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Yawpers Release Wicked Video for “Doing It Right”
Colorado’s Yawpers are an interesting group, to say the least. They take stylings of Americana Blues and hammer it in the face with some punk aggression, creating a blend that is packed full of energy, swagger, and addictive charisma.
I’ll admit, I was a bit skeptical when I was approached to cover their video for “Doing It Right”, which appears on the upcoming album American Man, but I’m beyond glad that I gave it a chance! Packed with gore, violence, and incredibly solid production work, the video is something I enjoyed the hell out of and it’s absolutely worth sharing here with all of you.
Below you can see the video as well as read an exclusive quote. And definitely make sure to see if they’re coming to your neck of the woods!
You can pre-order your copy of American Man via Bloodshot Records.
Vocalist/guitarist Nate Cook exclusively tells BD all about the video:
We spent quite a bit of time trying to set up the video, considering we had two days to film and a shoestring budget. I wrote and directed the video and had a ton of production help from Graham Hill and Kevin Hu from Ideascape.
I wanted to just make a pretty straight revenge piece with a supernatural and violent streak. I was kind of pulling from Falling Down, I Spit on Your Grave, and Sam Raimi’s work. Obviously, we had fun with our choice of victims: the Westboro analogue, the dog abuser, the double parker. It was also fulfilling to make the antagonist a sadistic corporate shill, and force him to be the only one to kill himself.
On the production side, we had an incredibly busy schedule that honestly couldn’t have been done without the team we had. In two days we shot at eight locations that were spread across 200 miles. Obviously, with the low budget, we couldn’t afford any permits, so we shot as fast as we could, and bailed.
Obviously the end seen was shot with a drone, which was such a blast. It was also incredibly dangerous, as all the actors did their own driving with no training or experience. And I will say, they pushed it to the point of actually making everyone nervous.
Our guy on effects and make up was phenomenal, the editing went quick, and we just had such a great group of people that allowed us to pull this thing off. In the end, it’s pretty close to what we wanted: violent, irreverent, and fun.
A bedtime lullaby soothes an unsettling newborn in our exclusive clip from Nightborn, from Hatching filmmaker Hanna Bergholm.
The dark fable makes its debut on Shudder on July 31.
Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6) and Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin, “Servant”) star as new parents in Nightborn, and this exclusive clip highlights mom’s harrowing transition into motherhood.
In Nightborn, “With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.”
Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey and John Thomson also star.
Bergholm teased of her maternal horror movie, “In Nordic countries, there’s a long-standing mythology of trolls living in the forests. In ancient times, people truly believed that trolls inhabited the woods and had a kind of control over nature. And in Nightborn, the forest reflects Saga’s emotions and the animalistic, primitive physical side of humankind.”
“Hanna Bergholm’s audacious sophomore follow up to Hatching delivers tension and shocking moments surrounding parenthood and self discovery — with a touch of humor,” said Emily Gotto, senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Shudder. “We are thrilled to share Nightborn with audiences.”
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