Just a terrible coincidence…

Here we have my most recent film, or short, or, in this case, trailer, or even more appropriately, teaser trailer, one for a little film I’m thinking about making with my chums, The Creeps.

In case it hasn’t caught your eye yet, this here is an homage to 80s horror and science fiction films, the kinds that you could watch while getting drunk with your friends, for all the shits and the giggles. I’m not giving anyone any ideas, but…well, watch it the way you like.

While I don’t want to spoil any of the ideas that we have floating around, I will give some of the basic details, as well as some of the films that inspired this one. It’s (basically) about three friends hanging out playing video games when suddenly an other-worldly being comes across their backyard. The friends check it out, and sure enough, it’s craving human flesh. The friends must come together to stop the alien from spreading any further from their comfy patio, or soon enough, the world will have unwitting terror unleashed upon it. So, to sum it all up, you have a movie with not only aliens, but zombies, deformations, laser guns, 80s music, and of course, some good ol’ ass-kicking.

Naturally, the first movie, at least for me, that comes to mind is Monster Squad, just because it’s that kind of movie that kind of mixes things up. It’s a horror movie at heart, but it’s also a comedy, a science-fiction, a bro-mance, and of course, drama. I was joking about that last part by the way. And it’s also just supposed to be a fun, enjoyable film that, while it’s a silly pop corn flick, has a Spielbergian heart deep down inside. The second influence that comes to mind is The Evil Dead. While that doesn’t really show too much in the trailer, believe me, if there weren’t so many god damn restraints in making this thing (this was a school project, so you can imagine that we had some limitations), it would’ve been a blood bath. Of course, there are also those slasher films of the time, Dead Alive/Brain Dead, Laser Blast, Fright Night, American Werewolf In London, all that good stuff, which, again, doesn’t quite show here, but if we manage to make this thing happen, we’ll get as much craziness as possible in there. In the words of Eva Gabor: Olivahh, sweetheart, dahlink. It’s time for ze hotscakes and whats-it. 

Okay, to start things off, let’s put up a little drawing, some doodles. Hey, how about Space Jockeys. I love me my Space Jockeys. Just what are they, you might ask? No one knows…but I’ll settle for intergalactic elephant beast with a heart of gold any day. Just to kind of explain my artistic stylings, you’ll notice immediately that I use cross-hatching and shading similar to that of 60’s drug-induced comic artist Robert Crumb. He’s one of my major influences, and has definitely had an impact on my style for the past while now, even if my drawings aren’t nearly as ridiculously cartoonish (or as contrastingly vulgar) as his back in his hey-day. Another little fact here, I don’t usually do preliminary sketches, if any at all. I’ll usually just take my 0.05 pen and get to work, as is the case here. Sure, that doesn’t work out like I want all the time, but it still works damn fine, in my opinion. Any-who, take a gander.