Tag Archives: independent film

Juke Box, made in After Effects and Photoshop

Juke box scene for an upcoming video for the Kopy Kats, Austin’s best classic rock cover band. Made in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.

Universal Monsters Dracula (1931) Full Restoration Trailer

I love old Universal Monster movies like Dracula and Frankenstein! They have a glow, a charcoal quality that has never been matched!

I hate that they’re dying, degrading, crumbling! I love that some folks care enough to try and save them! Much praise to Universal Studios and their digital film restoration efforts!

George A Romero to get a Star on the Hollywood WALK OF FAME

Every horror movie fans idol, George A. Romero will be getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

He is also the idol of every wanna be independent filmmaker who has heard of him. He used the 16mm cameras and crew from his TV commercial production company and a shoestring budget to make a micro budget but very memorable film, ” Night of the Living Dead”!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead

Well shot and well written. Romero also sought out the best actors he could get, which set ” Night of the Living Dead” apart from most other low budget horror movies. The film isn’t nearly as gorey or bloody as its reputation might suggest, just some extras covered in chocolate syrup and chewing on lamb bones. I have also heard that this is a case of someone botching the copyright and thousands of entities have exploited this film but none of the original producers made a dime.

The Day The Clown Cried

This is the holy grail of “So bad its good ” or “So bad I have GOT to see it ” movies. Jerry Lewis’s infamous and never released Holocaust comedy

“The Day The Clown Cried”.

The tale of a Clown in a nazi concentration camp who leads children into the gas chamber.

Here are 30 minutes of the film. I suspect culled together from documentaries ABOUT Jerry lewis, not from the film itself. Supposedly the film itself is locked up in Jerrys private vault.

It was produced but never released, either because theres legal confusion iver who actually owns the rights to it or Jerry thinks its too embarrassingly bad to show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried
Lewis offered the opinion that it was all bad, an artistic failure because “I lost the magic”. Quoted in Entertainment Weekly: “You will never see it. No one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work.”

I dont quite understand whats going on in that “spotlight room” but the footage doesn’t look THAT bad, and I would be interested in seeing the whole thing.

As many have pointed out, a film with loosely similar ideas, a comedy about a clown character in a concentration camp ” Life Is Beautiful”

The Day The Clown Cried Harry Shearer Howard Stern Interview