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Tex: Vampire Hunter to screen at Beloit International Film Festival in Wisconsin
Last year I was able to catch up with Gabriel, filmsmith and all around cool guy who was developing Tex: Vampire Hunter (or) Make Thick My Blood: A Tragedy in One Act. The film had a bunch of stuff going for it right from the outset. Vampires. Cowboys. Jen Page. Blood and gore. All the good stuff.
Continue reading...District 9 – First Thoughts via a late night stream of consciousness
Saturday, August 15, 2009
It's about freaking time. No motherships were downed with a Mac. No ragtag group of scrappy human resistance fighters reconquered the Earth. No evil aliens out to steal our water or women or plutonium. There were no clear winners in this film. I am so glad to see a science fiction film that treats its audience as capable of forming their own opinions, seeing what is on the screen and drawing conclusions that don't have to be spelled out with an awl and sledgehammer.
Continue reading...Attention Science Fiction Fans: The Last of the Free is a movie yearning to be made.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Michael Ozias has a science fiction movie he'd like to make. Unlike other folks (like me, for instance) he's also got a script, a plan and a damned good trailer to back him up. Last of the Free is the story of two adolescents, Izan and Hana, on a quest to escape the misery of the dystopian future they live in. In an oppressive time, where freedom, innovation, and individuality are non-existent, they live for the society but long for themselves. Read on for an interview, production stills and to watch the trailer.
Continue reading...Holy Cow! A SciFi movie that looks intelligent, controversial and fun! District 9
Thursday, July 9, 2009
You may have already seen this new trailer for District 9. If you have, watch it again, it's awesome. If you have not, well feast your eyes my friends. Click through to the article to see the embedded trailer.
Continue reading...Hollywood and the (in)accurate portrayal of medieval life
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Here we’ll toy with the definition of Medieval quite a bit and perhaps replace it entirely by the time this ramble is through. I’m talking about those movies that not only grip you in their poetic throes, but do so with realistic costumes and historical accuracy. They’re few and far between as no film is completely historically accurate and no picture of history is absolutely complete. Also, people won’t sit for twenty minutes while King Richard II treats us to a Medieval French monologue while in the garderobe.
Continue reading...How to create a vampire short film – Tex: Vampire Hunter, the interviews
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Previously I wrote a bit about a new short coming our way soon. Tex: Vampire Hunter or Make Thick My Blood: A Tragedy in One Act. I caught up with Gabriel, the man responsible for the movie and had a chance to talk briefly about this freaking awesome vampire western. Gabriel started his project through the Seattle Film Institute but it seems to have taking on a life of it's own and grown a bit bigger than a final project. Now it's a full fledged, hand-carved wooden bullet vampire slay fest.
Continue reading...Zombie Short Film Festival (ZSFF) of Toronto now accepting submissions, brains.
Monday, July 6, 2009
It seems I just got finished talking about one zombie short and now we're going to be mobbed by lots more. Like a horde of the flesh eating, living dead it's the Zombie Short Film Festival! The Zombie Short Film Festival is the brain-child of Jim Taylor and Cory Laffin, two dudes who live in Toronto. We are hoping to hold it at the Revue Cinema, on Roncesvalles Avenue, in Toronto. Our target date is Friday, October 30th. I talked with Jim Taylor not to long ago and got the skinny on what is going on. There are still some details that need to be put together but it looks like this is coming along nicely!
Continue reading...I Love Sarah Jane is a film about burgeoning love, coming of age and the zombie apocalypse
Friday, June 26, 2009
I remember my first crush as a very young man and I'm certainly glad I didn't have to contend with a horde of undead at the time as well. As a warning, the film is a bit gory and is peppered with prebubescents swearing - so use headphones if you're at work. It's also got a bit of humor to it and on the whole is pretty damned awesome. Take away from it what you will. Click through to see the movie.
Continue reading...Tex: Vampire Hunter has guns, vampires and corsets
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Welcome to Tex: Vampire Hunter, a forthcoming film directed by Lautaro Gabriel Gonda which spins itself out thus: Tex is a gunslinger in the old west who has dedicated his life to hunting down and killing vampires. His travels bring him to a brothel used by vampires as a front to lure their victims. This evil bordello also happens to be run by his ex-lover, a beautiful vampire named Elisabeta. Tex is haunted by his past, but will he be able to discover the dark secret that binds him to his prey, or will his righteous rage blind him?
Continue reading...TARA is a girl meets boy, boy is an ass, boy goes missing, pools of blood found, beast on the prowl movie.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Our favorite actress here at TC is currently filming another independent film. This time it’s a monster movie with some twists that goes by the name of TARA. I had a chance to speak with Ace, one of the folks responsible and I got some details of the film. Pre-production (which took 7 months) is over and as of April they’ve been filming. They’re roughly half way through shooting so this post may qualify as the first bit of extra info out in the ether.
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