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The Chronicles
Volume 2 Issue 9 |
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London Vampyre Group
PO Box 487
London
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© Copyright 2007
London Vamypre Group
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Reviews
SHINE ON VAMPIRE MOON
If you haven't heard of the vampire film MOONSHINE yet you won’t be able to avoid it pretty soon. This vampire movie gets it’s premiere at the prestigious 2006 Sundance Film Festival (Moonshine and Sundance. Sounds like a couple of Native Americans)..
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Moonshine
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Roger Ingraham, the film's director, dropped out of high school, wrote a script and, at age 19, shot using several dozen volunteer actors and crew. Total price: $9,200, including the cost of a Panasonic camera, a PowerBook G4 and website hosting. An agent from the William Morris Agency saw a trailer for the movie whilst surfing the net and…there ya go! International exposure to the world’s biggest distributors (there’s a couple of members of the LVG who should take note of that…..).
Ingraham was still tweaking the movie before its premiere bit it's the kind of filmmaker-from-nowhere tale that Sundance and proponents of digital filmmaking have been promising for years, but so far has been relatively rare.
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Has the digital video revolution finally taken off? And with vampires. Let’s hope it’s another historical landmark for the genre and not another damp squib.
You can get a taster by checking out the trailer at……
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www.moonshinethemovie.com
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BLOODY THIRST ~ Update
The movie is now in postproduction and the the ‘vampire~as~addict’ film THE THIRST, produced by Mark A. Altman and written by Ben Lustig and Liz Maccie is being described as ‘Near Dark meets Trainspotting’. High bench marks indeed.
The film is not the first to use the parallels (The Addiction anyone?) but is said to be a brutally honest look at addiction, love and the afterlife all within the context of vampires. The lead characters, played by Matt Keeslar and Clare (BtVS) Kramer, are ex-junkies in recovery and she, because of terminal cancer, apparently kills herself. But…
He believes he sees her and tracks her to a band of lunatics, The Family, led by Jeremy Sisto and also including Adam Baldwin and Serena Scott Thomas. They’re all vampires from no specific time or place who seem to have lost direction and purpose.
Previously touted as a bloodbath director Jeremy Kasten has now stated that it could be ‘possibly the bloodiest vampire film ever made and an exploitation film in the ‘best’ sense’. (Big claims indeed).
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