and Candy Clark!
The Mutantville Players were on hand this weekend to witness John Carpenter accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fright Nigh Film Fest in Kentucky. The Master of Horror was honored for a lifetime of dedication to the horror genre as well as for creating such classic works as Halloween, In The Mouth of Madness, Christine, Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China, and most recently Cigarette Burns.
We took plenty of pictures and shot tons of interview footage of the event. We chatted with everyone from Jim Kelly to Larry Drake to Addy Miller to a certain man named John . . . Carpenter that is.
MVP would like to send out a big round of thanks to promoter Ken Daniels and Myra Daniels and their crew for putting on not just one – but TWO great shows this year with the Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest. There were a lot of things that happened that were out of their control like the loss of air conditioning and shortage of tables at the convention center but they dealt with it with equanimity and made this past weekend the best con on the East coast so far for 2011!
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We’re just days away from the Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest 2011 so Streebo thought he should get caught up on his swag updates prior to the con – just in the off-chance that he winds up picking up a few more items over the weekend.
Let’s be real here – Streebo is a collector just like the rest of you. Call it a sickness if you like, call it an addiction if you will, but there is an art to finding great stuff for a low price.
This week on Collector’s Corner, the premiere Mutantville Player – the man they call Streebo opens the doors to his vault and shares a look at his collection. Streebo’s collection is legendary at MVP as he has one of the largest collections of horror reference books and documentaries around! In these videos, Streebo walks you along the shelves of the vault with a revealing look at the DVDs, books and action figures haunting the room behind him.
You’ll see everything from the X-Files to JAWS to Guillermo Del Toro, Roger Corman, The Crow, Pei Mei the White Hermit, John Carpenter’s The Thing, the lament configuration from Hellraiser to David Cronenberg and even a selection of Cthulhu Mythos inspired movies. Check it out after the break!
Last week, the 12th annual Nevermore Film Festival played host to the world premiere of Scarecrow At Midnight. Mutantville Productions was proud to be on hand as the first installment of the Tales from Mutantville anthology collection was shown to horror fans from across the state. Writer/director J.T.McRoberts was on hand to participate in a Q&A session following the screening.
“When the Stars Begin to Fall” featured a wide variety of short films from across the country. Also featured on the program was The Devil’s Toy, Davis, Written By, Last Seen On Delores Street, See The Dead and Murderabilia. Mutantville Productions was proud to share the screen with so many fantastic short films.
MVP was on hand to captire the event live. We are proud to present the “When the Stars Begin to Fall” Q&A session in it’s entirety. Enjoy.
This weekend you can see the first installment of Tales From Mutantville at the Twelfth Annual Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in Durham. But did you know that Scarecrow At Midnight was filmed entirely on location at the one and only Myers House NC? Kenny Caperton, owner of the Myers House NC, invited Mutantville Productions out to his home in Hillsborough last October to film Scarecrow At Midnight.
In 1978 John Carpenter took a budget of $320,000, a small cast and an even smaller crew and created what would become known as THE seminal slasher film of modern horror – Halloween. John Carpenter’s Halloween went on to gross over $47 million in the US and $60 million worldwide. It has since grossed countless millions more on endless home video, DVD and blu ray incarnations making it the most profitable independent movie of all time (that is until the The Blair With Project in 1999 (BWP later being replaced by Paranormal Activity in 2009)).
In 2007, while on a trip to California to see the premiere of Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Smashing Pumpkins superfan Kenny Caperton decided to walk the streets of Pasadena and revisit the birthplace of a slasher legend. It was on this particular tour of the original Halloween filming locations that Kenny decided what better way was there to preserve the memory of the “Myers House” than by building his own. By 2008, Kenny made that inspiration a reality as construction began on his new home – an almost exact replica of the “Myers House” from John Carpenter’s Halloween.
In 2009 Kenny decided to shoot a tribute film to John Carpenter’s Halloween and based it in his new home. Kenny wrote the script for Judith and brought in Josh Hasty (Mannequin In Static) to direct. The story of Judith shows how Michael’s sister, Judith Myers, influenced him and leads up to the terrifying opening moments of John Carpenter’s film. Kenny doesn’t mind being called a superfan, but he doesn’t want his house to become the main location for every Halloween fan film out there.
In 2010, Kenny asked Mutantville Productions to come out to the Myers House NC and film an original horror film. MVP
filmed for two days over a weekend in mid-October and post-production began almost immediately. The rough cut of the film was completed by mid-November and by December, a work print was submitted to the Nevermore Film Festival committee for consideration.
Scarecrow At Midnight was accepted into the Nevermore Film Festival and will make it’s premiere there. The first installment of the Tales From Mutantville anthology will play during the short film block “When the Stars Begin to Fall” on Saturday the 19th at 12pm NOON and again on Sunday the 20th at 2:10pm. Tickets are $8 and are available at the Carolina Theatre box office (package deals and discounts are available).
Writer/director J.T.McRoberts remarks that “I first met Kenny at the First Annual Myers House Halloween Bash in 2009 and then ran into him again at the Nevermore Film Festival in 2010 and he asked me to shoot something original at his house. That’s what I really admire about Kenny, he loves Halloween and horror films so much that he is willing to open his home to strangers to give them a chance to make their own dreams come true.”
” Kenny and I discussed how we wanted Scarecrow At Midnight to be an homage to John Carpenter’s Halloween. We wanted it to have nothing to do with John Carpenter’s movie other than the fact that we used the same house and set the story on Halloween night. In my mind that makes Scarecrow At Midnight a true homage because it doesn’t focus on the past like a fan film – but instead looks towards the future by creating a new horror myth for a new generation. Maybe one day, someone will want to live in “Sonia’s House” from Scarecrow At Midnight.”
If you’re interested in visiting the Spookhouse, then plan to attend one of their events. Kenny hosts regular celebrations at the Myers House NC including the Annual Myers House NC Halloween Bash. Visit the official Myers House NC website for more information.
Come see Scarecrow At Midnight at the Nevermore Film Festival this weekend. Tickets are available online and at the box office at the Carolina Theatre.
