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I just found out they did a musical version of Dario Argento’s Deep Red. I just find that strange as hell.

I have not yet read the actual article but in this month’s SEED magazine they write about a lab that is doing research on the nature of reality seeking to answer the question “Do we creatre the world just by looking at it?”. You’d think this would be more the type of question to be pondered in a philosophy classroom than a science lab but ever since the advent of quantum physics, the nature of reality has been a hot topic. This got me thinking (uh oh).

Have you ever had this happen to you? You look for something. Its not where you remember - distinctly remember - putting it. You look around the area. Nothing. You look under the cushions. You look under furniture. You check the bathroom to see if you took it with you last time you went up to take a crap. You check the kitchen in case you left it there when making that sandwich that lead to your taking a crap. You even go outside just in case. Nothing. Nowhere to be found. You decide to go back to where you started and you take another look…and there it is.

You wonder, I looked here before, how did I not see that?

 Maybe because it wasn’t there the first time. Maybe because the whosie whatsit you were looking for ceased to exist or fell between the realities or got stolen by fairies. Then, the more you looked for it, the more you thought about it, the more real it became and it came back into existance, or got pulled back from wherever it had gone to…or the fairies brought it back.

This happens all the time.

My grandmother’s mother use to say it was the fairies came and took it and then brought it back. Basically it was the fairies fucking with you (and hard-drinking old Irish woman that she was she probably would have used just those words!).

Or maybe it was reality doing the fucking.

The first cut of Red Scream Nosferatu is complete. It runs one hour and fifty three minutes. I sat down with editor Cedric Sun last night to review and can honestly say that I was quite pleased with what the Red Scream Films LLC team had done and with what Cedric had done with it. Whereas Red Scream Vampyres is an ode/homage to 70s Eurotrash, Red Scream Nosferatu harkens back to the classic Hammer Dracula series. Not that I would even think about comparing our film to those wonderful works but RSN does have the same look, feel and texture. It is very classic horror in style. While watching I immediately knew that only a more classic horror style of music would suit. Cedric and I earmarked a number of scenes that could be removed without being misssed, and a number of trims that could be made to propel the film forward at a quicker pace. The film looks good and sounds good. Performances are strong across the board. The gore is gory and the bosoms are heaving. A worthy addition to the Red Scream Films LLC bloodline.

First Dark, an occult-supernatural themed film noir action-thriller (can you say what’s a mashup daddy?) is now casting for all roles. Slated for an August shoot in Buffalo, New York, the film is the story of Lilith Noir, a bounty hunter who exists in a world of sex, violence, and the supernatural. In addition to the usual criminal elements in the city known by its supernatural inhabitants as Fable, there are the supernatural criminal elements. Deadly spiritual drugs, power hungry magi, bloodthirsty demons, and unquiet spirits just to name a few. It is in this place that Lilith Noir carves out a living. She has expensive tastes, and lives a life of luxury and decadence that requires a sizeable income, one that she earns with passion and brutal efficiency. She is a hereditary sorceress, and so already has a family history that’s on the wrong side of the law, and augments her natural abilities with blades, guns, steel toed boots and a supermodel physique. Her fearsome and well deserved reputation keeps high-risk/high-pay contracts coming from The Tower, a shadowy organization that works to maintain law and order, and her network of allies and informants ensure a steady stream of smaller jobs rounding up low level deviants and malign spirits.

For more information on the characters being cast for and contact information check out Mandy.com. 

Mandy is not a woman so get your minds out of the gutter. Mandy is an online service where I can go to post notices whenever I am in need of cast or crew. A single posting to Mandy typically nets me at least 40 resumes. Sometimes more. Now because we at Red Scream Films LLC believe in total transparency and setting expectations, and because we do toil in the trenches of indie filmmaking, we posted the below notice in our current search for a DP.

Red Scream Films LLC is seeking a kick-ass DP use to working in the trenches of indie filmmaking - real indie filmaking with a budget in the mid to high five figures. You must be creative, you must be fast. You must be willing to work till you drop then get up and work some more.

You must have a good reel, you must have a JVC HD-100 or better camera or you have used one and will take a lower day rate if we need to rent one. You must have a steadicam rig or have used one and will take a lower day rate if we need to rent one. A lighting package is good.

We are a fiercely independent film company that has come to kick ass ‘cause we don’t chew gum. Pay is $100-200/day. We provide transportation, meals, and accommondations. We provide a real feature film making experience. We have open doors at a number of distributors including After Dark and Sony. This film will get wide distribution on dvd and via other home entertainment channels in North America, Europe and Asia.

I posted the ad on Saturday. This morning there were 47 resumes in my inbox. They ranged from people just out of film school to people with decades of experience.

And then we got this one (which gave me a good laugh and I just had to share) 

Dear David R Williams,

Are you kidding me? Work till I drop, then get up and do it again? Take a lower rate if I don’t own an $80,000 Steadi-cam? What does that have to do with “real feature film-making experience”? I’d say go make films in China, except some asshole will actually take you up on your offer here in America. See you at Sundance.

Wow, so 46 “assholes” read the notice and thought, yeah, that sounds like a good gig.  Let’s dissect.

Are you kidding me?

No.  

Work till I drop, then get up and do it again?

You’ve never worked on a real low budget indie film project have you?  

Take a lower rate if I don’t own an $80,000 Steadi-cam?

Huh? Who said anything about that? You can pick up a decent stedi-cam rig for a few hundred. You went to an expensive film school and “learned” how to make hollywood movies didn’t you? You can tell me. I won’t judge…much.

What does that have to do with “real feature film-making experience”?

Ah, you don’t have a ton of money to spend to fix your mistakes. You have x amount of money and y amount of time to make your film and that’s what you have to do. You don’t have the luxury of somebody hired to be on set just to kiss your ass and stroke your obviously over-inflated ego.  

I’d say go make films in China, except some asshole will actually take you up on your offer here in America.

And a racist to boot. Actually I have been talking to someone about shooting something in China.  

See you at Sundance.

Why the fuck would I go to Sundance you dicklick wannabe?