Halloween Picks: HauntShooter and Tales of Halloween

   

                                

Well Kiddies we are in full swing this Halloween season with the release of my first narrative film in 7 years as well as my work with HauntShooter this season with Anjanette and Bri. 

Friday night after the release of All Holliw's Eve Anjanette and headed out to Grand Prairie and the Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus which was awesome and the footage looks great with all the goings on at this haunt. 

The footage will be uploaded soon 

Saturday Bri and I hit the road to Amarillo to shoot the Haunt located at the Big Texan Steak Ranch and were greeted with some of the best hospitality and Food at one of Texas' best attractions. 

That footage will be edited and uploaded soon as well. 

During this busy weekend I still made the time to head out to the Alamo Drafthouse  to enjoy a good Pumpking Ale and check out a screening of the new Tales of Halloween. 

                                    

   

I have been looking forward to this film for quite some time while hearing about it in the Newsfeeds with the Buzz in the inner circles. This Flick was well worth the Hype.

An Anthology film taking place on Halloween night in an unnamed town Tales of Halloween features 10 Short Films from some of the top genre filmakers in the business today. They refer to themselves as The October Sociaty.

Adrianne Barbeau plays our friendly narrator as a radio DJ talking to listeners channeling her character from The Fog. The film features tales ranging from a Halloween Legend of Sweet Tooth, A tale of feuding neighbors, a child running amock with the Devil and Killer Pumpkins.

With the lack of a wraparound the stories are surprisingly smooth in the transitions with graphics informing us of the new story. I am amazed that the films all maintain the same look with the range of talent used to combine in the film

Many other Genre Veterans also make appearences in the flick. Adam Green, Lynn Shaye, Kristina Klebe, John Landis, Barry Bostwick and Barbara Crampton among others.

19 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
15 Beasts
Disembowlings
Impaleings
Jaw Ripping
Stabbings
Burnings
Heads Roll
Eyes Roll
and Literal Pumpkin Heads.

5 Stars
Check it out

Halloween Picks:The WNUF Halloween Special

It’s another Halloween season and WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS!!!

That’s right, If you were watching last season We began a new Format for HauntShooter where I have been fortunate to have my friends along my side and naturally as always my longtime (and Suffering) producer Anjanette is by my side and we are also joined by Bri in this new venture that we are going on.  

                                                  

I am very happy with the direction that I am going in this business venture and I am pleased for the results.

Along with Hatch and Craven’s Slaughterhouse we have shot The Dark Path Haunt as well as The Texas Scaregrounds and we are traveling to shoot other Haunts and Events to come this season.

I also have a passion for my Ipad and I have been able to check out some flicks around the net for the upcoming Halloween flicks.

While I concluded my Halloween pick series I plan on continuing in giving all of you anything I see that I think that you may like. There are movies being made everyday and many of them are destined to become classics.

Now many of you know that I am a massive fan of the Found Footage genre and most of it’s films and there are many different types and then this film is in a different class all together.

The WNUF Halloween special has been out for a couple of years but I have only just now been able to check it out.  

Now this flick is a guilty pleasure for me as I had heard the hype on the internet with many of my movie blogging brethren singing the praises of the originality of the flick and I have to agree with them.

Now this is not a Found Footage flick it takes the form of a recorded event on Halloween night that we are being showcased by an unknown presenter. This presenter is frequently fastforwards this special through commercials and news packages that they aren’t interested in.

The flick at first show a Halloween night newscast where the anchors feature stories related to Halloween during the satanic panic of the late 1980s. All the while the anchors are promoting the following Halloween special which is conducting a séance at a local haunted house.

Well as you can guess things go array for the broadcast.

Shot on video and made to look like an old vhs recording the film also features recreations of small time commercials that were frequent at the time and are clearly the subject of parody and add to the comedy of the film but is often used to break the tension going on in the film and sometimes I have to wonder if this is a good thing.

There are a few predictable twists but it is still worth a look for the originality of it’s direction.

5 Dead Bodies

0 Breasts

3 Beasts

1 Dead Cat

Cheesy Commercials

Bad news anchors

2 Stars

Check it out.