About me:
I'm a filmmaker. I've made two features THE LAST BROADCAST and HEAD TRAUMA. Both films are currently available on DVD nationwide in retail and rental outlets. Here are some samples of my work.
Both films feature over 2 hours of bonus features that take you behind the scenes of the making of these cult flicks.
Available at retail outlets BEST BUY, BORDERS, BARNS & NOBLE, CIRCUIT CITY -- online outlets AMAZON, Diabolik DVD, BUY.COM, and many more outlets nationwide...
HEAD TRAUMA DVDs are available NOW.
The DVD is loaded with over two hours of bonus features.
* Audio commentary by director Lance Weiler
* Six featurettes:
- Cast interviews
- Blowing up a car on a tight budget - Shooting in the house (working in a haunted condemned structure)
- Johnny Magdic and his Amazing Flying
- Comics veteran Stephen R. Bissette discusses the art of HEAD
- Behind the music of HEAD TRAUMA
* A special collector's edition eight-page booklet with original art Bissette and liner notes by GRUDGE screenwriter Stephen Susco
* Trailers HEAD TRAUMA and Weiler/Stefan Avalos' THE LAST BROADCAST
* An Easter egg or two
"Any number of big-deal filmmakers - M. Night Shyamalan, for one - would be well-served by a viewing of the low-budget Head Trauma. ...this simple and effective psycho-thriller creates a mood of dread and dissociation, and sustains it, without resorting to elaborate special effects, or a colorful crowd of actors, or otherworldly mystical hooey." 3 out of 4 stars
- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"I'm giving this film my first ever 10 and have to say the hopes and dreams of the great American horror are now on Weiler's shoulders."
- CINEPHELIA.COM
"With his second outing, Weiler proves himself a seriously skilled director. His tone has much in common with the recent spate of Japanese horror films. There's the emphasis on atmosphere, the sad, restless ghosts of the past, the jittery camerawork. It's a wonder Hollywood hasn't snapped him up to helm one of the countless J-horror remakes taking place stateside (The Ring, The Grudge, Pulse). It's almost depressing to think what Weiler could have done with the recent revision of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 chiller Pulse."
- THE ALIBI
"HEAD TRAUMA will leave you scratching yours in the midst of a fantastic, scary ride that leaves no unanswered questions and does its job with the utmost competence and sheer unalloyed glee."4 stars
- FILM THREAT
"In this game melding of the conventions of the modern Japanese ghost story with those of the standard American amnesia melodrama, writer-director Lance Weiler delivers a fair number of chills, a modicum of thrills and some downright nifty pyrotechnics. Tracing the doomed efforts of its whiny protagonist (Francis Coppola look-alike Vince Mola) to salvage the run-down and apparently haunted house he..s inherited from his grandmother, Head Trauma unassumingly works its way under the skin, raising neck hairs while teasing us to pry open its psychological puzzle box of unpaid pipers and arrested development."
-LA WEEKLY
"The growling, hooded figure which dogs George through the story is an absolutely terrifying apparition, perhaps the simplest and most haunting monster to grace a movie screen since the debut of Freddy Krueger in the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street."
- BLOODY DISGUSTING
"One of this year's touchstones... Demonstrating once again that ingenuity and invention are more important than millions of dollars in budget, Weiler most effectively works within the confines of the dark house. As more and more unsettling things start to happen, it's almost as though the house were growing into a full-fledged, recently awakened character that is not sure what it wants to do when it sees that it's under attack... Head Trauma creeped me out."
- TWITCHFILM.NET
"A slick, original, attention-grabbing feature... pushes the medium to the edge of its artistic bounds."
- ALBUQUERQUE WEEKLY
"Horror outing that revives the under appreciated monster of the id to great effect."
- MOVIE CITY NEWS
"You know the ones: Jacob's Ladder, 12 Monkeys, even Lost Highway. Head Trauma is a solid induction into these halls of creepy mindfucks."
- THE PORTLAND MERCURY
"Elicits effective creeps. A well executed haunted house exercise that treads the psychological vs. supernatural line."
- AIN'T IT COOL NEWS
"Incredibly creepy... good re-creation of 70's horror."
-TUCSON WEEKLY
"Fright classic... surprisingly effective chiller."
- THE OREGONIAN
"HEAD TRAUMA is completely pro. From packaging to film quality to the movie's website, it seems like there was big money behind this film."
- LOCAL IQ
HEAD TRAUMA cinema ARG featured on Current TV
CURSED the HEAD TRAUMA movie project - the alternate soundtrack
In stores NOW!
OR buy it directly from director Lance Weiler's store
We created an alternate soundtrack for my newest feature film HEAD TRAUMA. The soundtrack CD is meant to be cued up with a special scene on the DVD of the movie. So if you turn down the volume on the TV and turn up the volume on the stereo you'll get an alternate soundtrack experience. For more info on the soundtrack and it's release visit Park the Van records or watch a video describing the process at click here
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Do u have trauma?
Director Lance Weiler discusses the making of HEAD TRAUMA
BRO, WHAT'S UP?? I HOPE ALL IS WELL! LISTEN, GET AT ME WHEN YOU CAN..READY TO WORK WITH YOU..I HAVE SOME GREAT STUFF TOO!! HOPE 2 HEAR FROM YOU SOON..ROCK ON!!
hey lance hope this post finds you well , i am kicking myself for missing the bardo pond show at johnnybrenda's ... that was a very adventurous idea to have them play the head trauma soundtrack live !! will there ever be anymore big screen showings of your two classics in or around the area again ??? let's hope so !!! can't wait to see what's on tap next from your dark and twisted imagination !!!! stay true to you vision mate!!! i added you as a friend at my page . peace chris
I just wanted to say that eversince you had headtrauma on myspace i got very curious about the movie. I order it and saw it. Love the movie. By far the best for what it's made. You inspire me to make one. Someday. I just wanted say great movie.
Thanks for the add. The Last Broadcast is one of my favorites. I saw it on Cinemax, a while ago, and loved it. I Special Ordered the DVD to watch last Halloween. ...it was way ahead of it's time.
