I just wanted to make a quick post here since I haven’t in a few days. I just played a little left 4 dead last night and I wanted to let everyone know I and several other horror nerds believe this could possibly be the best zombie game ever. Thats a huge statement but i believe it to be true… so far.
I will post a detailed review of the game once i beat it.
The Day The Earth Stood still is a remake of the original film from 1951. The movies plot is basically an alien and his giant robot counterpart visit earth. In this movie Klaatu and Gort land on earth and Klaatu is shot upon trying to give a friendly handshake to a scientist. Klaatu has the power to destroy the whole human race if he feels its the only way to save Earth.
This is a pretty good sci-fi movie. The only problem i felt is towards the ending of the movie it went from a truly intelligent sci-fi flick to a 2nd rate hollywood action movie. Either way i would still recommend going to see it and judging it yourself.
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Could this prove that ghosts do come back to where they die or in this case what they died in?
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This is a very eerie ghost video. It was taken from a history channel special. The amityville murders are known world wide so i thought this would be a great video to show you. You will see a child inside one of the images shown in the video. Its very very eerie. Do not watch alone.
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In New York City, enshrouded by skyscrapers and alleyways, there is a company which has, for the last ten years, been creating Hollywood-quality costumes and props for haunted houses. Known as “The Horror Dome”, this company is well known in the film industry and in the haunted house industry as the world leader in production of costumes and various props for haunted houses. Featured on Mythbusters, TLC and The Discovery Channel, The Horror Dome has worked with numerous Film Companies and has made a name for itself.
Starting out, Jerry Parrino, the owner gave out instructions for animatronics and prop directions. This was only the beginning of what would become his dream job. He found a business partner who he sold masks and props with and only a couple years later, Jerry went into manufacturing himself.
Today, The Horror Dome is creating Masks, Props, and Animatronics.
Here’s a few of the things that products that set them apart:
Masks
Fat Zombie Mask: $48.99
Infested Mask 49.99
Costumes
Abominable Snowman $449.999
Crimson Ruin Night Terror Costume $299.99
They have more than just masks and costumes.
They specialize in
Animatronics:
The Dead and Deader features a coffin with a beautiful girl inside as the lid closes. Suddeny, the lid flies open again and a hideous rotting corpse pops up.
Dead and Deader
Coffin Jumper $2,229.00
It’s just a few products we’ve shown here that prove that The Horror Dome is the top dog in the industry.
It takes a passion for horror and attention to detail to put you ahead of the game:
Jerry said “Making masks and scaring people has been my dream job since I was 7. I remember setting up haunted houses in my garage as a kid and always scaring the neighbors. Now I’m living my dream once again as an adult.”
If making people scream is an art, then Jerry has created masterpiece after masterpiece and is truly an artist in his own right.
Visit The Horror Dome on the web and stay tuned for more updates with new products, a brand new website and of course, more screams.
Its funny because for the dead travel fast is based in name at least by the book Dracula so its odd that this is the first vampire post. Regardless I found a pretty nice vampire short film. Its hard to find higher quality vampire films but here is one titled Too Good To Be True.
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We did promise and we are keeping to our word. Below is the offical trailer to the remake of Friday The 13th. We posted a blog about our thoughts and the news we’ve heard so far on this film.
Now its finally here so you can decide for yourself whether it will be worth going to see or waiting until it comes to dvd. Its strange but i think this one could surpass the expectations. We’ll have to wait until 2/13/09 to find out.
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Amit Baadkar was the director, writer, and actor in his short zombie film we originally posted here. You can view the short film here forthedeadtravelfast.com/zombie-apartment/
Here are the thinkings of the director and writer of the zombie apartment.
Hmm so where do I start. I made this bloody flick during the summer semester for my editing concepts class. We had to make a 2-5 min video like a music video or a documentary or just a short film. We had like 10 days to come up with a rough cut. So I had bought this nice HD camera Canon HV20 for doing some of my VFX stuff last year and this was a great opportunity to put it to good use. Oh great camera btw. I mean its not pro stuff but it’s the best HD camera under 1000 bucks. I’m a great fan of Horror Sci-Fi genre and wanted to make something in that vein.
I came up with this zombie story inspired by several flicks like 28 days later, dawn of the dead and REC. I didn’t want to spend too much cash on this thing. Just wanted to do shots that were realistically possible for me. So I called my best pals Nikhil Sinha, Jeet Sorap and Dhruvi Shah. I cast Nikhil as the star Zombie ..Cuz, well, he just suited the role. Myself as the main character and Dhruvi shah as the female human/zombie. Jeet was my makeup artist for the Zombie and also DP for the corridor shot. Frankly speaking I really did not plan out the shots that much. No storyboards, nothing .We just framed the shots as we went along. Basically the story was divided in to 3 parts, the first one at the leads characters house, Second one, the Zombie struggle in the corridor and the last one at the female characters home.
Corridor struggle
My apartment building had this really narrow, scary looking corridor that was perfect for the corridor struggle part. Makeup was a really important part for this film and we spent a lot of time on that. Dhruvi brought all her makeup stuff; I got some red paint, thinner and fake blood. Jeet mixed and matched all that stuff and started painting Nikhil’s face. Once that was done I prepped Jeet and Nikhil and started the shoot .we didn’t use a tripod. I wanted to give it that freaky hand held look like cloverfield, Rec and Blair witch project. Jeet did a great job with the camera and Nikhil…well what can I say he’s a natural Zombie. There were times during the struggle where I really felt like I was going to die. He really pulled it off.. The shivering, the sounds, the deadness in his eyes. It was a great shoot. Overall we ended up splattering a lot of blood on the walls and on ourselves. Poor Nikhil ended up scrapping his knees pretty bad. We were using a real knife so we had to be extra careful. It was fun (Not so much fun for the landlady though). There was a part in the film where there’s a dead corpse (Jeet) rested against the wall. I needed a really bloody mess for this shot and I was not inclined to actually do this on set so being a Visual effects student I faked the shot .I took a still photograph of Jeet lying against the wall, photoshoped blood and stuff in it and added fake camera shake and voila. Also the flies, which I quickly created in AfterEffects.
End scene
The last scene was what we shot second. Dhruvi was going to be in it and she was excited. Jeet did the makeup and anyone who’s not acting held the camera. I’m a great fan of POV (point of view shots) and I used em quite a bit in this film. This scene had some VFX shots. There is a shot where I wanted the zombie to raise his head with a knife stuck in his eye. We could have done it with makeup and props but we didn’t have time to do it and didn’t have any materials to do it .I decided to add a Computer Generated (CG) knife in post production . One good thing was that I could use this shot for my Matchmoving class as a final project. So I had Nikhil raise his bloody head without the knife. I then tracked this shot, Then created a CG knife and wound and composited them on the face. There was another shot where there is blood splatter on the camera lens. Obviously I can’t splatter blood on my camera so I did this in post. Was really easy actually. Just had to find pictures of blood splatters, add focus blur and composite it in. The grand finale had Nikhil and Dhruvi screaming their guts out, which looked hilarious on set though. Had to take several takes cuz we couldn’t help ourselves from laughing.
Beginning Room Scene
The first shot was done in my room. I had my friend Mahendra Bhadrecha do the camera work. Were easy shots really. Just had my monitor screen in front of my face to give a nice lighting. Yeah that’s about it.
Well I spent the rest of the time editing and doing the VFX for the shots. Took me a while to do the ‘Knife in the eye’ shot. But I got em all done. Spent 15 days on the whole project from conception to final. I found this really cool zombie sound resource online with all the zombie snarling, and biting sound FX that I needed and took music from several soundtracks from Akira yamaoka’s Silent hill tracks, 28 days later soundtrack. Yes that’s why I cant put this film up for anything majorly commercial. I’m going to have a friend compose some music scores for me sometime later. Well it was a great experience. Always had dreamed of making a film like this. I want to thank my pals Nikhil, Jeet, Dhruvi, Mahendra and my editing instructor Chris Sollars for their help. I also want to extend special thanks to my parents for their support and encouragement.
Cheer’s,
Amit Baadkar,
I love horror movie posters. I’m not talking about the new photoshop images, im talking about the old school posters. They were original, scary, and sometimes very very messed up. I’ve collected the top 5 here
for you. I hope you enjoy.
5. A Nightmare On Elm street.
We all know about this movie. The Wes Craven flick released in 1984 about a serial killer Freddy Krueger who kills teenagers in their dreams.
4. House on Haunted HIll
This movie was released in 1959. Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. House on Haunted Hill has since become an all time horror classic.
3. The Maniac
This movie was released in 1980. It was obviously back in a time when bad horror movie spin offs were found everywhere. This movies plot consists of a serial killer who kills young women in New York to redeem himself from the abuse he got from his mother as a child. The movie isn’t too good. But hey the poster is great.
2. Beast of Blood
Directed by Eddie Romero this 1971 flick depicted a mad scientist who creates a monster. After, he cuts the monsters head off he keeps him alive with a special serum the mad scientist has created. Again, the poster is great you can decide about the movie.
1. Brain Dead aka Dead Alive
This movie has been hailed by many as one of the greatest zombie movies ever made. Peter jackson directed this 1992 movie. Braindead is often cited as the goriest film ever made and, according to Wikipedia, used more fake blood than any other movie in history. Called by the some the best zombie scene ever happens when Lionel confronts the hordes with his trusty lawn-mower, prior to facing his super-charged undead mother. In my opinion this is a great movie and best of all best horror movie poster i’ve seen.
Suck, a new vampire horror-comedy is in the process of filming right now. Written, directed by and starring Canadian comedian/filmmaker Rob Stefaniuk, Suck chronicles the career highs and lows of a loser rock band (ironically named The Winners) whose chance meeting with a vampire (Dimitri Coats, frontman for indie-rockers Burning Brides) gives them a shot at a very different kind of immortality.
The star cast will include big music acts such as Iggy Pop, Moby, and Alice Cooper.
Suck is being produced by Capri Vision Inc. and Robin Crumley, Jeff Rogers and Victoria Hirst. Gabriella Martinelli (of Capri), Brad Peyton, Terry Markus, and Jeff Sackman are executive producing.
