~ April 25, Read Me a Story (Conte uma história)
is now listed on Riofan's Lovecraft film program! Check it out here...
~ April 12, RioFan
Director Fernando Verissimo sends word that Read Me a Story
will screen at the first annual Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic
Film Festival! The festival takes place April 29th - May 11th. Check
out the official
site for details...
~ October 31, Writer/director Bruce G. Hallenbeck (London After
Midnight) reviews Read Me a Story just in time for Halloween!
"It's one of the few films I can think of that works just
as well on Mother's Day as on Halloween."
-
Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Check
it out here...
~
August 7, Screener copies of Read Me a Story are being sent
to Dead by
Dawn (Scotland's International Horror Film Festival) and the Full
Moon Horror Convention & Film Festival...
~ August 7, Read Me a Story will air on public access television's
The Midnight Movie (courtesy of Time Warner Cable)! An airdate
has not been confirmed, but will most likely take place in November
or December (in the Cleveland, Ohio viewing area)...
~ April 11, Read Me a Story will screen Saturday, April 14th
as part of the Tucsonfilm.com Shortfest! The festival will take place
at the University of Arizona.
Details
can be found here...
~
March 20, A copy of Read Me a Story is being sent to the TucsonFilm.com
ShortFest for their consideration...
~ March 20, The Sydney, Australia screening of Read Me a Story
is this weekend...
~ March 11, Read Me a Story will screen as part of Sydney,
Australia's A
Night of Horror Short Film Festival in the special Lovecraft category!
Congratulations to all the other filmmakers whose films will be part
of the event...
The event takes place March 23-25, 2007. Click on the link above for
details...
~
October 26, Some time ago I sent a copy of Read Me a Story
to horror legend Tom Sullivan (Evil Dead) and here
for the first time is his account of it's arrival, and the blasphemous
events that followed...
~ October 26, A copy of Read Me a Story has been sent to Sydney,
Australia's A
Night of Horror Short Film Festival. The event takes place March
23-25, 2007...
~
October 18, Wormwood
Chronicles resident philm phreak, Dark Starr, reviews Read
Me a Story here...
~
April 29, The Graveyard
Smash Film Festival scheduled for this weekend has been postponed.
A new date is forthcoming...
~ April 15, There's a new Read Me a Story review
in the April Edition of the Eldritch
Gazette! Here's an excerpt:
With the stars right, and the deed being condoned by a tall, red
robed figure, she begins to read to the closed curtained bed that
"popular" book, as the shadow falls and all becomes right
for the ending.
~ April 10, Read Me a Story will screen at the first annual
Graveyard
Smash Film Festival (presented by Rottwieler
Productions)! The screening will take place Saturday, April 29th...
~ April 5, The Cinema Wasteland screening has come and gone. Reaction
from the crowd of slightly less than 100 people seemed favorable...
I'm working on getting another screening lined up at the end of the
month. Details to come...
~ March 19, Read Me a Story receives mention on the Cinema
Wasteland site!
The screening takes place as part of the Friday Night "Short
Film Block", and starts at 7:30pm in Movie Room 2.
READ ME A STORY (2005) Catch this Lovecraftian take on children's
stories and tenticles from Bret Mix and Craig Mullins as part of our
Friday Night Short Film block. www.unfilmable.com
~ February 28, The Read Me a Story trailer is finally online!
Click here to download...
~ February 16, Received word that Read Me a Story will screen
Friday March 31st at the Cinema
Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia Expo!
~ February 6, Read Me a Story is now on the IMDb...
~ February 5, A copy of Read Me a Story has been sent to the
Cinema
Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia Expo. The expo takes place March
31st, April 1st & 2nd...
~ January 11, Read
Me a Story has been awarded the Blog'D
award for Best Lovecraftian Short Movie!
~
November 8, Attended the BlueNovember
MicroFilmFest Stage III screening of Read Me A Story (Saturday,
November 5th). The small crowd seemed to react favorably. Co-director
Bret Mix said he received many compliments after the show...
No word yet on the MiskatoniCON
and Creepfest
screenings...
~ November 1, Bob Brinkman reviews Read Me A Story! Check it
out here...
~ October 28, Read Me A Story has been officially accepted
to screen at the MiskatoniCon! The festival takes place November 4-6
in Stockholm, Sweden...
Click the banner for further details...
~
October 23, Received a phone call last night confirming that Read
Me A Story will screen at Creepfest 2005. The screening will take
place at The Red Loft in Los Angeles, California on October 29th.
Click here
for more (information can also be found here)...
~
October 22, Read Me A Story will screen on November 5th at
the BlueNovember
MicroFilmFest Stage III...
~ October 18, Aaron Vanek's epic HPLFF write-up is in, and here's
what he had to say about Read Me A Story...
Read Me a Story (directed by Craig Mullins and Bret Mix): I
had a hand in the making of this one (as did many other Lurkers),
so I am biased. It's Craig's (of unfilmmable.com,
one place where you are probably reading this right now) first attempt
at making the movies he loves so much. As a first effort, it travels
pretty high. A mother reads a bedtime story from the Necronomicon
to her little urchin…which is perfect for "it". Craig
kept the film short and tight, with just enough information to keep
the viewer in suspense. The lead actress of the film got a shout out
from Patti Smith for her wonderfully droll performance as the mother.
A great, simple ending leaves chills. Nitpicking would mention the
blue light (I personally don't like blue light to represent moonlight),
and a remix for the soundtrack. But there are more strengths than
flaws, and Craig's devotion is plain to see. I can't wait to see what
he comes up with next!
~ October 15, Last weekends H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival premier went
well, and several reviews have filtered in. Here's what people are
saying about Read Me A Story...
Read Me a Story (directed by Bret Mix & Craig Mullins)
- This was one I was most looking forward to. Craig Mullins is a friend
of mine who's been reviewing Lovecraftian cinema for years (he runs
Unfilmable.com), so I was eager to see if he could "walk the
walk" the way he "talked the talk." Not only does he
walk, but he jogs along at a brisk pace. "With reading comes
dire consequences," Lovecraft said, so when a child asks his
mother to read him a story, you can bet something not-so-bedtime-story-like
might just happen (I'll review this in more detail in the future).
- Derek M. Koch
Read Me a Story: A short film involved a woman, her child, a creepy
guy and a book. Cute but no real surprises. The shot of the night
sky is effective though.
- spauldingae
Read Me A Story: One of the tricks to a film short is that
of back story. Too much, and the audience gets bored, expecting something
that was going right to the meat; not enough, and an audience might
feel cheated. 'Read Me A Story' could have used a little more
back story, just to establish who and what we were looking at. This
bugged me, but I also recognized that adding to what was there would
have made the film drag. The emphasis was more on the shock of what
happens, and that was delivered quite nicely without being obvious.
The effects were well-rendered and the camera work and lighting brought
the climax to full effect. Overall, a nicely-done bit of film.
- Mad Professor
~ October 4, Read Me A Story premiers in just 3 days! Story
is part of the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festivals Shorts Block 1, and will screen at the
following times:
Friday (October 7th) at 7:15 PM
Saturday (October 8th) at 7:15 PM
Sunday (October 9th) at 9:30 PM
~ October 1, Copies of Read Me A Story have been sent to the
MiskatoniCON
and Blue November
MicroFilmFest.
A copy is also being sent to the upcoming Creepfest
in Los Angeles! Hopefully, there will be more festival appearances
to come...
Read Me A Story's screening at the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival is now less than a week away!
~
September 23, Read Me A Story is finished! Seven months after
production began, post-production has ended. A DVD has been sent to
the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival, and the film will premier next month.
As you can see, I've also redesigned the website and added several
new images here...
More to come!
~ July 25, Spent about 15 hrs working on the final edit and the few
remaining fx shots. Rick Tillman (The Summoning) and Ray Zoblocki
(Strange Aeons: The Awakening) have also provided some
vital digital shots to fill out the film. All that remains is color
correction and the final audio mix. Then it's off to the H.P.
Lovecraft Film Festival!
~ July 2, Made a significant amount of progress last night, but there's
much more to do. We still have to color correct half of the film,
fill in the audio, create the score, finish several fx shots and Photoshop
out a few mistakes...
~ June 17, More post-production. We still seem to be a long ways off...
~ June 12, Worked on post until 3 am. Worked on timing out the opening
credits, tightened up the first minute and a half, color corrected
several scenes from the second location and found three very glaring
mistakes that will have to be Photoshoped out...
~ June 8, Lots of news this time around...
First off, the teaser trailer made it's appearance at Darrick Dishaw's
Cthulhu
One convention! Unfortunately, it still hasn't been formatted
properly for it's web debut. Secondly, the first rough cut of the
film (clocking in at around 6 minutes) is finished. Lead actress Rebekah
Morrison, the guys from Maelstrom
Productions and Rick Tillman from dark
whisper films previewed the film over the Memorial Day weekend,
and positive comments/suggestions were given by all. Thirdly, the
film has already been accepted by the MiskatoniCON,
and will screen the weekend of November 4-6 in Stockholm, Sweden!
The film will also be submitted to the H.P.
Lovecraft film festival and Blue
November MicroFilmFest
(among others). More updates to come...
~ April 27, The teaser trailer is currently en-route to Darrick Dishaw
and the Cthulhu One convention, and will make it's premiere this coming
weekend. Look for it online in the next week or so...
~ April 24, Sorry for the lack of updates, but things have been busy
on this end. Anyway, editing is currently underway, and a teaser trailer
(about 1 minute in length) has been completed. The trailer should
be online in a week or so...
It is also being submitted to Darrick Dishaw's Cthulhu
One Convention. The convention takes place in Madison Wisconsin
this coming weekend...
The production diary is still forthcoming...
~ March 19, Updated the cast and crew (here)
listings today...
~ March 15, We did it! The weekend was long, stressful and sleep deprived,
but we did it! About 95% of the footage we need it completed (a few
stray shots and one short sequence is all that remains). This turned
out to be a more ambitious project than anyone expected, and I want
to thank everyone who helped out (see list below). I've already added
some behind-the-scenes pics and a synopsis (here
and here). Look for a production
diary, more pics, and short trailer in the coming weeks...
My partner in crime (Bret Mix) mentioned the shoot on his website,
so stop on over and check it out: Electric
Night Entertainment
I would like to take this time to thank Rebekah Morrison (truly wonderful
work Rebekah, and thanks for coming through with the costume!),
my wife Amie, son Gage, brother Dustin and sister Brandy (thanks
for supporting my obsessions!), Conan Rapson and Crystal (it is time
indeed!), Keith Birdsong (incredible make-up effects and shot
suggestions, thanks for making this look more expensive than it really
was!) and everyone involved with the Graham-Carroll House (for letting
us come in and mess the place up!).
Most of all, thanks to Bret Mix for going above and beyond the call
of duty. I couldn't have done any of this without you, and I truly
appreciate it!
Much more to come!
~ March 10, One day till we shoot!
~ March 6, Pre-production work continued today, including props (an
image of the articulated tentacle can be seen here)
and set decoration. The shoot is now less than one week away...
*
Special thanks to Christian Matzke and Rick Tillman for providing
some very cool props for the production. *
~ February 26, The shoot has been moved to March 11-13. Props and
costumes are currently being obtained and created. Location images
have been added to the image gallery...
* Special thanks to Christian Matzke, Aaron Vanek, Franklin Hummel,
Bob Brinkman, Steve Sessions, Eric Morgret, Rick Tillman, Dustin Harmon
and Rebekah Morrison for script revisions and suggestions. *
~ February 7, The script has been finalized and a location has been
confirmed...
~ February 2, Rewrites are ongoing (six drafts have been completed
thus far), and the start date has been moved to March 4-6...
~ January 1, A location is currently being sought, with a February
start date in mind...
~ November 30, Finished the second draft of the script...
~ November 29, Christian Matzke (Nyarlathotep
and An
Imperfect Solution) and Rick Tillman (Pickman's
Model and The
Summoning) have agreed to help with props...
~ November 23, Rebekah
Morrison (The
Summoning) has agreed to play the part of 'the young woman'...
Rebekah Morrison |
~ November 22, Finished the first draft of the script (a very short
and to-the-point couple of pages), and contacted the actress that I
would like to play 'the young woman'...
