Macabre...ish Cults, Classics & Horrors
Jan 5, 2021
Hellraiser Everything with Christopher Thompson
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This is the summary of all summaries about the Hellraiser franchise. The characters, actors, creator, concepts and more. If you weren’t really interested in Hellraiser before, then Chris may change your mind. And as usual you can find him @theauthor_and @talesfromchristopherthompson on IG and find me, Kimberly at www.macabreish.com and on IG @macabre_ish. Thanks for listening!
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Feb 6, 2023
BTS of Erzulie with Filmmaker, Christine Chen
This is Part 2, Behind the scenes of Erzulie with filmmaker Christine Chen.
Christine talks about the making of the film, the pitfalls and struggles, the changes that had to be made and what the cast had to suffer because of the weather/flooding.
Erzulie was filmed in a swamp and there was constant flooding, freezing water and cold nights. Christine worker on three other features on the same property.
The script was written with this location in mind which had it’s pros and cons. Almost all leads on the crew were women and this is the first black mermaid film and first black mermaid horror film. Christine even consulted a priestess to get the makeup right and researched history and culture to honor it as much as possible.
Christine also never forgets all those who helped her along the way. And she expects to makes two more sequels. Also, horror is not her the only genre she works with. Look her up, support indie films and women filmmakers. Her links are below.
Find Christine everything, here:
https://mothtoflamefilms.com
https://www.erzuliefilm.com/director
https://www.christinewchen.com
Find The Rest of Us:
Christopher Thompson on IG @theauthor__ and mastodon @https://mastodon.world/@WestReAnimated
Kimberly at http://www.macabreish.com and IG and Tiktok @macabre_ish. https://linktr.ee/macabre_ish
Carlos Ibarra on IG @jekyl6669 and
https://www.fillintheblanksproductions.ca/
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Jan 28, 2023
Christine W. Chen Director of Erzulie, Mermaid Horror Film
Christine Chen has always been in film in some capacity since college. She got her start in documentary filmmaking. Also making a lot of shorts, including A Bird’s Nest. She went to grad school at UT and started hustling in the Austin film scene. She then started making films and submitting them to a Louisiana film festival called Film Prize. All shorts have to be made in Louisiana and the big prize is $50,000. So from Austin, Christine moved to Shreveport for a year to work and submit to the festival. While there, she built her team and network.
Christine talks about how she eased her parents into her wanting to be a filmmaker. She also has advice for college students who want to go into film.
She talks about the difference between a director who earns their way and those who don’t.
The reason she made her film, Erzulie (Er-zuh-lee), and how that went from distribution deal to funding. The pandemic has a lot to do with it, of course. She wrote a script in a month that spawned from a short, and it was accepted so now they were suddenly making a feature. It’s quite a wild ride. Plus how they were able to shoot in 11 days despite problems. This is part one…
Find Christine everything, here:
https://mothtoflamefilms.com
https://www.erzuliefilm.com/director
https://www.christinewchen.com
Find Us:
Christopher Thompson on IG @theauthor__ and mastodon @https://mastodon.world/@WestReAnimated
Kimberly at http://www.macabreish.com and IG and Tiktok @macabre_ish. https://linktr.ee/macabre_ish
Carlos Ibarra on Twitter & IG @jekyl6669 and
https://www.fillintheblanksproductions.ca/
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Dec 15, 2022
Bordello of Blood Producer/Writer A L Katz
Part 2: Bordello of Blood came to be. Another movie was supposed to be made in it’s place but the machinations of Hollywood turned and suddenly everything changed.
They had a script called Fat Tuesday, a psychological thriller which was changed to Dead Easy. Gil had no interest in directing Demon Knight, so Ernest Dickerson was brought in. And Gil planned to direct Dead Easy afterward, set in Louisiana and got the green light from Universal and while scouting locations for weeks, the plug was pulled and it was decided that Bordello of Blood would be done in it’s place.
Then Steven Spielberg started Dreamworks and because of fear of losing Robert Zemeckis, the studio made a deal, which included buying a student script that Zemekis actually cowrote, for a ton of money and they ended up using that script that turned out to be Bordello of Blood. They had 3 weeks to rewrite and start shooting. With the making of this movie, they became pawns to everything.
And not in Louisiana but in Canada. And instead of Bridget Wilson they got Erika Eliniak as the female lead. Al and Gil they wanted Robin Givens as the villain but, the boss, Joel Silver, cast, then Sylvester Stallone’s soon to be ex fiancée, Angie Everhart instead. A part written for Daniel Baldwin was replaced with Dennis Miller by Joel, who improved all of his lines and didn’t even want to be in the movie. But he got a million bucks to do it.
Bordello was doomed from the very beginning. They were thwarted until the bitter end and by then, Al and Gil’s friendship and business partnership was over.
This story is a wild ride, you have to hear it!
Find A L Katz
https://howtolivebullshit-free.com/
On Mastodon:
https://lor.sh/@Alan
And his podcast, How Not To Make a Movie Podcast, is wherever you get your podcasts!
Remember on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17 at NOON PACIFIC TIME, there is a table read of the movie that never was, Dead Easy, for the charity The Motion Picture Home (the MPTF). For retired entertainment industry artists who need help. https://mptf.com/ways-to-give/ Find out more at the link below…
https://how-not-to-make-a-movie.com/2022/11/26/the-dead-easy-table-read-for-charity/?amp=1
Christopher Thompson on IG @theauthor__ and mastodon @https://mastodon.world/@WestReAnimated
Kimberly at http://www.macabreish.com and IG and Tiktok @macabre_ish. https://linktr.ee/macabre_ish
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