After looking through my blog archives, it turns out I never posted here about the H.P.Lovecraft Literary Podcast. (It must have slipped my mind when I was posting over at Unfilmable.com back in December.)
Listening to the podcast is like reading Lovecraft with sarcastic (yet intelligent) footnotes. What turned me on to it was episode 22, which covers “The Other Gods.” Hosts Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer dig deep into Dreamlands lore to review the story… and the short film I released through Subterranea Entertainment.
They’ve got a great understanding of Lovecraft’s work, and I was thrilled to hear their thoughts regarding the animated film.
So crawl over to hppodcraft.com to listen online. Or get obsessive like me and download every episode and listen on your iPod!
If you’ve been following my Facebook feed ( http://facebook.com/mikeboas ) you’ve probably seen some cryptic messages about croquet in the last week.
It all came about because writer Mike Russo and myself headed up a team for the Rochester Movie Makers 72 Hour Mind 2 Movie Challenge. As you can imagine, this involved writing, rehearsing, shooting, and editing a complete short film in 72 hours. At the start of this event, our team (dubbed TEAM AWESOME) was assigned a line of dialogue, a character, and a prop.
The line: “We are not the doctors. We are the disease.”
The character: Uncle Billy from Utica — a secret drinker.
The prop: A CROQUET MALLET.
Naturally, this suggested the title, “Croquet The Musical.” How could we go wrong?
I’ll be posting a trailer soon. In the meantime, enjoy the following absurd pictures.
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated has been nominated for a Rondo Award! Lovers of animation and horror alike can vote for NOTLD:R as Best Independent Production of 2009.
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards are highly revered in the independent horror community. The voting is open to anyone! I highly encourage you to vote, not only for Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated but for the horror sites, blogs, hosts, movies, and magazines you love.
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated will continue to be hosted by Count Victor Von Scary and the gang at ‘Friday Night – Fright Night’ until this Friday, March 12th at http://www.fridaynight-frightnight.com
So if you haven’t seen it yet, this is the last week.
Great news! The documentary American Grindhouse (for which I provided some animated “film burn” titles) will be premiering next month at South by Southwest in Austin, TX!
Dates have been confirmed for:
Saturday, March 13th at 9 pm
Tuesday, March 16th at 10 pm
It’s terrific documentary about the history of exploitation film in America. Great interviews and tons of clips — featuring interviews with master filmmakers Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Herschell Gordon Lewis, William Lustig, Ted V. Mikels, Fred Olen Ray, Lewis Teague and more.
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So bad it's good. Lots of big explosions, crazy chases, and fight scenes for such a low budget movie, but the plot, dialogue, and acting are ridiculous. Brandon Lee channels Bruce Campbell at his cheesiest as a mercenary trying to save German scientist Ernest Borgnine, who is kidnapped in Cuba by an evil Austrian and his Russian henchmen who then go to […]
Wes Craven comes back, guns a blazing. He didn't direct, but acted as producer and co-writer. This story follows the logic of the first movie much more closely, but there's almost too much plot. The characters are thinly drawn, with one or two easy to remember characteristics. (This is actually more than some Friday the 13th characters get, so mayb […]
A sequel that dared to not just repeat the dream pattern of the first movie. Here Freddy doesn't haunt multiple kids' dreams. Instead, he just wants one -- but not to kill him. Instead, he wants out into the real world by possessing main character Jesse. The homosexual anxiety allegory is pretty hard to miss here. Should Jesse trust his girlfriend, […]
