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Eric Red Shares Never-Before-Seen Storyboards From ‘Bad Moon’

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8 years ago

October 30, 2015

Director Eric Red, who wrote one of my favorite 80’s horror films, The Hitcher, has shared several never-before-seen seen storyboards from the 1996 werewolf horror film Bad Moon with Arrow in the Head.

The writer told the site:
The highlight of my movie BAD MOON is the climactic dog werewolf fight involving a battle-to-the death between the family German shepherd and the wolf man the uncle has become. It was a unique action sequence unlike anything that had been filmed before because of its integration of animal action and creature effects. This complicated set piece had to be coordinated with live animals, special makeup effects, animatronics, dog dummies, pyro, and other physical effects, so it had to be storyboarded with intricate precision. Here’s the storyboards for the dog werewolf fight. As you can see, the final sequence was pretty close to how it was pre-viz’d!

It’s always fascinating to see how things are planned in advance so that the final product is essentially “seen” before even one frame is committed to film.

Check out a few of the storyboards below and see the rest at the link above.

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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery

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2 months ago

March 6, 2024

John Squires

One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.

Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”

In the SXSW 2024 horror film…

“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.

“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”

Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.

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