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
by Gary Berger, MoreHorror.com
For those of you who have never gone to Dallas, TX for Texas Frightmare Weekend, do yourselves a favor and book your rooms now. This being my first time to partake in this multitude of horror and mayhem, I was to say the least...Very Impressed, especially with the overall structure of the event. From the support staff (who Never gets as much credit as they deserve) to the vendors and the stars themselves.
With the opportunity to meet horror royalty like Roger Corman, Clive Barker, Robert Englund, Malcolm McDowell, Angus Scrimm (the tall man from Phantasm) as well as maestro of the ink, Halloween tattoo specialist, Shaun Kama, Sid Haig, "Hobo with a Shotgun" director Jason Eisner and Cary Elwes from "Saw", and the list keeps going on I just wish I had the space to list all of them.
From the time we...
For those of you who have never gone to Dallas, TX for Texas Frightmare Weekend, do yourselves a favor and book your rooms now. This being my first time to partake in this multitude of horror and mayhem, I was to say the least...Very Impressed, especially with the overall structure of the event. From the support staff (who Never gets as much credit as they deserve) to the vendors and the stars themselves.
With the opportunity to meet horror royalty like Roger Corman, Clive Barker, Robert Englund, Malcolm McDowell, Angus Scrimm (the tall man from Phantasm) as well as maestro of the ink, Halloween tattoo specialist, Shaun Kama, Sid Haig, "Hobo with a Shotgun" director Jason Eisner and Cary Elwes from "Saw", and the list keeps going on I just wish I had the space to list all of them.
From the time we...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Leif Jonker directed what could probably be called the best splatter gore movie you've never seen. Darkness (Released later as Darkness The Vampire Version) is'nt really that far away from the early works of Sam Rami and Peter Jackson. Its a an ultra low budget classic, you really should seek out. Demon Machine was to be his next project, but sadly the years slipped by and funding meant it never to fruition. Which when you look at this promo is such a shame, it was bound to be all kinds of fun. Someone really should seek the guy out and get this made, especially now digital is a viable format.
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- 10/31/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
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