In 2009, my buddies and I made the long trip from Oregon's Willamette Valley to Seattle for the 2009 Crypticon Seattle horror convention. We'd been to Fangoria down in Burbank twice, but it was quite a drive so finding a horror con so close we were thrilled. We had a great time and met a bunch of great folks.
Rob knew Adam Paris from his work in the gaming industry but meeting him in person, John and I knew he was perfect for a huge, hulking killer.
Sculptor William Bivens was a horror fan dying to be in more movies.
I had worked with Bryn Kristi on a couple of features, but here she was as a part of a spokesmodel group, looking great and always interested in doing more movie work.
We met more spokesmodels, including Madeline Morgan, Annie Bardonski and Jaime Gurrad, all attractive actresses looking to do more horror!
Actor Jake Hueni was there as he was starring in a short feature being screened.
Actor Daren Ackerman was also a panelist for the screening/Q&A for "The Tunnel."
Inspired, John Bowker wrote a body count flick in the spirit of '80s slashers called BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN. I shot and directed, making sure it was tailor-made for horror fanatics and full of blood, guts and hot chicks.
We cast everyone mentioned above, including Adam as the titular hooded killer.
BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN was shot on HD, in Northwest locations in Oregon and Washington with an all local NW cast (aside from that one guy who came in from Alabama for his part).
So it is only fitting that BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN holds it's WORLD PREMIERE at Crypticon Seattle 2013! Join us Saturday night, May 25, 11 p.m. in Emerald Ballroom A, for a rip-roaring good time!
Sorry things have been quiet around the blog as of late. Work and home life have been extra busy and post-production on BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN continues, but I also started shooting a new horror feature this weekend called DRIFTER. The above teaser image was made using a photo from this weekend's shoot. Bob Olin plays a creepy drifter hiding out in a vacant house for sale...he's going mad with deadly consequences...but why? That's the twist...
Monday, March 04, 2013
I hate blog posts where someone says that they've been really busy and things have been going on but there is a big giant thing coming together but they can't talk about it because they don't have time.
But this is one of those posts.
Sorry.
I'll try and catch up with some posts in a few weeks...
Why is Rob drawing on Sophie's boob? For a movie, of course!
My horror short, SUPERSTAR, is going to be a part of this year's Mid-Valley Video Festival! It screens next-to-last in the Saturday night shorts collection which starts at 9 p.m., Saturday, February 23 at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon. Cost is just $3!
Swell guy Scott Phillips interviewed me over at CHEESE MAGNET!
It was a blast reminiscing about my 70s and 80s influences, crazy behind the scenes stories and just generally geeking out about horror and sci-fi stuff.
I had to create a poster for a website listing of the world premiere screening for BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN, so put this together. Had to use a few screen caps as well as photos, so it will hold up fine online but may not work for printing. However, most of it's use will probably be online anyway.
Here is a fun thing I did recently - I took on a double-dog dare and made a music video for Blood Creek Woodsman. The initial dare was to do a rap song, but I decided to do a metal version instead. Enjoy!
I was even interviewed by the local paper, which was fun!
Also in February, I got to see Michael Schenker Group and Anvil in Portland. It was awesome!
Several of my titles became available from the W.A.V.E. Video site: UNDERBELLY, DEADLY PREMONITIONS and TRULY DREADFUL TALES.
I was interviewed for "SOV: The True Independents," a pair of documentaries on the shot-on-video horror of the 80s and 90s.
Also in March, I was asked to make a movie for Warlock Home Video and set about getting a cheeseball, shot-on-VHS horror comedy written up. The result was BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD, which was shot in the spring and early summer.
At one of the BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD shoots, I also held a photoshoot to create a snazzy and suitably schlocky photo to go at the top of my drquid.net site. Chicks and monsters - what's not to like?
After remastering the werewolf short Dark Bite from an old 3/4" master the distributor had, the director found the original Hi-8 tapes after all! So I re-edited from scratch, worked in some additional footage and did all new sound effects and music.
It's the last piece of my anthology BENEATH A DEAD MOON. As soon as I can connect with one of the actors for a needed voiceover, I can get it all finished up, get some copies and plan a screening!
In April, Steve Sessions' horror anthology ABERRATIONS was released. I was a producer on this one.
Also in April, TWISTED FATES got reviewed on Ain't It Cool News! I got a great pull quote: "...Every scene and every minute of TWISTED FATES oozes a love for all things horror," which was pretty damn cool.
The director of the film festival for Crypticon Seattle contacted me and said they wanted to screen TWISTED FATES as a "friends of Crypticon" type of thing at this year's convention. Cool!
I started off the month of May attending Jell-O Wrestling fundraiser for local roller derby team. Needless to say, that was entertaining.
Memorial Day weekend rolled around and my buddies and I once again headed to the Crypticon Seattle horror convention. Great guests and panels and lots of fun times. On the down side, all of Sunday afternoon's events (including my screening) were left out of the printed program thanks to some lame volunteers - and boy were the organizers pissed! A bunch of free promotional posters I was promised by someone didn't materialize, either. However, I had some posters of my own and we had a swell screening. Did some Q&A afterward and even sold a few DVDs!
About three years after the initial shooting for BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN, the project was unfortunately still waiting in line with the editor, who was busy with finishing up previous projects. Mike Hegg got a hold of us in June and said he would like to help out, so I began a series of trips up to Portland to work with him on cutting this bloody body count movie together. By the end of the year, we'd finished the rough cut and are currently working on all sorts of fine-tuning. So excited to see this come together in 2013!
Got to see some great local indie movies this year, including Henry Weintraub's Killing Me and Jason Freeman's The Weather Outside. I am bummed I never was able to make it to see his brother Todd Freeman's Cell Count (as everyone tells me I'd love it), but it's out on VOD now, so I'll have to check it out.
I took my son to see Iron Maiden play in Auburn, Washington at the end of July - first time seeing them for both of us and they were fantastic!
Then, in August, we went to see Motley Crue and KISS in Ridgefield, Washington. Incredible show! We had great seats near the front and were enveloped with the confetti cloud at the end as the confetti cannons were just to the side of our seats.
Did a few freelance video projects for people this year, and some freelance drawing and graphic design as well. I designed not only BRLOB dvd sleeve for Warlock but also their Warlock Warrior certificate, Phantom of the Grindhouse and Paranormal web series logo AND the TeenApe: Balls Deep logo. Crazy stuff!
Online network BlackFlag.TV began airing some of my stuff this year - the short SUPERSTAR is played all the time (recently it played four times in one day!) and my features TWISTED FATES and TRULY DREADFUL TALES have played as well!
Finished the remastering work on three of my earliest efforts and will shortly be releasing a DIMENSION OF BLOOD / MONSTER IN THE GARAGE / CRIMSON HEATHER triple feature DVD.
Also this year, I won four DVDs in online contests, won free tickets to the roller derby and KISS came out with a new album! Not bad!
In October, we held a BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD premiere screening at the f/Stop Fitzgerald's in Salem, Oregon. I brought along the bug monster puppet and a swell time was had by all.
Warlock Home Video released the movie on DVD in October as well.
Also in October, I started posting a series of sharable squares/memes and they were a big hit! By the time I was done I'd made and posted 50 of them! I need to do some more in 2013. In the meantime, you can check them all out here: https://picasaweb.google.com/fandcproductions/Squares
I wrapped up 2012 by taking part in the "Holiday Horror Bazaar" as part of the Grindhouse Theater series in Tacoma, Washington. Sold some stuff, got to see a 35mm screening of Silent Night Deadly Night and even won a Fangoria magazine!
Just put the opening credits to BENEATH A DEAD MOON together the other day and getting them done was a great way to finish off the year!
Not much going on right now - been swamped with the day job, family commitments and holiday social stuff.
Running the DIMENSION OF BLOOD/MONSTER IN THE GARAGE/CRIMSON HEATHER pre-order promotion until Dec. 15. Did a small video project for a friend Cleaned a few things off of the hard drive. Working on a couple of script ideas.
End of the year always gets hectic for me.
Hope to have some new on actual progress on current projects soon....
Have been working on fleshing out a couple of script ideas…
Just about ready to announce a big promotion for a reissue of some of my very first horror projects…stay tuned….
Made a quantum leap this weekend, including a 9-hour-straight editing session, and am very happy that rough cut of BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN is about 97% done! There is still a lot of work to do - audio work, tightening up the edit, etc. - but it's getting closer…
And a bunch of other stuff….
BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD, the crazy schlockfest I shot on VHS (no, I am not kidding) earlier this year is now for sale over at http://www.warlockhomevideo.com/flics.html
Two hot lesbian vampires are picking up victims at a local rock club and having a bloody good time. Meanwhile, Professor Bartel is mourning the mysterious death of his daughter bugging local detectives about the case. He may be angry about their lack of progress, but he's really a MAD scientist?? Check out this deliciously sleazy shot on video gem!! DVD features a Blooper Reel and Photo Gallery.
Boy howdy what a swell time we all had at the BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD premiere screening at the f/Stop Fitzgerald's in Salem, Oregon. The screening room was packed and everyone seemed to get a kick out of this cheeseball horror comedy.
Sabrina and I with the bug monster
Natalie helps the bug monster snack on Floyd!
Riley and Alex in front of the big screen!
The bug monster prop gets around!
Rob, Dale and their friend...the bug monster!
Alex wore her silver disco pants...and her wonder woman underwear!
Alex and her co-star
Bob couldn't escape the bug monster!
Joe and Crystal got all gussied up for the premiere.
Floyd is the BUGMAN!
Kurt, Dale, Rob, Mike and Dave...and the bug monster.
The BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD screening is tomorrow night (see previous blog post) and I managed to pull together a trailer for BENEATH A DEAD MOON to show beforehand. It's a "red band" trailer, which is fine since it'll be showing in a bar where you've got to be of age to be there anyway. But I'll have to figure out what to do for a youtube trailer - do I start over or take what I have put together and somehow run black bars over things or do I just cut out the r-rated stuff and see what I am left with?
In any case, I am hoping to get the trailer up sometime in the next month or so. Need to finish the cover art (front is done, need to do the back) and get the final dvd authoring done and copies made. Then, another screening! YAY!
A cast and friends (and anyone else who wants to show up) screening of BLOODY RED LIPS OF BLOOD will be held on Saturday, October 13 at 9 p.m. at the f/Stop Fitzgerald's Public House, 335 Grove St. in Salem Oregon.
A whole mess o' the cast will be there and the f/Stop serves beers, ales, wines and ciders from around the northwest.
I'll have copies of Twisted Fates, Truly Dreadful Tales, Underbelly, Deadly Premonitions, Inbred Redneck Vampires, Trailer Park Double Wide Trilogy of Terror, The Seekers, Housebound, The Evilmaker, Vampirisa's Velvet Vault of Horror and We Need Earth Women for sale if anyone is interested.
