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Tickets On Sale For The Frenzied Hollywood Fringe Festival

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Described by the director as the ”best damn thing out of old Hollywood town since VON
STRONHEIM’S GREED”.  The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival in conjunction with We Make Movies’ WMM FEST is proud to present a preview screening of feature film WAY DOWN IN CHINATOWN.  Written and directed by EMK (alias for director Eric Michael Kochmer, a protégé of experimental filmmaker/artist George Landow aka Owen Land) – and co-produced by Maria Olsen of MOnsterworks66, who can also be seen playing Bob – WDiC chronicles over-sexed theater couple, playwright Victor and director Jessica Mitchum who while creating a performance piece about the apocalypse begin experiencing the world slowly falling apart. They are slowly seduced by an underworld created to preserve the few who will survive an on-coming apocalypse brought on by worm-people. The theatrical preview will book-end the Hollywood Fringe Festival with appropriately timed midnight screenings on June 15th, and 29th 2013. WDiC stars Stephanie Sanditz (Strangers with Candy) and Justin Dray (Lake City) with sparkling cameos by Lisa Loring (original Wednesday Addams) and Nancy Wolfe (Helter Skelter). The film has already
polarized critics with claims that audiences will either “…love or hate [it] but whatever your reaction, it’ll get the grey matter working harder than any movie you’ll see this year.”-Knifed In Venice. Some find it “avant garde at its finest”-Gemini Moon, while other critics find it “…a stream of nonsense …”-John Sandel.

Tickets on sale now at: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1216
More information at: www.waydowninchinatown.com

We Make Movies (www.wemakemovies.org) is a Los Angeles based film collective of over 2000 filmmakers dedicated to making some really cool shit. WMM gears their energy toward empowering independent filmmakers and providing the resources and connections that will help them get their movies made. Since 2009, more than 40 shorts and 6 features were developed, produced or directly funded through WMM. The group alternates free weekly writers workshops, improv nights, and industry guest interviews in an effort to help filmmakers get feedback on their work, try new ideas, and learn what’s working for others. #wemakemovies @wemakemoviez

Chiller Network Teams Up With Multiple Filmmakers

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NBC/Universal’s Chiller Network teamed with six filmmakers to make five shorts for its first anthology film about the human senses, Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear. The film premieres Friday, May 31st at 9pm ET / 6pm PT.

The directors include Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton (YellowBrickRoad) with Hearing, Emily Hagins (Pathogen) with Touch, Eric England (Madison County) with Taste, Nick Everhart (Slash-In-The-Box) with Smell, and Miko Hughes (Actor in Pet Sematary) with Sight. Andrew Gernhard, Zach O’Brien, and Colin Theys (Banshee!!!) produced for Synthetic Cinema.

Here’s a link to the brand new 3D Teaser Trailer which begun airing today on Chiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YcBzIVXM-U

Reeker Review

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Reeker Cover PosterMovie: Reeker
Year: 2005
Studio: Primal Pictures
Director: Dave Payne
Language: English
Length: 87 Minutes
Sub-Genre: Thriller, Supernatural

Plot: A group of strangers finds common ground in a remote desert town when they realize they’re being hunted by a foul-smelling enemy. But can they stay alive long enough to neutralize the rotting killer who’s mucking up the air around them? Devon Gummersall ("My So-Called Life"), Eric Mabius ("Ugly Betty") and veteran character actor Michael Ironside (Top Gun, Total Recall) co-star in this tongue-in-cheek horror romp from writer-director Dave Payne.

Review: You immediately get jutted into Reeker from the get-go. A family traveling cross-country hits a deer, and when they stop to get out, their friendly pet gets demolished, and the husband loses half of his face. The brutal parts happened off-screen but it left you wondering what in the world was happening.

After the opening, you must be patient as no more on-screen turmoil happens for another 35 minutes. You meet 5 friends who are traveling on the same road going to Area 52 for a rave. On their way there the ground shakes and all other cars and people vanish. They get held up in a sleazy motel when this supernatural being starts hunting them down.

Blood is minimal but their was one extremely terrifying scene when one of the teenage girls gets locked in an outhouse when the Reeker comes to take her life. The other kills were pretty bland with the score pumping up the decibels, but failing at all jump scares.

When you find out what the madness is behind the story, it actually was a decent payoff. I was engaged in this film, but it just didn’t have enough bite to garner a better than an average rating. Don’t seek it out, but if you’re walking down a Blockbuster or a local rental shop aisle, pick it up for a night, it’s worth a one-time viewing.

Final note; there is a sequel to this titled “No Man’s Land: The Rise Of Reeker” that was released in 2008 on both DVD and BluRay. Suffice it to say, Reeker, didn’t affect me enough to even search out part 2. It’s a forgettable movie but one that possibly the supernatural crowd could be into, just don’t expect anything too scary.

Reviewer: BillChete
Date: 12/24/2011
Rating: 5/10
Recommendation: Rental		 Trailer: Watch
DVD: Best Buy
BluRay: N/A
Social Media: Wikipedia