Truly Dreadful Tales from W.A.V.E. Movies.com

If you prefer to order via credit card, our newest production, TRULY DREADFUL TALES, along with UNDERBELLY and DEADLY PREMONITIONS are now all available at W.A.V.E. movies! http://www.wavemovies.com/other_producers/fandc/index.php

Truly Dreadful Tales Now Available!!!

In addition to my latest b-horror flick TWISTED FATES, I also now have copies of TRULY DREADFUL TALES available in the store.

As with all my stuff lately, this one has been a looooong time in the making.

Originally this was a project called "Monster Files." There were a few stories originally intended for this that will pop up in other projects and some stories that never quite got made.

It was another of my "experiments," this time with the idea of writing monster shorts and having other filmmakers do the casting/directing/shooting, sending their footage to me to edit and score.



Laura Giglio stars in the "Death Nurse" segment, playing Donna, caretaker to a recently deceased millionairre. She and her boyfriend are excited about the old coot leaving his money to her, but when they start seeing the old man's ghost, they wonder if their dream has turned into a nightmare! Directed by Laura G and Johnny Monotone.



In the "TreeSprit" segment, a woman is surrounded by abuse - from her boss to her boyfriend and seeks solice in the woods. There her cries are heard by a spirit of vengeance that takes form and punishes those who have wronged the woman. Directed by Tom Shaffer.



In the "BeetleManiac" segment, Isabelle Stephen has a blind date with Luc Bernier, who grosses her out with his tales of is work with insects. Then things get really buggy! Directed by Luc and Isabelle, and Isabelle edited this segment as well!



In the "Crazed" segment, a young girl goes clubbing and awkaes the next morning with a strange mark on her neck and a growing insanity! Directed by Tim Shrum.



It's a mixed bag of monsters, psychos, strangulation, catfights and blood!

AVAILABLE NOW!

TWISTED FATES in a Film Festival!

TWISTED FATES, along with my short SCENT OF THE SASQUATCH, will be screened as part of the Mid-Valley Video Festival on Friday, Feb. 24 at 8:30 p.m. at the Northern Lights Theatre Pub in Salem, Oregon. Sweet! Here's a trailer!



Copies are now available here!!!

Lots o' Thing Cookin'

As usual, I have too many projects going at the same time. Waiting for some DVDs to arrive in the mail, waiting to hear back on a potential screening, working bit by bit on re-editing some old projects, have a couple of drawing projects going.

News coming soon!!!

Artwork for Sale

I'm putting some original artwork up for sale. These are charcoal and/or pencil renderings.



Death Awaits



Voluptuous Turning



Bondage



Finale



Fishnets



Reclining on a Line



Lazy Days



Contemplation



The Darkness



Lonliness



Musing



Woman



Farmhand

Artwork is shipped rolled in a mailing tube. $25 for each piece. Contact me with what you'd like and we'll figure out the shipping cost.

DOB 2?

Last year, I was talking to Tom Shaffer, who played Dr. Mobius in my half-hour sci-fi horror movie DIMENSION OF BLOOD back in 1995.



He had delivered a pizza to a woman who bore a striking resemblance to the character of Leroy the janitor in DOB, and Tom suggested that I make a sequel featuring this woman as Leroy's long lost sister or something.


(Brian, who played Leroy, along with Brenda and Tom behind the scenes of Dimension of Blood)

At the time I was neck-deep in projects and said that I just didn't have the time.

He replied, "Well, you should let ME make it."

I thought about it for a moment. I have long had an idea for a sequel or more accurately, an idea for a remake of the first one with a second and third act added. But I hadn't really made any moves towards making that and wasn't sure I ever would. Considering that it would be 'interesting" to see how he would interpret the world and mythos I had created year ago, I said, "Why not?"

Tom worked on writing, casting, directing and editing his 40-minute sequel to DOB over many months and we finally had a little premiere party for it at his house late last year.

Since then, Tom has continued to write some spin-off shorts that are set in this DOB2 world that he's created. That's kind of far out!

Here are a few screen caps from DOB 2:





Meanwhile, I spent some time last year remastering three of my early flicks, including Dimension of Blood, with the intention of putting them out on a DVD together. It's a bit of a back burner project right now, but I hope to get it done sometime in the first half of this year.

Bits...

Very busy in the non-movie parts of my life, but making progress here and there. Last night I took care of some more Blood Creek Woodsman pick-up shots as well as inserts for a horror short I am remastering. Spitting blood onto a tree, my driveway and a piece of plastic - good times!!! Also gave the burned body prop a first coat of paint.

And on it goes...

2011 End of the Year Wrap-Up!

Another year has flown by. I was able to make some progress on a number of movie projects and am feeling pretty good about getting more projects wrapped up in 2012.



Twisted Fates - Mid-Valley Video Festival in Salem, Oregon screened the "Welcome Sister" segment earlier this year. Screened the trailer at the Underbelly premiere in December. Designed the DVD sleeve and imprint. Final post-production is done! Will be released on DVD in early 2012!


Truly Dreadful Tales - After I finally found out after several months that the original person hadn't shot a dang thing for the "Crazed" segment, I told them to just forget it. I set Tim Shrum (of http://kidschlocko.blogspot.com) up to shoot it. He made some cool props and shot some nifty catfighting! I spent the end of the year getting that segment edited and scored. I also did the music and sound effects for the "BeetleManiac" segment. Designed the DVD sleeve and imprint as well. Checking the final DVD master and plan to have it available in early 2012!


Underbelly - After being out of stock for years, I re-released this at the end of the year with a snazzy new cover and put together a trailer for it. Available in the store. Held a successful premiere screening/dvd release at Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon in December.



Blood Creek Woodsman - Shot some pick-up shots and worked on a snazzy paper mache burned up body prop. Still a few more pick-up shots left to get and then it's off to the editor!

Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires - Held a screening in February at The Club, a bar we shot parts of the movie at in Winlock, Washington. The next night, Two-Minute Miracle, who performed the title theme for the movie, played at the same bar. Good times! Copies available in the store (under distributor's new title Inbred Redneck Vampires).


Deadly Premonitions - Finally released at the beginning of this year. Cut a new trailer for it. Held a screening at Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon in March. Copies available in the store.




Dimension of Blood, Monster in the Garage and Crimson Heather - Planning a DVD-r triple-feature release of these older projects from 1995-98 or so. Remastering as best I can from 3/4" videotape originals and have spent a LOT of time fixing a lot of sound issues. Designed sleeve and dvd imprint, created photo gallery and edited DOB behind-the-scenes featurette. To be released in early 2012.

Beneath a Dead Moon - Started work on this anthology of some of my horror shorts. A few recent ones, a few from years ago. Have been importing old footage, tweaking sound issues, re-scoring, etc. Will be nice to get these out on DVD for folks to see! I wrote/shot/edited/scored a bigfoot short, "Shriek of the Sasquatch" this summer. Decided to go ahead and post this one online to share, but it will be part of this anthology as well.




In other people's movies news, I shot a sequence for a new monster movie from WAVE Video. I got to be a tiny part of Luc Bernier's horror anthology HATE by playing Fred, a voice heard on a phone. It was cool because I recorded myself reading the lines in my kid's bedroom, imported the footage into my computer, made a quicktime file, e-mailed it off to the editor and about 20 minutes later, I was in the movie! I'm also acting as a producer on an upcoming horror anthology (working title Abberations).

Wrote a fun horror short and finished outlining a horror comedy script I've been working on.

Did some cartoon illustration this year: a couple of t-shirt designs as well as some possible art for a horror RPG. Also did some logo design.

Spent Spring Break in San Diego visiting friends and got to check out Legoland, the zoo and SeaWorld. My sister got married this summer and I was in the wedding plus helped with a bunch of stuff and made a nice photo gallery dvd that we played at the reception. Even sold a few movie posters! www.drsquid.net/postersforsale.html

Went to Crypticon Seattle in May with my buddies and had an awesome time! My photo-filled trip diary is here!



Saw Loudness in Portland, Oregon in May and Judas Priest in Seattle in October! RAAAAWK!!!!!



Another busy year full of stressful times and fun times. As usual.

Here's to 2012!

Coming together...

Heard from Tim in Oklahoma last night - they took care of some reshoots for the "Crazed" segment of TRULY DREADFUL TALES and plan on wrapping it up by the weekend. Yay! I hope to edit it all together over the Christmas break.

Have been working on fixing some of my older video shorts for compilation into a new anthology. Was uploading footage from a project I did just 6 years ago that had some sound issues - and now I know how to fix them! Kind of pain to drudge through stuff like this, but it'll be nice to have improved it and then be able to get them out for folks to see.

Took care of four BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN pick-up shots the other night. Hope to do more this weekend. Y'know, doing blood splatters in the garage is better than doing them in the house, but even with trash bags laid out all over the place, blood still seems to get everywhere.

Sold several movie posters recently - if you are interested, check 'em out here: www.drsquid.net/postersforsale.html



Onward!!!

Underbelly Screening Wrap-Up!

We held a screening/dvd release for UNDERBELLY last Friday at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon.



Yeah, that's the ticket!



Up in lights! Unrated, even!!!



Here's some of the crowd after the screening.



So a bunch of Robert J. Olin's friends came down from Portland to see the movie and brought their own Bob masks...



Now, this is scary!



A bunch of us hung out at the nearby bar after the show...



Where the Bob masks continued to pop up...



In all sorts of places...



Even the bartender got into the act!




Thanks to everyone who came out for the show! Hoping to have many more screenings this next year!



UNDERBELLY is available here.

Don Dohler, An Inspiration

It was five years ago today that Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler passed away.




It was appropriate that my filmmaking friend John called me to pass along the sad news that Don Dohler had lost his battle with cancer at age 60.


John and I were both in middle school when we seperately caught Don's movie THE ALIEN FACTOR on the channel 12 afternoon movie. The movie was a huge inspiration for us both and got us interested in making our own movies. The picture above is Don inside an alien outfit from the movie.




Many years later, TBS aired THE ALIEN FACTOR and I got it recorded on tape. That VHS tape was gold to me for I'd never seen the movie any other time and had never seen it available in video stores where I lived. At the end of the movie, in the end credits crawl, there was an address for the company that made the movie. I wrote to them, telling them how cool the movie was. Unfortunately the address was no longer good and the letter was returned to me. Rats.


Even more years later, I was able to interview Don by mail for my zine Dr. Squid. Don not only wrote back but answered my questions with great detail. As time went on, I got into making movies and Don was always an inspiration. He and I corresponded by e-mail many times. He was always nice, supportive and seemed happy to share stories about his work.





It was those qualities that made him such an inspiration to many making movies today, from no-budget videomakers, to FX guys, even to J.J. Abrams, who was able to do some music for Don's movie Nightbeast back in the early 80s.




This is a shot of Don in his basement where they built a set for the Sheriff's office for THE ALIEN FACTOR.




Below is Don's inscription to me from his book, "B-Movie Horrors." Don made his mark on so many lives and he is truly missed.

UNDERBELLY Trailer and Screening!!!

DVD Release Premiere Screening of the sexy thriller UNDERBELLY, Friday, December 9 at 9 p.m. at the Northern Lights Theater Pub, 3893 Commercial Street Southeast, Salem, OR 97302.

Just $3 and they serve beer, wine and food! I'll have Underbelly DVDs for sale as well as Deadly Premonitions, Inbred Redneck Vampires and others and even some old VHS stuff!

Can't make it? Pick up a copy at the ol' Dr. Squid store!

See ya there!

I Poop Jellybeans!

So...

The wife needs to stop by a fabric store after dinner tonight and says it'll only take a few minutes.

Many, many minutes later my son and I are going stir crazy waiting around.

Look what I found in the pattern area:



Jug Jacket! A jacket for your jugs!

Then we wandered over to the crafty area. My son saw this and said, "It's the evil nutcraker," and then made the guy's mouth move and voiced, "I'm going to crack your nuts!!!"



Needless to say, I was laughing pretty good, BUT THEN...



Oh my God, it's a Penguin Pooper...that comes packaged with a pile of poop balls! Then I saw THIS:



Look at the strained expression on his face!!! Then we saw the packaging:



Wow!