This Friday night, October 24, will be the premiere of “Slade Collins & The Tree of Life” by MAD ANGEL FILMS at The ROME CAPITAL THEATER in Rome, NY. I play the role of Czar in this. Doors open at 7 PM and the movie starts at 8 PM. Admission is $10. For more info, visit their event page via the link below.
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR PREMIERE OF SLADE COLLINS & THE TREE OF LIFE
The film IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE by Ron Marquisee (I played a few extra roles in this), is now available on Google Play. Click on the link below to rent or buy.
-Here’s an interview I did a few months back. Looks like I’m holding my moobs in that screenshot (HA!) . Perhaps the rest of it (for all of us-we recorded spots that were around 20-30 min. each) will be bonus features somewhere-but only Mike Rudolph, Thomas Kovalenko & Joe DeMuro know the answer to that one Before this was an interview with Tom Delillo, who plays The Wolf Man, and more interviews with other cast / crew are forthcoming. Please check out the TALES OF DRACULA and WOLFBAIN PRODUCTIONS Facebook pages and “LIKE” them for the latest updates on “Tales of Dracula.” Click on the link below to see the interview on Facebook.
–BRIARWOOD-a crime / drama short film-has officially been selected into the Viewster Online Film Festival. I play the role of “Hunter” in this. You can see the entire film by clicking on the link below. It’s about 20 minutes in length.
(Pic by Matt Peters)
-09/13-14/2014-And here I am for what was to be my last days filming on “Brackish.” Coming in two days prior with only, at times, 3-4 hours of sleep within the last two days, I met up with some of the cast and producer Matt Peters at Scare-A-Con in Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY so we could see the premiere of “Blessed Are The Meek”-a short film I did with Matt and one of several shorts to be included in a DVD compilation called “Empire of the Dead.” I’d also be car pooling and we were scheduled to head out to location to filming right after the films were done. I kinda caused a delay with that due to running into people and talking. I unfortunately was unable to visit several other people I knew here, but that’s one of the things that happens with filming (note-I’ve also missed several premieres of projects I’m in due to the filming commitments on the same day ).
-We then went to the first location in Chittenango only to find out that, due to bees swarming around (Matt got stung by one when it flew up his nose (!) ) , we had to postpone filming that scene till the next day. Then the rest of the cast / crew arrived and I got to play evil cult leader (someone said I look like “Evil” (David Warner) from the movie “Time Bandits”). Being upstairs in a loft that was a little unstable was interesting. 🙂
-Then it was off to a barn in Utica for the next part-where I was to transform into a demon. It took awhile to get everything on and such-we didn’t start filming till around 3-4 AM I believe. Call for the next day was to be at 6 AM and , at 6:15, we were still filming. Everyone here basically found out that, the more tired I get, the more bad jokes I spew forth 🙂 I can’t say what I was doing in the scene, but can say with the way I was using my voice and all the screaming I was doing-I almost threw out my voice. That was a trip. I felt bad for both Charity B. & Ryan S. (especially) cause they had to fall on jagged stone ground several times. I also had to have fake blood in my mouth a lot-which no one knew if it was toxic or not (didn’t say either way on the container). So after the scene was done, I spent the next half hour or so rinsing and spitting out reddish liquid-what a pleasure huh? Couldn’t really eat anything till I got the appliance off my face anyways.
-We then went to this one rocky mountainous area in Little Falls for some quick filming. I’m so glad I brought my glasses cause the pathway to the location was quite steep and one false step and I could’ve really hurt myself. I only had one quick thing to film here-took maybe five minutes at most. After this, we went over to one of the actresses place to shower-cause we still had filming to do. While I did nod off a few times in the car, I couldn’t really go to sleep cause I was wearing special FX contacts so..
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-Then it was back to the Utica barn to film that scene that got postponed due to the bees. We all had to be cleaned up for that so that was interesting. I actually had to stop a few times due to throat soreness but I got thru it. Then it was all done for this time. I still had one more scene to do-which will have to be done at some future date. Everyone did a great job. This was an endurance test for all of us. I hope the footage came out good.
-I had to pull over twice on the thruway to take power naps in the car. Drove to my girlfriend’s place and collapse in bed till basically the next day. What a way to spend a weekend huh? 🙂 Pics can be seen on my acting page on Facebook.
-Last Saturday (9/13/2014), the zombie short film “Blessed Are The Meek” by MAD ANGEL FILMS was premiered at SCARE-A-CON. As such, I’m now able to upload the pics and recap from that filming session. BATM will be one of several zombie short films to be on a compilation DVD called “Empire of the Dead” to be released by SRS CINEMA LLC. Here’s the recap…
-06/14/2014-This was a very long day for filming on a zombie short film named “Blessed Are The Meek” (BATM) by Mad Angel Films. I played the role of “Draven”-a whacked psycho killer (with a touch of “The Joker”) who basically changes personalities on the fly from time to time and leader of a trio comprising of Ryan Santiago and Greta Volkova. Weeks earlier I came up with the idea that the three of us should wear “skull makeup” for this and contacted Melody Wilkinson for this. I had to do some test runs before the shoot date cause I tend to sweat easily and readily so I wanted to make sure that the makeup would stay on-at least until the fight scenes. The three of us arrived early on this day to have the makeup applied and, for the most part, it stayed on all day-even after the fight scenes. Luckily for me, it was cool this day which was a blessing for me. I know for a fact that Greta would disagree with me on this 🙂
-We arrived and filming had already been done with some of the zombie extras and other cast. We initially started filming in the same location that “Slade Collins 2: In & Out of Time” was being filmed. It was fun and quick. Glad I wasn’t lugging a huge bag of equipment this time. 🙂 We then went over to a forest location for the rest of filming.
-We finished everything this day, but this was a long one. Lots of mud, gore and blood all around. I actually got pretty winded towards the end cause I had to fight off several zombies-and, of course, none of these were one takes. That’s fine with me though-I’d rather do take after take if that means getting it right. One of the zombies I had to fight was played by Cassie H. and she really took a lot of abuse at my hands. At one point, cause things were moving so fast, I misjudged my distance and, while doing a backhand, actually connected with a glancing blow to Cassie’s head (!). You’ll have to watch this to see what other damage me and the others did to each other. Note-never wear good leather pants on future film shoots-unless I get a spare 🙂
-Everyone did a great job and we had some real troopers on this one. As I stated earlier, the MVP award, IMO, goes to Cassie-I don’t think I’ve gone thru that much abuse filming-and I’ve gone thru a lot. In fact, as soon as I got to my girlfriend’s place, it seems like someone pulled the plug on me and I was quite sore and lethargic for the rest of the night and the next day-and I had filming to do in the next two days. Still preferred over a normal 9-5 job. 🙂 It’s was great working with everyone on this and hopefully this will be out before year’s end.
Update-This short film, along with others, premiered at the 2014 Scare-A-Con in Verona, NY on 9/13/2014 and will be one of several zombie short films released on a compilation DVD by SRS Cinema LLC.Pics can be seen on my acting page on Facebook. Via the link below…
(Pic by Jamie Morgan)
-Looks like I will be in two short films that will be premiering / playing at SCARE-A-CON (Turning Stone Casino-Verona, NY) this coming weekend (9/12-14). On Saturday (9/13) I’m in a zombie short film called “Blessed Are The Meek” by MAD ANGEL FILMS playing the role of “Draven” (a psychotic killer who uses an “interesting” type of moisturizer for his face :)) This is one of several zombie shorts that will eventually be on a DVD compilation called “Empire of the Dead” by SRS CINEMA LLC. These films will start at 3 PM in the Briar room. Then, on Sunday (9/14), the short film BRIARWOOD by Crow Farm Films (playing the role of “Hunter”-a game store owner who has an “interesting” night job 🙂 ) will be playing with four others in the Willow room starting at around 1 PM. Full film schedule can be seen on the Scare-A-Con site. Tickets are $25 advance / $30 door for single day admission (adult)-plus there are other pricing deals. Click on the following link for more ticket and event info on their main site.
WAYNE W. JOHNSON 