Month: November 2012

  • Crash Reports: TOO MANY PREDATORS – Composer Announced

    Sunday, November 25, 2012 When it comes to shooting any short movie, many filmmakers make the mistake of going with stock music for their creative venture. Why work so hard to create something new, different and engaging only to have that originality waylaid by something we’ve heard before? What’s worse, stock music cannot capture what…

  • Crash Analysis: THE FIELDS (2011)

    So much atmosphere, so little substance  A boy tries to survive a hippy freak out – of sorts School teacher Harrison Smith told the true version of this story to his class and they said it should be a movie. So he wrote the script and sold it to Expressway Productions and Breaking Glass Pictures…

  • Horror Diary: TOO MANY PREDATORS – The Shoot

    Shoot day… I arrived at the New Jersey Film School a little after ten in the morning. This was it. All the rewrites, planning, and casting would come down to the next ten hours to create a four minute short worthy enough to submit to festivals, and to use as a calling card, and to…

  • Crash Analysis: TALISMAN (1998)

    Uh… Er… Uh…  A teen enters a bizarro school for mispent rich youth and all Hell breaks loose. Benjamin Carr, who has written a lot of schlocky and pathetic horror, including RETRO PUPPET MASTER (1999), THIR13EN GHOSTS (2001) and HELLRAISER: DEADER (2005), brings us another half-baked script that in the end, makes very little sense.…

  • Horror Diary: Casting Night for TOO MANY PREDATORS

    We’re all “actors”. We conjure smiles at board meetings, tell freaked out people not to worry when they should worry, and do our damnedest to prove to mothers that we’re too sick to go to school. But throw something unnatural in the mix – a camera – and people stiffen up. Hell, they can’t even…