ABADDON | The Video Diaries
Nickolai Bybel is on Myspace. Add him as a friend here.
Nick is an accomplished graphic artist and is very proud of his work. He has just started using video as a medium for his thoughts, feelings, and art. This is the first of what we think will be many video diaries. If there is something you would like Nickolai to chat about, send your requests to his agent.
DerekM@digitalspectrumfilms.com
I have Bugs
Not the kind that crawl around on you. Yuck. That’s just gross.
I think i have both a cold and a sinus infection. The aforementioned Gears of War 2 weekend marathon was cut abruptly short because of a series of sinus induced head explosions that led to a self induced coma state most of the weekend.
I do have some interesting news on the video diaries and the ABADDON project as a whole that I hope to have up later tonight. In the meantime, enjoy another Bugs…..
Art House Horror Returns
The trailer for Dario Argento’s newest masterpiece is now available on the web. According to Wikipedia,
The film follows an American Stewardess (Emmanuelle Seigner) and an Italian Detective (Adrien Brody), who team up in a race against time to find her sister. The sister has been abducted by a maniacal serial killer (Byron Deidra) known only as “yellow,” who has been disfiguring and is murdering beautiful women.
“Giallo” films are characterized by extended murder sequences featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camerawork and unusual musical arrangements. The literary whodunit element is retained, but combined with modern slasher horror, while being filtered through Italy’s longstanding tradition of opera and staged grand guignol drama. They also generally include liberal amounts of nudity and sex.
I’m salivating for this one. Adrian Brody is one of my favorite actors and he looks perfectly cast in this thriller. I hope that Giallo gets a wide release from a brave distributor. If it comes to your neighborhood, buy a ticket immediately!
Seriously.
Why I want to cast Sasha Grey as “ANGEL”
Why?
Angel over my Shoulder
She is stunning, intelligent, talented, and truly has a love for high art cinema. Sasha Grey may be an adult star, but she also has amazing potential to be a mainstream superstar. I’ve been following Sasha’s Myspace blog for some time now and am never unimpressed with her wit and confidence.
Steven Soderburgh has seen her appeal also:
Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh has cast adult film star Sasha Grey as the lead in his upcoming feature, The Girlfriend Experience, says the trades.
The low-budget drama, currently shooting in Gotham, chronicles the life of a high-price call girl. It was written by Ocean’s 13 scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien and will bow under the Magnolia Pictures shingle.
The film is part of Soderbergh’s six-picture deal with multimedia entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Just like Bubble, Girlfriend will be distributed simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV and on DVD.
The 20-year-old Grey entered the adult industry just after her 18th birthday and recenty became the youngest recipient of Adult Video News’s Female Performer of the Year award.
Grey’s role in Girlfriend will be her third non-adult film appearance in 2009, having notched small parts in Dick Rude’s indie Quit and horror-comedy Smash Cut.
SOURCE: VARIETY
So, Sasha, if you see this post, read through the first draft of ABADDON (available on my links page) and contact me. It may not be high art cinema, but Angel be a kick ass role for you to portray.
The Anathema Report
Since all the archives from the last two months have been corrupted on the Digital Spectrum Films server. I’m going to use this opportunity to rewrite some of the past articles I’ve authored to this ever growing genre fan audience.
Evansville, Indiana is not an artistic dead zone when it comes to creative motion picture storytelling. A few months ago, some of my television colleagues at the FOX affiliate here churned out a chilling fearfest called The Anathema Report.
It is the result of the collaboration of Mitch Massie, Lesli Salma, and a guy just called Report. More information will be available soon, as well as an official web site. In the meantime, watch the intriguing teaser trailer.
SUCCUBUS
Raven Riley
Of all the demons of lore, the INCUBUS is the one that seems the most disturbing. A creature that creeps into a bedroom and rapes a woman as she sleeps. The female counterpart to this creature is called a succubus and is spawned from the legends of Lilith and Sheba , who would be the explanation of nocturnal emissions and lustful feelings during Medieval Times.
I freely admit I am a fan of eroticism. Adult entertainment, in many ways, paved the way for the genre filmmaker. Some would argue that horror films are the next best thing to porn, so combining erotic imagery and horror is a daring direction to take. Horror has succeeded in adding sex, but sex has has had a difficult time adding horror.
Now comes the Arizona based, Evil Motion Pictures taking a stab at the sex and blood movie mix. Raven Riley and Liz Vicious combine their talents to create a surprisingly entertaining adult horror film called SUCCUBUS.
You can check out the PG-13 trailer here.
Lori Rosas | The Talent and Crew Network
As a filmmaker, I’m lucky to have access to a talent pool organized and managed by someone with experience around the big guns of Hollywood. Lori Rosas has worked on a range of film projects and runs her own production company here in Evansville, Indiana.
If you are a model or an actor, it would behoove you to contact the Talent and Crew Network and set up a resume page. From Chicago to Nashville, producers of Independent film rely on sites like these to find their talent.
ABADDON will tap into this resource very soon. If you are already listed and would like to be involved with our horror/thriller, contact us
In the meantime, check out Lori in HAG
