Early trailer to our underground/independent backyard monster movie "Night of the Necroluna". Written, Produced, and Directed by Larry Lo Presti. Executive Producers: Larry Lo Presti & Baron Dixon. DP: Baron Dixon. Creatures and Special make-up Effects by Larry Lo Presti. Editing and Digital Visual effects by Baron Dixon. Special Sets Created by Larry Lo Presti. Musical Score by Baron Dixon.
Synopsis: A former altar boy comes to the small desert town of Happening, AZ to investigate the violent death and dismemberment of his brother, and finds that the town is under the control of a murderus cult and the monster-gods that they worship.
I play the villain in the movie...the one doing the over-the-top Ricardo Montalban impression. That's also me doing the husky Movie-trailer-guy Voice-over. We're still in production on this project and should hopefully be having our premiere in October 2008. Meanwhile, I'll have a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff for you to check out, for those of you undie/indies out there who enjoy seeing how movies are made by people who don't know what the heck they're doing most of the time.
Larry, myself, and several others involved in this movie are also members of the local underground alternative Fine Arts community here in Phoenix as well. Much of our handiwork is tossed into the movie in the form of set decorations, props, and costume pieces. The cat paintings behind the Bartender are mine, along with the large ornamental book... the Joe Arpaio portrait behind the Sheriff is by "American Alien" Director, Jeff Cochran....and Larry's own papier mache' sculpture permeates the entire movie from whole sets down to costume pieces and hand props like the tooth knife and the Jar.
This started out as an experimental project built around stuff Larry and I already had. His monsters were cannibalized from other projects, the gold book (our "Necronomicon" of sorts) I had built for someone else's failed project, The actor who plays my main goon and I both have long black trenchcoats so we became the bad guys. Plus, we all brought in our respective gifts and skills to create more new stuff for the movie. Since I have 3 cameras, we were able to shoot multi-cam, which really saved my ass in the editing process! Larry and I call our houses "Movie ranches" because we frequently shoot at both locations as well as host shoots for other local budgetless filmmakers. We have frequently put "Necroluna" on hold just to help out someone else whose project was moving forward, because we believe in supporting local culture, and because we wanna see THEIR films as well! Sometimes...we even get paid!
Rating: User: BaronDixon 2007-01-24T11:07:00.23Z
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