Eyegore Awards

I keep meaning to update with more from the recent China adventure, but I've been pretty busy this past week. Took the family to the Red Bull Soapbox races in downtown LA last weekend and then the next day got free tickets and backstage passes to see the Insane Clown Posse in Anaheim ... then a week of work of pre-production on yet another super secret project.

Then just a few days ago, I was sent a press release that Noah Segan was going to be presented with the 2009 Eyegore Award (apparently their tenth year) for "Best Villain" for his portrayal of "J.T." in DEADGIRL.

The Eyegores were at Universal Studios last night. It was quite the star-studded event. They only gave out 4 other awards. One to Rob Zombie, one to Tobin Bell, one to the best short film from their annual contest, and a lifetime achievement award to 6-time Academy Award winner Rick Baker. It was really amazing to think that our little film was amongst all of those big-budget films and filmmakers.

Even more interesting to note that in a year of masked serial murderers and psychopathic maniacs and supernatural killers that the year's best villain was ... just a regular high school kid. Think about that one for a second and it's enough to blow your mind.

So I hopped in my car with Chad Ferrin and we went to the ceremony. Best of all was the fact that it was opening night for Universal's famous Halloween Horror Nights and all of the Eyegore guests got free park entrance and front of the line passes for all of the mazes. Chad and I got to experience the whole Universal Horror Nights thing in true style.

So ... awesome night. Special congrats and thanks to my main man, Noah Segan, for turning this little sociopath I created into 2009's Best Villain! Here's some more shots ...

The man of the hour and I. If you look closely, you can see the show MC Corey Feldman in the background. There I was, standing just a few feet from two men who've acted in movies that I wrote (though Feldman may not remember, he was in CITIZEN TOXIE):



With DEADGIRL directors Gadi Harel and Marcel Sarmiento:



One of the roaming performers at Halloween Horror Nights:



Chad in the SAW maze. Note the look of abject terror on his face. It's because it smelled like someone in the line ahead of us had shit their drawers in horror:



So ... great night. Cool award. More on China maybe later, but like I said, I'm in the middle of yet another project, so we'll see ...

-T