Saturday, June 02, 2007
Other views of Cannes
Here's a bit of perspective from other members of the Cannes Crew.
Enjoy, please, the Cannes experience as told by Graham and Dave from Oaktree, and Paul, Michael and Cop from Pleased Sheep.
And check out their sites via the sidebar.
Then enjoy the photos.
That is all.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Cannes - the return
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
The Groovy Age Of Horror
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
A Sick Puppy Site
Monday, April 02, 2007
Straight8 - "The Gourmand" - We've done it!
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Thrilling Pics Of Torment and Cuisine
We apologise in advance.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
A Tale of Two Films
In related news, Sick Pup Rob will be slaving over a hot laptop this week to finish the voiceover and sound mix for "The Gourmand". It will be a lonely job. Send him thoughts of a tender and perhaps slightly erotic nature.
Monday, March 19, 2007
The Story of the Sick Puppy Straight8 project - or 'Third Time Lucky!'
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Answer to yesterday's Quote Of The Day
Brazil (1985) dir. Terry Gilliam
T.V. Interviewer: "How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?"
Mr. Helpmann: "Beginners' luck."
Monday, March 12, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"Beginners' luck."
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Robot Jox (1990) dir. Stuart Gordon
Achilles: "You're making my beer curdle."
Alexander: "And you make my drink taste like blood."
Friday, March 09, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"And you make my drink taste like blood."
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Santa Sangre (1989) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fenix: "No! I can't! Don't ask me to!"
Concha: "I'm not asking you, I'm ordering...my hands...and my arms...to kill her. Kill her!"
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"I'm not asking you, I'm ordering...my hands...and my arms...to kill her. Kill her!"
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
Father Damien Karras: "Well, then let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras."
Pazuzu: "And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps."
Father Damien Karras: "If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?"
Pazuzu: "That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras."
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"And I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps."
"If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?"
"That's much too vulgar a display of power, ------."
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Love At First Bite (1979) dir. Stan Dragoti
Count Vladimir Dracula: "Children of the night - shut up!"
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Ghost Rider (2007) dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Ghost Rider: "Your soul has been tainted by the blood of the innocent. Look into my eyes and feel their pain!"
Monday, March 05, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1994) dir. Bradford May
Robert G. Durant: "I knew you'd come after me. All I had to do was dangle the right bait in front of what's left of your nose."
Friday, March 02, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Nightbreed (1990) dir. Clive Barker
Narcisse: "Are you going to kill him or not? Only I want his balls, and his eyes...unless you want them."
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Things To Come (1936) dir. William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Passworthy: "But...we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little...little animals."
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Straight8 2007: Join us - become a Sick Puppy!
Having signed up for this year's straight8 competition - we need help!
the challenge: to shoot a film on a single cartridge of super 8mm film which we can only edit in-camera. Then to hand back the un-developed film to the organisers for processing, together with an original soundtrack.
We, The Sick Puppies are a multi-skilled team of writers/producers/directors/sound designer & composer.
So far, we have a script, a camera and have provisionally cast three of the four main roles. But in order to achieve everything set out in the script, we need people with specific skills who are excited about the challenges of making a straight8 film.
Do you have a love for 1950s Sci-Fi films, especially B-Movies? Are you passionate about rock n roll music, 1950s fashions and dance crazes? Are you interested in the look and design of Soviet Russian propaganda posters and films? Do you want to make new contacts with London based independent filmmakers?
If your answer to any of the above questions was yes, we need people with the following skills to join our Sick Puppy team:
Model Making/Model FX (no CGI, all effects must be done in camera)
Costume Designer
Make-up artist
Wig/Hair Stylist
Dance Choreographer (with experience of 1950s style dancing - jitterbug etc)
Set Designer
Graphic Designer
The deadline for the competition is April 2nd - so all filming will be completed by the end of March. All expenses and materials costs will be covered by us.
If you are interested, please email me at:
primethemovie@hotmail.com
Many Thanks,
Clive Ashenden
Producer/Director
Sick Puppy Films
For more information on straight8, check out their website - http://www.straight8.net/
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Creeping Flesh (1973) dir. Freddie Francis
James Hildern: "Unfortunately, in the state of society as it exists today, we are not permitted to experiment on human beings. Normal human beings."
Sick Puppies enter Straight8
Monday, February 26, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Dead & Buried (1981) dir. Gary Sherman
Dobbs: "You can try to kill me, Dan. But you can't. You can only make me dead."
Friday, February 23, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Death Mask (1998) dir. Steve Latshaw
Swamp Lady: "This mask harbors the soul of a vengeful monster!"
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Atomic Submarine (1959) dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
Voice of Spaceman: "At last Commander, we meet as your people say... face to face!"
Cmdr. Richard 'Reef' Holloway: "That's a face?"
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"That's a face?"
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Masque Of The Red Death (1964) dir. Roger Corman
Prospero: "The way is not easy, I know, but I will take you by the hand and lead you through the cruel light into the velvet darkness."
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
La Maschera Del Demonio [aka. Black Sunday/Mask Of The Demon] (1960) dir. Mario Bava
Princess Asa Vajda: "You, too, can feel the joy and happiness of hating."
Monday, February 19, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Hellboy (2004) dir. Guillermo del Toro
Abe Sapien: "If there's trouble, all us freaks have is each other."
Sunday, February 18, 2007
More Horror Than You Can Shake A Gore-streaked Stick At!
Well worth a look, as long as your cheese filter is set to "tolerant"...
However, they missed one out that should be required viewing for any Sick Puppy...
Friday, February 16, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Innocent Blood (1992) dir. John Landis
Marie: "I take lives."
Joe: "Ya well, if you were perfect you wouldn't still be single."
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"Ya well, if you were perfect you wouldn't still be single."
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Wizards (1977) dir. Ralph Bakshi
Avatar: "I'm too old for this sort of thing. Just wake me up when the planet's destroyed."
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Death Race 2000 (1975) dir. Paul Bartel
Junior Bruce: "Well America, there you have it, Frankenstein has just been attacked by the French Air Force and he's whipped their derrieres!"
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) dir. W.D. Richter
Lord John Whorfin: "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life."
Friday, February 09, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Tuesday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Screamers (1995) dir. Christian Duguay
Jessica: "We can laugh, we can cry. We can bleed...we can f*ck."
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
Roy Batty: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Monster Squad (1987) dir. Fred Dekker
Eugene: "Creature stole my twinkie!"
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Child's Play (1988) dir. Tom Holland
Chucky: "We're friends 'til the end, remember?"
Andy: "This is the end, friend."
Friday, February 02, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"This is the end, friend."
[answer Tuesday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Night Of The Lepus (1972) dir. William F. Claxton
Officer Lopez: "Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Sick Puppy Tales (see what we did there?)
Update: Robbie Williams Competition Results
"The 80s: A Sick Puppy Film". Cheers.
The audience award was won by: "12,50 Pounds" - so congratulations to Nahuel Lerena, Pato Byrne & Paula Alvarez Vaccaro.
They are still waiting for the judges to choose a winner of the judges award, but they have now published a shortlist of ten films they will choose from. We didn't make the shortlist (no indication of who actually chose the shortlisted films) - but if you are curious you can watch the shortlisted films on the competition website:
http://www.robbiewilliams.com/rudeboxshorts/
Right - time for the next cinematic adventure to begin! More news on that later...
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Koroshiya 1 [aka. Ichi The Killer] (2001) dir. Takashi Miike
Kakihara: "Listen, when you're giving pain to someone, don't think about the pain that person is feeling. Just concentrate on how good it feels to be causing someone pain. That's the best thing you can do for a true masochist!"
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) dir. Mick Garris
Harv: "What is this bullsh*t? Them man-eating dust mops got us roped up tighter than a blue-ribbon bull and all you folks can do is stand here and play kick-the-can with some punk kid!"
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Grizzly (1976) dir. William Girdler & David Sheldon
Don Stober: "If ya feel a wet snout in ya face, whatever you do, don't move. And don't kiss it back 'cause it ain't me."
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Bigfoot (1970) dir. Robert F. Slatzer
Joi Landis: "They're practically sub-human, except that they still live like animals!"
Friday, January 26, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Cat People (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur
Oliver 'Ollie' Reed: "You cold?"
Alice Moore: "A cat just walked over my grave."
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"A cat just walked over my grave."
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (1979) dir. Werner Herzog
Warden: "The patient that came in yesterday is having a fit."
Van Helsing: "Which one?"
Warden: "The one that bit the cow."
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"Which one?"
"The one that bit the cow."
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Horror Express (1973) dir. Eugenio Martin
Dr. Wells: "Are you telling me that an ape that lived two million years ago got out of that crate, killed the baggage man and put him in there, then locked everything up neat and tidy, and got away?"
Professor Saxton: "YES I AM! It's alive, it must be!"
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"YES I AM! It's alive, it must be!"
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Hard Candy (2005) dir. David Slade
Hayley Stark: "Well if Denise was here right now, what would you say?"
Jeff Kohlver: "I'd say, 'Help...a teenager cut my balls off. Call the police.'"
Monday, January 22, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"I'd say, 'Help...a teenager cut my balls off. Call the police.'"
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Le Locataire [aka. The Tenant] (1976) dir. Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky: "If you cut off my head, what would I say...Me and my head, or me and my body? What right has my head to call itself me?"
Friday, January 19, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Comedy Of Terrors (1964) dir. Jacques Tourneur
Amos Hinchley: "And so, my friends, we find ourselves gathered around the bier of Mrs...er...Mr... you know whom! This litter of sorrow, this cairn, this cromlech, this dread dochma, this gart, this mastaba, this sorrowing tope, this unhappy tumulus, this...this...what is the word? This...er, coffin! Never could think of that word."
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Witchfinder General (1968) dir. Michael Reeves
Matthew Hopkins: "They swim...the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang."
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Island Of Terror (1966) dir. Terence Fisher
Constable John Harris: "There was no face. Just a horrible mush with the eyes sittin' in it."
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Lost Boys (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher
Alan Frog: "Aaaaaah! Flies!"
Edgar Frog: "We're on the right trail. Flies and the undead go together like bullets and guns. Come on."
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"We're on the right trail. Flies and the undead go together like bullets and guns. Come on."
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Stuff (1985) dir. Larry Cohen
Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears: "The yellow sons of bitches, they took their own lives. Commie bastards. You cheated me!"
Friday, January 12, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Deep Rising (1998) dir. Stephen Sommers
Canton: "The Ottoia are very crafty. They hide in burrows, catch their victims with spiny tentacles, then they crush them between massive jaws."
Trillian St. James: "Then they eat you, right?"
Canton: "No, they drink you. They drink you alive. Sucking all the fluids out of the body before excreting the skeletal remains."
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"Then they eat you, right?"
"No, they drink you. They drink you alive. Sucking all the fluids out of the body before excreting the skeletal remains."
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Gingerdead Man (2005) dir. Charles Band
Lorna Dean: "Daddy, you have got to come and get me, I'm at Betty's Bakery and we got homicidal baked goods after us."
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939) dir. William Dieterle
Quasimodo: "I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!"
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Dead And Breakfast (2004) dir. Matthew Leutwyler
David: "Had I known it was going to feel this good to bash your brains in I would have done it a long time ago."
Monday, January 08, 2007
"Snatching Time" - Watch it now!
Yes, it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and screened at the Zone Horror Frightfest 2006 . Now, you can watch this, the Director's Cut of "Snatching Time" in the comfort of your own home, thanks to YouTube.
"Snatching Time" is a short Horror/Comedy film - produced, directed, co-written (with Rob Wickings) & edited by Clive Ashenden ("Gunplay"; "The '80s: A Sick Puppy Film") of Sick Puppy Films Ltd.
The Story:
A psychopath forces two victims to compete against each other in his own private gameshow. The loser receives a gruesome death, but what does the winner get? Who will survive - and who or what is Anthea?
The Cast:
Laura Metcalfe – Laura is an accomplished actress, having worked in the theatre and has recently completed work on Patrick Malone's sci-fi short “8%”. Laura also works as a Post Production Producer for M2.
Scott Hinds – a black-belt in numerous marshal arts, Scott started as a stunt performer before moving into acting. His most recent film credits are “Star Wars Episode III – The Revenge Of The Sith”, “Batman Begins” and the short film “Innocent Victim”.
Hugo Myatt – a veteran theatre actor, Hugo received rave notices for his role as in Dr. Frank Bryant in Willy Russell’s “Educating Rita”. His most recent film credit was in Bernard Rose's "Snuff-Movie". He is best known in the UK for his role as Treguard the Dungeonmaster in the long-running cult children’s TV series “Knightmare”.
And keep an eye out for special cameos from Sick Puppies Clive Ashenden and Rob Wickings.
Production History:
"Snatching Time" was originally produced as a competition entry for the Halloween 48 hour film challenge 2005 - where it was short listed as one of the top twenty films. The film was then subsequently re-edited, re-scored and re-mixed, with extra material added to create: "Snatching Time - The Director's Cut". The Director's Cut was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival 2006 and was showcased in the Cannes Short Film Corner. "Snatching Time" was also screened at the Zone Horror Frightfest 2006, to enthusiastic audience reaction.
Find Out More:
See pictures: pics1, pics2, pics3
Read about the making of "Snatching Time": Diaries pt.1, Diaries pt.2
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Dead Ringers (1988) dir. David Cronenberg
Elliot Mantle: "I've often thought that there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies."
Friday, January 05, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer Monday]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Terror Firmer (1999) dir. Lloyd Kaufman
Audrey Benjamin: "You killed my daddy, you maniacal, media-manipulated, homicidal, hermaphrodite freak of nature!"
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Waxwork II: Lost In Time (1992) dir. Anthony Hickox
Scarabis: "Before I kill you, tell me; from where does such reckless impetuosity originate?"
Sarah Brightman: "America!"
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
"America!"
[answer tomorrow]
Yesterday's Quote Of The Day was from:
Waxwork (1988) dir. Anthony Hickox
China: "Can't a girl get laid around here without being burned at the stake?"
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Sick Puppy's Quote Of The Day
[answer tomorrow]
Friday's Quote Of The Day was from:
The Swarm (1978) dir. Irwin Allen
Brad Crane: "General, if you use that, nothing will grow out there for the next ten years!"
General Slater: "Why worry about shaving when somebody's going to cut your head off?"