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Doctor 1313		#161	[-]
Jul 25 11 9:40 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Ted. I will continue to update as interesting things happen. Or don't. Looking forward to meeting you at the New Beverly when your film screens! DOCTOR 13
Doctor 1313		#162	[-]
Aug 3 11 9:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A few tidbits: The film is playing Aug. 11th-14th at the Carolina Theater in Durham as part of the North Carolina LGBT Film Festival. Then, it plays at The Birch North Park Theater on Aug. 26th as part of the FilmOut San Diego Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The next screening will be in Alabama at the Birmingham Shout! Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on Aug. 27th! Our last currently schedule showing will be in Chicago as part of the Reeling Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, sometime in November between the 3rd and the 12th. We just secured international distribution, also through Breaking Glass Pictures, and we got a GREAT deal! The last chunk of news I have to share is that is has been confirmed: Breaking Glass Pictures will release BITE MARKS on dvd on November 15th! DOCTOR 13
Doctor 1313		#163	[-]
Sep 2 11 9:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay, let's catch up: The movie played for three showings at the Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina. One showing was cancelled when a drunk driver in a pickup crashed into a power transformer that blacked out the entire downtown area for the night! But the three screenings were a success, I was told. After that, it played last weekend in San Diego, California at the Birch North Park Theater. This was a grand night. We had the most cast members in attendance for the Q&A, including David Alanson, making his first festival appearance. The movie played on the biggest screen it's ever been shown, and there were about one hundred people there. They loved it, including applauding at the demise of one of the vampires. That had never happened before. Lots of praise afterward from the audience members and other filmmakers who were there. The next morning, actor Benjamin Lutz and myself flew to Birmingham for the film's screening at the Red Mountain Cabaret Theater. This was an odd venue. Obviously, a stage theatrical space, the film was projected onto a screen hanging at the back of the stage. The place was almost three-quarters full, with more women there than I'd ever seen in attendance. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in the projection of the movie, which muted its reds and was a bit too dark, making parts of it hard to see. The audience was very responsive, however, and I finally got caught on a point of vehicular inaccuracy that I wasn't aware of when filming but later hoped no one would notice. That streak ended when three guys in the crowd began laughing at something the junkyard owner said that was, of course, incorrect. Oh well, it was bound to happen. The Q&A after the show was awesome. Some new questions, some flattering remarks and more praise than we've ever received. It was a great night, especially the after-party later, where I spent a delightful couple of hours conversing with some female horror fans (although when I asked one of them to tell me the oldest horror movie she'd seen, she replied "SESSION 9!"). Lately, we've been rejected by festivals in Austin, New Orleans and Rochester, but accepted in Tampa, Barcelona and Bern. Chicago is still the gleaming jewel in the future for me, going back to the town I lived in during my film school days. I'm pulling together the materials for the dvd release on November 15th, and Breaking Glass Pictures is giving us a pretty free hand as far as the film's packaging. I'll fill you all as things progress! DOCTOR 13
bgart13.thelatarniaforums		#164	[-]
Sep 2 11 6:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Look what I found! http://www.amazon.com/Bit...8&qid=1315005414&sr=1-25 Kundun Rat Terrier: 8/16/02 - 3/26/11. RIP, Ku.
GaryP11111		#165	[-]
Sep 2 11 8:55 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Cool! Pre-ordered! GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 8-3-09)
Doctor 1313		#166	[-]
Sep 3 11 9:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	AWESOME! I didn't even know it was on Amazon yet! Thanks Bgart 13! DOCTOR 13
Doctor 1313		#167	[-]
Oct 19 11 7:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay, we're winding down the festival circuit with final shows: Oct. 20th: Reel Affirmations Washington, D.C. Oct. 23rd: Dark Carnival Film Festival Bloomington, IN Oct. 27th: Gay Charlotte Film Series Charlotte, NC Oct. 28th: The Carolina Theater Durham, NC Nov. 5th: The Barcelona Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Barcelona, Spain Nov. 11th: Queersicht Bern, Switzerland Nov. 11th: Reeling: the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Chicago, IL Nov. 13th: The Indianapolis Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Indianapolis, IN Nov. 25th: Florence ##%$% Festival Florence, Italy Recently, we played the Porland G&L Film Festival. The crowd was sparse and quiet, but the Q&A was lively. Last weekend, we screened at the Tampa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and it was a blast! The theater was a grand old venue built in 1927. We had a crowd of about 200 people and they loved it! They laughed and screamed and gasped...it was so much fun! Definitely one of the best audiences and fests I'd been to recently. I signed off on the dvd wrap with Breaking Glass Pictures and the movie should be released on Nov. 15th. And just today, I got confirmation that porn starlet Krystal Main, who plays Chickula, will attend the Chicago screening! More to come! DOCTOR 13
Doctor 1313		#168	[-]
Nov 15 11 4:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Catching up: The Chicago screening was a blast. The film was shown at the Portage Theater, a big old movie theater that was quite grand. I met with the projectionist beforehand to go over the sound levels and intro'd the movie to an audience of about 40-50 people. Krystal Main was there, as were actors Benjamin Lutz and John Werskey. The Q&A afterward was a lot of fun, with Krystal getting to meet and greet some of her fans and talk about her experiences making the movie. Afterward, all of us, including Krystal's husband and THE LOVE PATIENT director Michael Simon headed over to Sidetrack, a video bar, for a few drinks. Two days later, my husband Cliff and I drove a rental car down to Indianapolis, making a stop at Kokomo along the way to check out a location for an upcoming production. The Indianapolis screening was almost sold out, but unfortunately, was disappointing in that the venue was a classroom with (admittedly comfortable) plastic chairs, a poor projection system that squeezed my 16:9 frame into a 4:3, two floor-to-ceiling windows that allowed too much light in and no one seemingly with a clue as to how to fix any of the problems. But the crowd still liked it a lot, and several of the Indiana cast got to come up front for the Q&A, so I'm sure they were happy. The people behind the festival were very nice, but they just didn't seem to grasp the idea of tech checks and getting potential problems done BEFOREHAND. Finally, TODAY is the release day for BITE MARKS on dvd! It is in stock at Amazon.com, amongst other places, and I hope you all check it out. Unless something major happens, this will be my last entry on the film. Thanks to all of you for following along with my travels here, and for the kind words of encouragement. DOCTOR 13
Doctor 1313		#169	[-]
Nov 30 11 4:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One more thing: for my friends here on the CHFB...if you want to buy a copy of my movie, go to www.breakingglasspictures.com, click on the Horror button and when you order BITE MARKS, enter *bitemarks* in the code box and receive an additional $7.00 off the price! Enjoy! DOCTOR 13
GaryP11111		#170	[-]
Jan 3 12 3:28 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I received my copy of BITE MARKS from Amazon.com on its street date and watched it that same evening. The wonderful animated credit sequence made me smile and instantly placed me into just the right mood for a horror/comedy show. With engaging characters, gruesome vampires and witty and ribald repartee BITE MARKS is a thoroughly professional production that looks a good deal more expensive than it cost to make. The plot structure is almost farcical and reminds me of what a Georges Feydeau French farce might look like if it were made with a gay sensibility. And vampires. But there is such generous character development that it precludes BITE MARKS from being rigidly placed in the situational confines of farce. And it is this balance of character development and situation that enables BITE MARKS to transcend the genre limitations of a gay vampire movie. I think BITE MARKS is a fun movie (especially) for couples be they gay or straight. The plot is concise: two gay men on a cross-country hike to grow closer as a couple hitch a ride with a semi and soon find themselves in a junkyard at night trapped inside the broken down cab with the good ol' boy driver, menaced by the occupants of the coffins in the cargo trailer. There is a dose of irony in that the male lead that I thought would undergo the biggest character arc didn't change that much while the character that I assumed would remain hopelessly the same evolved more than he ever could have imagined. Lest you think this mini review suggests BITE MARKS sacrifices frights for laughs, it constantly reminds the viewer that it is a horror film. The vampires are brutish and hungry with maws encrusted with cruor and the moonlit shine of fresh blood. These vampires don't sparkle, though the performances of the cast and especially the principal leads do. BITE MARKS also introduces a novel concept to vampire lore that actually kept me guessing at some plot points and made the movie interesting on a higher level that most low-budget films. And speaking of novel concepts BITE MARKS introduces an entirely new improvised anti-vampire tactic that completely cracked me up. I really enjoyed BITE MARKS and hope more CHFBers find a place for this DVD in their collections. Mark, you made a good movie. GARY L. PRANGE "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectos nunc." Check out my YouTube Video of the Week! (updated 8-3-09) Last Edited By: GaryP11111 Jan 3 12 4:06 PM. Edited 3 times.
Doctor 1313		#171	[-]
Jan 10 12 9:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gary, thank you SO much for the kind, kind words! I truly appreciate the review. Sales are strong and holding steady, with the movie having recently appeared on Blockbuster.com rental and streaming and due to appear on iTunes soon. Floating on Cloud 9... DOCTOR 13 Last Edited By: Doctor 1313 Jan 10 12 9:41 AM. Edited 1 times.
Doctor 1313		#172	[-]
Jan 26 12 2:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Prefer digital media? BITE MARKS is now on iTunes! DOCTOR 13
Dr Acula		#173	[-]
Apr 8 12 12:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Finally caught up to Bite Marks not two hours ago, and here are my thoughts: - cool lowbudget horror that doesn't look lowbudget except for one scene: the near crash that had to be suggested due to not wanting to cause an accident. It's very minor, and overall the film looks better than most low-budget flicks and you'd think it cost $10 million - the vamps are pretty cool and have a different look than others in the genre, so much so that I'm not really sure if we ever truly saw the vampire per se.. I don't want say TOO much about how they are developed, but like Gary P said some scenes had me guessing and it was interesting to see how things worked out... to tease, the dragging scene had me thinking one thing, and the reveal of what was happening made sense in a cool way! Plus the caskets... - I felt like the main couple weren't belivable at first, but about 20 minutes in I got their relationship and it made sense. In fact, I was worried that there was more chemistry between Brewster and the YouTube-loving guy, but in the end the main guys were more real, maybe because we got to see more of their relationship revealed in action while dealing with vamps. Also, the younger guy "YouTube" seemed more like a self-obsessed jerk at the beginning but in the end he came across as still caring & even heroic, whereas the older guy "CameraMan" came across more sensitve and caring at the beginning and end, but towards the middle he was too jealous and whiney. - Truck driver dude was pretty comedic - It was interesting to see Evil Ed again on screen - Stephen G still has it, and got some good lines too - Chickula and the waitress were hot - thanks for the nudity! - the title sequence was a hoot! - Nice horror fan speak throughout the film Kudos to the production, and I hope to see more horror flicks emerging from Doctor 1313!
Doctor 1313		#174	[-]
Apr 9 12 6:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Dr. Acula! Much appreciated! And in regards to the nudity...I thought there should be something for everybody! lol DOCTOR 13 Last Edited By: Doctor 1313 Apr 10 12 8:32 AM. Edited 1 times.
Doctor 1313		#175	[-]
Apr 16 12 1:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, we didn't win a Rondo, but we DID win the TLA Video Gaybies Award for Best Gay Thriller! Huzzah! DOCTOR 13

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