A Quick One ...

... Just for the sake of keeping up on the blog.

Went and did a makeup test for a potential upcoming project last night at Tom Devlin's 1313FX shop. Wish that I could post more pictures or talk about it, but not until maybe later in the month ... in theory, the film will be in the can by then. Here's the only shot I can share with you for now, since it's just me in the contacts:



I know, I know ... ooh, mysterious projects ... I'll post up here wit hmore details as soon as I'm allowed ... I've got another couple of irons in the fire, script-wise, but am also keeping the details close to the chest for now.

In the meantime, DEADGIRL hits DVD in both R Rated and Un-Rated editions from Dark Sky Films on September 15th, so please go out and nab yourself a copy! Here are a few more recent reviews of said film:

Zombie Cupcake

Necrotic Cinema

Liar's Society

Exploitation Nation

I'll be back soon with more news ...

-T

Random Shots From Slovenia

Some more pictures from last week's Slovenia trip ...

















-T

Home Again ...

Traveled for about 18 hours yesterday and got back to Los Angeles last night.

Wow. Slovenia was amazing. Everyone there was incredibly nice and accommodating and the country is beautiful. I want to thank all of the organizers of the 2009 Grossmann Film Festival for everything.

Okay. Here's a bit of a re-cap of the last few days ...

... Usually when I go to Europe (not often, but it does happen), I like to go to the grocery stores to look at all of the unfamiliar packaging and products. Here's a cereal that uses a clam as a mascot. Don't know about you, but clams don't make me think of milky and chocolate-y goodness:



The whole town of Ljutomer is in a festive mood during the week of the Grossmann. Lots of people who maybe have no interest at all in horror movies gather in the main square. Here's one of them:



Finn Atkins from EDEN LAKE at the museum in the theater:



The festival hosted Slovenia's first ever Zombie Walk and hundreds of zombies showed up to take over the city center. There was a zombie rockabilly band in the back of a wagon who played as they were pulled through the streets. After that, a Slovenian zombie horror-core rapper played. It was a zombie parade that ended at the location of the Grossmann's closing ceremony. Here are some shots from the zombie walk:











The closing ceremony took place in the town cinema. Ruggero Deodato and Jorg Buttgereit got special lifetime achievement awards. DEADGIRL lost the main competition to EDEN LAKE, so no statue for us.







All in all an amazing time. Gotta make another movie so that I can go back next year!

Speaking of which, time for me to stop blogging and start looking for another job. I've got a ton of shots from Slovenia, so I'll probably just throw up a random bunch of them later in the week ...

-T

Yesterday in Slovenia ...

Another great day festival-ing (is that a word?) in Slovenia.



Went into the city early yesterday to take some photos in the daylight and eat and check out the second screening of DEADGIRL in the local cinema. There's a little art gallery thing attached to the theater:



The screening went well and it started to rain, so I headed off to talk with the Mondo Macabro guys and eat dinner. Then there was a Q&A with Jorg Buttgereit before the international premiere of his new filmed stage play, CAPTAIN BERLIN VS. HITLER:




After that, it was the premiere of CORPUS CRISPY, a killer demon priests movie made right here in Ljutomer and starring a bunch of the guys involved in the Grossmann Festival. Everybody in town showed up and then it started to rain really hard, so they moved the screening into the big tent. I watched the film with Jorg and his wife:


And also with Finn Atkins (star of EDEN LAKE) and her boyfriend Adam - both totally cool folks:



But the night doesn't end after the last movie here. There are concerts every night. SO after Corpus Crispy, we all went to the local club to see Slovenian death metal outfit, SEPTIC SCUM:



Yeah. Just woke up to eat some breakfast and update the site. Now for a quick hour long nap before the new day begins here.

-T

Greetings From Slovenia

I'm sitting here in my hotel room in beautiful Ljutomer, Slovenia. DEADGIRL is playing at the 5th Annual Grossmann Film Festival here and brought me out to be a guest. I flew from LAX to Frankfurt to Graz, Austria. From there I was driven across the Slovenian border just in time to bring the movie to the first DEADGIRL screening, which was a huge public screening the the town's central square:


The festival is great and the people here are awesome. They're doing Jorg Buttgereit and Ruggero Deodato retrospectives here and both directors are in attendance. There are parties and guest activities every day in addition to all of the great screenings. I'm heading down into the city center in a few hours to get interviewed by Slovenian television and for the second DEADGIRL screening in the town's cinema.

Ljutomer is famous for its wineries. The hotel I'm staying in is owned by one of the largest wineries in the area, the Dvorec Jerusalem. The hotel is next to an ancient church and is surrounded by hilly vineyards on all sides:



Last night I watched Buttgereit's DER TODESKONIG in the town cinema and then went to the town square where they played this insane Turkish CONAN ripoff from the seventies called TARKAN VS. THE VIKINGS.

Okay, now that I've got this whole international internet thing figured out (and I finally seem to be over my jetlag and body/time confusion), I'll try to update and take a lot more pictures of the town and the people ... so check back tomorrow for more Slovenian happenings ...

-T

SLICES

Did a pretty successful DVD signing at Burbank's own DARK DELICACIES bookstore last night. It's now out from Brain Damage films, so throw it on the Netflix queue.





Good times. Just finished my ADR session for Creep Creepersin's ERECTION and I'm hopping on a plane for Slovenia tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have some internet over there and I'll be updating from Eastern Europe later in the week ...

In the meantime, more DEADGIRL reviews:

Horrormovies.ca

Movies and Metal Maketh the Man

Wildside Cinema

-T

Interesting Review and Interview

I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with a really cool podcast called Toward A New Cinema last week. Urbane and interesting and, dare I say intellectual? Yes, I think so. The entire episode is dedicated to DEADGIRL and I think that there are some good points made. As usual, I try to be as entertaining as I can in the interview ... emphasis on the word "try." Check it out and thanks to Dallas for the interview!

A full hour of DEADGIRL discussion on TOWARD A NEW CINEMA

Got a signing for the release of SLICES on Saturday, ADR for ERECTION on Sunday, and I'm flying to Slovenia on Monday, so updates a'plenty are coming!

-T

I've been OUT!

Which is why I haven't updated in a bit. Just spent the last week and a half working on a Beyonce concert DVD. Did a week of prep here in Los Angeles then went to Las Vegas where we shot Beyonce's 4 night stand at the Encore theater at the Wynn Hotel. Long days and high temperatures.





Yeah, that's the life of a glamorous Hollywood screenwriter ... on Friday night I'm doing a Q&A at the theater showing my movie and on Monday I'm loading trucks up with equipment for Beyonce ...

... And in just a few hours I'm heading to the studio to be a foley artist for the new Insane Clown Posse feature film, BIG MONEY RUSTLAS. That's right: writer, actor, Producer ... foley artist.

But enough about that. More DEADGIRL reviews went up this week:

Shock Til You Drop

Fatally Yours

Horror Society

Dread Central (Again)

I'm certain that more have popped up, but haven't had the time to try and hunt em all down and to be quite frank, I really feel like I'm starting to read the same basic 3 or 4 reviews over and over again!

DEADGIRL's DVD release is a month away and the final cover art and whatnot can be found online ... and it's going to be released in two editions: a bare-bones R-rated disc and the unrated director's cut with audio commentary and a bunch of other stuff.

Right now Blockbuster and Amazon and Netflix are deciding how many copies to order, so if you happen to have an account on Blockbuster or Netflix, please add DEADGIRL to your queue. If you've already seen it, please write some comments on Amazon. It'd be a great help to me, thanks ...

Really cool news on the print media side, though. We're BIZARRE MAGAZINE's DVD of the Month in their new issue, so check it out:



DEADGIRL is also featured in the new issue of Fangoria Magazine. It's a 4 page Fango Seal of Approval article that has tons of photos and interviews with the directors and Jenny Spain, the Deadgirl herself. It's pretty damn cool to have a feature article in a magazine I've been reading since I was about twelve years old. So run out to the newsstands and check it out:



Okay ... what else? I got interviewed for a cool podcast but it's not up yet. I'll link when it goes live.

Looks like it's ICP foley time for me, so I've gotta cut this short. More updates are coming ... because I'm traveling to Slovenia on Monday.

Yeah, that's right. Slovenia. Come back next week for the wheres/whys/whats.

-T