Australian horror film being presold one frame atatime For years, talking BitTorrent with industry folk has been the equivalent of mentioning Macbeth in the presence of
stage actors: distasteful. Yet the main distribution plan for The Tunnel (
thetunnelmovie.net), a claustrophobic horror flick from Aussies Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi, has always been to disseminate it free online. This is because horror fans will be funding the movie, one frame at a time. For $1 USD, you can purchase one of 135,000 frames. For $25, you get 25 frames, or one second, of the film,
while $1500 secures an entire minute. “Most of these ‘crowd-funded’ projects raise the funding, then attempt to exploit the film via more traditional
youtube.com [search: “Psycho 1960 trailer”] This black and white promotional clip for Psycho has Hitchcock giving audiences a tour of the Bates Motel grounds and mansion (in his trade- mark English drawl) as if he were visiting the scene of the bloody crimes previously commit- ted in the film. It’s a gimmick that would’ve made director William Castle downright mad with envy.
thepsychomovies.com Arguably the most comprehensive source of infor- mation on the Psycho films and their legacy, this site’s deep archives include extensive photo gal- leries, videos, press coverage, interviews, stream- ing soundtrack music and behind-the-scenes content – the likes of which helped produce the RM issue you’re currently reading. Mother would be awfully proud of such diligence!
notcoming.com/saulbass/index2.php Saul Bass’ famous animated title sequence for Psycho and many other classic credits created by the New York graphic designer (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Spartacus) are analyzed and broken down into interactive click-through stills galleries, offering insight into his process and what made his groundbreaking work so iconic.
alfredhitchcockgeek.com Joel Gunz has it bad for Hitch and this blog is proof of his obsession. The Portland, Oregon resident, who believes the Master of Suspense will go down in history as the Shakespeare of the 20th century, attracts thousands of visitors each month with his thoughtful meditations on the man, his movies and their continuing influence on arts and culture.
paradiselost.org/psycho.html “As she is showering, through the translucent shower curtain we see the door open.” Thanks to the efforts of the New Arts Library, the script for Psycho is available online for your free horror- readin’ pleasure. The film’s nail-biting tension bleeds through in the written word too, though, so read in the bathroom at your own risk.
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means,” says Tedeschi, who expects The Tunnel to be available by December at the earliest. “That doesn't really seem fair to us, asking people to pay for it twice. The forward-thinking distributors see the torrent release as an asset to their word of mouth, rather than a liability. In all of these discussions, we have been quick to point out that the free online release is non-negotiable for us.” (Though DVD and VOD releases are also planned for those who don’t want to watch the film on their computers.) The Tunnel is a found footage-style movie that follows a journalist’s harrowing attempts to discover the truth
about what’s lurking in the abandoned train tunnels beneath Sydney’s St. James Train Station, so Harvey admits that it’s bound to draw comparisons to Neil Marshall’s The Descent. “I think The Tunnel will be very much its own movie, reflected in the diverse range of influences and movies we have drawn on.” To that end, the pair cite every- thing from District 9 and The Blair Witch Project to Touching the Void as influences. Shooting on a variety of formats, including RED, Digital Betacam and GoPro, they intend to tell the story via YouTube
clips, surveillance footage and more. However, it’s the funding idea that’s drawn the most buzz. Those who invest will receive digital copies of the
exact frames they supported. “It's entirely possible that if you buy one frame, you may get shaky, blurry shoulder- cam, or possibly even black,” Tedeschi points out. “More incentive to buy more frames, perhaps?”
A.S. BERMAN entrails Guillermo del Toro’s long-planned adaptation of H.P.
Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness took a step closer to realization recently.
Deadline.com reported that Mountains will not only be a 3-D production for Univer- sal, but that James Cameron will act as producer, with shooting to start next summer. Though del Toro has talked about AtMoM for years, his recent release from The Hobbit production frees him to move forward on his adaptation of the 1931 novella, which details an alien evil that lies in the mountain wastes of Antarctica.
This year, Universal Studios Hollywood has been
given a Rob Zombie makeover. Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D Zombievision ushers visitors into the house of the Firefly family, Captain Spaulding’s Mu- seum of Monsters and Madmen and Dr. Satan’s under- ground world of torment. At press time, the Astro Creep was also set to lead a panel of judges for a Halloween Horror Nights short film competition, featuring a prize of $1000 cash, a trip for two to the opening night of Halloween Horror Nights and a showing of his or her film on the Chiller TV network and
Syfy.com
Locke & Key, the comic book series by Stephen
King’s son Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, is headed to TV via Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, New York magazine reported in August. Josh Friedman (Termina- tor: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) is expected to write and produce the series, which follows the adventures of three children who contend with a mystical house that imbues them with special powers and opens a multi-di- mensional doorway.
The global zombie craze spreads to Cuba with the forthcoming Cuban-Spanish co-production Juan of the
Dead (Juan de los Muertos). Set to start shooting in Havana in September, the $2.7 million film, helmed by Cuba’s Alejandro Brugues, follows 40-year-old slacker Juan as he reacts to an undead epidemic in Cuba by selling his zombie-killing services to those who haven’t the heart to destroy their relatives. The tagline: “Fifty years after the Cuban Revolution, a new one is about to start.”
Next fall, Maryland’s University of Baltimore will
launch its pop culture minor program with a course on zombies. Taught by Arnold Blumberg, co-author of Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For, the class will ex- plore the filmic history of the creatures, from 1932’s White Zombie to 28 Days Later and Romero’s Dead series. On a related scholarly note, Star Costumes is digging up $1000 in scholarship money for one full- time student who’s studying to become a makeup artist, costume designer or any other horror movie professional. Apply at
starcostumes.com/horror- scholarship by Oct. 31, 2010.
A screening of A Serbian Film that was planned for
the London-based Film4 FrightFest film festival in England, in late August, was cancelled after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) deemed that it could only be shown if nearly four minutes were cut from the movie. (The plot of the film concerns an ex- porn star lured back into the business and subjected to a series of atrocities – some involving sexual violence with children.) Festival organizer Alan Jones issued a statement saying, “as a festival with a global integrity, we think a film of this nature should be shown in its entirety as per the director’s intention.” A.S. BERMAN
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