Summer 2012 Production Update

For a no-budget film production company whose members all have day jobs we sure are managing to stay busy this summer. Here's an update on all of our upcoming productions- there's been a lot of changes since our last production update, so please bear with us!

First off though, our "How to Survive the Apocalypse" PSA will be screening at tomorrow night's Splatter Cinema, before Lucio Fulci's classic House by the Cemetery! This is a huge honor because 1.) we're sharing a bill with an awesome Italian horror film and 2.) we're screening at Atlanta's historic Plaza theater, which will most likely be closing down before the end of the summer. We've screened there before (our Grindhouse-style trailer for Werebum played before last year's showing of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) but knowing that we're part of one of the last shows at this historic venue is a humbling experience. Thank you Luke Godfrey and Splatter Cinema for giving us this opportunity.

For those of you who've never been to Splatter Cinema before, they're easily the best time you'll ever have at a theater, especially if you're a horror buff like we are. The movies are always screened in 35mm (no DVDs or digital projection!) and the crowd is always energetic while still being respectful. The director of the PSA Jay Holloway and its cinematographer/MonsterBuster founder Torey Haas will both be in attendance tomorrow night, so please join us if you're free!

As for the promised production update, here goes:

H.P. Lovecraft's The Statement of Randolph Carter - We were planning to shoot at the end of the May, and this was contingent on securing a permit to shoot at an absolutely PERFECT location we found in Macon, Georgia. Unfortunately, we have been unable to secure the permit as of yet, meaning the shoot has been pushed back to an indeterminate start date. Anyone who has read the story knows that it's very location-centric, and until we find a location that will do the story justice (we don't want to make another bad Lovecraft adaptation!) we won't be moving forward with the production. We're currently scouting different tomb and cave locations throughout Georgia, and if anyone has any leads send an email to Torey, the film's director, at torey@monsterbusterentertainment.com- I'm sure he'd love to hear from you, especially since he wants to shoot it this summer before he gets caught up in...

Invasion of the Undead starring Desmond and Jake, Paranormal Exterminators - We'll be launching an IndieGoGo campaign later this summer to help finance our first feature film, and we'll be shooting an all-new and totally rad video to accompany it. If you went to the MonsterBuster Film Festival last November you saw the teaser trailer for Invasion that closed the evening, and while this teaser will be part of our upcoming IndieGoGo video it is by no means all we have planned... there will be a lot more monsters, rockin' music and obscure video game references! As always stay tuned to this blog for more news since the Invasion IndieGoGo campaign will necessarily become a big focus of this summer. And for those of you wondering, the Invasion teaser will appear on the MonsterBuster website and YouTube channel (along with Jay Holloway's Werebum) very soon- we're still working on replacing the copyrighted music and audio!

Horror Hotel - We've received a ton of wonderful story submissions for our upcoming web series and we're still looking for more! If you're interested in writing a script send an email to the show's producer Ricky Hess at ricky@monsterbusterentertainment.com and he'll provide you with the series bible and some guidelines. In other news we're hard at work constructing the set (our first!) for the hotel room and it's coming along quite nicely:

Jay Holloway's The Ghoul - The script is almost finalized and Torey is currently trying to convince Jay to cut down the number of shots featuring the ghoul so that it can be a stop-motion creature and not a super-expensive full body make-up appliance. We're looking to shoot this one either in late July or early August.

Super Mario and Luigi - Mario, Luigi, Jerry and Peach will all return, but not this summer... as you can see we already have a lot scheduled for these next three months, and Super Mario and Luigi will consequently be pushed back until Fall 2012 at the earliest.

Metroid - Fred Grant's fan trailer is almost complete! Most of the CG work is nearly finished, and Torey has promised that he will post pictures of the completed Chozo stop motion puppets by the end of next week (if Fred will allow that, of course).

Lastly, the 48 Hour Film Project is this weekend, and we're teaming with our friends at The Collective Project Inc. to make an awesome short film! Greg Garrison of Mario and Luigi and The Red Herring fame will serve as the lead writer while Torey will direct and Nick Lauinger will DP. Look for a blog post early next week after we all catch up on our sleep and have a moment to reflect.

Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you tomorrow night at Splatter Cinema!