I'm in a Movie!
"Mark of the Damned" (directed by Eric Miller) is finished! We showed it to a select audience of friends and cognoscenti last night .. it was the first time I had actually seen the entire thing, and I'm excited. It clocks in at about 1 hour and 40 minutes of extreme awesomeness. We will premiere it locally within a month, probably enter it in some festivals, and presumably DVDs will be for sale soon.

How to describe "Mark of the Damned" ... It's a retro (early 1960s) style sci-fi/monster movie, a tribute to the series of "Santo" movies from Mexico. It is black & white with a dubbed soundtrack (since the original Santo movies were in Spanish, we wanted that foreign language feeling.) It has all the elements of greatness: zombies, vampires, alchemists, mad scientists, cyborgs, cops, Abraham Lincoln, sweet cars, astronauts, magicians, archaeologists, a priest, a luchadore, hot girls (some in skimpy costumes), a Horror from Beyond the Spheres, a mummy, and a robot. Despite all this, it is not a hopeless mish-mash, and (unlike many movies of this genre) you do NOT have to be stoned to enjoy it. We weren't stoned when we made it. It's actually a pretty good movie, and I'm not just saying that because I helped make it.

What exactly did I do? I co-wrote the script, helped with the shooting, played 4 characters on-screen, dubbed voices for 5 characters, and provided incidental music for selected scenes. (The main musical score was done by Casey Tomlin from VCR.)

"Mark of the Damned" has an unfinished website and a Myspace page which should show up at the top of a Google search. Seek it out! You will love it!