Since the release of my last film, Ratline, a nearly constant flurry of activity has taken place as I work to launch a follow-up. Most of this bustle has resulted in dead ends. This is the way things trend in this industry.
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by Eric Stanze
05/15/2013 - 3:00pm
Beloved, modest, and incredibly influential monster-making innovator Ray Harryhausen died May 7th at his home in London.
by Eric Stanze
05/08/2013 - 7:00pm
All the hub-bub about next month’s release of Man Of Steel turns my mind to reflect upon the history of Superman (and his mostly-disappointing big screen undertakings).
by Eric Stanze
04/24/2013 - 2:00pm
Join me for another plunge into the menacing darkness of underground fringe cinema.
by Eric Stanze
04/19/2013 - 6:00pm
I surveyed over five billion people, and using an equation only the world’s top scientists can comprehend, I arrived at the following list of The Top 8 Most Notorious Horror Films Shot On Super 8. Here they are, in order of release.
by Eric Stanze
04/08/2013 - 1:00pm
Very few figures in the landscape of cult cinema had the polarizing effect that Jesus “Jess” Franco had. The director helmed The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), A Virgin Among The Living Dead (1973), Exorcism (1974), Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), Bloody Moon (1981), and many more
by Eric Stanze
04/03/2013 - 7:00pm
Actor David Early passed away last month at the age of 74. The born-and-raised-Pittsburgh performer never became a movie star, but his small roles impacted genre film history in a major way.
by Eric Stanze
03/27/2013 - 4:00pm
After these recent blog posts, I was hit with a number of questions about the post-production of Ice From The Sun. Often, people assume this movie was edited on a non-linear computer editing system (with film grain and scratches added during post), because that’s how movies are edited these days. Not so. All the film grain, scratches, and debris are authentic… and post-production would have been much easier if I really had edited this film on a computer.
by Eric Stanze
03/26/2013 - 11:00am
In Part 1 of this journey, I began revisiting the production of an older movie of mine, the bizarre horror/experimental feature Ice From The Sun, shot entirely on Super 8 film.
by Eric Stanze
03/22/2013 - 12:00pm
Jörg Buttgereit’s notoriously moist horror/gore film Nekromantik (1987) has been churning stomachs for two and a half decades. In honor of this German film’s 25th anniversary, a new DVD release is planned for May 2013 by Titan Video.