Director Adam Rifkin joins co-hosts Doc Rotten, Dave Dreher, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr., Thomas Mariani and Vixen to discuss his upcoming horror film, Director’s Cut, featuring Penn Jillette. “Help make Penn a bad guy” is the tag line of their crowd funding campaign at Fundanything.com/Penn. Vixen offers up the recommendation this week, Prisoners, Doc reviewsFright Night 2: New Blood and Dave once again delves into the horror news of the week. Plus one more week for the exciting giveaway this week.
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00:02:32 – Interview with Adam Rifkin, director of Director’s Cut featuring Penn Jillette
“Help make Penn a bad guy!” Over at Fundanything.com, Penn Jillette and Adam Rifkin are looking to fund their horror film, Director’s Cut. The film is written by Penn and is to star the Las Vegas star as the villain, the killer, the bad guy. Adam Rifkin joins us this week to discuss the film, how he and Penn met and the challenges of leading a crowd funded project. He also discusses his career including films like Look (Penn’s favorite film) and The Dark Backward.
http://www.fundanything.com/Penn
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igZYs5T-jr8
00:56:00 – Horror News of the Week for 9/30/2013
Dave Dreher’s horror news of the week begins with the news that IMAGE has acquired All Cheerleaders Die for distribution. If you remember, Robert Kurtzman just revealed his involvement in the EFX for this film is our last episode. Next up is news about Horror on TV with new clips and pics from The Following and NBC’s Dracula. Don’t forget, Thomas and Doc will begin hosting the TV Talk Dracula show in October! Dave then reveals there is a promo real of the concept of staging Final Destination 6 in the Dark Ages. Oh, noes. Dave has news of two new videos supporting Gravity that are out of this world and there is this little video that mashes together Breaking Bad with theWalking Dead.
01:11:15 – What have you been watching – Prisoners – Fright Night 2: New Blood
Vixen recommends the Hugh Jackman vehicle Prisoners with an emotional review. And Doc reveals he has seen Fright Night 2: New Blood sharing that the baggage from the title and characters are too much for the film. The ideas are sound and interesting; but, shoved into the world of Fright Night, the film is too frustrating to be enjoyed.
01:22:00 – Listener Feedback
We are proud to announce we have our first 5 star iTunes review from The Captain C. We are so grateful for the review, thank you. We love hearing from you and your fellow listeners!
Another exciting giveaway this week, the grue-crew have two (2) copies of the Fright Night 2: New Blood blu-ray. All you need to do to qualify is send an email to docrotten@horrornews.net with Fright Night 2 in the subject line. Please provide your name and address in the email. The deadline for this giveaway is October 6, 2013. We will announce the winners on episode 27 of Horror News Radio.
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