The new Deftones album is amazing. Go buy it. Good job, Shaun.

Here's a scan of the Fangoria mention. Thanks to Barricade screenwriter/producer Ted Geoghegan for scanning it in and sending it to me.

Well, another dream has come true.

My name is in the print version of Fangoria.

This months's issue (#258, Saw III cover), page 26...Closet Space has a short blurb in the "Terror Teletype".

Awesome. Scan of the page is forthcoming.

It' s been a while here, but not for lack of activity. I've just been hella busy lately.

First, I had to drive what I hope are the final nails in the coffin for my last project. We'll see where that goes...the producers now have what they want (the complete elements of the movie), and it looks like everyone on this side will get what they want (i.e. payment). Everything is going through escrow, so it will take a week or so. Involved parties will be getting an email with the next step. On a related note, the Project Manager function of Premiere Pro 2.0 is a huge lifesaver. It helped me reassemble and clean up a project that had become pretty unwieldy. It went from about 400 gigabytes to a svelte 70 G's. Nice.

Concurrently with the above, I also had to throw together some Closet Space packets and mini promo DVD's for the American Film Market. We just recently were able to have someone out there to promote and get the word out, so I had to do a rush job, but I think things turned out okay. Hopefully, we can get some sort of response out of that.

Closet Space's own FX guru Marcus Koch is planning his directorial debut next year, and I've been talking to him about coming on as a producer. I definitely have enough experience, but I've never just been a producer, so it should be nice if it all works out.

I've secured tickets for the wife and I to see Evil Dead: The Musical while we are in New York next month. I've heard good things about it, so I'm looking forward to that. This has become our semi-offical anniversary getaway. Evil Dead one day, Texas Is The Reason the next...how could it get any better?

Speaking of Texas Is The Reason, I just got lined up to do a phoner interview with Norman Brannon (nee Arenas) tomorrow for inclusion on the Space City Rock website. Look for that soon, hopefully between now and the date of the show. I'll also be writing up a review of the show for SCR afterwards.

Now that I've exorcized my computer, the Closet Space edit is kicking into overdrive. A new trailer should be out before Thanksgiving, along with our new (and official) poster design courtesy of Mr. Jason Beam. We're also getting our ducks in a row for the San Jose and Chicago Fangoria shows. It's going to be another busy holiday season for the House That Never Sleeps.

For those of you that clicked over here from the Zombos Closet or Blogcritics interview - you might want to start further back if you want to read all the crazy production stories. I'm in post on Closet Space right now, so there aren't that many tales to tell...I'm sure when promotion, screenings, and distribution stuff starts to kick in it will get a little more exciting around here. For now, courage.

Here's a good place to start. That's around when we did our cast readings, conceptual designs, and set construction. We began shooting in May, shot heavily through June and July, and wrapped principal photography in August. You can use the monthly list on the right to click around, and note that the older entries are at the bottom of the pages.

I hadn't realized that there was so much to trudge through, as I really didn't expect to write all that much on this thing. It will make my snarky autobiography all the easier, though.

Our first interview Q/A is up at:

http://zomboscloset.typepad.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2006/10/interview_with__1.html

Thanks to Zombo's Closet for conducting it.

Enjoy.

In honor of Friday the 13th, I give you Kane Hodder choking the crap out of me.

Third in a series.

I've just about settled down from my whirlwind September, and am slowly getting into the editing groove again. Closet Space is looking good...so much so that I'm starting the process of setting up Closet Space 2 to shoot this time next year. My plan is to use the spring and summer of 2007 for pre-production and monster and F/X building. I've been talking with Jason about having a CS2 brainstorming weekend sometime soon, so I'm pretty sure I'll find myself in California in the next month or so. Our aim is to have a draft done by January.

This past weekend the wife and I took advantage of a Best Buy sale to pick up an 32" HDTV for my edit suite. I'm using it as an output monitor, so now I can really dissect picture and contrast during the CS editing process. My goal is to time things pretty dark...but without losing a whole mess of detail, much like...you guessed it...A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I'm also flying out to Tampa sometime soon to do some final 2nd Unit FX shooting for Closet Space - that will happen within the next month or so as well. Thank God I have a OnePass account.

The first weekend of my Screamworld security detail went by without a hitch, and I got the chance to scare the ever living shit out of quite a few people. It's the little things in life...

Back from our crazy drive out to the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors...which came directly after my work on The Flesh Keeper...which resulted in my being sick for the last couple of days just from the sheer toll of all that on my body. It was all for a good cause though - the Flesh Keeper footage looks good, and Closet Space has already generated a grassroots buzz in the horror community. Now I just have to make sure I deliver with the edit.

The Weekend of Horrors trip was so successful that we are definitely doing it again for the California show in January, and more than likely the Chicago show in the spring of 2007...and probably a few after that as well. And yes, we will be bringing the door along whenever possible.

On a more personal note, I have successfully secured tickets to the Texas Is The Reason reunion show, so I'll be back in New York on Thanksgiving weekend. I'm really looking forward to that.

I also finally picked up my copy of the Infinifilm Nightmare On Elm Street DVD, and spent my day watching the movie, commentary, and all the extras. Damn, I love that film. I have to admit that a lot of the behind the scenes anecdotes reminded me of shooting Closet Space, which I guess has to be a good thing. If CS turns out to be even one-quarter as effective as NOES then I'll be happy.

Fango Pic #2: Me at the Closet Space table. People are digging the door.

So....last night Domingo, Marcus, Chris, Kristi and myself had dinner with Michael Gingold, Scooter McRae, and Mike Mendez. Very, very cool company for a horror nerd like me, and the conversation was excellent. I also found a male hetero life-mate in Scooter; we bonded over our shared love for Alien 3.

Today begins the second (and probably busiest) day of the convention, so we'll be pimping Closet Space super-hard. Tonight I believe we are having another "horror nerd night out". Awesome.

Fangoria pic #1. Me with Dee Snider.

"Street Justice....whoa oh oh!"

I'm sitting here at the Closet Space table at the Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors. The convention is a lot of fun so far, and it's only the first day. We've already made a ton of connections and talked our heads off about the movie. There's lots of interest, which is really, really cool. Most of the kind words we've recieved go something along the lines of "it looks like you guys had a huge budget". I try not to get a coronary each time I laugh at that one. It's definitely high praise in my eyes.

Tonight we're probably going to party/hobnob with some of the other horror luminaries, and then tomorrow night we are setting up an impromptu screening for one of our fellow filmmakers. Sunday is a day of mystery at this point, but I'm sure some of it will involve driving.

The Flesh Keeper completes principal photography tomorrow night...my friend Matt is taking my place there now since I'm in movie-pimping mode. The shoot was fun, yet harrowing, although we got some really really good stuff. I can't wait to see the finished project. The crew was great, as was the cast...I definitely have some casting ideas in mind for Closet Space 2 now.

It will take me a while to recover from the one-two punch of that shoot and this Fango trip, but I have a lot of relaxing editing in front of me. So...next stop - rough cut of Closet Space. Engage.

They've started a Closet Space page on the IMDb. Updates should be going in shortly.

I go back into crazy Flesh Keeper shoot mode tomorrow for another week of nuttiness and sleep deprivation. I seriously can't wait. There's no sarcasm in that last sentence, or in this one for that matter. The Flesh Keeper is a really fun ride so far, regardless of the toll it's taking on my soon-to-be 30 year old mind and body.

The weekend after that is Fango. Excited about that as well.

Today I plan to read some comic books and vegetate. Maybe even edit a little of Closet Space.

I am dog tired from the movie shoot, so I'm going to be lazy and repost a bulletin I put out on the internet crack colloquialy known as MySpace:


It's been a wild few days for me.

First off, my last/current project, Closet Space , got some love from my favorite horror press outlets.

Fangoria

Arrow In The Head

Dread Central

. Check out the stories if you have time.

Next, I began work on The Flesh Keeper, which is Gerald Nott's follow-up to The Quick and The Undead (due out on DVD later this year - check it out). The shoot has been extremely tiring, but a blast nonetheless...and it's cool to have Texas moviemaking ideals crash headlong into aspects of the "Hollywood" system.

Finally, one of my favorite bands announced a reunion show that I never thought would happen. I know what I'm doing this Thanksgiving.

Check out the links if you're got a moment. More news on all movie fronts to come shortly, and remember that Closet Space will be at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in NYC later this month.

Closet Space got some love from my favorite horror press outlets. Check out our news items on:

Fangoria

Arrow In The Head

Dread Central

Look for more exciting CLOSET SPACE news in the near future! In the meantime, Stacy Davidson and I are working with Gerald Nott on The Flesh Keeper (see below) out in the middle of nowhere. I haven't slept in almost two days. It's been a blast.

Closet Space - FX Interview

Oddtopsy FX talks about working on Closet Space. There be minor spoilers within.

Okay, I lied.

I give you - THE FLESH KEEPER!

Click here for the MySpace page.

Well, I'm jumping into the deep end on Monday. I start my first "real" movie gig (by "real" I mean a weekly schedule and drawing a salary, rather than shooting on weekends or whenever time allows for little to no pay...or actually negative pay, for that matter). Not to cheapen the other stuff I've done by any means...but I can actually almost see myself making a living doing horror movies, and that's weird to me. I'm still not positive that I can leak the title and concept, but suffice to say the movie is firmly in the Chainsaw/Last House/Tourist Trap vein.

What's even more interesting is that our Texas movie synchronicity continues...we have three cast members carrying over from Closet Space along with three crew members, and a couple of those cast and crew also worked on Necrophobia. It's like we have our own Texas horror version of the Titanic, Brittanic, and Oceanic now....well, without the hyperbole, I guess. What I'm saying is that it's neat to have sister movies and a solid working core of people from which to draw.

I'm taking the laptop along, so maybe I can steal some moments to finish my long in development scripts. We'll see.

For those of you in the Houston area, Raymond Gayle will be on KPFT 90.1 tonight at 7:30 to talk about Electric Purgatory, which is a documentary that I helped him with. It's good stuff, and the subject matter is very salient to me. I know I've said that 20 or so times here, but I can't stress it enough.

Closet Space Trailer #1

I may still make some small sartorial changes, but here it is for the most part.