Happy Halloween Fiends!!! 'Halloween Night Terror' Fan Film Exclusive!

Well it's that time of year again, pumpkins have been carved, we have donned our most frightening costumes and took to the streets in our masses to ring in Halloween. Today we ask all of you 'Trick or Treat?' and our reply is treat, you wouldn't want our tricks!! So without further ado lets share with you today's post.....

HALLOWEEN NIGHT TERROR FAN FILM EXCLUSIVE

Synopsis

"I've heard of kids trick r' treating, but this takes the mick! Have they been letting the loonies out for the night too? - Jack

In this latest addition to 'The Halloween Chronicles' collection, the mythos of cinema's infamous boogeyman, Michael Myers, expands and proves that on All Hallow's Eve, no-one is safe from the madman's grasp!

It is Halloween night in the state of Russellville, a few miles from the notorious Haddonfield, and resident, Jack Dennant (Ernest Vernon), wants nothing more than to forget all about the ghouls, ghosts & glowing pumpkins that line his street outside. But having turned some festive visitors away from his door chastised and empty handed, little does Jack realise, the festival of Samhain has one last deadly trick to play....
...on October 31st, HE makes the rules...

WATCH HALLOWEEN NIGHT TERROR HERE!

Written and Directed by Dave Hastings and filmed on location in the West Midlands, England, in association with Lightbeam Productions and Pat the Bull Films 'Halloween Night Terror' brings back psychopath Michael Myers, and on the most part pulls off a great effort compared to some of the 'Halloween' fan films we have seen in the past. The film is brought to life with a musical score written especially for the piece by James Callaghan of the Basement Film Group, Dudley, and gives the film that extra fear and dread that audiences would expect from a John Carpenter movie score. Aesthetically, the most striking element is how 'Halloween Night Terror' captures the iconic 80's feel of the orginal 'Halloween' movie. The end of the film delivers a great message which any viral ad's campaign would be proud of!! Bravo

We caught up with Dave Hastings Writer and Director recently who told us this about the project:-

It was made for the official HalloweenMovies.com website and their now defunct fan film competition which was pulled and cancelled at the last minute, which was gutting not only for our crew and cast, but also others who had made films for the competition. The good side of it is that we were definitely through to the final voting stage, so we’d been selected by the competition makers before it all fell through, which is a great feeling. And since it’s been online, we’ve had some lovely support and comments made about how its scared people, and how fans have enjoyed the storyline, and how we went back to the idea of Michael Myers/The Shape stalking on All Hallow’s Eve, pushing him back into the mysterious silent shadowy figure from the original classic Halloween. We just hope people continue to enjoy it. It was made by fans for fans.

We would just like to thank Dave and the rest of the team for giving us the opportunity to view 'Halloween Night Terrors' and look forward to sharing more of their work with all our fiends here at The Evil Eye.

Follow the team behind the short at the following links:-

Lightbeam Productions

Pat the Bull Films

Adam 'Evil Eye' Cutler

Chernobyl Diaries Review

Horror – Starring Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Dimitri Diatchenko, Olivia Dudley, Devin Kelley, Jesse McCartney, Nathan Phillips, Jonathan Sadowski. Written by Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke. Directed by Bradley Parker (2012)


Three young Americans – love birds Natalie and Chris, and photographer Amanda – are travelling through Europe. In Kiev, they met up with Chris’s brother Paul, en route to Moscow. Only, they never make it to Moscow, instead the four friends are joined by two other travellers, Zoe and Michael, and together they head off for a spot of ‘Extreme Tourism’ to Pripyat, the town close to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Led by a tour guide, Uri, the intrepid travellers discover that the supposed abandoned town is anything but.

I admit to being hopeful but with modest expectations as I sat down to watch Chernobyl Diaries. The movie opens promisingly with video footage of Natalie (Olivia Dudley), Chris (Jesse McCartney) and Amanda (Devin Kelley) enjoying their tour of Europe, before joining Chris’s brother Paul (Jonathan Sadowski) in Kiev. The opening sets up the relationships between the four main characters nicely, and – when Chris confides in Paul that he is going to ask Natalie to marry him when they reach Moscow – makes it quite clear what the characters stand to lose when the radioactive horror strikes.

The acting is good, the characters are likeable, the film has a modern, energetic feel and is well shot … buuuuuut … I couldn’t help feeling like I had seen it all before, only in a different setting. Dumb kids making dumb decisions … Who wants to go to Moscow as planned … aaaaand who wants to head to the creepy old town that has been abandoned for 25 years with Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko) the ‘Extreme Tour Guide’ in his dodgy old van? And the breaking of horror’s cardinal sins does not end there … the group – now joined by young couple Zoe (Ingrid Bolso Berdal) and Michael (Nathan Phillips) – proceed to ignore warnings from the check point guards to stay away from the town, and, when finding themselves stranded in the town after the van is sabotaged, do annoying things like split up and head off into the deep dark woods to ‘investigate’.

One by one, the group are picked off by unseen foes, discovering mutant flesh eating fish, wild dogs and a ‘radioactive bear from Hell’ along the way. There is limited gore, but there is tension and it really isn’t a bad film. I don’t have anything terrible to say about it. But it offers nothing new to the genre and, for me, failed to reach its potential. I found myself on the verge of fear a couple of times but the movie didn’t deliver and my fear subsided, or, like reactor number 4, it ‘became one with the air’, in other words, my fear vaporised.

Seeing as I started with modest expectations, I can honestly say I wasn’t left overly disappointed … just a little uninspired.

Rating:- 3 out of 5
By Lisa Richardson

The Snuggle Bun Takes on the Walking Dead S3:E1 "Seed"

Season 3 of 'The Walking Dead' has arrived and to coincide with this epic event we have been given the privilege of sharing with you all 'The Snuggle Buns' thoughts on each episode courtesy of our friends over at NerdtopiaCast.  So fasten your seat belts, pull up a chair and get ready for the weekly Videocast ride into 'The Walking Dead' world!

Thanks again to 'The Snuggle Bun' and remember to check back each week for more Walking Dead action!

If you enjoyed this video review please support the people who made it happen here:-

www.nerdtopiacast.com

Feral Goat Film

Adam 'Evil Eye' Cutler

What's On? A Fright To Remember - A Halloween Horror All-Nighter

This weekend in the heart of the Black Country, England, The Public Arts Centre, West Bromwich plays host to 'A Fright to Remember' A Halloween all-nighter in association with Scream Horror Magazine. The event kicks off on Saturday 27th October at 7:30pm and rolls on until 7:30am the next morning, so plenty of gore, scares and fun for all horror fans out there!!

There will be plenty going on over the 12 hour scaretastic event, check out the schedule here:-

19:30 - Short Film Showcase

Ella – (Dan Gitsham, 2011, 8mins)

Bobby Yeah - (Robert Morgan, 2012, 23 minutes)

Employee of the Month - (Olivier Beguin, 2011, Switzerland, 14mins)

Nursery Crimes - (Laura Whyte, 2010, UK, 3mins)

20.45 - Local Feature Screening:

DEADTIME (Dir Tony Jopia) (2012) (18)

22:45

DEMONS (1985) (Dir Lamberto Bava) (18)

00:30

PIZZA DELIVERED!

00:50

Live performance by BIRDEATSBABY

01:30

GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011) (15) (Dir The Vicious Brothers)

03:15

Selected by SCREAM HORROR MAGAZINE – THE BEYOND (1981) (18) (Dir Lucio Fulci)

***Free round of espressos if you make it this far!***

05:00 – AUDIENCE VOTE

Pick the final film of the evening/morning!

Simply choose your favourite from the shortlist below.

You can vote by emailing, tweeting, or posting your vote on the wall of The Public’s Facebook page!

CUBE – An ingenious thriller in which 7 strangers find themselves locked in a sadisitic puzzle.

ZOMBIELAND – Tips on how to survive the zombie apocalypse. Contains a priceless cameo!

SCREAM – A self-referential touchstone of 90’s horror, in reverence to the slasher genre.

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN – Crime caper turns vampiric all-nighter in the blink of an eye; grindhouse before Grindhouse, from Robert Rodrigez and Quentin Tarantino.

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – More motivation for staying awake all night!

TICKET PRICES
£17.50 (Admission Only)
£20.00 (Includes Pizza)

This event is a true feast for all horror fans! For more information and to book tickets check out the links below:-

Book Tickets      Facebook      Twitter 

Adam 'Evil Eye' Cutler