Midnight Movie Featurette

Midnight movie was made in a flash on a down-to-business schedule of only 22 days. Director Jack Messitt enlightens you with this inside piece on the cast & crew's experience while shooting the film, including an earlier casting and words from the production designer. Since this film is an homage of sorts, it is one of the only horror films with a villain that is not only a difficult-to-kill monster but also a spirit who can appear and disappear at will. Enjoy the featurette!

Jack Messitt & Happy 2009!!!

Jack Messitt brings us into the new year with his operator reel. Jack is a director of photography who has worked on a number of films and television shows (check out the video) including Bigfoot Entertainment's Midnight Movie and Tears from Afar (working title). Welcome to 2009!

Midnight Movie hits 10 US cities

Midnight Movie, the award winning horror film will have an exclusive run in 10 US cities on November 7:

Baltimore, Maryland - Charles Theatre, midnight
1711 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD
(410) 727-FILM

Los Angeles, California - Laemmle Sunset 5, midnight
8000 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, 90046
(323) 848-3500

Tempe, Arizona - Valley View Theatre - midnight
Harkins Valley Art
505 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
(480) 446-7272

Portland, Oregon - Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 223-4515

Dallas, Texas - Angelika Film Center
Mockingbird Station
5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Suite 320
Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 841-4713

Houston, Texas - Angelika Center
510 Texas Avenue (at Smith Street)
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 225-1470

San Diego, California - Regal Horton Plaza
A Horton Plaza 14
475 Horton Plaza
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 232-3340

New York - Village East Theatre
http://www.villageeastcinema.com/
181 - 189 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 1003
(212) 529-6799

Pittsburgh, Philadelphia - Southside Film Works
425 Cinema Drive
Pittsburgh, PA
(412) 381-7335

*It showed last week in Minneapolis Minnesota, for those of you counting all the cities :-)
For more information contact:

Konstanze Pelargus
konstanze.pelargus@bigfoot.net
Marketing Consultant
Bigfoot Entertainment Ltd.
Los Angeles / Cebu / Hong Kong
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Midnight Movie Mayhem

October is the month for...
Scary movies! Monsters! Blood, guts & gore!

When it's over, grab a big jack-o-lantern full of candy and stuff your face with goodies. Yum! I once watched David Lynch's Eraserhead while eating popcorn and nachos the whole way through. My stomach felt just a little quesy afterward. (Don't try this at home kids!)

For more gore and less this-is-so-friggin'-weird-ness, take a peek at Midnight Movie. It's a slasher film with a twist, and the cure to David Lynch. The plot goes like this: a group of unsuspecting youth hit the theater to watch a vintage horror flick and heckle away until they're sucked into the action and the killer is after them. Think Last Action Hero meets Saw and substitute Arnie for a psycho mouthless guy with a razor-sharp spiral-shaped knife. Niiice!

It's a great film for cuddling with that hot date of yours.

Leave some love on the blog while you check out the trailer.

Review: MM

Never been a fan of horror flicks nor have I ever clinched to the urge to watch any film that freely depicts graphic mutilation and torture. More so, watching B-list actors portray unconvincing fear, loss, and grief is the most painful thing to watch. Midnight movie encapsulates these cliché and horror film conventions and yet it kept me on, just to see what’s next and witness first hand how the story unfolds.

The script holds the movie together and gives it the upper hand over the countless horror gore-infested films released every year.

Scenes where the antagonist drags his victims to an enigmatic room is an ingenious way to keep the audience stuck to their seats. The myriad guesses within the viewer’s mind slightly alleviates the agonizing moments of witnessing abysmal character development and casting – an American chief detective with a German accent? Not that I have anything against Germans being a chief detective in US soil but stick to the minor conventions and stereotypes. It throws away the focus of the audience and opens doors for them to ponder on the reasons behind such logic unless the story develops more on the character introduced.

Also, some aspects of the film could be derived as comedic and lame. The doctor’s scream in the first few scenes was an epic fail but laughable nonetheless. On a positive light, it could be this great grand scheme by the writer/director to ease the audience slowly into the film to relieve the tension before the roller coaster goes haywire.


And I can’t help but feel the emotional detachment of the four leading actors to each other. They were introduced as close friends and sold as a bunch that has been through a lot. And yet when someone gets whacked, the survivors are absent of remorse, grief, and loss. The relationship the audience may think these four have is completely non-existent beyond the first few scenes.

Conversely, these are minor complaints on a very well crafted, albeit simple story. The torture and massacre scenes are riveting and graphic. And fans of the genre will find themselves right at home and would appreciate the extra effort to up the ante on violence and gore.

Midnight Movie may have glaring faults but it’s original story, authentic eye-twitch inducing scenes carry the movie till the end. And with an open ended conclusion, a sequel could be on the horizon.

On a side note, doesn’t the lead actress look exactly like the guy from Speed Racer and The Girl Next Door? Word.

Midnight at the movies

Have that burning urge to see the next big movie after an adventurous undertaking?

(If 14 hours from Manila to the US isn’t, what is?)

For those who find pleasure in violence and gore, give yourself some well-earned respect and watch this. The film’s a nod to all those cliché horror and gore-infested flicks and yet it still brings something new to the ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer/Urban Legend/Scream' crowd.

SYNOPSIS

Midnight Movie will have audiences squirming in their seats, as the killer from the movie emerges from the screen to hunt down each viewer one-by-one before dragging their dead bodies back into the film to be tortured for eternity.

At a run down theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film. What they do not know is that the Director/Star of the film has something more in store for them than just a movie.

While he is thought to have died five years earlier in a psych ward massacre, the detective and doctor who witnessed the aftermath of the bloodbath suspect that the director was not a victim, but the perpetrator of the killings and is still on the loose.

What none of them understand is that he has enshrined his soul into the film itself.

As the film starts, the kids heckle the old black-and-white scenes, but are jolted when the movie's gruesome killer butchers one of their friends on screen! They realize that it is not the prank that they had hoped it was as they soon become the stars of the very movie they are watching on the screen.

Caught between the world of reality and the screen's flickering shadows, these unsuspecting viewers fight to stay alive in the locked theater.