summer horror day - full film
This is a film made around 1987 in Lancashire by enthusiastic amateur teenagers who had seen too many George Romero
or Lucio Fulci
movies. Be warned. It's bad. Very bad. And the music is bad. It was originally conceived as three short stories, but people vanished to go to University so all the footage was spliced together to make it into a totally incomprehensible mess. The makers do not accept any liability for any injury or death by boredom that may take place while watching this. We also do not need to be reminded that it's rubbish.
It was made on a Sankyo Super 8 camera. My Dad build a brilliant 'cart' with tyres to allow smooth movement, and also gave me a fisheye lens which fitted the camera. My parents used to take me to Manchester to buy special effects gear from theatre shops, and a friend of ours who had cancer gave me his wig to use as hair for a fake head. It was probably more fun to make than it is to watch.
Editing with a cheap manual editor was difficult, especially due to the way the sound was 18 frames away from the image, and the film was transferred to video very badly hence the poor quality. it would have been so much easier today using the current technology!
The music was done on a cheap casio keyboard that I found in my sisters bedroom. I have no musical skill whatsoever, and couldn't even play, so I don't know what possessed me to even try. Soundtrack highly influenced by Fabio Frizzi and Nick Magnus. I apologise to them in advance. :-)
A planned follow up, Curse of the Screaming Undead, never got made. Thankfully, perhaps.
This version is edited down from the original, which was 20 minutes longer and even more tedious. It also featured 10 minutes of 'found footage' as a prologue (Cannibal Holocaust influence there!) that was from another film I'd tried to make.
It was made on a Sankyo Super 8 camera. My Dad build a brilliant 'cart' with tyres to allow smooth movement, and also gave me a fisheye lens which fitted the camera. My parents used to take me to Manchester to buy special effects gear from theatre shops, and a friend of ours who had cancer gave me his wig to use as hair for a fake head. It was probably more fun to make than it is to watch.
Editing with a cheap manual editor was difficult, especially due to the way the sound was 18 frames away from the image, and the film was transferred to video very badly hence the poor quality. it would have been so much easier today using the current technology!
The music was done on a cheap casio keyboard that I found in my sisters bedroom. I have no musical skill whatsoever, and couldn't even play, so I don't know what possessed me to even try. Soundtrack highly influenced by Fabio Frizzi and Nick Magnus. I apologise to them in advance. :-)
A planned follow up, Curse of the Screaming Undead, never got made. Thankfully, perhaps.
This version is edited down from the original, which was 20 minutes longer and even more tedious. It also featured 10 minutes of 'found footage' as a prologue (Cannibal Holocaust influence there!) that was from another film I'd tried to make.