wtf?
is this?
shareI'm not entirely sure.
shareme either i was wondering if i was having a bad trip.
shareMe too.
I had to check my weed and see if it had been sprayed with something.
Apparently it is a slasher spoof. I just read some mention of it in another site.
Cheers mate!
Hey all!
Yes, it's a campy horror spoof about a group of friends who make the clueless and ill-fated decision to drive up to Maine to the lake where Stephen King lives. It's screening this Thursday at the Cannes Film Market in France, represented by our sales agent, Camelot Entertainment Group. Fingers crossed that soon we have wide distribution. :)
Thanks for your support!
-Monroe Mann, one of the producer/directors
ROMP ON! MEET YOU AT THE TOP!
-Monroe Mann
Loco Dawn Films, LLC
Yes, it's a campy horror spoof about a group of friends who make the clueless and ill-fated decision to drive up to Maine to the lake where Stephen King lives.
And it could be the first slasher/horror film ever made where the three leading ladies weren't naked throughout most of the film. There was even a shower scene where they managed to avoid showing naked boobs! Maybe that's because one of the young ladies was also wardrobe assistant :-)
BTW Got a couple of laughs out of the credits. Thanks :-) share
I'm all for LOW BUDGET but if you want anyome to care you need to hire a REAL WRITER to make the movie FUNNY...Do you understand that word????
FUNNY!
It doesn't cost much...
Do you know how much CLERKS AND CABIN FEVER COST?????
LESS THAN A MILLI0N!!!!
Those movies started the careers of Kevin Simth and Eli Roth. Your movie will never be seen by more than a thousand people. And the few people that see if are either YOUR PEOPLE or honest people like myself.
Your people will kiss your @ss and tell you what you want to hear...
GUESS WHAT THE HONEST PEOPLE WILL SAY?
YOU'RE SCREWED. HIRE A REAL WRITER NEXT TIME.
Well this seems unnecessarily harsh. "Hire a real writer." What's a "real writer" to you? Someone who publishes under a pseudonym (like Pakabola) so no one will know his or her true identity and can then spew whatever foul nonsense he or she wishes? Or maybe it's someone who doesn't bother to check his spelling before submitting a post and winds up spelling words like "anyome" and spelling Kevin Smith's last name wrong and writing "if" when you actually mean "it" or not writing AND in lower case when mentioning two movie titles giving the impression "CLERKS AND CABIN FEVER COST" is the name of one film.
The writers I worked with ARE "real writers." We know comedy (one is a professional stand up comic and I've done professional improv).
We all start someplace (check Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Frank Darabont for what they started in). This is a starting point for us and we did a marvelous job on this film.
You may not like the film, and that's fine, you're welcome to your opinion, but when you say "hire a real writer" you better have your facts straight. Otherwise, you come off looking like a douche bag.
Sincerely,
Bob Madia
proud "real" writer on YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING
Bob, I enjoyed your movie but sadly I happen to have the same name as some one who knows you guys. And there is one guy that is really intent on proving that I am the albino guy.... Lol while I am a ginger Irish boy I am not the albino guy. Have a great day and good job on the movie! DWH
shareI agree with your comment on "real writers" and all. I even sort of liked your little thing. You should be proud of what you made and give credits to the people that contributed.
What does set wrong with me is the repeated and self proclaimed professionalism (we are real writers, we know comedy) and succes (we did a marvelous job) on this. As I stated in another thread (look for it, there aren't too many) I am not much for comedy, horror or Stephen King, yet pretty much liked this film. And that is fine that way. Have other people say you did good.
Ow and regarding the 1000 people view this comment: there are 408 people who rated the movie. For "The Shawshank redemption" there were over 1 million. Maybe we can extrapolate the number of views for this based on SR. I am pretty sure it is well over a thousand. I must agree the guy writing that (along with the things you pointed out) in fact IS a douche bag.
Hate I say it, but man you are royally butthurt. If you can't handle some negativity in regards to your terrible movie, then you aren't gonna last long in the business.
shareWe most certainly can handle negativity. Heck, I've been a writer for over thirty years. No formal education. Everything I learned about the biz I learned on my own and some of it the hard way, so I know about rejection and negativity. But I still don't think YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING is a terrible movie. Sure, you're entitled to your opinion and I will respect your thoughts because everyone is different and not everyone is gonna like this movie. What I don't understand is why people have to make this seem like some kind of personal affront to themselves as viewers. We made a movie we wanted to see. We didn't ask viewers ahead of time what they wanted in the movie so we could please them. This movie was made to please us and honor a man who's been scaring and moving us emotionally for decades. I think we achieved that.
That's in defense of YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING.
I have done other movies and I've seen the results. I am not happy with all of them. I agree with "critics" who don't like them and I can see where the films went wrong (i.e. poor casting, script changes I didn't approve, etc.), but I don't go around telling people these are still good movies when I don't think they are. I do think YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING is a good movie.
This is to everyone else out there. You might want to check my listing on IMDB. I don't go around dishing out bad reviews to every film I've seen that I don't like. Hell, I hated TITANIC and that won Best Picture. I was upset that SHAWSHANK didn't beat out FORREST GUMP. But I'm not on those pages ripping the filmmakers a new one because they're views don't jive with mine.
Try and find a negative review I've written. I know how hard it is to get a movie made (even a short film). I think that if someone put in the effort (and time and money and blood, sweat and tears) to get a movie made that they wanted to see made, they should get some credit for doing the near impossible. So to all of you guys who only want to dump on those of us seeing some success, let's see what you got. Instead of hiding behind your email ID's or your nom du plumes (I probably spelled that wrong trying to be fancy), come out into the sunlight and show us what you've done. Let us judge you.
Some of these strings show no more courage than a brick thrown through a window in the dark of night.
Anyone interested in accepting this challenge can reply here or to my personal email at [email protected]. I will respond to everyone who identifies him/herself.
Respectfully,
Bob Madia
co-screenwriter for YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING (among other films)
There are definitely some problems with the script, but I would not say that the writers here were not "REAL WRITER's. The script shows promise, although I think a few more drafts could have tightened it up a bit.
You compare this to the movies that launched Kevin Smith and Eli Roth. Why so much bile for an indie film not being a genre-busting homerun hit? Those are few and far between. This was a very competent effort, by a crew who show serious promise. The comedy hit fairly well for me, as did the "spoof" aspects.
I'm not associated with the film at all, just saw it (as a sort of palate-cleanser after watching In the Dark which actually did have some severe script problems IMHO, although to be fair it was a Lifetime movie so you knew it would be bad before turning it on). So, get some perspective. Not everyone who disagrees with you is "on the take" from this low-budget movie's crew.