Comments on: Movie: “Maplewoods” (2003)

By: deaddan

deaddan — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:59:24 +0000

I thought this movie “Maplewoods” was alright. I give it an A for Effort. They obviously had to do a lot with little money. I look past all the obvious budgetary problems with the film IE only having pistols… It is a fact that in 1999 Blank shooting or air soft replicas of machine guns were extremely expensive… Now you can get one for less than $30. I’d be willing to bet that had they had a real “Producer” and a budget to match this movie would have been on every screen.

By: Mugwug

Mugwug — Tue, 03 May 2005 23:23:03 +0000

C’mon now, after “Mulva” this movie rocked…

-GRIN-

I don’t think a zombie movie would be that difficult. Granted we have relatively limited resources, but you’re right, ZombieCon would provide most of the props needed and people needed for some good sized scenes.

It’s funny, shooting short movies was an idea a friend of mine pitched a while back, I admit I wasn’t especially keen, but it’s alot easier these days with DV.

In theory it would be possible to take submissions from ZS members all over, and incorporate them into a full length film.

No, I’m not suggesting the entire film be made up of disjointed segments, but the segments could be used quite easily for montage, TV and flashback scenes without too much tweaking.

Even raw footage works these days, just add a narration and some good editing and you could build some quite powerful backdrops beyond the scope of a single effort.

Just spitballing here….at least it would beat stock footage so often used in these efforts.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 03 May 2005 21:32:57 +0000

I wish I never brought this thing up.

One of these days we need to just make our own damn low budget zombie film.

Maybe we can make some plans for Zombie Con 2006. Hell, we’ll be in the woods already with an arsenal and a google of creative folks and a few film experts. All we need is a few makeup artists.

I think we’re on to something. Coming up with something original will be the only tough part.

By: Mugwug

Mugwug — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:30:38 +0000

Hey Patrick,

Nope, I admit that one must have been lost in one of the revisions of my “movie” list, but “let’s scare Jessica” is still on there….

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 07:14:54 +0000

Hey Mon! Remember last year sometime when I suggested an old horror movie called “Race with the Devil” with Peter Fonda and “hotlips” from Mash? Well, they’re doing a remake on it!

Did you ever find a copy of it along with “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death?”

By: Matti

Matti — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:54:26 +0000

Well, I’ll drop by Revenant again some time when they’ve fixed their server (CGI failure this morning).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:48:55 +0000

No picture of the airsoft gun?

The pictures make it look like something a Cadet Corps filmed while bored on exercise.

By: Mugwug

Mugwug — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:34:38 +0000

One of the better lists I’ve seen is from Revenant Magazines survey of the top ten Zombie movies. They offered an extensive list which seemed to cover most of the ground…

There would seem to be an almost unlimited supply, no?