Welcome back to Fridays with MVP, oh faithful Mutants. It’s been another wild and chaotic week on the Mutantville Mothership where we’ve been hard at work on several projects in various stages of productions including Muticia’s Movie Morgue, Indigo Child, Scarecrow At Midnight, Tales From Mutantville, The Metatron Files and G.H.O.S.T. In world horror news, Fright Night(2011) and Conan The Barbarian performed poorly at the box office while Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is poised to surprise everyone this weekend.
Scarecrow At Midnight will be a part of the Tales From Mutantville horror anthology coming soon to DVD and Blu Ray!
Our good friend B. Jr. over at Endurance Productions has been kind enough to share an unboxing video with everyone. We recently shipped B. Jr. a screener for Scarecrow At Midnight to review for his show so he decided to do an unboxing video as well. Check out Endurance Productions and B. Jr.’s Movie Cave over at Youtube as he has tons of great content with movie reviews, unboxing videos, collectibles discussions and more – all at the click of a mouse button. Continue Reading…
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We’re one week away from this year’s Fright Night Film Fest where the guest of honor is none other than the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter! There is a remake of Carpenter’s monster classic The Thing waiting in the wings – but we all know that there is no way it can rival the majesty and ferocity of Carpenter’s 1982 film. MVP thought we should cleanse the palate of bad horror by revisiting the original – remake that is.
John Carpenter’s nihilistic paranoia fueled monsterama splattered it’s way across movie screens in 1982 and left both audiences and critics shaking in fear and bewilderment. It was the summer of E.T. The Extra-terrestrial and the public wanted fuzzy, family friendly aliens. What they got with Carpenter’s reworking of Howard Hawks’ classic The Thing From Another World – was cold, humorless, and as vicious as a rabid pit-bull. The movie was almost universally panned and performed abysmally at the box office.
It wasn’t until years passed by that audiences gained appreciation in hindsight and began proclaiming John Carpenter’s The Thing a masterpiece. Today, you can support John Carpenter by watching his latest horror film – The Ward - playing in theaters and VOD sometime this weekend.
This week on Collector’s Corner, we continue to honor the memory of recently departed master artist – Gene “The Dean” Colan. We’re taking a look at Gene’s classic work on the greatest horror comic of the Seventies – Tomb of Dracula. Gene contributed all of the the art to the Tomb of Dracula series while Marv Wolfman contributed the scripts starting with the seventh issue in 1972 all the way to it’s end in 1979.
Gene recalled “when I heard Marvel was putting out a Dracula book, I confronted [editor] Stan [Lee] about it and asked him to let me do it. He didn’t give me too much trouble but, as it turned out, he took that promise away, saying he had promised it to Bill Everett. Well, right then and there I auditioned for it. Stan didn’t know what I was up to, but I spent a day at home and worked up a sample, using Jack Palance as my inspiration and sent it to Stan. I got a call that very day: “It’s yours.”
Colan and Wolfman were responsible for the creation of the character of Blade who would later serve as the basis for the Blade movies starring Wesley Snipes. Gene’s work on Tomb of Dracula was moody, atmospheric and horrifying. It stands today as a high water mark of both horror and comics in general.
If you’re a fan of horror then you’re more than likely a fan of the fantastic music that accompanies our favorite horror flicks. According to legend when John Carpenter showed his final cut of Halloween without the music to his producers – everyone thought the movie was horrible. One classic Carpenter score later – and Halloween became an instant classic!
If you just can’t get enough great horror scores – then check out the vintage Canadian Ferox episodes featuring music in horror where your hosts Jdog and the Changeling play classic tracks from your favorite horror flicks and discuss each one. Unfortunately Canadian Ferox is no more – but you can still download their shows from the archive. What are you waiting for? Get to listening or get to dying!!
Youtube user HORRORZone666999 has posted a four part video series featuring his picks for the top twenty horror film scores of all time! Featured scores include The Omen, Hellraiser, The Burning, IT, Silence of the Lambs, A Nightmare on Elm Street and many more! If you’re a fan of horror scores – then these vids are for you!
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This week, Scary Movie Saturdays brings you another full length horror film online – The Ghost Train! It’s on Youtube. It’s free. It’s Saturday. What are you waiting for?
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That time is upon us once again, oh true believers. Where it once took decades before the master of modern horror would release another film in his epic zombie series, now over the course of the past five years – George A. Romero has released three new dead films and counting! This weekend, George A. Romero’s latest zombie opus Survival of the Dead opens on VOD, Amazon, X-Box Live and in a limited theatrical run. The Mutantville Players were fortunate enough to catch an early showing of Survival of the Dead during an advance screening premiere at the historic Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC back on April 2nd, 2010. MVP was pleasantly surprised by Romero’s latest zombie yarn as it was a light-hearted departure from the nihilistic overtones of the previous entries in the “Dead” series. Fans expecting another dark and depressing bloodbath will most likely leave the theater disappointed – but fans of enjoyable zombie romps such as Shaun of the Dead, Dead Alive, and Return of the Living Dead should enjoy Romero’s latest zombie pic.
Check out the official trailer on Youtube:
Here’s a nice little sneak peek behind the scenes of the making of George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. As an interesting side note – MVP was able to view this early footage way back in February of 2009 when George Romero hosted the American Zombie Film Festival here in North Carolina.
Hop on over to Break.com and listen as the master George A. Romero discusses his ideas for his latest effort Survival of the Dead. Romero discusses what has been called his neo-western approach taken in his most recent zombie film.
In case you don’t like George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, that is fine – we all have different tastes – but if you say some kind of nonsense like Romero needs to stop making zombie films – then you need to stop critiquing movies and in the words of the immortal Captain Rhodes – you should CHOKE ON ‘EM! CHOKE ON ‘EM!!! Haters will hate.
Keep on making zombie films, George. We’ll keep watching!
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It’s after 1am on a Wednesday night. 8am meeting thirty minutes away tomorrow morning. But….It’s worth it. I just returned from seeing/listening to the Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie show in Charlotte. It was great!
The wait is over! Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie will share the stage for a very limited time! Get tickets and more info at www.alicecooper.com and www.robzombie.com
The night started off with Alice Cooper. I’ve always seen his performances on TV and on film but never live…so once I was invited, I wanted to see his stage show. It was cool. Lots of theatrics, which were cool. Everything sounded good as well. There is still a lot of the tour and you can find more about it on Alice Cooper’s page. TOUR DATES!
For more info – www.eagle-rock.com Alice Cooper’s live shows are legendary for their sense of rock theatre and sheer visual spectacle. This latest addition to our range of titles from the renowned Montreux Festival catches Alice Cooper at his very be…
Next on the bill…Rob Zombie! Wow. He had a huge screen behind the drums and then 3 screens behind him on stage and 2 in front. He had cool film, footage, and effects going the entire show. They had some cool footage. For you horror fans, they had some “Night of the Living Dead” there was some Japanese Anime, some campy old school looking stuff, some gogo dancers, etc… It was a great show. As a guitarist, I was impressed by John 5. I’ve watched a lot of videos with him on YouTube and knew he was great at chicken pickin’ and loves Telecasters.
Thought I’d put a little Rob Zombie on here…but decided to go more old school Zombie!
It’s Monday and that’s means it’s time to drive up the membership on the various Mutantville websites across the universe. Just in case you’re new to Mutantville.com – we would like to share links to our various presences across the world wide web.
If you’re on Facebook – hit the “like’ button on the new fanpage for MVP’s latest project – the science fiction web series Respawner!
Join the fanpage for “G.H.O.S.T.” and keep up with post-production on the MVP’s supernatural thriller starring Kathy Sandvoss!
Be sure to keep checking the Facebook fanpage forMVP’s not quite award winning zombie short – Devil Comes Down as it makes its way across the horror festival circuit in the coming year.
Join the Streebo’s Majic Friends fanpage on Facebook for a constant stream of up to the minute horror news and genre information.
Remember – the beauty in making Facebook work is that you have to “like” everything you see posted by MVP. When you do this – your friends will see it and if they “like” it in turn – their friends will see it and on and on it goes. We’re skating along the cutting edge of social network marketing so make sure you take advantage of it!
Be sure to tweet along with the Mutantville Players on the Twitter machine!
For the latest video reviews, behind the scenes videos and discussions on genre entertainment, be sure to stop by Youtube for the home of Mutant TV!
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For those of you still on Myspace – you can find us there as well!
And if you want to contact us directly – please use the “contact us” form here on the site – or just email us at MUTANTVILLE [AT] HOTMAIL.COM.
Join the fun. Find our accounts and you too can become a Mutantville Player.
Filmriot has posted a full interview with Dustin Lee – the screenwriting instructor at Full Sail – over on Youtube. If you’re an aspiring writer and need some ideas or suggestions or some general direction – it is worth your time to check out this interview with Dustin. He offers some basic screenwriting tips, discusses the three act structure and many more subjects over the course of this interview. Highly recommended to writers and storytellers of all media. Remember to keep checking back to Mutantville.com for ongoing genre news and tips and tricks for filmmakers and storytellers alike.
Welcome back to Fridays with MVP, oh faithful Mutants. It’s been another wild and chaotic week on the Mutantville Mothership where we’ve been hard at work on several projects in various stages of productions including Muticia’s Movie Morgue, Indigo Child, Scarecrow At Midnight, Tales From Mutantville, The Metatron Files and G.H.O.S.T. In world horror news, Fright Night (2011) and Conan The Barbarian performed poorly at the box office while Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is poised to surprise everyone this weekend.
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