Archive for July, 2011
The Fear Experience – A New High Tech Haunted House in Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 30th
The Fear Experience
Need a new excitement in life? You think that nothing scares you anymore? Visit the “The Fear Experience” in Cleveland, Ohio, it’s a high-tech work of art haunted house that will scare your guts out. It’s been inspired from some of the horror movies classics and built to make the experience one of the scariest of your life. To visit this Cleveland haunted houses will cost you $13 for TWO awesome Haunts! Like The Fear Experience, The Insane Asylum or the brand new BURIED ALIVE . It’s located at Located at 5170 Great Northern Plaza, North Olmsted near Best Buys.
Do you have the guts to Visit?
Tell-Tale (A Short Film Adapted from E.A. Poe)
Jul 17th
Tell Tale
Tell-Tale is a short film, based on the original short story A Tell Tale Heart by the wonderful Edgar Allan Poe. Our goal with Tell-Tale is to create the definitive cinematic version of A Tell Tale Heart.The film adaptation takes Poe’s Gothic classic, set in contemporary 1850s Baltimore, Maryland, and brings it to the realm our own contemporary time, turn of the twenty-first century.
The film will have a very strong visual aesthetic in the vein of German expressionist work (Nosferatu, Cab. of Dr. Calagari), which influenced horror and noir as we know it today. This style of visuals will marry with Poe’s focus on the dark fringes of human experience in a strong cinematic way.
The film is not simply an exercise in translating a story to another medium but a chance to show that Poe’s potent narrative about monomania still has relevance in our society. The unique and engaging approach to narrative and point of view in the short story provides us, as filmmakers, with many interesting possibilities for a creative, expressive cinematic aesthetic.
The short story itself leaves a good amount of room for a very calculated and immersive sound design experience as well. The narrator’s “sense of hearing is acute” above all. And of course the famous heart-beneath-the-floorboards scene in the story demands outstanding sound design.
We expect the final short to run between 15-25 minutes, and will be shot digitally with Canon SLRs. We have used this digital work-flow on past projects with great success and flexibility.
Andyfilm
Who Are We?
Andyfilm is a Portland-based production house focusing on independent film projects. We have established a foothold in the guerrilla filmmaking world by utilizing our d-SLR production model to save on overhead. Our main contacts include director/producer A.Z. Chandler, composer/producer Andrew Thomas, and producer/cinematographer Joesph Webb.
Movie Website: www.telltalefilm.com
HOWLAND (Fear The Dead)
Jul 16th
Howland
The story mainly follows Claire (played by Sarah Yenkelun) who is the location manager for a local production company trying to make a film. When she sets her sights on a vintage “warehouse,” the curiosity of the past overpowers her. The discovery of an old newspaper article detailing the murder of two people in the building make her concerned for others safety. Soon she begins to discover the bodies of others and must unravel the truth behind it all. As the body count rises, she is thrown into the world of the dead and must maneuver through time to survive.
Key Cast:
Claire – Sarah Yenkelun
Howland - Drew Cavanaugh
The Keeper – Joseph Del Carmine
Writer and Director – Domenic Del Carmine
With no budget and a limited amount of days to film, Howland became such a journey to make! The cast became close to the story and aided in the creation of the final product. The story was not based on any actual events, however, it was a fictional tale about ghostly apparitions and a girl whose character changes from the beginning to the end of the film – she becomes a strong willed individual. During the filming of Howland, the bulk of us were on the edge of graduating high school, so to create something such as a 26 minute feature was exciting and new! As a writer and director, it’s one of my largest projects that I’ve taken on, and I couldn’t be more happy with the product.
Playing House featuring Mayra Leal
Jul 1st
Playing House
In order to afford their dream house, newlyweds Jen and Mitch McKenzie (Sarah Prikryl and Craig Welzbacher) ask their best friend Danny (Matt Lusk) to move in with them. The plan works beautifully until Danny brings home Blair (Mayra Leal), a stunning temptress who decides she likes what the young couple has and never wants to leave. The seductive stranger turns the friends against each other and exploits unspoken desires to achieve her own unique version of the American Dream.
If this were made in the 90s, I’m sure Shannon Tweed and Andrew Stevens would’ve been headlining that cast. We’ll see if this new era of DTV stars and starlets have what it takes to get teenagers the world over hot underneath the collar.
Additionally, they are launching a contest to win a date with the star of the film, Mayra Leal Click here to take part in the contest
