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Adam Green’s 11th Annual Short Film Live Now!
Filmmaker Adam Green’s (Hatchet, Frozen) 11th annual Halloween short film is a spoof of TV’s infamous “Slap Chop” infomercial. Behold the Jack-o’-lantern carnage and gore by reading beyond the break and enjoy a performance by Grace director Paul Solet! Check out Ariescope.com for even more Adam Green fun.
“Friends,
For eleven years straight, ArieScope Pictures has had a tradition of making a Halloween short film for our website. As a means of celebrating our humble beginnings, the rule has always been that we do it in one night and for absolutely no money… just like how we made COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND, the short film that started it all for us back in 1998. Over the past decade the annual Halloween Shorts have amassed a huge following and every Fall we get hundreds of letters asking when the new one will be posted. It has not only become a great gift for the fans, but a great gift for OURSELVES as for one night we get to act like idiots and do whatever we feel like. No Hollywood politics, no standards to meet, no demographics to hit, no critics to please- just whatever the f**k we want to do. It’s just enough to keep us all sane and it always reminds us why we wanted to do all of this in the first place.
For awhile it was looking like there was just no way to pull off a short this year. Between delivering GRACE, doing another five shorts for our ROAD TO FRIGHTFEST, finishing post-production on FROZEN, doing pre-production on our TV pilot for COFFEE & DONUTS, and getting things started on the next feature (which news will be breaking on shortly)… “free time” just was not presenting itself in any way shape or form. But in the final hour- we found inspiration and pushed ourselves to make something for the fans, no matter how small. And within 45 minutes of our shoot- man, were we glad we made it happen! Shooting JACK CHOP was probably the most fun we have ever had making one of these.
So sit back for 3 minutes and enjoy our spoof of one of the most horrifically annoying infomercials on television right now- with our Halloween spin of course! To the ArieScope fans/friends/family… to the HATCHET Army… and to every one of my fans with a computer and an internet connection… I wish you the most happy Halloween season ever and I thank you all for your continued support and loyalty. I hope that JACK CHOP puts some smiles on your faces during what I know has been a tough year for many of you.
All of my very best- and I’ll see you in theaters this winter with FROZEN.
Happy Halloween!
-Adam Green”
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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