John Waters, B-movies, Hammer Horror, Cult Films, Mondo Macabro, Asian Film, Science Fiction, Horror, Exploitation, 1970's cinema, Midnight Movies
Directors
Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Todd Browning, Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Terence Fisher, Martin Scorsese, Larry Fessenden, Mario Bava, Jérôme Boivin, Terry Gilliam, Guy Maddin, HG Lewis, James Whale, Don Coscarelli, Peter Jackson, Peter Greenaway, Guillermo del Toro, Guy Maddin, Jack Hill, Roger Corman, Ken Russell, Ishiro Honda, Eddie Romero, Wes Anderson, Freddie Francis, Alejandro Jodorowsky, George Romero, Ingmar Bergman, Takashi Miike, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Festivals
Oldenburg International Film Festival, Boston Fantastic Film Festival, Nevermore Film Festival, Leeds Anime Horror Film Festival, IFFYNTX Festival
Professional Affiliations
Screen Actors Guild
MonsterPants's Interests
General
Cult Films, Shock Cinema, 1960's pop culture, Comic Books, old school Punk Rock, all kinds of trash -- both smart and stupid.
Music
Most of the good stuff, and all of the bad.
Movies
Automatons, Trigger Man, Habit, The Off Season, The Roost, No Telling, The Pod, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Phantasm, CanniBallistic!
Television
Movies are better than television.
Books
Cow, Psychonaut, What Are You Voting For?, Satan Hates You, Mondo Macabro, Sleazoid Express, Fear Withour Frontiers, Immoral Tales, Psychotronic Video, Shock Cinema
Heroes
John Waters, David Lynch, Ed Wood, Tod Browning, Ishiro Honda, Angus Scrimm, Mario Bava, John Levene, Takashi Miike, Larry Fessenden, Sam Raimi, Jérôme Boivin, Terry Gilliam, Guy Maddin, James Whale, Roger Corman, Don Coscarelli, Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
AUTOMATONS is a black & white, low-tech, special effects film about the horrors of war and robots. It stars newcomer Christine Spencer, Brenda Cooney (THE OFF SEASON) & Angus Scrimm (PHANTASM) with Don Wood (COLONIAL HOUSE), Noah DeFilippis (THE OFF SEASON) , John Levene (DOCTOR WHO) and Larry Fessenden (SESSION 9).
Get the Automatons Soundtrack by the Noisettes through iTunes or at CD Baby!
"...the movie's loving attention to light and shade transcends its hermetic setting and meager budget. At times the buzzing static and fizzy backlighting recall the glistening surrealism of the filmmaker Guy Maddin... enormously endearing"
-- Jeannette Catsoulis, NEW YORK TIMES
"Automatons is what happens when Eraserhead and Tetsuo the Iron Man bong themselves into oblivion and collaborate on a minimalist avant-garde sci-fi cheapie shot in a toolshed... Robot radness achieved! Budgets are for bitches. "
-- Nathan Lee, VILLAGE VOICE
"It's not a film of compromise but of sheer determination, refusing to be defined by its budget and liberated by a decision to overcome its bank account with sheer imagination."
-- S. James Snyder, NEW YORK SUN
"Ed Wood, the notorious director of Plan 9 From Outer Space and Glen or Glenda, has risen from the dead and returned to filmmaking as James Felix McKenney... And I mean that as a compliment."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"AUTOMATONS is a smart, thought-provoking tale equipped with the moody ambiance and intellectual integrity of a classic episode of THE OUTER LIMITS. That's high praise indeed."
-- Steven Puchalski, SHOCK CINEMA
"The beautiful indie sci-fi film AUTOMATONS is a troubling vision of things to come.
Enough to make you think, worry and pray."
-- Louis Fowler, ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHRONICLE
"Automatons is an excellent homage to the movies of yesteryear, and will be quite a thrill for anyone who misses those old days."
-- Steve Anderson, FILM THREAT
"It's sci-fi existentialism at its rawest..a kind of WAITING FOR ROBOT, if Samuel Beckett's tale had involved warring machinery... the best Super-8 home movie made by a 12-year-old boy in the body of an adult that I've seen in a very long time."
-- Scooter McCrae, FANGORIA
"The robot action is often much more riveting than similar scenes in movies with many times the budget and technical sophistication."
-- Jay Seaver, UGO.COM
"AUTOMATONS is a wonderfully made, socially conscious low budget film and I cannot recommend it enough."
-- Brian Harris, JOE HORROR.COM
"AUTOMATONS does what all good sci fi stories should."
-- Adam Barnick, ENTERTAINMENT INSIDERS
"Best Shoestring Sci-Fi of 2006"
-- Jason Silverman, WIRED
Who I'd like to meet: Folks who like weird and unusual films with micoscopic budgets.
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