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November 12, 2003
As many of you know by now, I'm a huge softy when it comes to charity events. I received this note from long time supporter David Latt, some of you might know of him as the director of JANE WHITE IS SICK AND TWISTED, others of you might remember him as one of the men responsible for the sadly missed First Rites line of videos at Hollywood Video. Do me a favor please, if you send any Toys for Tots, please be sure to let 'em know that Allen from B-Indi sent you. Thanks!Dear Family & Friends:
Happy Holidays, Everyone!!!We are again hosting a Toys For Tots Drive this year (last year we received over a 1,000 toys!!!) - and this year it's real easy to contribute: If you have any kind of toy (big or small) just send it by mail or drop it off to my office before November 30th at 3:00pm. That's it. No guilt. Really.
Please send your unwrapped toy to:
David Latt
c/o The Asylum
6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg. 1593
Hollywood, CA. 90028Love,
David, Kim & Audrey LattP.S.: The person that supplies us with the MOST toys will receive 5 DVDs from The Asylum film library!!!
P.P.S: Feel free to pass this email along to your friends.
ABOUT TOYS FOR TOTS:
MISSION: The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.
GOAL: The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a shiny new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to needy youngsters that will motivate them to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens and community leaders.
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help needy children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of our nation's most valuable natural resource - our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; to contribute to better communities in the future.
TIPS: Try to avoid battery operated gifts. Try to avoid really big presents (it's difficult to explain to a child why one receives a HUGE stuffed animal, while another receives only a small doll). Books are great!
November 10, 2003
Thriller Entertainment (NEAR DEATH, www.slaughterhousecinema.com) and Cinephile Digital (www.cinephiledigital.com) are proud to present a Revolting Productions film:THE REVOLTING DEAD Directed by Michael Su (EVERYONE IS KUNGFU FIGHTING, "Crouching Waiter, Hidden Chef" www.a55films.com), THE REVOLTING DEAD is a blend of "28 DAYS LATER" zombie-mania and a "SIX FEET UNDER" from Hell. Scripted by Daniel Benton and Michael Su, the terrifying, gothic story involves the Crains, a deliciously wicked mortuary family (Bokhara Robinson, Michael Falls, Benjamin Keepers, Lindsey Lofaso), who make ends meet by digging up the dead and reselling caskets. Risen from their graves by the spell from an avenging Druid priestess, Marissa Drue, (Shelley Delayne, TROJAN WOMEN, TABLE FOR TWO www.cinephiledigital.com, THE PHOENIX), the angry dead rampage for justice in a terrifying, bloody, and bone-chilling zombiefest. Town hunk Duke Malone (Aaron Gaffey, JACK HAMMER, Slaughterhouse Cinema) must face his own horrific past in order to stop them.
Special Make-Up EFX coordinated by Anthony C. Ferrante (Editor-in-Chief of "Cinescape" magazine). Executive produced by Daniel Benton, Jane Grogan, and produced by Jason Herbst, Tye Beeby, co-producers Anthony C. Ferrante, Josh Morales. Filmed in Hollywood and environs.
***** KGB Productions says that their new film, Deadly Obsessions, is now in post-production. Shot in eleven days guerrilla style & with a budget well under a million. Produced & Directed by Karl Gerard Bauer. Deadly Obsessions is a film noir about love, lust, greed and murder.
Filmed entirely in the Philadelphia area "Deadly Obsessions" was filmed with a small crew. Casting was done in NYC and was assisted by Rebecca Lyttle. The film is being edited by the director Karl G. Bauer
Synopsis:
A couple whose marriage is falling apart get caught up in a murder plot where things are not what they seem to be and people are not who they claim to be.
Marty & Rebecca's marriage is falling apart, and both are having affairs. As their marriage spirals into oblivian both are caught in their own obsessions of love, lust & greed. It is these obsessions that lead them and the people around them into murder & mayhem.
November 9, 2003
The World Premiere of the independent horror movie BLOOD REAPER takes place at The Vine Theater in Hollywood on November 15. The movie will also be showing on Nov 21 and 22 at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood.Screening information:
BLOOD REAPER World Premiere
Saturday, Nov 15, 11:30 pm
Vine Theater
6321 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood
(323) 463-6819
Admission $9 - advance tickets available at box office
Meet the director and castAlso:
BLOOD REAPER Midnight screenings
Friday and Saturday, Nov 21 and 22, midnight
Laemmle's Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood
(323) 848 3500
Admission $9 - advance tickets available at box office
(discounts for students and seniors at Sunset 5)BLOOD REAPER features "Hollywood Scream Queen" Brinke Stevens, it is one of many movies Brinke has been busy with in recent years. Country singer and recording artist Bobby Mackey makes an appearance in the movie, and performs a song he wrote for it called "Juebel". The movie also features up-and-coming star Cameron McHarg in his first action role. BLOOD REAPER was written by Douglas Hensley ("Hell's Gate"), edited by Bill Kimberlin (RETURN OF THE JEDI), and directed by Lory-Michael Ringuette (DEEPLY DISTURBED).
BLOOD REAPER features shocking and bloody special effects, and plenty of suspense and creepy atmosphere, satisfying anyone who is a fan of horror movies. Working on a very small budget, the cast and crew shot BLOOD REAPER in a variety of locations in Northern California, including the Stanislaus National Forest, Yosemite Pines RV Resort, Yolo County, Novato, and Niles Canyon. Drama and conflict thrived during the BLOOD REAPER production, and the people involved have the scars and stories to prove it.
Synopsis:
Fired from her job, Leann joins her friends for a weekend getaway in the cursed mountains, where evil dwells. Warnings of the legendary madman Juebel Fishman go unheeded by the vacationers. But one by one, as they fall prey to the mysterious monster, they discover that the legend is true. Juebel exists, and he wants to kill you…
***** DARKNESS FILMS announces the completion of its second feature length film THE HOUSE BY THE GRAVEYARD. With a budget of $50,000 this Horror film was completely shoot on location in beautiful Tecate, Mexico in 14 days. The Movie stars : Jesse Clarkson ( MTV?s Undressed), Don Ziegler (House of the Dead, 13 Ghosts), Ruben Rox (Twisted Souls, Revenge of the Unhappy Campers) and sexy, newcomer Vickie Emerson.
FILM SYPNOSIS
The "Nasties" are one of the best underground rock bands. Halloween night they are hired to play at the mansion of an eccentric millionaire.
On their way, they hear about a ghost hunting the property, they ignore the warnings and go anyway. After midnight, some of them disappear only to be found brutally mutilated. Are the legends about the ghost real? Or is it the creepy butler, the eccentric Mr. Sellers or one of the volatile members of the band?
DARKNESS FILMS PRESENTS "THE HOUSE BY THE GRAVEYARD"
starring JESSE CLARKSON, CRAIG ALLEN, VICKIE EMERSON, RICHARD HEWITT, RUTH WELLMAN, THOMAS MULL, IDA STRONG, CHRISTINA JAMESON with RUBEN ROX as Peter and DON ZIEGLER as Frederick Sellers.
casting by MASON DUVALL special makeup by ANDREW LANE
edited by JAMES O?SHEA ? ROGER DOUGLAS
costume designer AZURA SULLIVAN director of photography JOHN LANSEN
associate producers STANLEY QUINN ? LAURA FLETCHER ? KEVIN HUNT
executive producer ROGER DOUGLAS produced by JAMES EMERSON
based on an original idea by STANLEY QUINN written by DAVID WELLS-LEWIS
directed by STANLEY QUINN
November 6, 2003
Manhattan’s Pioneer Theater will host a series of theatrical screenings featuring the amusing and erotic movie spoofs of ei Independent Cinema, a New Jersey film production studio that is gaining an international reputation and audience.The “Seduction Cinema” film series begins on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 p.m. with the company’s SpiderBabe, a sexy spoof of Spider-man, starring ei Cinema sensation Misty Mundae. A different ei Cinema film will be screened on the third Wednesday of each month. On December 17, it will be Lord of the G-Strings, a spoof of Lord of the Rings.
The first 50 people to purchase tickets for SpiderBabe on Nov. 19 will be invited to attend a post-screening party at The Den of Cin, around the corner from the theater, where the stars of the movie will be present.
“Theatrical screenings are something new for us,” said Michael L. Raso, president of ei Independent Cinema, whose company has produced more than 30 films and in the past five years, all of them released directly to home video. “We’re looking forward to creating a buzz, particularly in a part of the city - lower Manhattan - where artists, filmmakers and students are the potential audience.”
The Pioneer Theater has already screened an ei Cinema horror film, Screaming Dead, which was written and directed by horror-genre veteran Brett Piper, will be released to home video in early 2004. The October screening of the movie at the Pioneer Theater attracted a sell-out crowd at the theater.
“If the turnout for Screaming Dead is an indication of the drawing power of ei Cinema films, the Seduction Cinema series should be a success,” said Matthew Seig, general manager of the Pioneer Theater. “Their movies are fun and risqué, which is a great combination.”
***** Over a year after it was originally announced on B-Independent.com's threads, Leif Jonker's remastered, definitive version of his underground vampire splatter movie DARKNESS is finally nearing completion. The 13th DREAM ENTERTAINMENT production group has moved from it's hometown of Wichita, KS to Wilmington N. Carolina to join forces with EVOLUTION ENTERTAINMENT EAST -- a new independent production entity founded by veteran make-up artist Rick Pour known for his work on Stephen King's THE NIGHT FLYER, Ang Lee's RIDE WITH THE DEVIL and many others. The collaboration with EVOLUTION is allowing Leif Jonker to re-transfer the original film negative of DARKNESS and perform a complete, final director's edit to be released on a brand new, definitive Special Edition DVD next year in time for it's 10th Anniversary. (Though DARKNESS was copyrighted in 1992, and slated for release in 1993, and therefore has been noted all over the web as having come out in 1993, due to delays at the films original U.S. distributors video duplicators, complicated even more so by the huge earthquake that hit Los Angeles in January of 1994 resulting in the dubbing master for the film being lost, the release copies of the film didn't get out until March of 1994 -- making next year the actual 10th Anniversary of the film's original release.)
13th DREAM and EVOLUTION are also developing a number of film projects with hopes of beginning production early next year including a sequel and prequel to DARKNESS tentatively entitled DARKNESS 2: VAMPIRE FEROX and DARKNESS 3: VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE.
Please check out the brand new app. 2 min. promo-trailer for the upcoming dvd edition of DARKNESS: THE VAMPIRE VERSION as well as see it's new promo-arts and artworks for it's sequels at www.13thdream.com. WARNING: This unrated preview contains scenes of graphic horror not recommended for pre-teen audiences.
Also, for more information on the films remastering, please check out the Feature Story on FANGORIA Magazine's website @ www.fangoria.com
13th DREAM ENTERTAINMENT
EVOLUTION ENTERTAINMENT EAST
***** From Mark Pirro:
It's FINISHED. Rectuma is done...technically. Sergio Bandera is doing the Dolby 5.1 mix, but for all intents and purposes, it is finito! I'm writing this month's newsletter a little early because I have the premiere date set and wanted to post it as soon as possible. The screening will be Thursday, December 4th. Contact us via email if you want the time and location. I thought it best not to post that information here, since one can never be sure who reads these newsletters and I want to make sure that we don't have too many crashers. The room holds 140 people and I have no doubt we will fill it. We may even line up a 2nd screening later that evening if absolutely necessary. There will be a reception following the first screening. And in case you're wondering...yes...just like my last movie's premiere- Color-Blinded...the event costs more than the movie itself! December 4th will come pretty fast, so there's still a lot to do regarding promotions and preparations. I'll be sending out official invitations around the first week of this month. If any of you are not on our invite list, but would like an invitation, let me know. If we like you, maybe we'll send you one. Even if you can't attend, you can sell the invitation on Ebay someday.
We've already heard from a few distribution companies who have expressed interest in Rectuma. That's nice, but I'm not rushing into anything. We'll have our premiere and see how things go with it, then possibly make a decision on distribution. There's a slight chance that we can get a limited theatrical run with this movie. I don't know if that's something I will take seriously, but it's been suggested. Today, one can make a decent transfer from digital video to film. We've come a long way from the early days of Stupid 8...er uhh I mean Super 8.
***** MTI Home Video, the leading independent home entertainment studio and distributor of horror films, will release VICIOUS, the film about a camping trip from Hell… where you don’t need to hunt for food, because you are already it! The feature will be released on VHS and DVD December 30, 2003 (prebook December 5, 2003). The DVD will be shown in 16:9 widescreen, with a whole host of extras, including: commentary from Tom Savini, director’s commentary, deleted scenes, interactive menus, scene selection, cast biographies, optional Spanish subtitles, and trailers.
Synopsis:
A normal camping trip becomes a fight for survival when four friends encounter a mysterious stranger named Kane (Savini). Kane, a government operative is charged with the task of containing a rogue military experiment loo9se in the wild. Kane’s primary objective is to capture unsuspecting campers and feed them to the ravenous beast. In the end, the survivors are faced with a fight to the death with a vicious monster and the man who controls it.
Known for his special effects wizardry and honored last month with the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from The New York City Horror Film Festival and The Independent Film Channel, Tom Savini (Ted Bundy, Children of the Living Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn) is currently working on the Friday the 13th special edition DVD, and is hosting IFC’s show “Indie Screams.” Joining him in VICIOUS are Bill Moseley (HBO’s Carnivàle, House of 1000 Corpses), Brian Bremer (Dead Birds, Good Neighbor), Melanie Parker (Quarterback Princess), and Brinke Stevens (Delta Delta Die, Dead Clowns). VICIOUS was written and directed by Matt Green (Blood Bath, Severed) with Martin L. Kelley (Behind the Nine, Boy@nt!) also writing. The film was produced by Bache Holland (Severed).
***** OBITUARIES from the Astounding Space Monster Newsletter
Fay Helm
One of the last players to survive from Universal Studios? "Golden Age," actress Fay Helm, has died. She was 94. Helm appeared in dozens of films during the 1930s and '40s, often cast as a victim in B movie thrillers. One memorable example is her part as Jenny Williams, the woman bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi -- who later passes his curse onto Lon Chaney -- in the Universal classic, "The Wolf Man." Also for Universal, she appeared in such shockers as "Captive Wild Woman" with John Carradine, "Calling Dr. Death" with Lon Chaney and "Night Monster" with Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill. Other notable parts include the title role in the classic film noir, "Phantom Lady," directed by Robert Siodmak, and the comic-thriller "One Body Too Many" with Lugosi, Jack Haley and Jean Parker. Her final film was 1946's "That Brennan Girl."
Jack Elam
Character actor Jack Elam, who had one of the most distinctive and ubiquitous faces in Western film history, and whose career spanned six decades, has died at 84. Elam's gravelly voice and sinister demeanor (made more unsettling by his sightless, wayward right eye, injured in a boyhood fight) won him numerous roles in "A" and "B" Western features and myriad television programs including "Ride Clear of Diablo," "The Man from Laramie," "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," "Wichita," "The Comancheros" and "Rio Lobo." Later in his career, he took on parts that played his crusty image as a leering gunman or grizzled sidekick for laughs. He worked extensively in episodic television, appearing in "The Dakotas," "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza," "The Rebel," "The Rifleman," "Zane Grey Theater" and many others. Beyond the Western genre, he appeared in such films as "Kiss Me Deadly," "The Girl in Lover's Lane" and "Baby Face Nelson." Elam worked as a studio accountant before winning his first acting assignment in 1949.
Victoria Horne
Actress Victoria Horne, the daughter of director James W. Horne and the widow of character actor Jack Oakie, has died of natural causes. She was 82. B-movie fans will recognize Horne from roles in The Basil Rathbone/Sherlock Holmes entry "The Scarlet Claw," the serial "Secret Agent X-9," "Murder in the Blue Room" and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff." She also appeared in such "A" features as "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Harvey." Her final screen appearance was 1953's "Affair With A Stranger."
Peter Miller
Actor Peter Miller, who portrayed Moran, one of the crewmen who, with Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens and Jack Kelly, ventured to the "Forbidden Planet," has died of cancer. He was 73. In the 1950s, Miller won small parts in big films including "Rebel Without A Cause," "The Blackboard Jungle," and "Tea And Sympathy." His B-movie credits include "A Strange Adventure" with Marla English, Jan Merlin and Nick Adams, and "The Delinquents," which was the 1957 directorial debut of Robert Altman.
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