Part Two of Steampunk Granny's Interview of Director/Actor Patrick Devaney

                                                       

 

Hi, my little zombie snacks. I’m back with Part 2 of my interview of Director/ Actor Patrick Devaney where we learn more about the First Zombie series on television and Devaney’s character in Ryan Scott Webber’s Pretty Fine Things. Join me now as I learn more about the world of Independent Film

Marie Gilbert: “On your IMDb, it has you working with Ryan Scott Webber and Pretty Fine Things, and you are an actor in that film, right?”

Patrick Devaney: “Yes, I’m one of the leads and I play Thomas Banner, one of the three Banner brothers that are the main protagonists as well as the anti-heroes of the film. We are three brothers who are criminally insane in different ways and we come home because our dad’s health is failing, so it’s a very creepy story. We play psychopaths in it and I get to work with Joe Parascand, who I love working with. I’ve directed him before, I’ve acted with him and I love it, but I also get to work with Adam Ginsberg, who is just fantastic, so the three of us as the brothers in this movie... I hope everybody gets to see this because they are going to really enjoy it.”

                                           Patrick Devaney, Joe Parascand, Adam Ginsberg

                                                                  

Marie Gilbert: “Joe Parascand is in the film too? He’s the one that introduced me to you. He’s been very good at promoting people and he knows that anyone that he sends to me is someone that I’m excited to interview. I met Joe because of The Soulless. So...now you’re wrapping up on the Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead and I see in your bio that you do star in non-horror shows like Elementary, Law and Order, but is your love really for the horror films?”

Patrick Devaney: “I would say that up to a point, my love has always been for horror films and for sci-fi films. I find myself going more into the science fiction/fantasy realm of horrific things and my favorite director in the world is Guillermo Del Toro. I mean, I love Pan’s Labyrinth and could watch it every day, and the Hellboy movies. The things he comes up with, that dark fantasy and the science based fantasies? I love that, and I’ve been working more towards that.

My first move towards this, while we were doing the second season of Zombie Hunters, I made a short film called ‘Aemorraghe, which is a based on a story from Heavy Metal Magazine back in  1982 that I read as a teenager. I found the artist, an amazing illustrator named Caza, and got the rights to it and wrote, produced, and directed the film. It was shot by Mark Boutros and the crew from MGP, and stars Vivienne Cleary, an amazing actress that carried the weight of the film in ways I could never have even hoped for. But yes, it’s definitely the vein I want to go more into. It’s pure science fiction and science fantasy. It has some horrific elements to it in terms of theme, but overall it’s a positive film and yeah, it just got into its twenty-first film festival this year.”

Marie Gilbert: “Wow, alright.”

Patrick Devaney: “Yeah, I’m pretty happy with that.”

Marie Gilbert:  “I would want to see this.”

                                                                     

Patrick Devaney: “I’ll send you the link and the password for it and you can watch it online; the screener that the festivals watch.”

Marie Gilbert: “Okay and you have to let us know how it does at the festival. When is the festival?”

Patrick Devaney: “The next festival that we know it’s in will be the Patterson Film Festival this Spring. It’s already done twenty others since it premiered at the Macabre Faire Film Festival last January, and I’m waiting to hear from about forty other festivals it’s running for over the rest of its public run. We tried to book it in two-hundred-fifty of them. We got about a twelve percent acceptance rate, which is pretty good.”

Marie Gilbert: “I would say so. Now, what was the film that hooked you onto horror and science fiction as a child?”

Patrick Devaney: “Whenever I talk about this, I always blame my mom. When I was an infant, she would sit me up in front of the T.V. with her and watch the original Dark Shadows first run. As I was growing up, I would sit next to her and she would explain, ‘Okay, now that’s Barnabas and he’s a vampire and Angelique is a witch,” etc. And, what’s really cool is that I just got to meet Sharon Smyth who played Sarah Collins in the show! I got to tell her that story and that was very cool. She’s a wonderful lady and if you can meet her, she’s amazing. It started for me from there and for horror stuff, but the first movie I remember seeing on television that really scared the hell out of me was a T.V. movie called Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.”

Marie Gilbert: “I think I remember that one.”

Patrick Devaney: “It was a weird movie about vampires and had a very strange take on them and it scared the hell out of me. But, for the sci-fi stuff I grew up watching Star Trek even the first run Star Trek, and before Star Wars came out, there was a wonderful show that came out of England called Space 1999. It stared Martin Landau and Barbara Bain from Mission:Impossible and it was a beautiful science fiction show on BBC in 1975 and that hooked me into sci-fi instantly and then two years later, Star Wars came out and I was done, totally addicted. I was a nine year old kid watching Star Wars and saying, “Okay, I’m done. You can end it now, I’m good!”

So yeah, that strange combination of character-driven horror and over-the-top science-fiction, I always try to combine those two things and hopefully, I can be doing this for the rest of my life.”

Marie Gilbert: “You write a lot of the scripts, so you’re a writer, director, actor and producer, so what hat do you like to wear the most?”

Patrick Devaney: “Currently, I really enjoy being someone else for a while and, I enjoy acting in different things. I get to work at least one if not two days a week on different network television shows, mostly as background and sometimes featured roles, but mostly general background. I get to watch those kinds of crews again, and that helps me in being a director because now I can see what actors really need from their crews and their director. I’m really enjoying that a lot right now and also to be able to work with guys like Joe Parascand and Adam Ginsberg and to act with that level of ability; to work with those guys and bounce back and forth from them? That was just a total gift.

        Photo courtesy of photographer John Sheehan                                                       

But I really love doing it all. For example, I’m currently writing a web series that we will start filming in May with an upcoming producer named Lauren Loizidis.  We created this fictionalized version of Mastic, New York, called “Mastic PD”, where all these strange kinds of things go on and we are members of the police department and have to investigate them. This is a project based off characters from the Ormsby’s Cinema Insane universe, created by John Sheehan. I’ve been writing that with her for maybe three months, but she’s also one of the new Zombie Hunters, so it’s very interesting. I get to direct her in scenes, but she’s also my new writing partner. It’s an interesting dynamic where we are wearing different hats with each other now; a different way of doing it. But, I work some aspect of this every single day. I’m doing some kind of production every day and I do write every day, even if it’s just a note to myself saying ‘make sure you finish that story about the cop that did this…’. Yeah it’s a daily task, but I love it.”

I'll be stopping part two here, my little zombie snacks and returning on Tuesday with part three of my interview with Independent Director/ Actor Patrick Devaney. Don't be late. There is more to learn.

Part One of Steampunk Granny's interview with Patrick Devaney of Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead

                                                          

                                                       

Steampunk Granny has a guardian angel named Joe Parascand who tells me about some very talented people in Independent Films. Through these many interviews, I’ve made a lot of new friends, but it seemed that with the different interviews that I’d done about Independent Films, there was one name that kept coming up, Patrick Devaney. It was time for me to meet the creator of the first zombie show on television.

Marie Gilbert: “Thank you for taking the time to do this interview with me, Patrick. Why don’t we start off with you telling us a little bit about yourself, your acting, directing and am I right, producing?”

Patrick Devaney: “Yeah, I actually started out that way. I always wanted to do film work in general my whole life, but I kind of put that on pause because I was in the music industry for a while, then I was doing finance for a while. But at one of the places I worked at doing finance, we rented space out to the various Law and Order shows. And, I was selling them locations and at one point I was doing four different Law and Order’s several times a year, so they were a regular staple and I would watch them film and I watched this for years. The more I watched it the more I thought; you know I think we have enough people that we could do this.

We always wanted to see a zombie based T.V. series and there never was one, so we could wait the rest of our lives or we could make our own. I got a number of people together that had gone to film school and I asked them their advice and then got some other people together and asked if they would want to be in it and we started Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead. We came up with the idea in 2005 and it first aired in December of 2007, but the only outlet that we had was public access T.V. I had no contacts other than renting out space for L&O, so the only place we could get access was on public T.V. Since we started with one station in Queens, we’ve been on seventy-five stations across the nation since.”

                                                                          

                                                          

Marie Gilbert: “Wow, so Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead came out before The Walking Dead?”

Patrick Devaney: “Oh yes, we came out several years before The Walking Dead, actually. We were the very first broadcast zombie-based T.V. series in history. We were the very first ones ever on the air, the debut was in December 2007 with the pilot episode and it has been continuously on the air ever since in one way or another. It started out on Queens Public Access and it’s still running on Queens Public Access to this day.”

Marie Gilbert: “I did get to see the first episode of season one, so with Zombie Hunters are you using the same cast every season?”

Patrick Devaney: “We’ve made it pretty much consistent, I’ve been very lucky in that. If someone doesn’t die, they pretty much come back. We’re actually wrapping up the series this year. We’re filming the very last episode in 2015 and that’s going to wrap up the entire series and some of the people that were from the very first show and continuously with the show will be there at the very end and, we are even bringing back some of the zombies that were in the very first pilot episode.

We are bringing them back eight years later. I’ve already spoke to some of them and they were like, just let me know when! It started out just to see if we could do it and to date, we’ve had over four-hundred people work on the show.”

Marie Gilbert: “How many episodes do you have per season for the last eight years? In 2015, it will be eight years.”

Patrick Devaney: “The first season was eight episodes and the second season was going to be another eight, but we cut it down and are wrapping up the show on the twelfth episode. For a while we were averaging two or three episodes a year, and in later years since we had gone onto so many other film projects; to get one out a year has been a miracle. We realized that with so many projects going on right now, we had to shorten the series down and are ending in 2015. Yes, we are going with that, but it has been a continuous storyline and continuous characters and the entire series only takes place over the course of five months.”

Marie Gilbert: “Oh, okay.”

Patrick Devaney: “Yes, so in the storyline, this event happens and no one believes it at first. What we tried to do was show what if George Romero and John Russo’s original idea for Night of the Living Dead actually happened in New York City today. What would it be like? So that has always been the premise of the show. And what we thought was that in a city like New York, no one would believe it at first. If you saw things going on, you would just call the Cops. You wouldn’t think there were zombies. You would just think that they were crazy people or on drugs or whatever and, if the government actively covered it up, we go for almost a month before anyone in authority even admits that this is happening! So, it’s not worldwide and it starts in New Jersey and it spreads out from there, so...it’s a slow progression and most people still don’t buy it until it’s too late and by the time it’s too late; no one is prepared for it. That’s where we are right now and things have gotten horribly worse and no one is prepared except for us and, the end of the world is upon them.”

Marie Gilbert: “That is so interesting especially since it is taking place in the city because normally when you talk about a zombie apocalypse, they always say that the city is the worst place to stay. It’s better to go out to the countryside. But, your guys are staying in the city. How was staying in the city better for the characters?”

Patrick Devaney: “Well, we sat down and talked about this and I think that most people wouldn’t think to leave. I mean, I’ve lived in New York City for forty-six years and I couldn’t think of where else to go. I don’t have a house anywhere else and most of my family is still in the city.

I wouldn’t even know where to go, really. I think a lot of people in New York, most don’t have firearms and most get around by the train so what do you do? Do you rent a car and find a gun and try to go somewhere that you don’t know, or would you figure out maybe I’ll stay put and see what happens.

Unfortunately, we had that really happen when 9/11 occurred and most people did not flee the city. Most people stayed exactly where they were and if they had to get to Queens, they walked over the bridges. What we did was stay in the city not knowing what would happen next and knowing that the city was a target; we all stayed in the city and we all went to work two days later. So, I think that in any kind of emergency, people in a major city, until they see that it’s bad and the food runs out and the water stops and the gas runs out, they are going to stay put. So, our characters pretty much said, we’ve been lifelong New Yorkers and we have access to some guns and we know people where we can get more guns from. We’re going to stay put and that’s what we do until it’s really far too late.”

Marie Gilbert: “In a way, that does make sense. You stay where you’re comfortable and you know the area. Now you play Billy Cassidy in this series. Is he the main protagonist of the story? Is everything centered on Billy?”

Patrick Devaney: “He started out that way, but it’s quickly progressed that the real leader of the group, who has been holding it all together, is Paul Michael Bates, who is played by Christopher J. Murphy. He is also a fan-favorite and people really respond well to him.

Billy is kind of a jerk. He’s moody and he’s not very positive and the character of Bates is like, “Listen things are bad, but we got this by the ass,” to quote Dawn of the Dead, “We got this by the ass and we are fine.” Bates has readily become the fan-favorite, so you see in the series as it goes along that he’s started taking more of a leadership role, also because Billy kind of vanishes for a while and Bates has to deal with everything on his own. Eventually, Billy comes back into the fold and he’s changed. He’s different and when the series wraps up, you’ll see the changes in him. There are a few main characters like John Salazar, played by Rick Martinez, who is always there and he plays the voice of reason. He is the only person with military training. He is the person who holds things together on a much more non-emotional level and on practical level. We see the things that he goes through; he loses his entire family at one point so we see the different ways that the different characters progress and we’ve lost some along the way. Yeah, so anyone who has survived so far will be there at the end.”

     Photo courtesy of photographer John Sheehan                                                              

Marie Gilbert: “Besides working on Zombie Hunters that will end in 2015, do you see this series becoming a movie?”

Patrick Devaney: “It’s funny, people have asked me that before, but we don’t really see it becoming a movie only because we are finishing up the story completely at the end of the season with the last episode and we actually explain everything that goes on. We explain what the zombies are and where they come from and we do a big reveal for this. The fate of the characters may be up in the air and that is kind of left to the viewer, but what really happens is that we do finish the series properly and explain everything. We don’t leave a lot to conjecture, and it’s not going to just end abruptly.

But, like I said there are so many more projects that we are writing and producing and moving on towards; plus, most of my crew is made up of a company called Mass Grave Pictures and they have their own projects going on right now. They finished their first feature film called Blood Slaughter Massacre, and they are currently filming another one called In the Shadow of the Imp. So, it’s very creepy kind of horror stuff and they are all doing their own projects, so everyone is kind of spreading out from there. To keep this series going, I mean we’re all for working together, but there are so many projects to do.”

Okay, my little zombie snacks, we are going to end part one of this interview here and pick up with part two on Monday.

Steampunk Granny Interviews Tom Ryan on His Film "Faces"

                                                              

                      

I have met the most talented people since I’ve started blogging a few years back. I love to promote the Independent Arts including films, directors, producers, writers, and actors. With most of the interviews I’ve done this past year, I owe to the talented actor, Joe Parascand.

Joe recently told me about a new film called Faces and also about the man responsible for the film.  Tom Ryan was born and raised in Jersey City N.J. and since his early childhood, he’s had a passion for horror films.

Tom recently put together an Independent Production Company called “Theatre of Terror” and the first short film produced was Day 9. Tom has just completed another film called Faces and we’re going to learn a bit more about the film.

Marie Gilbert: “You’re a producer, director, writer and actor, am I correct?”

                                                                     

Tom Ryan: “Yes and to put it more simply, I’m more of a writer and director, but the reason I’m an actor and producer is to support my films.” Laughing “Let’s face it that’s the way it goes. I mean acting is fun and I’ve done a few projects now and it’s been enjoyable, but first and foremost I mainly write and direct.”

Marie Gilbert:  “I’ve seen that you were in the short film Day 9, but I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but the T.V. series, Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead, I have heard about this one before because I had interviewed one of the actresses from the show, Genoveva Rossi. But, what was the first film that you made? Was it Day 9?

Tom Ryan: “Yes, Day 9 was my film. It was my first short film that I actually put on public display. I worked on other independent films, but they never made it past my living room VCR. In Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead, I actually met Pat Devaney, the creator of Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead, on the set of a web series called Dead Road and (you can find that on www.deadroad.net) and that’s done by my friend Corrado Gadaleta. Pat gave me the first two seasons of Zombie Hunters to watch and after watching them, I was inspired to write my own zombie short and that kind of launched me into the whole scene.”

                                                                        

               

Marie Gilbert: “Did you ever write for the series Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead?”

Tom Ryan: “No, I never wrote anything for them. What happened was after writing Day 9 and keeping in touch with Pat and the other creative minds behind Zombie Hunters, they actually wrote me into one of the latest episodes of the series; episode ten. They wrote me in as an F.B.I. agent, Sean O’Malley. Yeah, I’ve spent a lot of time with these guys at conventions and festivals and they are a great group of creative guys and that’s my involvement with Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead. It’s a great show, but I had no involvement in the writing of the show and only played an acting role on it.”

Marie Gilbert: “Well, you never know. You might still get a chance to write for the show.”

Tom Ryan: “Yeah, you never know.” Both of us are laughing.

Marie Gilbert: “Can you tell me about the film Faces without giving too much away. I did get to see the trailer you’d sent me and it was very interesting.”
 

Tom Ryan: “I try not to give too much away in the trailer, but what I can say is that Faces is about a fellow named Frank Walker; a man down on his luck, and he’s had a troubled past. He’s either spent some time incarcerated or in a mental institution, but we never clarify that in the film. We kind of leave that up in the air. He’s struggling getting himself back on his feet and he’s not a social butterfly to say the least. He has no friends, no love life, no job and we come into Frank’s life when he’s reaching the breaking point and when he’s not sure how he’s going to make it.

One day Frank runs into Charlie (a local guy who spends a lot of time in the bar with Frank played by Paul Gmitter). Paul is a great character actor and a good friend of mine. Well Charlie follows Frank home from the Pub and spends some time talking to him and, without going into too much detail, Frank’s life changes drastically from the meeting. So the movie kind of takes a rollercoaster ride from here and, something to just hang out there, there is a big part of this film that I’m not telling you about.”

Marie Gilbert: “Really?”

                                                                           

Tom Ryan: “The story that I explained to you now is in and of itself interesting, but when you put in the added dimension I haven’t mentioned, it becomes much more interesting but this is the most that I can say about the film. There is a lot more that happens here.”

Marie Gilbert: “Oh...okay, because when I saw the trailer I was thinking the film was more like a crime drama or a thriller.”

Tom Ryan: “Yes, it’s definitely a thriller. That’s for sure, but like I said it has an added dimension that will make you say, “Wow! I didn’t expect that.” That’s hopefully what people will say when they watch this film; that they didn’t see it coming.”

Marie Gilbert: “You have Joe Parascand in the film and I know that Joe was in Witches’ Blood and The Soulless...”

Tom Ryan: “Yes, the trilogy Mary Horror, Sheriff Tom vs. The Zombies, Witches’ Blood, The Soulless and he’s also going to be appearing in the “Zombie Hunter: City of the Dead” and he just wrapped up in Ryan Scott Weber’s new film Pretty Fine Things. Ryan Scott Weber is also responsible for the Sheriff Tom series.”

Marie Gilbert: “Yes, I did post something on Weber’s Pretty Fine Things.”

Tom Ryan: “Yes, Joe is a busy guy, but unfortunately he’s retiring from acting. I was honored and very appreciative to have Joe as a part of our film because, to me, it was one of Joe’s finest performances. He plays Detective Jack Donnelly in the film that is investigating a series of murders. Joe did an awesome job and the film wouldn’t have been the same without him and, in fact, when I wrote the part; I had Joe in mind. We had a great match up there and he was awesome.”

Marie Gilbert: “I recognize another actor in your film, Edward X Young.”

Tom Ryan: “Yep, Edward X Young is probably best known for Mr. Hush and another film called Green Monster. He has extensive experience in independent films and if you look at his IMDb page, you’ll see all the films he has been in like the Sheriff Tom films. Ed was great. I met Ed on the convention and festival circuits and he is a fine actor. In, Faces, what he brought to the character, Henry Benson, he just legitimized the character.

 It was great to see what he did with the character because I think he really enjoyed this different type of demand on his acting. In a lot of his films he plays an over the top and in your face type of character, but in this film he plays a kind of sneering type of business man and he just did such a fantastic job.

We also had Deana Demko, who has done a ton of independent films and she also appeared in Witches Blood. A lot of these guys crossed paths in the past. Bradley Creanzo, who did Bible Belt Slasher 1 & 2 and is working on a new film called Case at Midnight which he is producing. We have Tom Schorr, another guy from Zombie Hunters and then I had a couple of newcomers to the scene, Jason Greco and Andrew La Bruno who played big parts in the film. Andrew also contributed some of his soundtrack music to the film.

Yeah, we had just a great lineup of people, great talents and a lot of people familiar to the independent scene, but they played roles that where a little bit different than they are used to being cast in. I thought it was great for them and it was definitely great for the film.”

Marie Gilbert: “I’m a big supporter of Independent Films because to me, I feel that there is more freedom in the type of films that are made. As a director and writer how do you like being an independent artist?”

Tom Ryan: “I feel the same way. There is a freedom and I can give you a great example. With our Theatre of Terror Production Company, we don’t do the Indie Go-Go, or the Kickstarter Campaign fund; we fund our own films. This allows us a lot of freedom because people have asked me about raising money before and I’ve always felt like I didn’t want my hands tied by the investors.

I want to know that if my movie stinks, I can stop production on it and no one loses a dime for this except me. I want to know that everything that I do in the film is based on what I want to do and not based on having to satisfy an agreement with people that have contributed money to the film. So, right now I’m in that rare level where I can fund my own films and do what I want to do, cast who I want to cast and it’s wonderful and it makes the experience a lot of fun. It’s fun in general, but because of the lack of restrictions or the lack of demands, the artistic freedom is limitless.”

Marie Gilbert: “You’re calling the shots.”

Tom Ryan: “Yeah and I think I’m easy to work with and that makes it fun too.” Laughing, “I don’t stress anyone out.”

Marie Gilbert: “Laughing, I’d think that important. Now before I ask you about your music, when will the film come out? Will it premiere at first with the Theatre of Terror in December or at the Macabre Faire Film Festival in January?”

Tom Ryan: “Actually, the film has already premiered at the Landmark Loews Theater in Jersey City on October 10^th. The Landmark Loews is a beautiful theatre and it was a great location to have the film premiere and we had a great turnout of over two hundred people. It was a big success. After that, we had a screening West Jersey at the Little Chop of Horrors. We had a small screening there and then most recently, Faces screened at Grindhouse Nights at Café Z in Union, New Jersey. That’s an event where they screen independent films, either shorts or features and we had the pleasure of being there on the screen with a couple of other great films like Cleric and Infliction. We had a great response to the film and now the big event is coming up with the Macabre Faire Film Festival which is a part of the New York Horror Show. That’s running January 16, 17^th and 18^th at the Upsky Hotel in Hauppauge, New York. Saturday the 17^th at 6 p.m. in Room # 3 you can see Faces screening there. We’ll have a vendor’s table all weekend and we’ll be selling Faces DVD’s, Vlad the Inhaler CD’s, tee-shirts and posters.”

                                                                    

Marie Gilbert: “I’ll make sure people know this. Are there ever any agents or big studios that come to the Macabre Faire because it’s such a big event? If you’re showing your film an outside studio can approach you, right?”

Tom Ryan: “Yeah, right but I think with these festivals or conventions, it would mostly be a distribution companies. That is basically the extent of it. I don’t think you’ll run into anybody that’s...I could be wrong of course; I haven’t met everybody, but I don’t think you’ll run into anybody from Miramax or Universal that will say, “Hey I just saw your film in room #3.” Although, that would be great, but those types of opportunities come with exposure. If I can get this film a lot of exposure and a lot of coverage then it could lead to opportunities like you mentioned.”

Marie Gilbert: “Well, I’m hoping that my blog will do just that and, I’ll promote the film on Facebook and Twitter.”

Tom Ryan: “Thank you.”

Marie Gilbert: “I’ve been promoting Chris Eilenstine and Ryan Scott Weber with their films and it is my pleasure to help independent writers, directors and I like the independent films because of the freedom and the larger selections of genre offered so I will be promoting you. But now, I want to ask you about your band.”

                                                                           

Tom Ryan: “Yes, the band is “Vlad the Inhaler” and it’s a heavy rock band. We’re all heavy metal fans back since we were teenagers in the 80’s. Our band is definitely on the harder rock edge, but just like our films, we have a lot of creative freedom and one thing that we learned over the years is that we don’t like to get pigeon holed in a particular genre. So, if we’re not doing fast heavy riffs we’re not the band we want to be and that’s just not true. We just want to write songs that we like. Because of our influences we are going to write heavy stuff, but there are going to be times when we write something mellow, groovy, reggae, punk rock or whatever because we have a lot of freedom with what we write, but our music does have a heavy edge.”

Marie Gilbert: “You have a studio album out called “The Human Infection.”

Tom Ryan: “The Human Infection is an eleven song CD, all original music. The album has a flow to it and there is a lot of variety of music to hear on there.”

Marie Gilbert: “Is there anything you want to say to fans about the upcoming CD?”

                                                                   

Tom Ryan: “The band right now is in the process of writing new music for the next album and we don’t have any gigs planned right now, but anyone can feel free to contact us via Facebook or on our website which is vladtheinhaler.com. Check out the music and we are still selling CD’s and other merchandise of sale too.”

Marie Gilbert: “Did you use any of your music in Faces?”

Tom Ryan: “Yes, the film Faces is based on one of our songs and that song appears in the film along with another song, “I Don’t Need”. We also have some music in the film provided by Sylvia Platypus which is a great band and they were nice enough to lend us a couple of songs from their first album. We also have music from some good friends of mine called “Polyabuse” so we have some good offerings in Faces as far as music goes.

Marie Gilbert: “It’s been a pleasure talking to you.”

Tom Ryan: “Same here.”

Okay my little zombie snacks, if you have a chance try to go to the Macabre Faire on January 17^th and head to room # 3 at 6 p.m. to see Faces and tell Tom, Steampunk Granny sent you.

Did You Hear the News?

                                             
                                                             

                                  There's a new film about zombies?


                                                          

                           The Soulless

The Soulless is directed by Christopher Eilenstein, produced by Bob Cleary, Stephen Hirsekom and Russ Bucci and stars Jason Propst, Jennifer Teska, Kaylin Iannone, Joe Parascand, Michael Chartier, Jeff Caplan, Genoveva Rossi, and Edward X Young.


                                                               

              Forget everything you've ever known about the living dead....

                                             The Rules have changed


                                                               

                       

Pretty Fine Things

                                                         

My friend Ryan Scott Weber is doing a kickstarter for a new picture called Pretty Fine Things. One of the stars is a good friend of mine, Joe Parascand and he shared a synopsis with me on what the movie would be about. Check it out and then check out the information for the Kickstarter. Tell Ryan that Steampunk Granny sent you.

                                                           
                                                                        

Synopsis: When the search for a missing girl turns up empty, her friends encounter 3 serial killers that may be involved in her disappearance. Joe Parascand, Edward X Young, and Patrick Devaney will play the 3 serial killers who are brothers in this film. It will be the first time that all 3 of them will be together in the same scenes in any given project. Joe has been most known for the Mary Horror/Sheriff Tom trilogy as well as another trilogy of films called THE SOULLESS. Edward has been known for over 60 films, including Mr. Hush and the Green Monster.

                                                            

He has also had great roles in Sheriff Tom vs the Zombies, Witches Blood, and Zombies Incorporated - all Ryan Scott Weber projects. Patrick has been most known for his web series, Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead (filming of episode 11 for this series should be this fall and Joe will have a role in it), his short film, Aemorraghe, and he, too, has had great roles in Sheriff Tom vs Zombies, Witches' Blood, and Zombies Incorporated. Add to the above the facts that you'll see some creepy twists and turns and wind up with a dark film that will be as fun to watch as Ryan, his cast, and crew will have had making it.                                                                         

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Ryan Scott Weber

Phone: (908) 644-8712

Email: weberpicturescompany@gmail.com

 

Anticipated NEW FILM from

RYAN SCOTT WEBER

‘PRETTY FINE THINGS’

LAUNCHES ON KICKSTARTER

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanscottweber/pretty-fine-things

Weber Pictures Company has announced a fundraising Campaign on Kickstarter.com for its

new film, PRETTY FINE THINGS.

Planned to all be filmed in New Jersey in October of 2014.

From Ryan Scott Weber, the writer and director of the 'Mary Horror Trilogy’ comes the

horror/suspense thriller 'Pretty Fine Things'!  When the search for a missing girl turns up

empty, her friends decide to take matters into their own hands, but what they encounter is

much more than they bargained for.

Owner Ryan Scott Weber (Born February 24, 1980) is an American film director, screenwriter,

producer, cinematographer, actor, editor and musician.  Ryan Scott Weber has had his films

spotlighted at the biggest Horror convention on the east coast: CHILLER THEATRE!  All three of

Weber's films have screened to SOLD OUT crowds at CHILLER THEATRE and Weber has also been

one of their featured guests.  The extent of what Weber has done in the last three years is

extravagant.  He has completed three feature films each for under 5,000 dollars, a TV series, and a

short film.  It’s amazing what can be done with a budget this small.  Weber Pictures Company and Atomic

Kid Productions is located in Bernardsville, New Jersey.  Weber also plays the drums and

previously released two albums with the Trustkill Records Band Crash Romeo with the first being in 2006 and the other in 2008.

 

Weber has a distinctive directorial style.  He manages to make what appear to be big budget movies for little money.  Weber’s first feature film, Mary Horror, was released in 2012 with the sequel, Sheriff

Tom Vs. the Zombies, released in 2013.  The final installment, Witches Blood, and the short film, The Legend of Zeke, were released in early 2014.

 

“We are ready to take Weber Pictures Company to the next level by making a film with a proper

budget, which will allow it to become the best one possible.” 

 

Other conventions that Weber has attended are Monster Mania, Philly Comic Con, BizarreAC, and Parafest, to name a few. Weber's second film, Sheriff Tom Vs.The Zombies, was also a selection of The NJHORRORFEST in New Jersey and MACABRE FAIRE FILM FESTIVAL in Long Island. "We are at a point now where we are ready to make something really great" said Weber about his newest film, Pretty Fine Things.

 

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on Twitter via @Weberpictures, @ryanscottweber to stay involved.  Tell friends, co-workers and

classmates!  Be apart of Indie Horror history. . www.weberpicturescompany.com

 

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For additional information, please contact Ryan Scott Weber at maryhorror@gmail.com