HAPPY 17TH ANNIVERSARY TO "INTO THE WOODS"!

Our 80's Horror Homage, INTO THE WOODS, which took us into a wooded sweat factory for 13 days in the summer of 2008 is turning 17 today!  In honor of that, here are a few behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot.

 The slate on the first day, with the "in-production working title", TRAPPED.

The crew, on our first day of shooting.

Our leading ladies, Sarah Rachel Riddle and Tara Turner.

 

Setting up a tent with boom operator and jack of all trades, Tyler Glaub. 

My brother's - Brandon, Jordan, and I preparing a take at a coffee shop in the Metamora, IL town square.  This coffee shop in our home town, was converted into "Joeseph's Coffee Shop" for the movie.

 INTO THE WOODS is currently available to stream on Tubi, HERE.  

Also, if you can track it down, there is an out-of-print Director's Edition Blu-ray that includes a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary, director's feature commentary w/special guests, deleted scenes, trailers, and more!

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN METAMORA [Trailer]

 Check out the new Trailer HERE!

REACHER: Season 3 Begins February 20th!

 

The third season of REACHER arrives on Amazon on February 20, 2025.  Check out the promo for the new season HERE!

"Iver's Wilhelm Scream" [2025]

 My 5 Year Old, Iver, has been learning how to edit on a computer here and there.  He has also become a little obsessed with the Wilhelm Scream as of late.  The other day he asked me to be in a video that he wanted to feature said scream.  It soon became a production/post training exercise of sorts.  We tried to do it all in one single shot but we ended up having to make it two in the end.  I walked him through it but he pushed all the buttons.  Iver came up with basic concept, made the titles, added the sound effects (the screams and the fight sounds), and he just experimented and learned.

Check it out HERE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2024: "MONSTER SMUD 2" [Recovered Footage]

During the Goosebumps craze in the mid 1990's we had a fake spin-off fan series of our own in a similar vein called "EYEBALLS".  This past year, after returning from our Winter Holidays Illinois trip, I was transferring some old VHS tapes.  On one of them I came across some completely forgotten footage for an incomplete sequel to one of our "EYEBALLS" Episodes, a follow up to "MONSTER SMUD".  So I cut together a teaser trailer.  It features much younger versions of my brothers and I, and it would appear that the "SMUD" has survived and moved with us to a new house.  Check it out HERE!

Danielle + Jordan: 7/29/23 Reel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Wedding Reel for my brother Jordan's Wedding from last year is complete.  Check it out HERE!

FUBAR: Puppet Behind-the-Scenes

 

Just came across this behind-the-scenes write-up about the making of the puppets that were introduced in one of my episodes of FUBAR last season.  Check out the website HERE!

INTO THE WOODS: Now Available on TUBI!

Our 2008 film, INTO THE WOODS has recently undergone a 4K remaster, and looks better than ever.

It is now available to stream on Tubi.  Check it out HERE!

THAT LAST CHRISTMAS: Edit Sequence (2023)

 So I have never put out anything like this before for any of our projects.  I originally made it as a joke response to David Reyes, whom plays "Detective Buddy", after he sent me one from the most recent Ridley Scott movie.  So here is the edit sequence for the 2023 X-Mas cut of That Last Christmas, in all its glory.

You can now also watch the entire series and the bonus content that is currently available all in one place in this playlist HERE! 

THAT LAST CHRISTMAS: Holiday Short/Music Video 2023

Hot off the press, we bring you our THIRD installment in our Holiday music video series - THAT LAST CHRISTMAS.  We actually shot most of this one last holiday season in November/December 2022, (in Los Angeles and Illinois).  As we started to cut it we soon realized that it was too big to finish in time.  So we released a TRAILER, in hopes that we could get it out sometime during the year.  Time did not permit and it eventually made more sense to just release it for the holidays this year.

This installment is longer, and starts as more of a short film than the previous years.  Similar to the others, it is chock full of Holiday  movie references and also connects in many ways to the videos that precede it.  With the extra 11 months to work through the 17+ hours of total footage, we had more time (early on) to dig deeper into the footage than we ever have before.  This did leave us with more on the cutting room floor in the end.  So hopefully I can find a way to release some of the lost gems at some point!?!

It was a gargantuan amount of work throughout the year and still somehow came right down to the wire.  The last piece of ADR was recorded on 12/14, and the cut was locked and uploaded just hours before we hopped onto a plane in the early AM on 12/17.  For the last week we were working alongside a pair of sick kids, which eventually sickened us as well.  This made for quite the expanded journey into delirium and madness while working through the projects final days of post in sickness.  Somehow we made it through and now, we bring you THAT LAST CHRISTMAS.