The Well: "Iperuranio Film is excited to announce that Screamfest LA will host the October 12th North American Premiere of The Well, director Federico Zampaglione's latest film, a graphic supernatural horror. The Well will make its World Premiere at the Sitges Film Festival before heading to Los Angeles.
The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger that she may unleash. Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice (City of the Living Dead), Taylor Zaudtke (Sadistic Intentions), Linda Zampaglione (Time Is Up), Jonathan Dylan King (From Scratch), Lorenzo Renzi (Romanzo Criminale), Gianluigi Calvani (The New Pope), Yassine Fadel (FBI: International), Melanie Gaydos, Stefano Martinelli and newcomer Courage Oviawe.
The Well is an Iperuranio Film production, directed by Federico Zampaglione, written by Zampaglione and Stefano Masi,...
The Well stars Lauren Lavera (Terrifier 2), as Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer, who travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory, unaware of the danger that she may unleash. Starring alongside Lavera is Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice (City of the Living Dead), Taylor Zaudtke (Sadistic Intentions), Linda Zampaglione (Time Is Up), Jonathan Dylan King (From Scratch), Lorenzo Renzi (Romanzo Criminale), Gianluigi Calvani (The New Pope), Yassine Fadel (FBI: International), Melanie Gaydos, Stefano Martinelli and newcomer Courage Oviawe.
The Well is an Iperuranio Film production, directed by Federico Zampaglione, written by Zampaglione and Stefano Masi,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Scooter McCrae is a name that will always catch my attention, because he and his feature directorial debut Shatter Dead seemed to be getting a lot of coverage in the pages of Fangoria magazine back in the early ’90s. He made his second feature, Sixteen Tongues, in 1999 – and now, more than twenty years later, Deadline reports that he has finally gotten a third feature through production. The latest Scooter McCrae film is a “darkly erotic sci-fi” project called Black Eyed Susan, starring Damian Maffei of The Strangers: Prey at Night.
Deadline notes that Black Eyed Susan was one of the first projects to secure a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement when the strike got started. Shot on 16mm film, it centers on Derek, who after finding himself desperate for work, accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company’s innovative project means working intimately with Susan,...
Deadline notes that Black Eyed Susan was one of the first projects to secure a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement when the strike got started. Shot on 16mm film, it centers on Derek, who after finding himself desperate for work, accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company’s innovative project means working intimately with Susan,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
‘Black Eyed Susan’ – ‘Shatter Dead’ Filmmaker Scooter McCrae Returns With Bdsm Sex Doll Horror Movie
The director of cult films Shatter Dead (1994) and Sixteen Tongues (1999), Shooter McCrae has wrapped production on his third feature film, titled Black Eyed Susan.
The film is currently in post-production, Bloody Disgusting has learned.
“The stylishly spare, lo-fi aesthetic erotic science fiction feature was filmed on Super 16 in Brooklyn and other areas of Upstate New York. Its cast includes Damian Maffei, Marc Romeo, and ex-WWE Superstar Scott Fowler. Model Yvonne Emilie Thälker marks her feature film debut as the picture’s titular character.”
Desperate for work, Derek (Maffei) accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company’s innovative project means working intimately with Susan (Thälker), a bleeding-edge Bdsm sex doll meant to receive and appreciate punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI.
Derek will soon test the limits of his own desires and explore the nature of man and woman,...
The film is currently in post-production, Bloody Disgusting has learned.
“The stylishly spare, lo-fi aesthetic erotic science fiction feature was filmed on Super 16 in Brooklyn and other areas of Upstate New York. Its cast includes Damian Maffei, Marc Romeo, and ex-WWE Superstar Scott Fowler. Model Yvonne Emilie Thälker marks her feature film debut as the picture’s titular character.”
Desperate for work, Derek (Maffei) accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company’s innovative project means working intimately with Susan (Thälker), a bleeding-edge Bdsm sex doll meant to receive and appreciate punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI.
Derek will soon test the limits of his own desires and explore the nature of man and woman,...
- 10/2/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A new film from cult filmmaker Scooter McCrae has been a long time coming but they've gone and shot their third feature film after twenty years. The new film, Black Eyed Susan, is now in post and we should expect to see it some time in 2024. From the synopsis below it sounds like it will test the limits of some audience members. Keen! Desperate for work, Derek accepts a job replacing his recently-deceased friend at a tech startup. Continuing to develop the company's innovative project means working intimately with Susan, a bleeding-edge Bdsm sex doll meant to receive and appreciate punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI. Derek will soon test the limits of his own desires and explore the nature...
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- 9/30/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to the comedic documentary My Friend Tommy, along with North American rights to Blood Scales, an award-winning French-English doc about animal trafficking. The former title will debut on digital October 24th, with the latter hitting the internet on the 31st.
Directed by Nem Stankovic, My Friend Tommy follows Thomas “Tommy” Lee, a sheltered 40-year-old virgin who embarks on a cross-continental journey with his best friend, former pro-ball player and comedian Nem, to learn basic adult skills in a crash course on the life he’s missed out on. Nora Stankovic, Nem Stankovic, and Lauren Wolkowski produced the film alongside EPs Nick Risher, Patrick Tsang, Oliver Mochizuki, Utsava Kasera, Rahil Khandker, Wilson Siu, G. Lam, Archit Joshi, Christopher Aw, Sin W. Lau, Mark N. Taaffe, Jessey Lee, and Cherie Chan.
Directed by Paolo Sodi and produced by Alessio Bariviera, Blood Scales highlights...
Directed by Nem Stankovic, My Friend Tommy follows Thomas “Tommy” Lee, a sheltered 40-year-old virgin who embarks on a cross-continental journey with his best friend, former pro-ball player and comedian Nem, to learn basic adult skills in a crash course on the life he’s missed out on. Nora Stankovic, Nem Stankovic, and Lauren Wolkowski produced the film alongside EPs Nick Risher, Patrick Tsang, Oliver Mochizuki, Utsava Kasera, Rahil Khandker, Wilson Siu, G. Lam, Archit Joshi, Christopher Aw, Sin W. Lau, Mark N. Taaffe, Jessey Lee, and Cherie Chan.
Directed by Paolo Sodi and produced by Alessio Bariviera, Blood Scales highlights...
- 9/29/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Reminiscent of the Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez collaboration Grindhouse with its throwback features and faux trailers for non-existent movies, filmmaker and artist Pat Tremblay’s new book Terror in the Ailien Realms: Transdimensional Horror Movie Posters & Their Film Reviews consists of posters for and reviews of movies that have never existed!
An explanation of what this book is all about was provided in a press release (via Variety), “Drawn by the deep nostalgia of roaming video rental stores to find cool movies to watch by judging what its VHS box’s artwork would entice or beguile, filmmaker & artist Pat Tremblay has created a series of horror movie posters with the assistance of AI. He then proposed to talented individuals within the horror movie scene to write imaginary reviews for them. The result is a captivating mixture of styles, ranging from the enigmatic and alluring to the outrageously hilarious. The dimensional...
An explanation of what this book is all about was provided in a press release (via Variety), “Drawn by the deep nostalgia of roaming video rental stores to find cool movies to watch by judging what its VHS box’s artwork would entice or beguile, filmmaker & artist Pat Tremblay has created a series of horror movie posters with the assistance of AI. He then proposed to talented individuals within the horror movie scene to write imaginary reviews for them. The result is a captivating mixture of styles, ranging from the enigmatic and alluring to the outrageously hilarious. The dimensional...
- 7/20/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Hello once again, Daily Dead readers! Today, we’ve got four more fantastic genre short films that offer up a little bit of everything—killer robots, inept Satanists, obsessed housekeepers, and call girls who get more than they bargained for—as we once again turn our spotlight onto short-form storytelling with an assortment of gut-punch films that we do hope you enjoy.
For this installment of Daily Dead Salutes Your Shorts, we celebrate the recently released Saint Frankenstein from Scooter McCrae, the hilarious Born Again by Jason Tostevin, Rob McLellan’s horror/sci-fi mash-up Abe, and because this writer recently had the opportunity to see the feature film version, this felt like the perfect time to share Jon Knautz’s The Cleaning Lady, which is the short that helped put the wheels in motion for the feature that just recently premiered at Arrow Video’s UK FrightFest.
Saint Frankenstein (Directed...
For this installment of Daily Dead Salutes Your Shorts, we celebrate the recently released Saint Frankenstein from Scooter McCrae, the hilarious Born Again by Jason Tostevin, Rob McLellan’s horror/sci-fi mash-up Abe, and because this writer recently had the opportunity to see the feature film version, this felt like the perfect time to share Jon Knautz’s The Cleaning Lady, which is the short that helped put the wheels in motion for the feature that just recently premiered at Arrow Video’s UK FrightFest.
Saint Frankenstein (Directed...
- 9/7/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In the latest from legendary underground NYC writer/director Scooter McCrae, a call girl visits a badly-scarred client at a rundown motel and gets more than she bargained for once clothing is shed and a mysterious history behind a legendary name begins to unfold. Produced by Alex Kuciw (V/H/S) and starring exploitation …
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- 8/29/2018
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
Having recently returned from the Transylvania Iff, where his new short film Saint Frankenstein picked up the Best Film Award in the Shadows Shorts Competition, writer/director Scooter McCrae agreed to field a few questions for Quiet Earth.
Here we discuss the genesis and the process of creating Saint Frankenstein, while also taking a look back at McCrae's previous films, the underground zombie classic Shatter Dead and the erotic cyberpunk thriller Sixteen Tongues. We also chat a little about horror movies generally.
You can read my review of the wonderful Saint Frankenstein here and download the film [Continued ...]...
Here we discuss the genesis and the process of creating Saint Frankenstein, while also taking a look back at McCrae's previous films, the underground zombie classic Shatter Dead and the erotic cyberpunk thriller Sixteen Tongues. We also chat a little about horror movies generally.
You can read my review of the wonderful Saint Frankenstein here and download the film [Continued ...]...
- 8/19/2016
- QuietEarth.us
I don't think I've ever reviewed a short before, but this one is worthy of special attention.
Back in 1994, filmmaker Scooter McCrae wrote and directed Shatter Dead, an allegorical, micro-budget zombie film in which the living dead are presented as essentially confused and disenfranchised wanderers, as opposed to flesh-hungry monsters. It's a rough little film, shot on video, full of ideas and arresting imagery (it won a Best Independent Film award at the 1995 Fantafestival), it's undone only in part by an extremely limited budget and some amateurish acting, yet for me it stands as a highly creative and influential work in the world of underground video and horror.
In 1999, McCrae started on his follow-up, the sleazy, violent and downright bizarre cyberpunk thriller Si [Continued ...]...
Back in 1994, filmmaker Scooter McCrae wrote and directed Shatter Dead, an allegorical, micro-budget zombie film in which the living dead are presented as essentially confused and disenfranchised wanderers, as opposed to flesh-hungry monsters. It's a rough little film, shot on video, full of ideas and arresting imagery (it won a Best Independent Film award at the 1995 Fantafestival), it's undone only in part by an extremely limited budget and some amateurish acting, yet for me it stands as a highly creative and influential work in the world of underground video and horror.
In 1999, McCrae started on his follow-up, the sleazy, violent and downright bizarre cyberpunk thriller Si [Continued ...]...
- 5/5/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Along with partners the American Cinematheque and Jumpcut Cafe, the Underground Film Journal is thrilled to be co-presenting the first ever Hollywood Underground Film Festival, which will be a one-night event at the Egyptian Theater on Saturday, February 21.
The festival will include two screenings. First, there will be a short film program at 7:30 p.m.; followed at 10:00 p.m. by the world premiere of the exciting new anthology film Betamax, which features new work by Los Angeles underground filmmaking legend Damon Packard.
The shorts lineup will include the U.S. premiere of the latest film by longtime Journal favorite Brian Lonano, Crow Hand!!!, which is bloody and fantastic; and Mike Olenick‘s visual epic Red Luck, which won the Best Looking award at the 2014 Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Best Experimental Film at the 2015 Slamdance.
Other shorts include a blazingly fun biopic of Hollywood icon Russ Meyer,...
The festival will include two screenings. First, there will be a short film program at 7:30 p.m.; followed at 10:00 p.m. by the world premiere of the exciting new anthology film Betamax, which features new work by Los Angeles underground filmmaking legend Damon Packard.
The shorts lineup will include the U.S. premiere of the latest film by longtime Journal favorite Brian Lonano, Crow Hand!!!, which is bloody and fantastic; and Mike Olenick‘s visual epic Red Luck, which won the Best Looking award at the 2014 Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Best Experimental Film at the 2015 Slamdance.
Other shorts include a blazingly fun biopic of Hollywood icon Russ Meyer,...
- 2/10/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
With the demise of the drive-in theater rose the behemoth home video industry – and a torch was passed from one era of low-budget directors and producers to a new batch of underfunded fringe filmmakers. These fresh faces had new technology, and a new distribution game… but a similar reckless abandon and rebellious tenacity as their b-movie forefathers.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
Fright fans were introduced to a new breed of horror movies - made for tens of thousands of dollars… or thousands of dollars… or a few hundred bucks and a borrowed video camera. Unpaid amateurs / quasi-professionals made up the bulk of most casts and crews - and often, the directors and producers were quite inexperienced themselves.
Join me for a visit to the heyday of the direct-to-video, micro-budget horror movie. We’ll explore this strange new cinema of the 80s and see how it evolved through the ‘90s. (Be sure to adjust tracking for best picture quality.
- 3/14/2013
- by Eric Stanze
- FEARnet
A genuine mystery and all-around obsession arose in 1986 during the “discovery phase” of my relationship with horror in the mid-1980s. It would last until the early summer of 2008.
It was something I could not share with my friends or my family, and in those pre-internet days, information (such as the type I needed) was in short supply, and there was little hope that I would ever find the answers I was so desperately looking for.
The question at hand…
Who was Danny Steinmann?
He was the director of my personal favorite of the Friday the 13th films…the often-derided and misunderstood Part V: A New Beginning, released in 1985. He also had the action/exploitation flick Savage Streets to his name from 1984. But that was it, as far as I knew at the time. For months on end, I scanned the pages of Fangoria for word on Mr. Steinmann’s next film,...
It was something I could not share with my friends or my family, and in those pre-internet days, information (such as the type I needed) was in short supply, and there was little hope that I would ever find the answers I was so desperately looking for.
The question at hand…
Who was Danny Steinmann?
He was the director of my personal favorite of the Friday the 13th films…the often-derided and misunderstood Part V: A New Beginning, released in 1985. He also had the action/exploitation flick Savage Streets to his name from 1984. But that was it, as far as I knew at the time. For months on end, I scanned the pages of Fangoria for word on Mr. Steinmann’s next film,...
- 12/21/2012
- by mfelsher
- DreadCentral.com
For most everyone (alive, that is), death is something that looms far off on the horizon. And although it’s an unavoidable reality, the perception of it differs widely from person to person. In the documentary The Life Of Death, filmmaker Kevin J. Lindenmuth (pictured) explores how death is perceived by an eclectic group of individuals who work in the media and how it influences (or not) how they go about their lives and work. The interviewees include Fangoria’s own Tony Timpone, author Jack Ketchum, actresses Caroline Munro and Debbie Rochon, Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman, director Scooter McCrae, Synapse Films topper Don May Jr. and others.
- 4/5/2011
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Allan Dart)
- Fangoria
While putting together our Indie Horror Month coverage, we decided to reach out to some of our favorite independent filmmakers working today to hear from them on what some of their favorite independent genre flicks are.
One of the first we spoke with is writer/director/producer Sean Cain. Cain hit the scene in 2006 with his feature film debut Naked Beneath the Water and since then has gone on to direct Silent Night, Zombie Night and the upcoming Breath of Hate (which is currently in post-production) as well as producing other gritty genre flicks including Someone’s Knocking on the Door and Warning!!! Pedophile Released.
Here’s some of Cain’s favorite indie genre flicks:
1. Shatter Dead
As a fledgling filmmaker, this zombie opus was a tremendous influence on me…twice. The first time was in 1995, having finished my first film, Naked Beneath the Water, I followed Scooter McCrae’s...
One of the first we spoke with is writer/director/producer Sean Cain. Cain hit the scene in 2006 with his feature film debut Naked Beneath the Water and since then has gone on to direct Silent Night, Zombie Night and the upcoming Breath of Hate (which is currently in post-production) as well as producing other gritty genre flicks including Someone’s Knocking on the Door and Warning!!! Pedophile Released.
Here’s some of Cain’s favorite indie genre flicks:
1. Shatter Dead
As a fledgling filmmaker, this zombie opus was a tremendous influence on me…twice. The first time was in 1995, having finished my first film, Naked Beneath the Water, I followed Scooter McCrae’s...
- 3/14/2011
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
Roman Polanski’s 1965 classic made the Top 300 Horror Films in Fangoria #300, and now Repulsion is getting its due as part of the BAMcinématek series Deneuve, a 25-film March tribute to the legendary French actress that’s taking place at the Brooklyn, NY-based Bam theater. You can click here for the dates, times and other info. And as a special treat, Catherine Deneuve will introduce the film during its March 4 screening. Here’s Scooter McCrae’s review of the Repulsion Criterion Collection DVD (which came out in July 2009).
- 3/3/2011
- by allan.dart@starloggroup.com (Scooter McCrae)
- Fangoria
Heading into its 18th year in 2011, the Chicago Underground Film Festival is the longest-running underground film festival in the world. It used to be tied with the New York Underground Film Festival — both were started in 1994 — until Nyuff closed up shop in 2008.
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
In 1994, the Internet wasn’t the big promotional tool it is today so neither Nyuff nor Cuff that year had a website; or, if they did, those pages have since vanished off the web. So, details about what these fests screened in their first years have been sketchy. Well, until now for Cuff.
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I recently discovered that the alternative newsweekly the Chicago Reader had posted up the entire, full lineup of the first annual Chicago Underground Film Festival.
So, I copied that info and reformatted it into the style of Bad Lit’s traditional film festival lineups, which...
- 12/9/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Dan Ouellette designed the creatures in Splice -- thin, alien, and beautiful, evolving -- forged from thematic obsessions present in Ouellette’s work even before the film ever went into development. Director Vincenzo Natali hired Ouellette based on these themes to drive the look and feel of Splice’s antagonists, much like Dan O’Bannon and Ridley Scott utilized H.R. Giger’s artwork as the template for their monster as well as part of the production design in Alien. But unlike Giger, Dan Ouellette will never be (properly) credited for his creation.
As Splice was greenlit, Dan was left behind. His creature, now fatherless, became real on screen without him.
The following interview contains Dan’s side of the story. We are now making every effort that we can to get the other side's point of view. Let this tale be a lesson to all those working in film or...
As Splice was greenlit, Dan was left behind. His creature, now fatherless, became real on screen without him.
The following interview contains Dan’s side of the story. We are now making every effort that we can to get the other side's point of view. Let this tale be a lesson to all those working in film or...
- 1/26/2010
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
"We didn't want to make a normal movie," Frank Henenlotter said of himself and producer/co-writer/rapper R.A. "The Rugged Man" Thorburn, introducing Bad Biology at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival. "We wanted something that was just wrong." And to paraphrase the popular saying, if going against the usual genre grain is wrong, who wants to be right? Bad Biology marks the welcome and long-overdue return (after 16 years without a feature) of one of the most unique and committed visions in independent horror, one whose underground sensibilities clearly haven't mellowed with age. If anything, Bad Biology is even more deranged than his previous works, and where sex was just one element or an undercurrent in the likes of Frankenhooker and Brain Damage, here the carnal takes center stage.
Jennifer (Charlee Danielson) is a New York City photographer with a penchant for quite twisted and murderous imagery that nonetheless has nothing on her personal life.
Jennifer (Charlee Danielson) is a New York City photographer with a penchant for quite twisted and murderous imagery that nonetheless has nothing on her personal life.
- 3/24/2009
- Fangoria
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