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Nov 17 2010

NEHW Member’s Second Film Shown at Historic Venue

Earlier this month, writer-director and NEHW member Nathan Wrann, had his second film, Burning Inside shown at the historic Thomaston Opera House in Thomaston, Connecticut.

Burning Inside is an exploration of the intertwined nature of revenge and memory. It is the second feature from Wrann and his production company, Dalton Gang Productions. The production company was founded in 2006 by Wrann and his wife, Kimberly Dalton. They started the production company because they were dissatisfied with the caliber of modern independent horror movies and cult thrillers. They set out to create the kind of underground movies they would like to see. They want those movies to be literate and thought provoking in plot, brutal and unrelenting in tension.

Burning Inside was shot entirely in Connecticut and premiered at the Connecticut Film Festival earlier this year.

After the screening, there was a discussion with Wrann and the cast and crew of the film. Wrann chose the Thomaston Opera House because the venue is “a beautifully restored, historic theater.” He scouted it when looking for locations to shoot his next project which is a short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. “Upon entering the theater, I immediately fell in love with the remarkable craftsmanship found in the auditorium,” Wrann said. “While discussing its use as a location, we discovered that the theater is equipped to screen movies and knew that it would be a perfect venue for a screening of Burning Inside.”

Wrann is an independent filmmaker out of West Haven, Connecticut.

Burning Inside is the first film distributed by Channel Midnight Releasing (www.channelmidnight.com), the new distribution label from respected cult filmmaker James Felix McKenney (Canniballistic!, Hypothermia) and producers Lisa Wisely (Automatons, Satan Hates You) and Chase Tyler of The Work Room Productions.

For more information about Wrann and his production company, check out the website www.daltongang-productions.com.

 The Burning Inside trailer is available at http://youtu.be/n6SLeg1STCU

By dudley228 • Posted in Movies
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Oct 15 2010

The Upcoming Weekend

The weekend is almost here; one more day. What are you doing this weekend? Will you go see Jackass 3D or Red? I saw Red and didn’t care for it. My review will be at www.dvdsnapshot.com sometime on Friday night.

There are a few conventions going on this weekend. One of those conventions is the Wizard World New England Comic Con 2010. NEHW member Christopher Golden will be appearing at the Cinequest booth with Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast members, James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Nicholas Brendon, Amber Benson, Clare Kramer, Mercedes McNab, Doug Jones and Mark Metcalf.

The New England Comic Con runs from October 15 through the 17 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. For more information, check out www.wizardworld.com.

Another convention is Rock and Shock 2010, which was mentioned in Thursday’s blog entry. Author Jack Ketchum will be there. He is the writer of Cover, The Girl Next Door and Off Season to name a few.

There will be a lot of authors at the NEHW table. Read Thursday’s entry for the names and the times they will be at the table throughout the convention. When you get done meeting the authors, you can always go and meet some Hollywood celebrities like Danny Trejo (Machete), the cast of The Human Centipede and George Romero (Land of the Dead). Even Adrienne Barbeau who starred in The Fog and Swamp Thing will be there. She is still doing horror today. She is currently making the rounds on General Hospital.

For more information on Rock and Shock 2010, check out www.rockandshock.com.

Everybody have a great weekend. I may post some items over the weekend. Be sure to check back for any new entries.

Oct 11 2010

What to expect this week.

Hello, readers. I hope everyone had a great weekend. Did you get to one of the NEHW appearances? Or did you go see the new release My Soul to Take? Or did you rent some movies?

I did the rental thing. I rented The Karate Kid (2010). It could have been a real horror show. It wasn’t. It honored the original. It even had a soul of its own. A lot of remakes can’t stand by itself, but this movie does. Jaden Smith is going to be a movie star just like his dad, Will Smith. I wanted to rent The Human Centipede. My local Blockbuster doesn’t carry it. I went to a Blockbuster in another town. They have one copy which was rented out. I went to a couple Redboxes. They didn’t have it. I ended up calling Best Buy 25 miles away. They had three copies. Long story short, I now own the movie. The movie didn’t live up to the hype. I wasn’t satisfied. I have seen more disturbing images in the Saw, Hostel and Final Destination movies. This still won’t keep me from seeing the sequel that is in the works. I can always hope that the next movie will be more satisfying.

Now onto what you can expect from this blog this week, there will be entries about more NEHW appearances and the release of a book written by a NEHW member.  One of the appearances will be big. It will allow horror fans to meet a number of NEHW members. Keep coming back this week and find out what I am talking about.