Kickstarter Begins

So the official "Straight On Till Morning" kickstarter campaign has begun. We've got until June 18 to raise money to help with the production of the feature film. It's an exciting prospect which will give whoever likes a chance to take part in the film and get some cool SOTM stuff in return.

If you're interested, check out the link above, tell your friends, and thanks so much.

The Fridgidaire

HELL YEAH.

This movie was born from all our b-movie nights, where we'd rent a couple b-movies and watch them and make fun of them while they went along. Nothing different from what any other high schoolers did really. There were so many. This being a parody of THE LIFT, which was about a killer elevator. We thought that few things would be dumber than a killer elevator...except maybe a killer refrigerator!

Oh, this one is a beauty. We really expanded our storytelling. It's got a fantastic prologue which sets up this horrifying tale of a cursed killer refrigerator. In it we see some NEW ACTORS (Holy crap! Holy crap!). We've got Chris G (wearing his signature marble bag ball hugger shorts), Tracy, and the best of them all, my wonderful Mom. She only showed up in a couple things like this (in fact this may be the only one), but it makes me smile to see her being so silly.

We've got a monster credit sequence, with REAL BLOOD. Yep... we sacraficed for our art. I bled on that page. (I used to get nose bleeds all the time...just so happened, I bled all over our credits).

So we have the set up....

...and not much else.

We kinda did this a lot (you've probably already noticed). We'd set it up, and I guess just get bored, or someone would have to go home and that would be the end of it. We would plan on doing it another time, talk about it for a few weeks, and it would just die.

Oh well. It's a great opportunity to see inside Chris G's house (a rare, warlock like lair with no open windows). You get to see my High School girlfriend Stacey. And of course the fine reappearance of Tom, Borden and myself. Dave's car shows up but he's not really in it. Maybe he's the Fridgidaire!!! (cue evil laughter).

We had plans to have a barbie doll fight a model fridge and fall into the empty pool in the backyard. As well as other rediculous kill scenes. But in the end...this is all that remains.

Beware the next time you open your fridge...
Be very aware.

PS: The date in 1995 is incorrect. This had to have been made in 1990 or 1991.






ROTOR...the best of the best.

THEY FOUND IT!!!

Yep, the cops found the car! No way! Yes Way!

And on top of that it's still drivable. In fact the theives vacuumed it and put in the burnt out headlight. Of course they stole everything that was inside, which amounts to about 1000 bucks worth of stuff, but still...SO GRATEFUL it's back.

They parked it on a street with permit parking and the cops ticketed it...and then saw it was stolen and I got it back.

Sweet.

Miracle. Right there.

Thanks mom

Stolen Cars and Movies...

So team,

Some piece of shit stole my car from my PARKING SPOT IN MY HOME on Easter Morning.
Yep...

So guess what happens to the money I had saved up for a movie called Straight On Till Morning?

Yep.

I get to buy a car. That means we are even FURTHER from our goal of shooting this movie.

Now, for some reason, I'm more depressed about this than pissed. It's such a random thing, I just don't know what I can even do about it. I guess if you see a :

94, white Honda Civic 4door with dark tinted windows, Texas Plates, SXR-052. A taped on drivers side rear view mirror.

Call the cops. Follow the fuckers. And help us out. Cause no car means the movie just got harder. Like it wasn't hard enough as it was.

CraigO

SIX DOLLARS, REALLY????

Okay, so I'm gonna bitch for a bit here...

Are you Fucking kidding me that the 3-D mark up on movies is now SIX DOLLARS?????
and for IMAX 3-D it's SEVEN?

I mean, what the fuck? The movies aren't any better because they're in 3-D. A shitty ass movie is a shitty ass movie. You don't even get to keep your glasses.

It's good to know that the greed of Hollywood is willing to screw the fans over so that they end up NOT seeing movies. Dumb asses, people are broke right now. The 12 bucks you want us to pay for a shitty out of focus, bad sounding film is to much to begin with. Now you're charging us 18 bucks for the same thrill.

Look, I think 3-D can be cool, like "Avatar" or "Space Station 3-D", you know, something shot in 3-D. Although honestly to me it was just sort of distracting. A good movie can bring people into the story no matter what 3-D bells & whistles it has. (See "Up In The Air" for an example).

Hollywood doesn't seem to realize that they are going to KILL YOUR OWN INDUSTRY. People won't go. Sure, for a few months everyone will be like "wow, 3-D, I've got to be wowed!", but when movie tickets keep going up every year...and now this...and movies don't necessarily get any better... it's only a matter of time before people think of something else to do with their time.

On top of that, by years end everyone's going to have 3-D in their home, with Blu-Ray and then what? If I can BUY the damn movie for $30 (or less if I just wait a few months), why on earth would I go to see it in a movie theater with a bunch of texting kids and annoying talking people? It just doesn't make sense. And then you have Disney's shrinking the window to release the DVD's to 2 months. Alice is still going to be in theaters when it comes out on Blu-Ray and DVD. Why not wait to buy it once you have 3-D in your home? Or better yet, RENT the damn thing, then Hollywood really makes nothing.

All this makes me sad because I LOVE movies. I love the excitement. The big screen, the energy of an audience paying attention and enveloped in the magical world only movies can create. But now I have to be so much more particular about what I go see because it's gonna be 18 bucks (since EVERY movie coming out by years end is going to be 3-D). And that ends up with me just not seeing as many movies as I want to.

Greed runs this town, we all know that. But it's a shame to think that for a quick buck they'll fuck the fans over, rather than say, "we're going to give you an experience you CAN'T get at home. And we're not going to rape your pocketbook for it. That way, you keep coming back."

Long term thinking people, not instant gratification. I hope you enjoy your new Mercedes with the profits from 3-D studio execs and theater owners, because 3 years from now you're going to have to mortgage your house because you will have killed the movie business and will be out of a job.

Now let me go downstairs, turn on my projector, crank the sound as loud as I want and watch a kick ass movie with no interruptions.