Outpost Zeta Reviews DEMON RESURRECTION...

Justin Lewis, genre film maven and resident critic at review site OUTPOST ZETA, recently turned his attention to my film, DEMON RESURRECTION, and had some kind things to say about it...

"Demon Resurrection is a good example of a film that wants to honor its 1970s and early 1980s horror roots without mindlessly aping the surface look of those films. Too often modern ‘grindhouse’ movies think they can throw some digital film damage over their shoddily made work and call it retro. Demon Resurrection takes its plot and a few visual cues from films like Burial Ground (1981) and The Blind Dead movies but it is not interested in just copying them under the guise of homage..."

He cites Will McDonald's performance as the evil cult leader:

"Toth is a fun villain, he is the kind of robe-wearing Satan worshiping baddie that is just as much of a delight to watch as it is to see him get his comeuppance. He meets his end in a fashion that wouldn’t be out of place in an E.C. horror comic."

Laurie Miller, our Dr. Kate, is also praised...

"Demon Resurrection isn’t afraid to put its characters through the wringer, and throughout the runtime, I was not exactly sure who was going to make it to the end. I did really like Laurie Miller as Kate.... I thought she made a believably frightened and desperate character and I found myself rooting for her to survive her ordeals with the undead."

Finally, he says DEMON RESURRECTION "gives birth to some enjoyable horror."

Read the full review on Outpost Zeta: http://www.outpost-zeta.com/2018/06/demon-resurrection.html

It's good to see that, even all all the years that have passed since it was made, DEMON RESURRECTION can still get the occasional good review.

My sincere thanks to Justin for all the kind words :)

My Screenplay for SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, the 2003 Indie Vampire Thriller

As I was rummaging though my collection of SLEEPLESS NIGHTS memorabilia, looking for possible perks to offer contributors to our upcoming Indigogo campaign, or anything that might be worth including on the eventual Blu-ray/DVD release of the film, I came across this copy of the SLEEPLESS NIGHTS screenplay.

I started working on the first drafts of this script in the late 80s. At the time there was a lot of illness and death in my family, so the idea of writing about characters who can live forever appealed to me.

This was the second vampire-themed script I'd written, the first being CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, which Columbia Tri-Star made into a film with Karen Black in 1991. Despite that modest success in the vampire genre, this script went unproduced until 1999, when it finally found its way in front of the cameras, thanks to producers Howard Nash and Frank Cilla.

My opinion of it is biased, of course, but I think it still reads pretty well. I've read (and written) worse.

Incidentally, one of the main characters in the script is named CHRISTIAN GREY, though our guy shows no sign of being into anything particularly kinky (other than drinking blood and lying around in a coffin). We had the name first, though admittedly other authors have had greater success with its use in the years since.

Read my 1999 screenplay for SLEEPLESS NIGHTS here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUAvgEdsPRTd6-E4FQBxZwRBz2V9Wps0/view?usp=sharing