The Breathing Dead Show Episode 9 Splatter Genre

This episode touches on the splatter genre, blood and boobs...

A pressured question by Twilight fans & cultists. Are Vampires real?!

Hundreds of bodies have been found and recovered from peat wetlands across Northern Europe. The earliest finds recorded date back to the 18th Century. The unique chemistry of peat bogs essentially mummifies bodies. That said, a body being found encased in ice is quite rare especially one that is around 500 years old. Please read  the article for more information.

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Due to the location of the find, the heart of The Carpathian Mountains Romania, it has sparked rumours that this body may indeed be that of a vampire. Pressured for a response by Twilight/Buffy fans and alleged blood cultists one Archaeologist joked stating, "Well when we thaw him out, we'll soon find out..."

Blood Hunger is out now.

Audiobook on iTunes

Here come the girls! Why Lucia Ferrara is no Bella Swan or Mina Harker.

What have Underworld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Van Helsing got in common? No not girl power. Answer: Heroines.

Where does Lucia Ferrara fit in this feisty bunch, amongst a love struck teenager similar to Twilight's Bella Swan? Kick-ass characters like Buffy, Selene and Anna Valerious. A damsel in distress, Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker as in the tradition of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. Lucia is like none of the above...

What she has got in common is that she's a fictional character, a heroine who finds herself in an extraordinary and dangerous situations faced with deadly choices. She's an everyday woman, just like you. No super powers, no desire to become a vampire, no longing to marry Jonathan Harker. She pouts and snorts when she laughs. Her problems are balancing her work, health, friends, relationships, men and family.

Trading in Zumba, aerobics classes every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday for something a little tougher like Kalaripayat or sparing sessions, she likes to keep herself in shape. Despite being beautiful, with the looks of her mother (who she tragically lost to cancer) and celebrities Alyssa Milano and Mila Kunis, she still feels self-conscience and insecure about herself.

Lucia Grace Ferrara went to a public school and then Goldsmith University, London picking up a BA (Hons) in English and American Literature. After the death of her father she has only his friend and her godfather Robert Morgan to look out for her and her boyfriend Max to rely on. However, this is her greatest flaw thinking she needs a man in her life to make her feel strong,(a replacement for her deceased father?).

That said, her life changes when Max makes a find that puts him on the cover of  the tabloids and she gets an unwanted slice of fame. She meets a captivating, woman named Iliana in a museum and soon Lucia is drawn into a world of mystery and deception. It's it not long after this 'chance' encounter that she is implicated in a murder and has Adrian Michaels a D.I. contacting her to be questioned. Little does she know that a frozen body her mountaineering boyfriend has discovered is linked to this enigmatic woman and she instinctively knows that something is not quite right.

Encounters at the museums, several invitations, a masque ball, an outdoor music show and lavish dinners entwined with death, mutation and infatuation and she finds herself in a web of deceit within a rabbit hole.And her life is turned upside down when she meets a man named Stellan.

Lucia is given an old book which gives her an insight to who's body has been found and who this woman may really be. Soon she finds herself questioning her sanity and decisions as these strangers offer so much and ask for so little. Before long she is forced to go head to head with Iliana, her sisters and even Stellan. It increasing becomes difficult to remove herself from the dreamlike, perilous, situations and locations she finds herself in.

With the Blood Hunger film in development there are endless actresses that would make the perfect Lucia Ferrara, personally I like the idea of Jaime Murray, but casting direction was never my forté,  who would you chose?

Are there any elements of  Bella, Selene or Mina in Lucia, that's for the reader of Blood Hunger to decide. One thing is for sure, Lucia maybe the most unlikely of characters to have ever faced and uncovered real evil...

Blood Hunger is out now.

Audiobook on iTunes

Confessions of a film scribe and author

Well the start of 2011 has been very blog lite! 

Basically after one illness after another (boo, hoo get that man a hanky). I've done very little. That isn't to say I haven't done anything. 

So where are we? Sean P. Parson's Terminus is doing modestly well in the USA video on demand market.  Alternative pet project The Breathing  Show gains momentum. Independent films Terminus, Bear Scary and Revamped have been entered into several 2011 film festivals, their screening fate yet to be decided.

That said, it's less about making money and moving onto the bigger projects, it's about art, creativity, myself, my collected collaborators and the viewers experience.

 A person once said to me, "I'll speak to you when your famous." My answer was direct, "I don't think so, I can't measure fame, only success." It's a fickle and superficial world, I feel almost unspoiled living a corner of the world that is farthest from, but also out of the buzz, and pulse of where it's all happening it has it's pros and cons.

Anyone that knows me, will tell you I'm a self confessed film addict, music lover and horror fan. My first website was dubbed the 'quirky to turkey' film reviews. I regularly write reviews on IMDB. Not to practice writing, (although some may say need it) but because a hour and a half or so of my life has past me by as the credits roll and I'd like to have something good or bad to show for it. 

I simply adore motion pictures, and the work and effort that goes into them. A short stay in Elstree studios solidified this for me.   From B-films to blockbusters, I love them. The more atmospheric the better but it cant be any old pap. It has to have flare, a je ne sais quoi. 

In broad terms everthing is about the money, dollar, pound,it's a big business indie or not. As much as I like some remakes, I can help but feel it's creatively lazy, that said remakes have been around for a long-time, nearly a long as film itself, one and not the first was as early as 1904, The Great Train Robbery. But for me the best remakes are the ones that go back to the origin, the conception and/or original source material, if its based on a book etc. or take the essence of the original and turn it into something new, yet it does not necessarily have to be something better, just something as special.For example, Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Ten Commandments; Dawn of the Dead; Fistful of Dollars, Little Shop of Horrors;The Crazies to name a few.

 

I wont comment on the flurry and mixed production values of Japanese horror remakes, I'll leave alone the films that are remade in less than two years of release because most don't want to read subtitles.  I won't mention the bad ones, ultimately everyone has their own opinions and taste. But the soulless ones can be sniffed out and found in a bargain bucket somewhere. And I feel the same about sequels, no one wants a rehash of the first, but it pains me when a sequel disregards the ideas of the predecessor or changes the concept into an uber version, just for the sake of showing us something new. We vested time in the characters we want to see them continuing in 'that' world, or develop further. I don't wanna see them become something they are not.

Don't stick a jetpack on Darth Vader or put Lawrence of Arabia in a BMW. The extreme I know but you understand  what I mean right? 

I digress, while I have been poorly it's given me a chance to reflect on my work, I find it hard to juggle my writing with my film work. And like my love of films the same can be said for writing, James Herbert did for my writing what Elstree did for my film calling.  They go hand in hand but are very different beasts. I've recently have been commissioned to write a book based on a true crime, I can't say too much but it's a horrific, brutal and violent contemporary story. I also have Dead Pulse coming out later this year, a zombie tale. If truth be told I'm nervous and reluctant for it's release, don't get me wrong I have confidence in the story but the market has been saturated, and sometimes ideas seem to be in the air and comparisons can easily be drawn. Nevertheless, Dead Pulse is what it is, a zombie story many years in the making and I hope it will be enjoyed by it's intended hardcore audience. 

Blood Hunger is out there available to the public and critics, it seems to have been well received. I was asked in a radio interview how do you feel about critics, if truth be known no one likes negative criticism, especially when it's clear they haven't even read or seen your film. That aside I laugh at these bull shitters who say it doesnt bother them, I agree though, some constructive criticism is healthy, it helps you improve but if you're a newbie filmmaker and or a writer and  you'd like some advice on the subject don't put yourself out there if you can't take the flak. And certainly don't rush something out if it's not ready.

Well that was rumour control, those were the facts, this is A. M. signing off until the next time...

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