Would You See This Movie?

[mary lou 102]

hi,
I have recently made a film and after re-shoot upon re-shoot, I believe it is finnally ready for the public.

The title is called North Woods and the plot is like this:

Young 15 year old tennager John Presscott is found ragged and bloody on a country road the morning after Halloween. He is taken to a local hospital where he is interviewed by psychiatrist Pamela Alley. She gets little out of him except for a suspicious woman named Claudia Hoffman who worked as a teacher at John's school. Pamela brings Claudia in and realizes that John and his friends may not be as innocent as John made them out to be. Meanwhile, to get rid of horrible haullucinations and dreams, John gives Pamela a journel that features his entire story of what happened. The truth lies in John's journel and the story is going to be fully told through the journel. Only then will Pamela learn that some secrets are best left in the North Woods.

What do ya think?


I'll see if I can post my poster.

[Cronos]

would i see this???

actually, yes....from that plot outline it does sound very interesting

does it go down the gore film route or something more like a psychological horror film???

[zombievictim]

Hmmm could be fun. This sounds pretty interesting. One question, what was the budget on the film.

[JayWolf]

It sounds interesting.

However, I still liked the sound of the film from the first you shot it where it was like a very gothic, demented fairy tale. That sounded fucking cool.

Either way, it'll be interesting to see something from this production eventually, like stills? ;)

[X-Nightcrawler]

I guess it could be either great or terrible. I'm odd in that sense, it's not the plot which interests me in a movie, it's the trailer. If you edit a trailer we can see, I'd tell you.

[KillerKlown]

I would see it, although I would stongly consider changing the character's name from John Presscott. As his name is almost identical to a fat bastard politician over here who rants on about everyone using public transport but is driven about in a fucking Jaguar... Prick.

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/files/images/Prescottxxx.jpg
"I'm afraid I can't answer your question as I'm about to eat a really, really big pie."

[iamda125]

for the last five years the crimerate in an inner city has risen. the police blame it on the poverty and drugs that plague the city. the murders become more brutal and finally the pd realizes there is a serial killer among them. which was first unclear because the communities unwanted citzens were murdered.

a break comes when the serial killer murders the main detectives partner and family. he leaves a tape explaining his origins and hints on his next moves. he orgins are at first to hard to follow almost seeming like a cruel joke.

'' my childhood was normal the first 10 years. then it happened, my mother, a military scientist, used me as her personal gineua pig. the things she put in me changed me! i dont get sick, i dont feel pain and im stronger than many men. and, im just beginnig.''

the killers target is no longer criminal kind because now he has ataste for new blood. anybody

once i learn how to write a script all the characters will be included. the killer has no regard for human life, so his killings are very unusual. he is dark and wont be revealed easy. he might wear mask but even though the first killings were random, the new begining will be planned out thoroughly.

i hope yall feel me

[the dead one]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
hi,
I have recently made a film and after re-shoot upon re-shoot, I believe it is finnally ready for the public.

The title is called North Woods and the plot is like this:

Young 15 year old tennager John Presscott is found ragged and bloody on a country road the morning after Halloween. He is taken to a local hospital where he is interviewed by psychiatrist Pamela Alley. She gets little out of him except for a suspicious woman named Claudia Hoffman who worked as a teacher at John's school. Pamela brings Claudia in and realizes that John and his friends may not be as innocent as John made them out to be. Meanwhile, to get rid of horrible haullucinations and dreams, John gives Pamela a journel that features his entire story of what happened. The truth lies in John's journel and the story is going to be fully told through the journel. Only then will Pamela learn that some secrets are best left in the North Woods.

What do ya think?

Mary Lou 102...I say just get your film out there, you have my moral support. Remember nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I like the plot!

I for one am Looking forward to hearing updates on your on going project, at least you have the courage to do your own thing and that is more than admirable. :D Kick-Ass!!

[mattjk_17]

And there I was, about to make a post about a certain Mr. Prescott, when I notice that KillerKlown has beat me to it! :p

As for your film, the premise sounds pretty interesting, I'd definitely check it out given the chance.

[TheJadedGamer]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
hi,
I have recently made a film and after re-shoot upon re-shoot, I believe it is finnally ready for the public.

The title is called North Woods and the plot is like this:

Young 15 year old tennager John Presscott is found ragged and bloody on a country road the morning after Halloween. He is taken to a local hospital where he is interviewed by psychiatrist Pamela Alley. She gets little out of him except for a suspicious woman named Claudia Hoffman who worked as a teacher at John's school. Pamela brings Claudia in and realizes that John and his friends may not be as innocent as John made them out to be. Meanwhile, to get rid of horrible haullucinations and dreams, John gives Pamela a journel that features his entire story of what happened. The truth lies in John's journel and the story is going to be fully told through the journel. Only then will Pamela learn that some secrets are best left in the North Woods.

What do ya think?


I'll see if I can post my poster.

Sounds kind of like that Thora Birch movie, 'The Hole', just because of the point where he is found bloody and ragged and he is interviewed and such. From there, it pretty much goes on its own, and I'd like to see the final product.

[IamNoOne666]

Sounds interesting enough to me, I'd see it.

[mary lou 102]

Yeah, it's a lot like The Hole in some respects.


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We do pull a Psycho though and have the killer kill off John in the opening 30 minutes. The rest of the film folds out through Pamela reading John's journel.

We actually just had to re-shoot the opening, because we saw High Tension and it was almost identical. It was crazy.

The whole film is a little psychological in concept, but there is a fair amount of bllood. Every death ahs a little kre than most recent films. It's shot like an 80's slasher.

If I had to compare it to some films I'd say it's a mix of The Hole, High Tension, Alice, Sweet Alice(the killer wears the same mask), Heathers, May, and of course Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The budget is low. I have not added it up, but all we really had to pay for was the blood(which is actually about $200 worth), soem costumes, props, and some atmosphere effects like rain(which there is in almost every scene) and some fog.

the actors are not paid. It's probably one of the cheapest films with somewhat of a plot ever made. It's cheaper than Blair Witch and Halloween, I can say that much.

I'm gonna keep trying to post the poster, but it keeps telling me that it's too big. If one comes up, it'll be condensed by a lot.

[mary lou 102]

here's a larger version of the poster with the tagline of "Every year, people go on roadtrips. Some reach their destination, others just...dissapear"

If you can think of a better tagline, I would thank you.

[X-Nightcrawler]

The tagline poster is slick, but it looks more like a teaser.

And I don't know why I liked your tagline. If it fits the movie properly, it's great.

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
here's a larger version of the poster with the tagline of "Every year, people go on roadtrips. Some reach their destination, others just...dissapear"

If you can think of a better tagline, I would thank you.

Honestly, the poster coudl be better. I think you should do the same picture or one similar, just get a really well-done studio kind of shot with all the proper lighting. If you REALLY want me to be critical, the actress should be belting out a bigger, more horrified scream - just to make it more interesting. I would make it a little more indicitave of something like this.

http://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/images/photos/hightension.jpg

And I personally would put some trees behind her. (I can barely see the thing anyway tho)

But your tagline is EXACTLY like the tag of an upcoming movie ( I think its wolf creek) Except it has nothing to do with road trips.

[The_Driller_Killer]

Sorry, but I just had to post a couple of things that were bugging me. The correct spelling of the word is J-O-U-R-N-A-L, not journel, and your tagline sounds a lot like the opening title cards of 2003's Toolbox Murders.

[EvilDeadGirl]

I do like the poster and the story sounds like it'd be entertaining. I'd check it out.

[Darrell]

I would also check it out, it sounds good! :D

[ParileseMonster]

I will watch anything and I always have the same hopes.
That the ending does not seem like a fast half ass attempt to wrap things up or that it just does not peter out before it should. Most movies I have seen as of late have always had a good start, plot and middle but the endings have been major let downs and I pay for the movie as a whole, I would rather not waste my money and feel cheated. Sadly I never know until the end if in fact I did waste my cash.
Well, that is not true, sometimes within the first half hour I know this.
Speaking of half hours that is a long enough window frame to get the ball rolling. If you go past that half hour without any real substance to hold on to you lose most of the audience. I am impatient. Dead/Alive almost lost me and if it had not been for me sitting on the remote and fast forwarding it, I would have never known such an enjoyable film, the beginning kills me though, it just kills me.

[mary lou 102]

the original poster is the picture on my profile. It has the actress actually screaming. The one I am about to atatch is the rejected poster. I showed a couple of them off and they chose the one I have already posted, because it's more mysterious.

The posters have been cut down by a lot. They have been reduced to the title and image only. The website kept telling me they were too big. It's crazy!

Here's the rejected one.

[TheJadedGamer]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
Yeah, it's a lot like The Hole in some respects.

Good, then I'll like it. ;)

[Jason13thh]

Yes of course I mean I will always encourage someone doing a film.

[The_Driller_Killer]

If you attached JPEG images instead of BMP, you'll have better luck attaching a bigger image. BMP files themselves are quite large, while JPEG on the other hand is rather small.

[mary lou 102]

Sorry! I'll try to re-post them.

The film iss till in post right now. The soundtrack is made up of other film scores. We are till finding a couple of problems that we need to fix, like insert shots, etc. We should be done by August or September. By late Semptember, I can take orders, if anyone wants a copy. I've actually shot 3 films back to back. Two or them are more expensive fairy tale films of Snow White and Cinderella, but they are pretty dark actually.

I wish I could attatch a trailer, but I can't. I don't know how to. It wasn't shot on digital, so It's pretty impossible to get a trailer up. I have made one, which was well recived from all who have seen it, but I can't post it, unless someone knows how to and can tell me how to.

[X-Nightcrawler]

. . . that tagline is Suspiria's.

And the poster still looks like a teaser. If you want, send me some images I oculd help you do one.

[mary lou 102]

Here's the first pic. It's not much, but there is more on the way. Forgive me, the stills aren't the greatest. We just don't usually take time to get stills in the really important scenes. For one, it takes time away from filming and two, I don't want to give too much away.

[mary lou 102]

I know, at the time, it was the only cool tagline I could think of. I'm gonna give a lot of pics.

[mary lou 102]

here's another that was acutally shot for no real reason, it's not even in the movie.

[mary lou 102]

This picture was the original poster photo, but we decided to go with another.

[mary lou 102]

here is another alternate poster shot, the one on the poster that I have now is very similar to this one

[mary lou 102]

this is a picture behind the scenes after we have applied blood to the actresses face.

[mary lou 102]

this picture is of the slut character of the film.

[mary lou 102]

heres another pic of the slut

[mary lou 102]

here is our lesbian character trapped in the bathroom, a scene which has sadly been cut from the film, but it didn't make sense or flow well. If we left it in, it would make you question why the characer does something later in the film.

[mary lou 102]

this picture is of two of the friends on a bridge after their car breaks down

[mary lou 102]

this is a picture of when Paris tries to hide from the killer in the woods.

[mary lou 102]

this is a picture of Paris all alone in the woods.

[mary lou 102]

Paris and Hunter try to make sense of the photographs

[mary lou 102]

John on set

[mary lou 102]

Paris getting ready for a take

[mary lou 102]

On set humor from the actress who plays Katie, John's sister.

[mary lou 102]

Dr. Pamela Alley on the set

[X-Nightcrawler]

Here's one I just did. But the stupid thing lost too much quality when I saved it as JPG.

Well, hope you like it. If you do and you want me to change the 'movie info' (the letters in the bottom, which are just gibberish, tell me).

[mary lou 102]

I gotta say, that's pretty amazing. It's creepy, I love the shadow figures on top. If you want to send me a bigger picture, just email me@cmoore0013@aol.com.

That really is great.

BTW, one of my tagline's was originally like that, it was something like "Every year, young people dissapear, God help those lost in NORTH WOODS."

[X-Nightcrawler]

Glad I could help, I'm going to send you the bigger one. Here, this is another one that didn't lose quality.

[X-Nightcrawler]

My e-mail isn't letting me send you the bigger poster, something's wrong with your address. Give me another one, I'll send it there.

[mary lou 102]

well, that's odd. The only one I have is: cmoore0013@aol.com

I can usually get mail like that. I don't know.

Any more posters or ideas?

[JayWolf]

X-Nightcrawler, my only complaint with your poster is that it makes it look like a supernatural ghost flick. Perhaps just one shadowy figure would do. Plus, I would say photoshop the girl onto the background of the woods.

Oh, by the way Nightcrawler, could you send me that pic of the woods? It looks cool. :D

[X-Nightcrawler]

'ere you go.

http://photo.ex.one.pl/inne/t-G-Scary_Forest.jpg

[adamjohnson]

If you send me some high res shots from the film - I could probably make a pretty cool poster. But like i said, HIGH res. Not some screencap.

BUT, thers always one in life - if you send me a synopsis of the film, and some taglines I could probably make you a pretty cool TEASER poster - i love teasers, its all in the concept. Let me know, Im getting pretty good at this.

hehe (tooting my own horn now) Check out what I just made.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/CrimsonKissSig.jpg

[mary lou 102]

that's pretty good work. I will need your e-mail to send you the pics. I think I'll compare the two and ask the other board members which posters make them want to see the film the most.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by mary lou 102
that's pretty good work. I will need your e-mail to send you the pics. I think I'll compare the two and ask the other board members which posters make them want to see the film the most. Oh sure, do that. Here's my heart. Why don't you pitch it so adamjohnson can bat a home run?

Just kidding.

[adamjohnson]

I just spent a few minutes on this, but I thought it was kinda fun. Ill probably clean it up a little tomorrow.

PS my email is
adamthejohnson@hotmail.com

PPS I have this really cool idea - but its not something you can do in photoshop. I'll have to go out and do some photos tomorrow

[adamjohnson]

This one didnt turn out as well as I had hoped. Maybe its the background.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/NorthWoodsTeaser3.jpg

Also, slightly more updated.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/NorthWoodsTeaser.jpg

[adamjohnson]

Still doin' some work.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/northwoods2.jpg

And a new one.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/NorthsWoodsPoster.jpg

That one still needs some tweaking (its kinda dark now that I see it)

[X-Nightcrawler]

. . . bloody hell those two.

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
. . . bloody hell those two.

Is... that a compliment?

[mary lou 102]

wow, you guys are soooo damn creative. You should all design posters for the studios. These are so great compared to the studio ones. Where were ya'll when the Scream poster came out?

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by adamjohnson
Is... that a compliment? Oh, take a bloody guess!
*stomps foot*

:D, yeah, it's a compliment. The second one especially is great.

[mary lou 102]

If you guys want to, you can help with my Snow White posters. The movie is a horror film, but it's not a typical horror film. It's more along the lines of The Omen, Suspiria, and Dark Water.

The story is a little different from the Brothers Grimm story and the Disney movie. Here it goes:

After her having a child named Snow White from her lover Adrian, Queen Esmerelda is horrified to find out that the king has beheaded her lover and has sent Adrian's brother, Samuel(the hunstman) to tell her. Scared and going over the edge, Esmerelda locks herself in her room with her newborn daughter. When she steps out of her room, she takes a long walk. She finds a strange store in the middle of nowhere and goes inside. Inside, she finds a youthful young man who sells her the secret of eternal beauty. He gives her a magical mirror, which will always tell her the truth.

Years later, Esmerelda has grown to hate her family from the potions the man has given her. When one day she finds out that her 7 year old daughter, Snow White is more beautiful than herself, she goes crazy. She calls for Samuel to slaughter his own niece and bring back her lungs and liver as proff that he killed her. Samuel can't bear the deed and sends Snow White out into the dark woods and kills a wild animal. Esmerelda eats them up, believing that she gained all of Snow White's beauty.

Snow White runs in the woods and finds the cottage of the 7 dwarves who all wear different colored masks, because of deformities. They warn Snow about her mother and they are proven right when Esmerelda finds out about Snow being alive from her mirror. She tries to kill her 3 times, but the last one is the fatal one.

You guys know the rest, except the Prince doesn't kiss Snow, his servant gets agrivated from carring Snow's coffin, she he hits Snow on the back and the piece of apple flies out of her throat.

The queen is killed brutally at the wedding, with red hot iron shoes.

Snow inherits Esmerelda's mirror and she too begins a fascination with it. The ending suggests similar things to come.

Here's a poster that I made.

[adamjohnson]

Alright this is actually really BAD. I didnt have a good enough camera, I didnt have a good enough location (right outside the little bubble is all the crap in my garage), and Im just too busy to scour for better images right now. Bu tI think you can see where i was trying to go with it. That is if you can imagine a really vast table in a really dark room.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/AdamtheJohnson/NorthWoodsteaser3.jpg

[mary lou 102]

I love it. I think it looks great.

Now if only I could get a new Snow White one

[adamjohnson]

Hey, so uh... who won?

:D

[ERIN_LoJ]

I would see it. I'm a sucker for suspenseful mysteries and that's what this sounds like. Intriguing.

[mary lou 102]

well I'm still working on it. I took a vote from various people around town. The one that got the best response was the one that you made with the screaming face above the forest. That one will probably end up as the final poster

[adamjohnson]

*Does Snoopy Dance*

Im on my way!

[Genghis Khan]

marylou, I would definetly go see your movie, it sounds awesome. BTW, adamjohnson and X, those posters are awesome. Remind me to call you when I start making my movie that I'm writing.

Rock On!!
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