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OMFG of the Day: Watch Mark Pavia’s 1994 Zombie Short ‘Drag’!
“DRAG is the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years- smart, scary, and ferocious.” — Stephen King
Breaking into Hollywood isn’t easy, and each and every writer/director has their own tale of getting their foot in the door.
Mark Pavia is one such director who gained attention with his 16mm 1994 short film “Drag”, a zombie film discovered and championed by the master of horror himself, Stephen King. This is the film that landed Pavia in the writer/director’s chair for Stephen King’s The Night Flier, the vampire cult classic.
Shot in and around Pavia’s home town of Lockport, Illinois, “Drag” was also an early effort by Academy Award winning DP Mauro Fiore (Avatar). Never before seen online, “Drag” inspired a generation of young horror filmmakers and fans — and now YOU can watch it by reading inside!!!
“The world is dead. A lone woman, Victoria, struggles valiantly to stay alive on this desolate planet once known as Earth. But Victoria is not alone here. She shares her horrifying new world with beings of a different kind… the living dead, ferocious beasts hungrily searching for human flesh. With a sawed-off shotgun strapped to her back, Victoria drags a dead body through this horrifying new world in a desperate attempt to hold onto her humanity… to hold on to her past.“
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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