I know it's short notice but I'm still catching up on work since I was away for the Memorial Day Weekend.
I'll be displaying my work this Friday (June 1st) for Uncut Productions "The Donkey Party" First Friday event. It's to celebrate five years of Uncut Films.
From the Uncut site:
One night only, this may be the only opportunity to see footage never before seen (and may never be again) from the movies of UNCUT over the last five years.
That's right! Mothers Day sneaks and the characters that didn't make the time restraints in, to be announced, shorts will finally get air time.
The night will be programmed to every 15 minutes and your tickets will cover all movies. So if you're sick of seeing one, you don't have to!!!!
Come join us and watch sexy movies, drink, step out and talk, step back in, heckle (we can take it), dance, drink some more and have a damn good time.
$10 TKT - Includes a free drink, $20 TKT - Open beer Bar
The Annex at Christ Church
20 N. American Street
(2nd and Market streets)
20 Artists with work on Display and for sale
A first five years Retrospect of Uncut Films
Silent Auction
Raffle Prizes
Dj Brown and Nez
DJ Brown and Guest
http://www.uncutproductions.org/ for full details.
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Walker
28 Days Later was one of those movies that really seemed to divide fans of zombie films. I liked the movie and thought that its take on a infectious disease called "Rage" that causes people to go insane and want to tear people apart and eat them was interesting and enjoyable. While I saw a few sequences that paid homage to Romero's zombie films I certainly didn't see enough to make me feel that Danny Boyle had completly ripped off the master for his story. The film did suffer from appearing as a low budget horror film shot of DV and of course it suffered from the same affliction almost all zombie films suffer from: The Humans are the real monster syndrome.
Thankfully director Juan Carlos Fesnadillo saw the same problems and decided to avoid them. 28 weeks Later manages to improve on the original in just about every way. The story starts off with a couple Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) who are hold up with other survivors in a secluded farm house. When the zombies attack Don cowardly abandons Alice and escapes. 28 Weeks Later the the US government has taken back control of London after all the infected have died from starvation. Slowly the troops are moving people back into the city. Don has survived and is living back in London. His two kids Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) are also returning to the city via military transportation. Upon reuniting Don explains that their mother was taken off by the infected and died. The children are upset but accept thier fathers story. The kids decide they want to retrieve photos of their mother from their home outside the quarantined safe zone and sneak past security checkpoints. The find their mother hiding out in thier house and not infected. When they are returned to the quarantined zone the Alice is found to be immune to the effects of the virus but a carrier. After reuniting with Don and kissing him Don becomes infected and then all hell breaks loose as the virus starts infecting people one by one and the fight for survival begins again.
While the movie doesn't offer that much in the way of plot it certainly makes up for it in exciting escape sequences as the childres Tammy and Alex escape the quarantine zone dodging zombies and the government to get teh kids to safety and possibly find a vaccine to the virus with the help of Alex who a military medic believes may also be immune to. This film tries to avoid the "humans are the real Monsters" syndrome. When the US military decides they have to take out all the people in the city they really have no choice do to how fast the virus spreads. The soldiers certainly don't like having to do it but the alternative is to allow the virus to escape the quarantine and possibly spread.
The film accomplishes to combine the fear of disease with the zombie genre and does a pretty damn good job of it. The biggest problem with the film is Director Fresnadillo's over reliance on shaking camera movement during the action sequences to make it seam like more is going on than there is. While it at times certainly aides in creating that anxious feeling in the audience it also can make the audience nauseous. I would have liked to see a better balance in the use of the technique.
Overall 28 Weeks Later is one of the best Zombie films I've seen since Land of The Dead and it certainly overshadows the original 28 Days Later.
4 out of 5 Bloody Axes
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Walker
28 Days Later was one of those movies that really seemed to divide fans of zombie films. I liked the movie and thought that its take on a infectious disease called "Rage" that causes people to go insane and want to tear people apart and eat them was interesting and enjoyable. While I saw a few sequences that paid homage to Romero's zombie films I certainly didn't see enough to make me feel that Danny Boyle had completly ripped off the master for his story. The film did suffer from appearing as a low budget horror film shot of DV and of course it suffered from the same affliction almost all zombie films suffer from: The Humans are the real monster syndrome.
Thankfully director Juan Carlos Fesnadillo saw the same problems and decided to avoid them. 28 weeks Later manages to improve on the original in just about every way. The story starts off with a couple Don (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) who are hold up with other survivors in a secluded farm house. When the zombies attack Don cowardly abandons Alice and escapes. 28 Weeks Later the the US government has taken back control of London after all the infected have died from starvation. Slowly the troops are moving people back into the city. Don has survived and is living back in London. His two kids Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) are also returning to the city via military transportation. Upon reuniting Don explains that their mother was taken off by the infected and died. The children are upset but accept thier fathers story. The kids decide they want to retrieve photos of their mother from their home outside the quarantined safe zone and sneak past security checkpoints. The find their mother hiding out in thier house and not infected. When they are returned to the quarantined zone the Alice is found to be immune to the effects of the virus but a carrier. After reuniting with Don and kissing him Don becomes infected and then all hell breaks loose as the virus starts infecting people one by one and the fight for survival begins again.
While the movie doesn't offer that much in the way of plot it certainly makes up for it in exciting escape sequences as the childres Tammy and Alex escape the quarantine zone dodging zombies and the government to get teh kids to safety and possibly find a vaccine to the virus with the help of Alex who a military medic believes may also be immune to. This film tries to avoid the "humans are the real Monsters" syndrome. When the US military decides they have to take out all the people in the city they really have no choice do to how fast the virus spreads. The soldiers certainly don't like having to do it but the alternative is to allow the virus to escape the quarantine and possibly spread.
The film accomplishes to combine the fear of disease with the zombie genre and does a pretty damn good job of it. The biggest problem with the film is Director Fresnadillo's over reliance on shaking camera movement during the action sequences to make it seam like more is going on than there is. While it at times certainly aides in creating that anxious feeling in the audience it also can make the audience nauseous. I would have liked to see a better balance in the use of the technique.
Overall 28 Weeks Later is one of the best Zombie films I've seen since Land of The Dead and it certainly overshadows the original 28 Days Later.
4 out of 5 Bloody Axes
Welcome to another Morbid Edition of RFR! This week RFR goes Hollywood as we welcome JEFFREY WARD, DIRECTOR OF HALLOWS POINT to the show. He will talk Hallows Point, Haunting and Props. We also have an RFR EXCLUSIVE from IAHA as we have BRETT BERTINLINO LIVE FROM THE VEGAS STRIP coming to us with a FIRST TIME ANNOUNCEMENT! In addition we have a bodybag full with HAUNT INDUSTRY NEWS from Bodybag Entertainment, Spookywoods, Halloween DVD, Rotten Jacks and more. There is another WINNER for the SCREAMLINE STUDIOS GRAVEROBBING GIVEAWAY! And let's not forget TWISTED TUNES spinning from the grave from State of Conviction, Ghastly Ones, and more!...So Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away!!!
Travel Channel Brings the UK's Most Popular Paranormal Investigation Team to the US with Seven-Hour Live Broadcast from Eastern State Penitentiary.(May, 2007) Eastern State Penitentiary, considered by...
CILM is now offering individual images and tubes of my artwork.
Here are some new tags..
Thanks to Claire, Kitty, Melissa, & Whitetiger for sending me the new tags.
Send me your tags if you'd like yours added too. I'd love to see them all.
Here are some new tags..
Thanks to Claire, Kitty, Melissa, & Whitetiger for sending me the new tags.
Send me your tags if you'd like yours added too. I'd love to see them all.
Game Box 1.0
David & Scott Hillenbrand (dir) featuring Nate Richert, Danielle Fishel and Patrick Kilpatrick.
I had the pleasure to take a look at Game Box 1.0 this weekend. A friend of mine had been dying to see it based on a trailer found online. I have to admit, the premise is pretty cool. Professional video game tester receives mysterious package in the mail containing a helmet that inserts the wearer directly into a game world, where he must save a girl who looks like his dead girlfriend from a game-generated version of the man who killed her.
Fun, right? Well... almost. As a concept, this movie has some interesting ideas. But in the genre of "is it real/is it fantasy", it has less to do with films like eXistenZ or Videodrome (two movies that Game Box 1.0 directly references) than it does with WestWorld.
It's merely a matter of the little things that get in the way. Once the lead character enters the game world, some interesting effects attempt to simulate a Grand Theft Auto type of style. And while greenscreen is liberally employed here, the sheer lack of creativity in the construction of the shots and scenes ruins the potential for something more engrossing.
In fact, if I had to choose the worst part of this viewing experience, it would have to be that the lighting and the camera work are exceptionally amateur. Hair buzzes with mottled flashes when in the world of the game due to improper greenscreening, hot spots from lights glare distractingly from surfaces... it's a lot of that. There are also some moments where you're BEGGING the scene to change because you've been staring at the same two-shot for what seems like hours.
The real problem is that if you can look past the minor technical stuff and get to the meat of the story and the philosophy behind it, there just isn't much there. I'd address this more, but there's literally nothing else to address. It just isn't there. For a character driven dramatic premise, the characters are painfully underdeveloped and, ironically, are far more 2-dimensional than Lara Croft ever was.
All in all, I'd recommend Game Box 1.0 for one of those nights that you're feeling a little silly and you're looking for a distraction for an hour and a half. It's a no-brainer that will have you rolling your eyes and laughing in all the wrong places.
But it is a neat gimmick. I hope that 2.0 gets made, because I'd like to see more.
David & Scott Hillenbrand (dir) featuring Nate Richert, Danielle Fishel and Patrick Kilpatrick.
I had the pleasure to take a look at Game Box 1.0 this weekend. A friend of mine had been dying to see it based on a trailer found online. I have to admit, the premise is pretty cool. Professional video game tester receives mysterious package in the mail containing a helmet that inserts the wearer directly into a game world, where he must save a girl who looks like his dead girlfriend from a game-generated version of the man who killed her.
Fun, right? Well... almost. As a concept, this movie has some interesting ideas. But in the genre of "is it real/is it fantasy", it has less to do with films like eXistenZ or Videodrome (two movies that Game Box 1.0 directly references) than it does with WestWorld.
It's merely a matter of the little things that get in the way. Once the lead character enters the game world, some interesting effects attempt to simulate a Grand Theft Auto type of style. And while greenscreen is liberally employed here, the sheer lack of creativity in the construction of the shots and scenes ruins the potential for something more engrossing.
In fact, if I had to choose the worst part of this viewing experience, it would have to be that the lighting and the camera work are exceptionally amateur. Hair buzzes with mottled flashes when in the world of the game due to improper greenscreening, hot spots from lights glare distractingly from surfaces... it's a lot of that. There are also some moments where you're BEGGING the scene to change because you've been staring at the same two-shot for what seems like hours.
The real problem is that if you can look past the minor technical stuff and get to the meat of the story and the philosophy behind it, there just isn't much there. I'd address this more, but there's literally nothing else to address. It just isn't there. For a character driven dramatic premise, the characters are painfully underdeveloped and, ironically, are far more 2-dimensional than Lara Croft ever was.
All in all, I'd recommend Game Box 1.0 for one of those nights that you're feeling a little silly and you're looking for a distraction for an hour and a half. It's a no-brainer that will have you rolling your eyes and laughing in all the wrong places.
But it is a neat gimmick. I hope that 2.0 gets made, because I'd like to see more.
A recent article in the Shanghai Daily (of all places) reports that horror movies are finding a bigger home at the Cannes film festival this year.
Citing Tarantino's "Death Proof", which is in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or, as an example of the higher end of genre's spectrum, the article goes on to quote industry insiders as saying that this trend is cyclical. Horror, just like any other genre, will keep brushing up against the mainstream audiences before returning to the background.
The article also mentions the anticipated latest Troma release of "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" as a film not distributed by "niche" companies. I don't know if the journalist who wrote the article is familiar with Troma and their impressive catalogue, but one would hope that they've heard of "Terror Firmer" or "Tromeo and Juliet" if not "The Toxic Avenger".
Ending on a sour note, the article mentions that the market for horror might be over saturated. That could be good news for fans of the genre. Nothing breeds better movies than a glut of bad ones. Nothing inspires film makers more than a movie that "almost" gets it but can be done better. And given the current trend in movie making, with low production costs due to digital video, one can only hope that the next wave of horror film makers will take this as a cue to get ready for the next upswing in market demand.
Probably in about 3 years. See you in 2010.
Citing Tarantino's "Death Proof", which is in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or, as an example of the higher end of genre's spectrum, the article goes on to quote industry insiders as saying that this trend is cyclical. Horror, just like any other genre, will keep brushing up against the mainstream audiences before returning to the background.
The article also mentions the anticipated latest Troma release of "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" as a film not distributed by "niche" companies. I don't know if the journalist who wrote the article is familiar with Troma and their impressive catalogue, but one would hope that they've heard of "Terror Firmer" or "Tromeo and Juliet" if not "The Toxic Avenger".
Ending on a sour note, the article mentions that the market for horror might be over saturated. That could be good news for fans of the genre. Nothing breeds better movies than a glut of bad ones. Nothing inspires film makers more than a movie that "almost" gets it but can be done better. And given the current trend in movie making, with low production costs due to digital video, one can only hope that the next wave of horror film makers will take this as a cue to get ready for the next upswing in market demand.
Probably in about 3 years. See you in 2010.
This week the Body Bag is Jam Packed as we welcome HAUNTED EINSTEIN'S THEORIES OF EVILUTION back with their tips and tricks for you. In HAUNT INDUSTRY NEWS we have Get Married at Raycliff Manor, Bump In The Night Productions, Graverobber Studios, Sinister Scents, Hauntsearch Magazine and more! The old hag ASK GRANNY is with us this week answering more of your haunting questions and we are looking for THE NEXT RFR PERSONALITY and CASKET CREW MEMBERS to join us! There is another WINNER for the SCREAMLINE STUDIOS GRAVEROBBING GIVEAWAY! And let's not forget TWISTED TUNES spinning from the grave from Jerry Vayne, Midnight Syndicate and more!...So Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away!!!
PSPer's and Tag makers. CILM is now offering individual images and tubes of my artwork.
I am the first artist to have their work available this way. Now you can buy your favorite pieces.
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Send me your tags if you'd like yours added too. I'd love to see them all.
I am the first artist to have their work available this way. Now you can buy your favorite pieces.
Here are some tag examples.
Thanks to Dan, Melissa, & Whitetger for sending me the new tags..
Send me your tags if you'd like yours added too. I'd love to see them all.
