I have been working so hard on this project all summer with the writing of THREE scripts (remember this was written as a trilogy) and then making the decision to move forward with the project and actually make the script into a movie I have done countless rewrites of Sins of Man (roughly 15 rewrites but who's counting) I put the ad on craigs list for actors / actresses and crew last week after many people had told me it is a great tool to meet new people who share my passion. I have met some really cool people (You all know who you are)

I have cast two people so far with talks starting with two others and I have to say I'm very happy with the way things are happening.

The reason I'm writing this blog is to tell you ALL that there are times when I feel that I can't do this , that I might not be good enough to do this and then something as simple as a Tweet or an e-mail or a comment from here on the website lifts my spirts and makes me continue on . I owe that ALL to YOU guys and gals who are the reason I'm making this movie :) I know WE can make magic happen when the words of my script get put on film and WE get to watch the finished film that WE ALL made happen I know it will all be worth it in the end :)

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND YOUR SUPPORT !

Hello everyone on the first day of fall :) my favorite time of the year (Halloween is my Christmas) I just wanted to check in with you guys and tell you all that things are moving in the right direction with the pre production process and the Crowd funding campaign is set to start  in early 2015 with filming to begin in late march or Early April 2015 and I hope to have the film finished and out on DVD in Fall or winter 2015.

As far as Casting goes I will be putting a few roles up as perks in the Crowd funding campaign but I have my eye on a few actresses for key roles in the film I have reached out to them and now waiting for their replies. I hope to make some casting announcements around the first of the year.

THANK YOU once again for ALL your support I can't waity to start filming

The script is finished this draft will (hopefully) be the one that is shot in mid 2015 and released in late 2015 to early 2016 on DVD !

I made some changes and made better dialog working on who the characters are, what they are doing in the story and how they change during the film. I think the dialog is very good in the film and the exposition is great from beginning to end.

The crowd funding campaign will begin  in early 2015 I don't think it's wise to ask people to donate to my film during the holiday season. I personally have a large family to buy gifts for so I understand how tight money is during the end of the year.

As soon as the crowd funding campaign is over I will begin casting for the film, I have been in very early talks with one actress about working on the film. I'm thinking she might make a great first kill or maybe the final girl ..

I've got meetings set up to get clearence to film in my home town and to look at a very large filming location that can be changed and build up anyway I need.

In closing I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who has visited the site so far and to ALL my Followers on Twitter, your love , support and kind words mean the world to me :) I'm working hard to make each and EVERYONE of YOU Proud to be a Horror fan !

Hello horror freaks and geeks !

I keep getting asked the following two questions and rather then clog up the Q & A Secion with these long awnsers I figure a blog is the best way to awnser these questions.

#1 What type of film is Sins of Man ??

It's really a mix of several subgenres within the horror genre. it's a slasher film, it's a suspense film, it has elements of a thriller, in some ways it a bit of an action movie with a love story mixed in for two of the characters however at it's core Sins of Man is a murder mystery.

#2 What inspired me to write Sins of Man ??

I love this question because it deals with a great plot point in any movie ............................. MOTIVE ! I was motivated to write Sins of Man and it's two sequels becuase I LOVE horror movies and I want to leave my mark on the genre that changed my life. I was inspired while watching Scream one night and I started thinking about the Randy Meeks the geek character, who he was, what he was doing in the film and of course his relationship with the wallflower charatcer Sidney Prescott. I started asking myself some questions .

How does the geek see himself and how do others see him ?
What makes the wallflower so special to the geek ?
What makes the geek act the way he does ?
What makes the wallflower the way she is ?
Why does the wallflower always go with the jock/jerk guy ?
What changes the geek into the hero ?

It was by asking myself these questions and awnsering them that Sins of Man was born .

I want to say THANK YOU for ALL the SUPPORT I'm getting from Twitter friends, fans, followers it really means the world to me. THANK YOU I kno I can't make this movie without your support !

I gave my script to a few friends to read and got back a few notes that where really positive about the story being solid the characters being really good but got a few negitive comments about the story being "too busy" when I asked what they ment by that one said "The story is good and it works but I feel there is too much going on" I asked for further explaination they replied "The story is good, it works but there are too many characters doing too much,  it takes away from the overall story the script is 120 pages when you could cut it down to about 90 - 95 pages" I asked for this persons thoughts on how to fix the problem. they said the R word,  you know Rewrite.

The second person gave me the feedfack that "the story is great but some of the characters either don't have enough to do or  in some cases have too much to do" going further to say "Some characters can be cut out completely while others can have their roles cut down to eliminate some pages of useless dialog"  

Another friend after reading my script said to me "There's too much business being handled" I said WTF does that mean? he replied "There's too much happening the movie loses steam if there is too much business being done in the script"

I reread my script from begining to end (For what seems like the 500th time) and I don't see what they see, to me everything in the script moves the story forward and all of the "business" in the script needs to be there for the purpose of moving the story along.

What I took away from this was that my story is solid and works but my  script is too busy and too long with un needed characters just filling pages with useless dialog. so as much as I hate to do it I'm going to do a rewrite using most of this script but removing useless characters and their dialog.
 
I would love to hear from fans about this . Do you thing 120 pages is too long for a slasher? Do you think 120 pages is perfect for a slasher film it it all works with the flow of the story? what do horror fans think is "useless dialog" or what makes a "Useless character" ?

I want to take a few minutes and say THANK YOU to everyone who has come to the site and shown interest in my movie ! I know I can't do this without the support of the AMAZING Internet Horror Community. I want to make a movie fans can be proud of and that they watch over and over again for years to come.

This is alot of hard work , I wrote the script(s) (this is ment to be a trilogy) I'm doing all the budgeting, design, casting, production work myself I'm getting alot of help promoting the site and twitter page from my AWESOME Friends on Twitter.

again THANK YOU ALL

This is my FIRST of MANY announcements about Sins of Man and it's a pretty big one !

It's OFFICAL I just recieved an e-mail from California Costume Collections Inc. giving me permission to use one of their many fantastic costumes in Sins of Man !

I decided to use an already made costume as a cost cutting measure simply because to design and create a new costume for the killer would've cost too much money , this way I just order the set number of costumes from them and I have everything I need for the killer.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE NEWS !!

Nudity and Sex in horror is something I have struggled with in my script writing I often wonder what I should do with it, when I should do it, how often do I do it  (Too often would make my horror film a porn film) , what I mean by this is when writing a death scene or a sex/nudity scene I often wonder what  is "pushing the envelope" too far. I want to make a movie to reach as many people / age groups as possible but horror is a hard sell to most people due to the blood, guts, gore and often the nudity involved with the genre.

I like the simple horror / suspense of John Carpenter's Halloween the less blood / nudity more suspense movie he made was brilliant on the other hand I enjoy Sean S. Cunninghams's Friday The 13th as well which had MORE blood and nudity.

I look at some of my favorite films and see that some characters like say Laurie Strode (Halloween) & Alice Hardy (Friday The 13th) don't need to do nudes scenes but characters like Linda and Annie (RZ's Halloween) do have nude scenes. Nancy Thompson (ANOES) Sidney Prescott (Scream) don't have nudes scenes. maybe it's because they are the "Pure" final girl..

NOTE : The bathtub scene in ANOES is a body double NOT Heather Landencamp.

On that I want to call into question how "pure" Alice Hardy is in Friday The 13th, she doesn't have sex during the film however she does smoke pot (Broken rule) so shouldn't she die? lol...

I spoke with Scout Compton on Dark Matter Radio a few years ago where we discussed the nudity in Rob Zombie's Halloween and we both agreed that Laurie Strode (Scout) didn't NEED to do a nude scene (In the retelling oh Halloween) because her acting was enough to sell her scenes. I'm NOT taking anything away from Danielle Harris (Annie Brackett) or Kristina Kelbe (Lynda) for doing nude scenes in Rob Zombie's Halloween because their nude scenes were important to the movie in different ways. (I enjoyed them both) I also learned while talking with host Dave Navarro and Scout that there is a long standing rumor that Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite but that's something for a different blog all together lol .

I read alot from horror fans that horror can't be done with a PG13 (No nudity/sex less blood) rating it has to be an R (Blood, guts, gore nudity and sex) rating for it to be good... Is this true? Are there exceptions to this rule?

I'm a firm believer when writing a nude / sex scene that  sex scene and/or nudity  should fit into the storytelling of the film and not just be there for the sake of showing two characters having sex or just showing a naked body with that said we all like watching characters get killed for doing it when they should be more worried about the killer lurking around but they are too busy trying to screw to worry about a killer, This is one of the MANY horror Tropes I both LOVE and HATE in Horror movies but tropes and jump scares are another subject for another blog.

When I was writing Sins of Man I wrote the first draft with NO Sex and NO Nudity but in the final draft there is ONE Nude scene and an off screen sex scene. I wanted to use John Carpenter's Halloween as a template for Sins of Man and want it to be more about suspense, storytelling and also like Wes Craven's Scream where everyone is trying to figure out who the killer is.

I LOVE horror movies and the Slasher sub genre is my passion.  This is a list of my favorites. At some point I will go through and rank each film in each series but these are my top 5 series . Feel free to comment and interact with me about my list . I look forward to talk with mo fellow horror fans !

1. Halloween / Friday The 13th (Tie)
2. Scream
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street
4. TCM
5. Childs Play