James Morgart dropped in to give us an exclusive about his new film WON TON BABY and share never before seen pics!
He broke down everything from casting to synopsis of the film and provides with an entertaining interview that gives you everything you want to know about this film until you actually see it! I can't wait to see this film and after you read this, either will you.
Without further ado, here is the wonderful James Morgart!
However, the film is centered around Madam Won Ton (played by Debbie Rochon) and her family (her daughter Little Wing "Lily" Won Ton as played by Suzi Lorraine and her son Ben Won Ton played by Abe Tran). We pulled some crazy hours some nights shooting this film and it was pretty amazing to see the three of them bond. About midway through filming, there was one night that was incredibly taxing and wound up going well into the morning hours. While the crew was setting up for the final scene, I went to prep the actors who weren't no longer in makeup. Instead, I come to find Debbie, Abe, and Suzi passed out on the bed of the set of Ben Won Ton's room with scripts laying out by their sides. It literally looked like a family portrait.
What was great about shooting a film starring Debbie Rochon is not only that you already know going into it that you've got an incredibly talented actress leading the cast, but that everyday on the set there is not a kinder, more patient, more dedicated person on the set than Debbie. She genuinely enjoys working on horror films and when you see someone nailing their lines, really delving into their character, and somehow letting the stress of the production slide off their back, you can't help but want to meet her on that level of professionalism and passion.
Starring alongside the Won Ton family is television veteran Lou Martini, Jr. (best known for his role as Anthony Infante on The Sopranos, Lou pulls double duty in unrelated roles as an Elvis impersonator during flashback scenes in 1970s and as Detective Duke Hardin). I had set out from the start wanting to cast someone for both roles as a sort of homage to Peter Sellers. He's always been one of my favorite actors and though the film is a comedy, it's meant to be played straight the way Sellers would approach the vast majority of his characters. As soon as Lou read the script, he knew he could nail the role. He'd already performed as an Elvis impersonator early in his life and his experience playing a nyc detective on shows like Law & Order made him a perfect fit for the film.
Horror vet Gunnar Hansen is also featured in the film as Dr. Kurt Severson - the surgeon who removes the killer fetus from Lily's stomach. Suzi and I had given Gunnar the script over a year ago and he was the first person to sign onboard. It was actually a good thing that we had given him the script so far in advance being that he had to memorize several pages of medical jargon I had written up for one of his scenes. He didn't miss a beat though and surprised me with his great comedic timing. For the operating scene, I had cast Sal Sirchia, comedic NYC stage actress Peggy Queener, and Upright Citizens Brigade & NYC stand up comic Harry Terjanian to share the scene with Gunnar. And surprisingly, Gunnar seemed more at home working with improv comics than I'd seen him in various horror flicks over the years.
One of the final pieces to the puzzle was Harry Terjanian. He took on several roles for the film as he played one of Dr. Severson's assistants, played the voice of a brothel patron, and, most importantly, voiced the Won Ton Baby. I knew while I was writing the script that Harry would be a perfect fit for the role. Knowing he had ton of improv experience with his work through UCB - and having worked with him on a mockumentary short titled Guy With a Camera - I gave Harry a lot of latitude in coming up with lines right on the spot. We'd mic him up off-camera with a wireless mic during scenes and we'd let him run wild. It's actually a miracle that we got through the sex scene the baby has with a drunken clubrat (played by fellow comedic improv actress Kiran Malhotra) as the crew was barely able to contain themselves from some of the material Harry was throwing out there.
The rest of the cast is comprised of veteran stage, television, and indie film actors from the NYC area - notably Sal Sirchia (Knock, Knock), Nick Raio (Rescue Me and Street Fighter: The Later Years), Rob Kabakoff, and Victoria Guthrie (Michael and Michael Have Issues). I grew up in Jersey only a half hour outside the city, so I felt that if I was going to undertake my first feature, I needed to work with actors who were shaped by the same culture I had been shaped by. The film has a lot of nihilistic elements to it, but also some cultural issues that I thought would only reach its full potential if we had NYC-born actors as well as NYC-immigrant actors fulfilling the roles.
Locations
We primarily shot at an empty office building in central New Jersey. It worked out beautifully as Jen was able to transform each room into sets providing for a realistic 360 degree view of every set. We also had access to two restaurants: La Scarpetta's in West Long Branch, NJ and Attilio's in Lincroft, NJ. Unfortunately, we could only shoot during off-hours, so every night, we'd spend a good two to three hours dressing the restaurant from an Italian restaurant into a Chinese restaurant. The hard work paid off though as the restaurant scenes looked fantastic.
Film's Availability
We have received interest from various distributors already (don't want to name names since we're still in post, however a couple of them are big), however, nothing is set in stone and we haven't signed the distribution rights away to anyone just yet. We'd like to share the film with the fans through a couple of the big events on the festival/convention circuit before releasing it on DVD. But we also know how difficult it is for some fans to get out the events, so we'd love to have it out on DVD sometime early to middle of next year.
We plan to have the film fully cut with a final score (composed by horror vet Mars of Dead House Music) with the composite work on the baby completed by mid-September. So we're hoping to premiere at Gorezone Film Festival in London (where Suzi is hosting this year - the weekend of Halloween). We're also aiming to have the film finished in time for the NYC Horror Film Festival. We've already secured a promotional table there, so even if we miss the deadline, a new trailer will be airing there (our initial teaser trailer was largely rushed to share with the public following a radio interview, so the footage wasn't re-mastered nor color corrected...so while we all loved the trailer that was put together in 24 hours, it clearly wasn't what the final footage is shaping up to be...and obviously, the stills here show the marked difference in quality).
What Audience Will Go Home With
There's a quote by Stephen King that I think every horror fan is familiar with:
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
In the case of Won Ton Baby!, if we don't make you laugh, we're gonna gross you out. Whether that be by way of a fetus masturbation scene, an umbilical cord sex scene, or the unique death scenes we constructed to complement our intended message. In fact, the only PG-rated scenes in the flick are the first five minutes of the movie.
Personally, I've always adored horror because of the freedom it allows in terms of artistic expression in combination with shocking and disturbing thoughts and images that society deems "inappropriate." However, going back to the roots of horror whether that be the literature of the Gothic writers of the nineteenth century like Horace Walpole, Charles Brockden Brown, and Mary Shelley or the films of twentieth century directors like James Whale, Alfred Hitchcock, and George A. Romero - horror has always had its roots firmly planted in the socially & politically subversive. And that's where this film seeks to go. Because of the nihilistic/libertarian views of the film, I think horror fans will latch onto that...horror fans, more than any other genre, understand the importance of a community and that is exactly what this film is playing towards. The Won Ton family is a lot like the horror community (and in a lot of ways plays well when read as that metaphor) - initially shunned by others for all the wrong reasons but not necessarily always justified in all its various messages. In the end though, banding together and finding our roots makes our niche an incredibly powerful and lasting force within the entertainment industry.
But if the message falls flat, there's always lots of blood, guts, defecation, semen, and sex in the film to both shock and entertain the masses.
And finally...
Synopsis
Nearly thirty years ago, former brothel owner, Rachel "Madam" Won Ton, was involved in the most wild and drug-filled nights of her life. The drug-induced incident leaves the Madam pregnant, and with no desire to let the child go, she instead decides to switch careers.
Today, despite having converted her brothel into a fully-functioning Chinese restaurant, the Won Ton family faces the animosity and scorn of outsiders. However, social scorn is the least of Madam Won Ton's concerns as the mother of two is faced with a greater challenge: her adult daughter has a cannibalistic parasitic twin growing in her belly.
When the fetus is removed, it's not only alive but it's mutated umbilical cord leads the way from initially innocent mischievous behavior to what soon becomes a horrific, gory nightmare. Murdering and eating its victims ultimately leads to a showdown with the Won Tons and their grotesque creation. But can the Madam protect her family from this baby? Or is it too late? Have their futures been sealed thanks to the release of Won Ton Baby!
We are so excited about this film so make sure to keep an eye out for it!
We will keep you updated!
-Dai
Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, the duo behind Saw IV, V, VI, and soon VII. MakingOf.com is a site that continuously uploads filmmaker interviews and other behind the scenes video, and they have a new interview up with Dunstan and Melton. The conversation goes from the Saw films to Dunstan's newest project and directorial debut: The Collector.
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The Vampire's Assistant is based on the line of Cirque du Freak young adult novels by Darren Shan.
Vampires right now are the in thing so I bet this film gets plenty of viewers whether their young or old, there'll be an audience. John C. Reilly, Ken Wantanabe, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, Patrick Fugit, Ray Stevenson,Michael Cerveris, Frankie Faison, Jane Krakowski, Orlando Jones, Kristen Schaal, Salma Hayek, and Willem Dafoe. Would you be willing to sink your teeth into this story or are you already all vampired out?
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The Shrine has a group of young journalists who start to investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice and if they're not careful they could end up being the next victims. The film so far stars Aaron Ashmore, Trevor Matthews and Cindy Sampson- more actors should be announced soon.
Jon Knautz is the director and he co-writes with Brendan Moore while Trevor Matthews serves as executive producer with J. Michael Dawson just producing. We will all get to witness the scenario of true horror survival- who wants to become someone else's sacrifice? Not me!
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P is coming from director Paul Spurrier and is about a young and beautiful orphan girl who is taught
the spooky art of dark magic by her grandmother. Soon her loving gram becomes sick and they
need money for medicine so Dau travels to Bangkok looking for a job.
Dau gets a job as a stripper
but is tormented by the other catty bitchy dancers at first. Soon she is the top dancer at the club
and now there are some serious jealous issues. Dau's magic gets darker and more malevolent and
eventually pure evil takes over.
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Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones has a young girl who was murdered and she sticks around here
instead of completely crossing over to keep a watchful eye on her family and her killer. Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Saoirse Ronan all are to star.
What would you do? Would you choose to be vengeful towards the person who killed you or would
you want to help comfort your family so they could heal and move on with their lifes? Besides if
you did something nasty to the killer how would you be allowed in Heaven anyway?
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Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Alfred Molina, Justin Long, Josh Charles and Chandler Canterbury are all playing character's in After.Life. The film was scripted by Agnieszka and Paul Vosloo. It's the tale of a woman who is caught in the state of being alive and dead who needs to fight to show she's in there to avoid being buried alive.
The funeral director has her fate clenched in his hands, will he see that there is still life clinging within her? Or will he just go on and prep her for the burial? Jeeze, that's almost just as bad as not being knocked out during your surgery even though you are paralyzed.
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Zombieland from Columbia Pictures will be stalking the theatres on October 9th, Are you excited? I think I might be! Director Ruben Fleischer has put zombies on fire, zombie strippers, zombies in grocery stores- you name it it's probably in here. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenburg, Emma Stone, Abigal Breslin, and Amber Heard all star. In here we see that Columbus makes it a habit to run from what frightens him while Tallahassee doesn't know the meaning of being afraid. These two are paired in a world over populated by zombies.
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Screen Gems and writer-director Michael Cunningham's Beautiful Girl has an English teacher who exacts revenge on those who pick on a student he has an obsession with. There weren't anymore ndetails on the flick to be found so we'll just have to wait and see who the cast will be and when it
will be released. Hmmm, a spiteful teacher could be good. I wonder in what ways he will torture these brats. Maybe he'll beat them with a ruler and stick chalkboard erasers down there throats? Or have them try to spell words and if they mess up carve it in their foreheads?
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Joel Trujillo's Serpent Lake is pure B movie goodness! In the summer for over 30 years a unknown creature inhabits the freshwater lake in Minnesota. Some scientists and other experts find current evidence that the things existence is real. Most people don't believe it they think it's just a hoax or Urban legend meant to impress the tourists.
Scientists are baffled by it and want to find the answer to their question of where the hell does it come from? Maybe if they find out then no more people near the lake will go missing.
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I remember hearing that Wes Craven was not too thrilled at the remaking of his Nightmare on Elm Street so maybe he is getting deeply involved in his new flick 25/8 so he doesn't even have to think about it.
The movie is about the town of Riverton and the legend that tells of a serial killer who swore he would return to murder the seven children born the night he died. It's now about 16 years later and people are going missing again. Is this killer back for revenge? Maybe he never really died? I guess we'll have to tune in to find out.
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Fruit Chan's English spoken supernatural thriller is based on Hideo Nakata's tale Joyurei. Here a young horror director has sensitivity to paranormal visions that are starting to make him think he just might be crazy. Will this madness take over him and the film crew?
To him it seems like the characters from his new film are starting to come to life all around him. Is this really happening? Like some sort of unexplainable phenomenon? Soon a portal will open and all of these horrifying incidents from the past begin to reoccur.
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We have all been touched by fictitious persons at numerous points in our lives. They have moved or amused, horrified or inspired us since early childhood. Story-telling is one of the most fundamental of human activities, probably as necessary to our mental health as eating, drinking and breathing are to our physical well-being. Story-telling is almost inconceivable without villains. In some cases those villains are scarcely human, and take the forms of supernatural beings or anthropomorphised animals. Usually, however, the characters in stories are imaginary human beings. They range from the larger-than-life (frequently omnipotent) heroes and heroines of myth and legend, to the all-too-human (often ironically limited) anti-heroes, to the terrifying (seemingly unstoppable) monsters and villains of folk tales and fiction who populate realistic novels, plays and films. We first meet them in the nursery, and we continue to meet versions of them throughout our lives. Like it or not, the following villains (and characters like them) form part of the furniture of our minds.
HAL 9000: The first computer to really achieve the status of famous fictional villain. HAL is an artificial intelligence aboard the spacecraft Discovery, sent with a five-man crew to locate the origin of an alien monolith found on the Moon. HAL malfunctions, attempts to take total control of the mission, and murders four of the crew by devious means. The remaining human, David Bowman, dismantles the computer's memory, effectively 'killing' HAL. The scene in which HAL regresses to babbling mental infancy, singing Daisy Daisy, is oddly poignant. All this is recounted in Arthur Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the spectacular film which was released simultaneously with it (co-scripted, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick). Years later Clarke wrote a sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) in which HAL is reactivated by the crew of another space vessel who are trying to unravel the mystery of what happened to the Discovery. This in turn was filmed by Peter Hyams in 1984. There were two further sequels that have not yet been adapted to the cinema - 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey.
HOOK, CAPTAIN JAMES: The antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations. The character is a villainous pirate captain of the Jolly Roger galleon, and lord of the pirate harbour in Neverland, where he is widely feared. Most importantly, he is the nemesis of Peter Pan. It is said that Hook was Blackbeard's boatswain, and that he was the only man Long John Silver ever feared. Hook wears an iron hook in place of his hand, which was cut off by Peter Pan and eaten by a crocodile. Hook hates Peter obsessively and lives for the day he can make Peter walk the plank. Over the decades Captain Hook has been portrayed by many interesting actors including Hans Conried (1953), Boris Karloff (1960), Danny Kaye (1976), Tim Curry (1990), Dustin Hoffman (1991) Corey Burton (2002) and Ian McShane (2007).
HUDSON, 'BABY' JANE: Grotesque aging film actress, a former child star, played by Bette Davis in the 1962 film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? directed by Robert Aldrich. This unpleasant story, in which Baby Jane torments her handicapped sister, has been described as a 'sado-gerontophilic exercise in Hollywood Grand Guignol'. Lynn Redgrave played Baby Jane opposite her real-life sister Vanessa in a 1991 made-for-television version. The script is based on the novel by Henry Farrell.
HEEP, URIAH: Repulsive toadying villain, a creature of feigning humbleness, in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (1850). He blackmails his virtuous employer Mr. Wickfield, but luckily the trusty Wilkins Micawber finds him out. In films and television Uriah Heep has been played by Roland Young (1935), Ron Moody (1970), Martin Jarvis (1975), Paul Brightwell (1986), Nicholas Lyndhurst (1999) and Frank MacCusker (2000), among others.
INVISIBLE MAN, THE: Doctor Griffin, the scientist who discovers the secret of invisibilty and is driven mad by the consequences, in H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man (1987). The 1933 film of the book starred Claude Rains, whose face becomes visible only at the end of the movie. A spate of 'Invisible Man' films followed the success of this adaptation of Wells' original, including The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) and such parodies as Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951). There have been two television series called The Invisible Man, the first made in Britain in the late 1950s owed very little to Wells' story and the second, made in America in the mid-1970s, owed absolutely nothing at all to the original, in which David McCallum starred as an invisible scientist-turned-government agent. Since then, an extremely faithful version of Wells' novel was serialised in six parts on BBC TV in 1984 starring Pip Donaghy as the unhappy Doctor Griffin.
JAWS: Nickname of the great white shark in Peter Benchley's 1974 novel Jaws. The 1975 film directed by Steven Spielberg was even more of a popular success than the book, and the name 'Jaws' entered the language. For example, the metal-toothed villain played by Richard Kiel in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was known as Jaws. The sequels to the film Jaws were Jaws II (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983), and Jaws The Revenge (1987), each of which featured yet another monstrous fish intent on snapping off unwary swimmer's legs.
JEKYLL, HENRY: Virtuous doctor who brews a medicinal potion which transforms him into the villainous Edward Hyde, in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886). This remarkably Freudian fantasy of a split personality has become one of the myths of our age. More recent sequels by other hands are Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes (1979) by Loren Estelman, wherein Jekyll meets the most famous of his fictional contemporaries, and Valerie Martin's Mary Reilly (1990) in which the story is retold by Jekyll's maid. There were various theatrical adaptations of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde from 1888, followed by seven silent movie versions made between 1908 and 1921, the last and most famous of these starred John Barrymore. Later films include Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in 1931 starring Fredric March and again in 1941 with Spencer Tracy, Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1953) with Boris Karloff, The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll with Paul Massie. the tran-sexual variant Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1970) with Ralph Bates, and many more. A 1981 British TV movie of Stevenson's story had David Hemmings as Dr. Jekyll. 1990 gave us the American Jekyll & Hyde, a four-hour, two-part, made-for-television film starring Michael Caine in the title roles. 1996 saw John Malkovich as the good doctor in the film adaptation of the novel Mary Reilly. Most recently, 2003 saw The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen featuring Jason Flemyng as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and in Van Helsing (2004) Robbie Coltrane provides the voice of Hyde, who Van Helsing unintentionally kills when pursuing him through Paris.
JIGSAW KILLER: The Jigsaw Killer is a fictional character in the Saw franchise, the most popular movie series since James Bond. Jigsaw made his debut appearance as the primary antagonist in the first film of the series, Saw, and later Saw II, III, IV, V, VI and beyond. He is portrayed by actor Tobin Bell. Jigsaw, introduced in the series as Jonathan Kramer, was a patient dying from an inoperable frontal lobe tumor that had developed from colon cancer. Jigsaw usually creates deadly tests for his subjects, where often a symbolic representation of what could be seen as a flaw in the person's life. He claimed that he was attempting to help his victims to appreciate their life by jump-starting their survival instincts by placing them in life-threatening situations.
KING KONG: Gigantic ape discovered on Skull Island in the Pacific Ocean and shipped to America as a circus attraction. Kong breaks his chains, runs amok in New York, climbs the Empire State Building, and is eventually killed by the machine-gun fire of fighter planes. The film King Kong (1933) is the most famous beast-fable of the twentieth century. It starred Fay Wray as the delectable young lady who softens Kong's heart, and is carried to the top of the skyscraper in his hairy fist. The story was by Merian Cooper and Edgar Wallace in collaboration with scriptwriters James Creelman and Ruth Rose, and the animation of Kong himself was achieved by special effects genius Willis O'Brien. The movie inspired several sequels and imitations, such as Son Of Kong (1934) and Mighty Joe Young (1949). Two Japanese films about the great ape are King Kong Versus Godzilla (1962) and King Kong Escapes (1967). There was also an animated television series in 1966 about Kong's adventures. King Kong itself has been remade twice, once in 1976 with Jessica Lange in the Fay Wray role and Rick Baker in the monkey suit, and in 2005 with Naomi Watts and starring actor Andy Serkis in the motion-captured role of Kong.
KRUEGER, FREDDY: A fictional character from the Nightmare On Elm Street series of films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured, dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill children and teenagers in their dreams, which ultimately results in their death in the real world. He was created by Wes Craven, and has been portrayed by Robert Englund in all of the Nightmare On Elm Street films, as well as the television series. Freddy is undead, and can attack his victims from within their own dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, red and green striped sweater, brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove. Wizard magazine rated him the fourteenth greatest villain, a British television channel listed him eighth, and the American Film Institute ranked him fortieth on its Hundred Heroes And Villains list. Actor Robert Englund feels that the character represents neglect, particularly the neglect suffered by children. Jackie Earle Haley has been cast as Freddy Krueger in the 2010 reboot of the film franchise.
KURTZ: Tortured villain of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart Of Darkness (1899). The story is narrated by Marlow, who tells of his journey to a remote part of Central Africa (apparently the Belgian Congo, although it's not named in Conrad's text). Kurtz is a successful agent for a company of ivory traders, he enjoys god-like power over his native workers, but this has been bought at a terrible price. He has learned to employ the most barbaric methods, including human sacrifice, and dies with the words "The horror, the horror" on his lips. The character reappears as Colonel Kurtz, a crazed American who has created a savage fiefdom in the jungles of Cambodia, in Francis Ford Coppola's remarkable film Apocalypse Now (1979) played by Marlon Brando. 1993 saw a more faithful version of the story with Tim Roth as Marlow and John Malkovich as Kurtz.
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Aubrey, last of the family line, and leader of an all-girl band, believes the old family home will be an ideal place for writing and rehearsing their new CD. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she and her band move in with dreams of making it big in the rock and roll world.
Only then does the lurking horror of her family’s true legacy reveal itself, as she fights desperately to find the truth and reject her dark inheritance.
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Everyone needs to work retail at some point in their lives in order to be classified as a true human being, because it’s only through having to deal with people can you truly appreciate the horror that is the human race. I’m actually not talking about the customers, these people are there voluntarily to spend money on something they don’t actually need. Attending to them is the easy part. I’m talking about management.
I’ve never been against authority, somebody’s got to be in charge and I certainly don’t want to be. And customer service representatives have a magic spell they learn the day they e-mail their application. “Let me get the manager.” It’s wonderful. Whatever the problem is, it gets put on hold, and then it becomes the problem of the person who scheduled you nine to four instead of nine to three (like you clearly stated in the formal request with seven corporate signatures on it that you turned in two weeks before you got hired).
Revenge is delightful. The gentleman who rented your video store’s only copy of The Goonies which destroyed his VCR heads, shut down his power and ended his long term relationship has now produced a sub-machine gun and opened fire at your work station. You calmly offer “Let me get the manager” and time stops. You literally dodge bullets.
And why wouldn’t you? Your manager has it coming. They are the ones who give you the orders to talk to the customers in the first place. I don’t mind vacuuming. I don’t mind restocking. I don’t even mind getting held up. But why do I have to talk to the customers? They hate me for it. It’s not smiling or greeting them that anyone has a problem with, it’s that push from management to make every one who enters the store feel like they’re at home, even if they come in with their hands firmly over their ears screaming “No! I don’t need help finding anything!”
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August 3, 2009 – Production has wrapped on Greg Lamberson’s SLIME CITY MASSACRE. The film shot for 19 days at various locations in Buffalo, New York, including an abandoned postal facility adjacent to the dormant Central Terminal Station. The film stars Jennifer Bihl, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke, Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins, and SLIME CITY veterans Robert C. Sabin, Mary Bogle, T.J. Merrick, and Dick Biel. Brooke Lewis and Tommy Sweeney provide additional support.
“Despite our budget, this was the biggest film I’ve ever worked on,” says Lamberson. “We had four characters who become Slime Heads, five who are mercenaries, eight who are cannibals, and fifty homeless people. My director of photography, Chris Santucci, did some amazing shots and the entire cast performed beyond my wildest expectations. Halfway through the shoot Debbie and Kealan came to me and said, ‘Greg, this has been such a wonderful experience that we’ve decided to get SCM tattoos. I was speechless; Debbie’s been in 200 films, and this is her first tattoo. Mine, too!”
SLIME CITY MASSACRE is set in the ruins of midtown Manhattan seven years after a dirty bomb decimates the financial district. Four squatters discover a supply of “Himalayan yogurt” and “Zachary Devon’s Home Brewed Elixir.” The concoctions turn each survivor into a slime oozing monster compelled to murder as they are possessed by the spirits of cultists who committed suicide decades earlier. Sabin appears as Zachary in flashbacks and Bogle returns as her SLIME character, now called “Swan.”
“SLIME CITY MASSACRE is loaded with old school latex effects and newfangled CGI,” Lamberson continues, “although the SFX crew used silicone, not latex. There’s a lot of action and gore, and references to other 1980s splatter flicks abound. Lloyd Kaufman and Roy Frumkes generously flew here on their own dime to participate. Lloyd has a cameo at the beginning of the film which should get things off to a good start, and Roy has a more substantial role as a greedy developer who hires mercenaries to wipe out the homeless people in Slime City.”
Phil Gallo, who composed the score for MOTHER’S DAY, will now edit the film, which will be scored by the composer known as Mars. Giasone and Marcy Italiano, who created the GRUESOME CD based on Lamberson’s novel Johnny Gruesome, are recording a theme song. R.J. Sevin and Arick Sczymecki are handling CGI. And Stephen Romano (Shock Festival) is creating the visuals for the title sequence. Lamberson, whose novel Personal Demons will be out in paperback come October 1st, plans to complete the film by the end of this year.
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PRP Motion Pictures is proud to announce VICIOUS a motion picture written by Amanda Carver based upon a story by Andrew Rose.
VICIOUS is a twisted tale of fame, betrayal, breakdown and murder. Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll are only the beginning for rocker Bowie Thrash and his band The Code Blues. VICIOUS takes a deep, demented bite out of addiction and gives us a gritty, gruesome look at rock bottom as a star crashes and burns. Bowie Thrash takes us on a hellish journey through the nightmare that has become his reality.
Parrish Randall of PRP Motion Pictures (Slaughter House, The Quick & The Undead, Flesh Keeper, Imago) will direct the motion picture as well as star in the role of RICHARD DINGO, the band’s ruthless manager and agent who will do whatever necessary to ensure this band is on top and he is making a lot of money.
Jeff Dylan Graham (Psychosomatika, Sculpture, Pop Skull) is cast as the leading man, BOWIE THRASH, the punk rock lead for The Code Blues, rocketing to fame while hell bent on a path of self destruction.
And in her first appearance in independent horror cinema since wowing audiences as Pam, the meat hook swinging victim of Leatherface, in the 1974 cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Teri McMinn is MS. PAMELA GRAVES, the compassionate and loving mother who is willing to lay it all on the line for the ones she loves.
Additional cast announcements will follow.Principal photography is set to begin October of 2009 with a planned release in 2010.
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Louisville, KY, August 14-16, 2009 –
The fifth annual FRIGHT NIGHT FILM FEST will feature numerous films from the Kansas City area this year, one being the sophomore feature film from local “Grind-house auteur” Jeff Chitty: SURVIVE! The film follows newlyweds Bill (Bill Headburg) and Jennifer (Amanda Dawn Harrison) on the way home from their honeymoon, the horror and tragedy that befalls them when they stop at a seedy repair shop, and the violent aftermath thereof.
The film is primarily cast with Kansas City actors, rounded out by Mike Ducey, John Miller and fellow local filmmaker William Connely and a very special voice appearance by horror film queen Tina Krause.
Shot on location in Weston MO and Kansas City MO, the film was primarily shot over 3 days on a less than shoestring budget. The film will screen at 11:30 Saturday, August 15th at FRIGHT NIGHT FILM FESTIVAL, taking place at the Crown Plaza Hotel all weekend.
Also screening films at FRIGHT NIGHT this year are critically acclaimed Kansas City filmmakers Kendal Sinn and Patrick Rea.
FRIGHT NIGHT FILM FEST has been host to such horror celebrities as John Dugan (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), KANE HODDER (FRIDAY THE 13TH 7-9), Dannielle Harris (HALLOWEEN 4,5, and ROB ZOMBIE’S HALLOWEEN) and Tiffany Shepis (BONNIE AND CLYDE VS. DRACULA, NIGHTMARE MAN, DARK REEL), and this year will feature guests such as Linda Blair(THE EXORCIST, THE EXORCIST 2), Marshall Bell (NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2, STAND BY ME), Sybil Danning (THE HOWLING 2, GRINDHOUSE), Michael Madsen (KILL BILL, BLOODRAYNE) and William Forsythe (DEVIL’S REJECTS, ROB ZOMBIE’S HALLOWEEN).
For additional information on FRIGHT NIGHT FILM FEST, visit their website at http://www.frightnightfilmfest.com
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