Sorry for the lack of updates this year. I had a bacon sandwich in January and caught swine flu. I wouldn’t mind but it said cured on the packet…

Anyway just before I get my coat, I thought I would remind everyone to subscribe to the SNOTD RSS feed. It’s just over there to your right. Y’know, by the big orange button. Subscribing is free and you can chose to get all of the latest news sent via email or pick it up through your favourite feed reader.

Now why on earth would I suggest subscribing to a website that hasn’t been updated for so blooming long?

Oh..no reason. It’s just..well..y’know..if any news were to be coming out over the next few weeks then you’d read it here first. That’s all.

As you were.

15 November 2008

It’s around 7 o’clock in the evening and I’m pacing around a gloomy garage forecourt somewhere on the A1, watching as the Guv is trying to negotiate a deal on his fuel/oil/coffee combo with the unimpressed attendant.

It’s not the chill in the air, or indeed the fact that I’ve only got 20 cigarettes on me and I haven’t seen the attendant pass any over to the Guv, that’s making me edgy.

Tonight we’re going up to Leeds to attend the 8th Annual NIGHT of the DEAD – part of the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival. The Guv’s put together a new trailer and we’ve trimmed down the Behind the Screams doc so that we can get it into the festival as a short feature.

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Admit it.

The reason that you watch Big Brother isn’t to try and gain amazing insights into the human condition or even to simply ogle fit young things frolicking in the jacuzzi during the all too brief English summertime.

It’s all about that moment when the doors open and the latest evictee steps out onto the gantry to a chorus of disapproval from the baying crowd, watching the look on the Z-list wannabe’s face as they realise that Joe public actually hates their guts and that their fifteen minutes ended ten minutes ago.

But let’s face it. What chance have they got? If they stay quiet everyone thinks they’re boring, if they’re brash and outgoing people want to see them bashed with the humility stick.

So it was with great interest that I watched the opening episodes of Dead Set on E4 the other night.

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Just to put to rest any rumours that the Guvnor, Mascot and Wrangler are actually residing in Guantanamo Bay for international crimes against the undead and to assure you that SNOTD is actually going to hit a 42″ plasma screen near you this millennium, here’s some good news.

The behind the scenes DVD extra “Behind the Screams” chronically the making of Stag Night of the Dead is finished. After six weeks of sleep deprivation and a majority shareholding in Domino’s Pizza, The Wrangler has done a great job in editing the companion to the movie. Complete with cast interviews and fly on the wall footage, this 25 minute masterpiece is set to premiered at the Leeds International Film Festival all nighter “Night of the Dead”.

I’ll keep you posted with dates etc when we have further confirmation.

In the meantime, the grade on the film is nigh on complete, we have done the first audio scrub and should have some exciting news to report next week on a new addition to the post production team.

In the words of the Romeromeister “Stay Scared”…

The Guvnor

Curse that James Bond and his Quantum of Solace. What right does he think he has to book all the friggin’ cinemas screens in Leicester Square on Halloween? I mean what’s his latest film got to do with zombies?

Ginger tosser.

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