Hi there, here's a new song. I'm not even going to try to connect this to a horror movie, so I promise I won't count it against my total.
Sung by my lovely and talented wife.
WARNING: R-rated, not safe for work unless you work in your own basement like I do. But it's all true.
Please right-click and download before listening:
http://www.smartmouthproductions.com/dormlife.mp3
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
New version of "Clock Stops"
I posted a new, better version of "Clock Stops" (the song for The Omega Man).
It's at the same link: click here.
It's at the same link: click here.
The Living Dead trilogy
The song:
(This is the) City of the Walking Dead
Night, Dawn, and Day. The three greatest films of all time. I started having nightmares a long time before I started watching horror movies, but these were the movies that let me touch those nightmares. I think Dawn is my favorite. The crayon colors, the depth of vision, the long running time, the ambiguous ending...I must have watched it at least fifty times in my teens. I still love it. One time I heard an airport intercom paging "George Romero" and I walked all over the terminal trying to find him.
Notes for aspiring directors:
1. Just watch it.
(This is the) City of the Walking Dead
Night, Dawn, and Day. The three greatest films of all time. I started having nightmares a long time before I started watching horror movies, but these were the movies that let me touch those nightmares. I think Dawn is my favorite. The crayon colors, the depth of vision, the long running time, the ambiguous ending...I must have watched it at least fifty times in my teens. I still love it. One time I heard an airport intercom paging "George Romero" and I walked all over the terminal trying to find him.
Notes for aspiring directors:
1. Just watch it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Omega Man
The Song:
Clock Stops
Like many of my songs, this movie is about the end of the world. Charleton Heston plays Charleton Heston fighting zombie/vampire/druid creatures in robes. They believe that technology is responsible for the bad stuff that happened to the world, so they want to kill Charleton Heston (makes sense to me).
Notes for Aspiring Directors:
- White contact lenses are always scary. Always!
- You would be a better director if you were making movies in the 1970s. Movies were just way better then. Maybe you can use some of your film school training to build a time machine (but probably not).
- People secretly envy characters in post-apocalyptic settings. Just think of it--no bills to pay, no worries about taking the last of the breakfast cereal, sleep in late--it's great!
Clock Stops
Like many of my songs, this movie is about the end of the world. Charleton Heston plays Charleton Heston fighting zombie/vampire/druid creatures in robes. They believe that technology is responsible for the bad stuff that happened to the world, so they want to kill Charleton Heston (makes sense to me).
Notes for Aspiring Directors:
- White contact lenses are always scary. Always!
- You would be a better director if you were making movies in the 1970s. Movies were just way better then. Maybe you can use some of your film school training to build a time machine (but probably not).
- People secretly envy characters in post-apocalyptic settings. Just think of it--no bills to pay, no worries about taking the last of the breakfast cereal, sleep in late--it's great!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
1. The Witch Who Came From the Sea
The song:
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
What I think about the movie:
She's real messed up, the titular witch. She's not actually a witch, by the way--just a mixed-up girl who gorily unmans her many suitors while the soundtrack goes wobbly and the camera shakes. One horrible secret in the dim past plus one fragile chick plus the freewheeling 70s = a truly strange film--one I consider to be an act of near-total (if nearly totally accidental) genius. Replete with Broadway actors trying to make it big on the big screen who make the characters more weirdly engaging than they deserve to be. It's also one of the few "psychedelic" movies in which the grim horror of the psychedelic experience hits the viewer with full force.
For the real 1980's what-the-hell-have-I-rented-I'm-only-thirteen-in-a-small-town-for-God's-sake experience, rock it on VHS.
Notes for Aspiring Directors:
The Witch Who Came From The Sea
What I think about the movie:
She's real messed up, the titular witch. She's not actually a witch, by the way--just a mixed-up girl who gorily unmans her many suitors while the soundtrack goes wobbly and the camera shakes. One horrible secret in the dim past plus one fragile chick plus the freewheeling 70s = a truly strange film--one I consider to be an act of near-total (if nearly totally accidental) genius. Replete with Broadway actors trying to make it big on the big screen who make the characters more weirdly engaging than they deserve to be. It's also one of the few "psychedelic" movies in which the grim horror of the psychedelic experience hits the viewer with full force.
For the real 1980's what-the-hell-have-I-rented-I'm-only-thirteen-in-a-small-town-for-God's-sake experience, rock it on VHS.
Notes for Aspiring Directors:
- It's more dramatic if you develop the characters just a tiny bit before they get their jewels stolen by the Pink Panther, to use a euphemism.
- Hire the best actors you can afford, even if you only pay them in pounds of infamy.
- If that's not Oliver Reed, I'll eat my hat. Unless Oliver eats it first.
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