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

MVP working around the clock in the name of horror.

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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There has always been a healthy film community in North Carolina and this festival will give many independent filmmakers a chance to screen their films for a national audience. We’re looking to put together an entertaining weekend from beginning to end.

We expect to have a potpourri of horror, sci-fi and fantasy that will make your toes curl. I can tell you that we’re already fielding submissions from every talented filmmaker in the country including works from Scott Goldberg and Patrick Rhea and something that promises untold hilarity called Anthole Dickfarm. Yes, Virginia, there is a movie called Anthole Dickfarm. Even Roger Corman would say that’s a title that grabs you. The official selections won’t be announced until March so don’t believe anything you hear unless it comes from MVP.

Expect the ranges of low and high culture to be fully represented with plans to make things even crazier after dark. We’re planning non-stop screenings, drunken commentaries and more hijinx than your Grandmother can handle. There are plenty of announcements still to come about the Mad Monster Party including one of the coolest screenings of a special cut of a movie that has rarely been seen anywhere before. That’s all I can tell you for now until there is an official announcement made.

This festival is an opportunity for North Carolinian filmmakers to share the stage with their counterparts from across the country on a national stage and we invite everyone to take a part in it. MVP won’t have any work in the festival but we will have a time to show Tales From Mutantville adjacent to the festival proper. That means both Indigo Child and Family Fiend will finally have their long awaited premieres for a national audience.

Not to be outdone by the Mad Monster Party – ConCarolinas is shaping up as well. Not only are they bringing in Re-Animator himself – Jeffry Combs – but just this week we received final word that G.H.O.S.T. will premier at the convention this summer for it’s first and only North Carolina public screening. We’ve attended ConCarolinas for several years in a row so it’s good to see one of our movies get some play at home in Charlotte where the majority of the cast and crew reside.

We’ll make more of a proper announcement about ConCarolinas in the coming weeks. That’s about all the news I can handle at the moment and most of you stopped reading about two paragraphs ago so let’s wrap it up and move on to a selection of Mutant TV. Thanks for joining us, enjoy your weekend.
Here’s Johnny and Mutant TV.

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