I am a man of many projects, a spinner of many plates, a weaver of many websites. In addition to my work at Animatus Studio, I work with writer/director John Vincent on developing his horror feature scripts.
Today, we launched new Philrose Productions website, online at philrosefilms.com . I’ve been eager to leave behind the old Flash navigation for a while now, plus I wanted to incorporate the news blog into the main site. You may notice the design uses a similar sliding menu as the one here on Mad Dog Movies — both templates are based on ones designed by Wayne Connor.
This redesign goes hand in hand with the reveal of our new Mind Rip trailer. What’s Mind Rip? It’s an ode to drive-in horror — with a mad scientist, monsters, and zombies. We’ve produced the trailer as a proof of concept, with the idea of shooting a complete feature down the road.
Find out more about Mind Rip here
Mind Rip Trailer from Mike Boas on Vimeo.
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This doesn’t look like an ode; it looks like your making fun of drive-in cinema.
I know you’ll probably delete this comment, but if you have the incentive and desire to make a “drive in movie” don’t make it like this. You have far more equipment and money than I have, don’t waste it on making something without balls. The public is hungry for REAL drive-in movies and no-one is giving it to them; this looks like a cross between the fake trailers in the “Grindhouse” film and the video to the Beastie Boy’s “Sabotage”. Congratulations! You filmed a glorified Saturday Night Live skit. Hipsters.
Thanks for your comments!
Tone is a tricky thing. We don’t aim to make an out and out comedy. I can think of some that are great: Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Black Dynamite, for instance. But the Mind Rip script is fairly straightforward… it just happens to deal with some impossible monsters and situations. In shooting the trailer, we found natural moments of humor, which came through in the performances and direction.
Yes, it’s possible to make a seriously scary exploitation movie (I’m looking forward to seeing Splice). It’s also possible to make a humorless, uninteresting exercise in CG creatures and dull characters, like so many films I see on the SyFy channel. Mind Rip has ties to horror comics (a la Creepshow) so we’re hoping some morbid humor will fit nicely.
For the record, I’m not a fan of SNL. :)
Thank you A. Ford for your thoughts.
As my associate Mike stated Mind Rip is a 1970’s horror film. The attempt here is not to do a comedy or send up of the drive-in movie. This will be a real horror film that finds humor in the over the top situations. This will be no more a comedy than Evil Dead was.
As for having more equipment than you, you would be surprised on how little we shot this for. The camera was an hvx200 shot at 720 24p. we had all volunteers. Even the head was borrowed from a friend. We only had a few movie lights. What we did have was a great deal of help from friends and family. The project was edited on a pc using Premiere pro and Red Giant’s Looks. More work than money. If you want to email me I will tell you exactly what the budget was and how we did it. philrosefilms@gmail.com
Thanks for the good input!
John Vincent
writer/director