9 seconds of Zombie Mayhem from TRAPPED

[DjfunkmasterG]

Hey guys,


Here is a very very very quick look at some of the zombie mayhem instore for you guys once Trapped gets released.



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[Danny]

id shorten the cut when shes tackled, for a brief second shes standing there ready and it kind of looks out of place with the rest, the zombie noises were bitchin', really, you know its something a bit different when the zombies are louder than the victims screaming, nice one.

[DjfunkmasterG]

I will mess around with it more, I need some other insert shots I haven't shot yet, so that is definitely not picture locked.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Mutineer]

Wow DJ

ON 9 seconds alone, you've shown growth as a filmmaker ! I can't wait for this !

[bassman]

Looks cool and all, but it was hard for me to make out what was going on. I saw a lady with a gun(looked like a cop?) and then she falls over and I couldn't tell what was happening. I saw some blood but that was it...

[DjfunkmasterG]

Are you on your work PC with the bad monitor?

If so, you are missing a lot.


Wow DJ

ON 9 seconds alone, you've shown growth as a filmmaker ! I can't wait for this !


Thanks Mutineer... I am glad you guys have liked it.


Wow DJ

ON 9 seconds alone, you've shown growth as a filmmaker ! I can't wait for this !


Thanks Mutineer... I am glad you guys have liked it.

[Neil]

Bit confusing as within 2 seconds there are no zombies, to a roaring army behind her?

[DjfunkmasterG]

I just didn't show how they got there. In the full uncut clip this is how it happens..



SPOILERS

The zombies pound away at the doors, they hear the car approach and look into the direction from where the cops are coming, they see the headlights and the zombies scatter and hide... as the cops investigate they actually sneak up on them and ambush them... I just didn't show the zombies sneaking up on them.

[Neil]

I just didn't show how they got there. In the full uncut clip this is how it happens..



SPOILERS

The zombies pound away at the doors, they hear the car approach and look into the direction from where the cops are coming, they see the headlights and the zombies scatter and hide... as the cops investigate they actually sneak up on them and ambush them... I just didn't show the zombies sneaking up on them.

Phew! Just thought that was like a final cut, and it just seemed to skip around too much to 'feel right'...

:)

[MinionZombie]

As I've said to Dj privately, I'm diggin' it.

I like the way it's cut together and shot, it's like 24 meets the living dead. :cool:

[Mike70]

dammit dj when are you going to stop tormenting us with these short clips and drop the movie on us:lol:

every clip you've put up has had the same effect on me - i want to see more and i want to see it now:D

[kortick]

wow

intense stuff

[ZombiePrototype]

In the words of Peter Griffin "That was awesome". When is it coming out?

[DjfunkmasterG]

The short version will be out this summer. The extended directors cut will be out in Spring 2009.

[MinionZombie]

The short version will be out this summer. The extended directors cut will be out in Spring 2009.
And the short version is in that combo, anthology thingy right?

[DjfunkmasterG]

Yep... zombthology.

www.artheldhostage.com is the official website for Zombthology.

The Short Version will have a completely different ending to the film than my extended cut. We have been doing a time estimate and it looks like Trapped - The Extended Cut will run about 82 minutes, while the short version runs 20, so you will get an additional 62 minutes of bonus footage.


Hey MZ, if IAZM3 is done in time I will do my theatrical launch of Trapped: TEC playing IAZM3 just before it. Hopefully when I do the DVD release for Trapped I can put IAZM2 and IAZM3 on the DVD. I get a lot of feedback about IAZM from fans of Deadlands.

[MinionZombie]

Holy crap, now that is what I call bonus footage minute action - 62 of the blighters! :)

I hope to get IAZM3 done before the summer rolls up, it's just a matter of getting my star tied down to a date when he's not busy at work, otherwise the film is basically completely prepped and ready to go. Send some brain waves in Knox's work's direction will ya, make them quit working him so hard. :)

Ooh, feedback about IAZM? What sort of things were folks saying? :)

[capncnut]

Ooh, feedback about IAZM? What sort of things were folks saying? :)
Probably:

"When's the sequel out?"
"Where can I get one of those masks?"
"Can I have the phone number of the director's drug dealer?"
"I wonder what Nick Thomson looks like wearing a gimp suit and bollock weight?"

:D

[DjfunkmasterG]

Basically people like it, thought it was funny. I know when I premiered Deadlands in April and showed IAZM it got a warm response... people who bought the DVD after the show were ahppy to see IAZM on the disc as an extra.

Some new news about Trapped:

We will be filming in 2 Strip clubs in the Alexandria, VA and West Virginia in April 2008. We have one more weekend at the theater for Principal photography, thats coming mArch 14th.

I had a talk with the cast and the producers. We are going to submit Trapped to the MPAA for rating so I started the paperwork, based on the strip club scenes and the violence we expect the film to get an NC-17, they did not sya I had to get an R, but I will try to aim for an R.

[MinionZombie]

Capn - lol, oooh...no thanks to the bollock weights ... we'll talk about the gimp suit. :D

I'm glad folks were diggin' it, for such an off-the-cuff film I didn't try at all hard to make, I'm glad it's found joy in some people's hearts. :)

IAZM3 will be having the boat pushed out for it, a budget of somewhere under £100 - aka a DeadShed Productions EPIC! :cool:

Cor blimey, MPAA and everything eh? Keep climbing that ladder, Sir. :thumbsup:

[DjfunkmasterG]

Most people ask me why I should bother, but fromt he way things are shaping up I feel giving it another shot with the MPAA woould be worth it. I don't have any zombies eating flesh out of baby carriage this time, or anyone having their throat torn out like in Deadlands, so should be able to hit the R, however, the nudity and violence may push it to NC-17.

The nice part is you can pre-request a rating, if you think it will get it. If I felt it was NC-17 I could say I am asking for an NC-17, they would watch the film and just stamp it NC-17 even if it was worthy of an R. I am going to request a Hard R, I also have suggested the following synopsis for the rating on the paperwork. This synopsis would appear on the poster with the Rating.

If rated R or NC-17

Strong Language, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Graphic and Sadistic Zombie Violence.

[MinionZombie]

Sadistic Zombie Violence

Heck, that's a name for a zed movie on it's own right there! :cool:

[DjfunkmasterG]

When I say Sadistic I mean sadistic.

I was reading a review of Deadlands today and someone said I managed to introduce a form of Torture porn into a zombie movie. They specifically noted that at no time do you really ever see zombies eating flesh, but you see many visceral shots of zombies killing their victims in very painful ways. (they noted the throat tear, and the Spine removal scene) I never really thought the scenes were that violent, but I guess they could be construed as sadistic violence.

MZ, in your opinion do you think Deadlands teeters on torture porn with those above mentioned scenes? I don't think it does, but I could see his point.

[MinionZombie]

I don't understand the torture porn statement at all. I mean there are great gore gags - such as the spine removal - but you don't really linger on it.

Torture porn (ugh, I actually hate that term as well :p) in a zombie film would be more like Day of the Dead surely, Rhodes getting his legs yanked off and then zombies delving into his torso to yank out massive hunks of innards as blood gushes and he huffs and puffs and gags.

I definitely think you didn't skimp on the violence in Deadlands, although you could have fairly easily gone even further with it. But I certainly wouldn't put the old "torture porn" moniker on your work ... although maybe Trapped will change my mind? :p

hehe, seriously though, I don't think you could ever really put "torture porn" as a description upon any zombie film, because the very nature of TP is that it's human-on-human violence for pleasure/displeasure/experience of either the audience or the protagonists - or both.

But meh, each to their own I suppose. I wonder how many zed flicks the person who said TP about Deadlands had seen in their lifetime?

[DjfunkmasterG]

I do tend to take things to a bit of the extreme with Trapped. See, in my eyes it isn't the gore that I find appealing. Massive amounts of blood is not what I look for, I look for what could be the most painful way to be attacked. I want cringe worthy moments, that is what horror is all about to me.

[MinionZombie]

Aye, I think if you're gonna do gore - do it properly. As Punch...or is it Judy?...might say, "that's the way to do it!" :)

[DjfunkmasterG]

MZ I have been on these forums for a good while now and you know the one thing I cannot stand is low budget films with cheesy gore moments. One of the things I wanted to make sure of with Deadlands and trapped is that i didn't fall into those moments.

The best way to avoid your gore coming off like velveeta is to keep the camera away from the gag. Not a superwide shot but a medium shot. You don't want people seeing the gag before it is revealed and when you make your cuts cut at the moment the eeeek effect has worn off.

Zombie violence has to be handled very delicately. it is not as easy as some tubing with red kool aid, you have to really block your shots and sell it in a very effective way. I hate filmmakers that cheese out on their gore by lingering on the shots for too long.

Romero provides the best examples on how to use gore effectively. Watch how he cuts the scene you will notice they are very quick cuts in most cases, but the optimal effect is presented in such a way you don't realize how quick the cut really is, in fact the best examples are Dawn and Day. The editing was perfect whenit came to the feasts in both films and when I edit gore I use those films as a guide on how I cut gore scenes.

[MinionZombie]

Unless it's mega low budget comedy, then a cheap gag is fine. :p

[DjfunkmasterG]

For comedies, yes low budget cheeseball gags are perfect, and even comical at times. However, even they can go overboard.

A great example of overboard gore that is funny is the Knight scene in Holy Grail.