Musician Jesse Dayton may be best known to genre fans as “Captain Clegg,” the front man to the psychobilly band seen in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, as he not only performed under the moniker in the film but also was the opening act on Zombie’s music tour that kicked off later that year as well.
Now Dayton is gearing up to show his fans out there another side of himself as the writer/director just wrapped production on his first feature film entitled Zombex, a zombie flick that explores the concept that maybe pharmaceutical companies could actually be dastardly enough to be responsible for creating a zombie apocalypse through the distribution of their medicinal products.
Starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses), David Christopher (The Sinner), Slayer lead singer Tom Araya, Emily Kaye...
Now Dayton is gearing up to show his fans out there another side of himself as the writer/director just wrapped production on his first feature film entitled Zombex, a zombie flick that explores the concept that maybe pharmaceutical companies could actually be dastardly enough to be responsible for creating a zombie apocalypse through the distribution of their medicinal products.
Starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses), David Christopher (The Sinner), Slayer lead singer Tom Araya, Emily Kaye...
- 6/7/2011
- by thehorrorchick
- DreadCentral.com
What goes together better than zombies and music? Nothing! Though a bullet and Bin Laden's left eye is a close second. In any event word has just broken about a new tune driven flick that's filled with tons of horror icons! Read on for the details.
Zombex is on its way from indie director Jesse Dayton, and dig on the rogue's gallery he has starring in his flick - Lew Temple, David Christopher, Emily Kaye, Malcom McDowell, Sid Haig, Corey Feldman, and Edward St. Pe'.
No word on distro yet, but keep an eye on the Official Zombex website and the Official Zombex Facebook page for more.
Synopsis
Zombex tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. Gone is the depression and post-traumatic stress of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary Zombex, a rogue, yet "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization.
Zombex is on its way from indie director Jesse Dayton, and dig on the rogue's gallery he has starring in his flick - Lew Temple, David Christopher, Emily Kaye, Malcom McDowell, Sid Haig, Corey Feldman, and Edward St. Pe'.
No word on distro yet, but keep an eye on the Official Zombex website and the Official Zombex Facebook page for more.
Synopsis
Zombex tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. Gone is the depression and post-traumatic stress of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary Zombex, a rogue, yet "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization.
- 5/6/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Where most zombie movies centre around people trying to kill the zombie hordes, Jesse Dayton's Zombex might have something else on up its sleeve. Here's the official synopsis:
Zombex tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. Gone is the depression and post-traumatic stress of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary Zombex, a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For the residents of the Big Easy everything is just now turning around for them. Or, is it just the anti-depressant Zombex talking. It is. Just as quickly as the city seemingly turned around, it turns again. Only this time, turning Nola's inhabitants into the city's walking dead.
Reading that, I can't help but think that this "nefarious organization" is out to create a zombie horde. For what purpose is yet to be revealed.
As cool as this story sounds,...
Zombex tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. Gone is the depression and post-traumatic stress of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary Zombex, a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For the residents of the Big Easy everything is just now turning around for them. Or, is it just the anti-depressant Zombex talking. It is. Just as quickly as the city seemingly turned around, it turns again. Only this time, turning Nola's inhabitants into the city's walking dead.
Reading that, I can't help but think that this "nefarious organization" is out to create a zombie horde. For what purpose is yet to be revealed.
As cool as this story sounds,...
- 5/5/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Film review: 'Happy, Texas'
PARK CITY, Utah -- Pull off your earmuffs and snap on your cellular: There's a very funny comedy playing in competition at Sundance, which is not renown for its light, cheery competitive fare. "Happy, Texas" will bring smiles and belly laughs in "Everytown, USA" and could cash in with some nifty mainstream change for a wily distributor.
A down-home farce, "Happy, Texas" plotwise is smack dab in the middle of genreville. It's the snappy yarn of a couple of outsiders, two escaped convicts who happen into a small burg and are mistaken for pageant producers who are due to help the locals with a beauty/dance show. Schoolgirl beauty pageants are one of those important Texas things, and evidently the townsfolk take it as seriously as they do their high school football.
What makes this thing a hoot is that the cons, Harry (Jeremy Northam) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. (Steve Zahn) are not exactly the kind of chaps in touch with their feminine side, and the Happy people are expecting a couple of gay pageant producers. Pulling a reverse "Birdcage", Harry and Wayne take to acting fey as well as trying to muster the wherewithal for the pageant.
Fortunately, the tale involves a lot more than this slapstickish, sexual-misidentity situation, and the two not only get involved with the townsfolk but actually come to be embraced by them. Amid the silliness and farce, there's a lot of heart, a credit to the screenwriting triumvirate of Ed Stone, director-producer Mark Illsley and Phil Reeves, who not only hit the right generic marks but spruce up the narrative with tenderness.
Zahn is downright show-stealing as the dumb-cluck con. His antic mannerisms and blank stares are stoked high with the frustrations of a guy who doesn't catch on real fast. As the smarter, straight con Harry, Northam shows the inner conflicts of an inherently decent man who has always taken the easy road. Many of their exchanges are of the Butch/Sundance variety in their easy give-and-take.
The townsfolk are a well-selected lot. William H. Macy is especially engaging and sympathetic as a decent, lonely lawman, while Illeana Douglas is winningly full of beans as a lively, frustrated school teacher.
Under Illsley's tangy-sweet direction, the technical contributions are a perfect fitting for this off-road lark. Cinematographer Bruce Douglas Johnson's brightly lumed lensings and zingy compositions and Peter Harris' jaunty, homespun music are just the right saucy ingredients.
HAPPY, TEXAS
MARKed Entertainment presents
An Illsley/Stone production
A film by Mark Illsley
Producers: Mark Illsley, Rick Montgomery, Ed Stone
Director: Mark Illsley
Screenwriters: Ed Stone, Mark Illsley, Phil Reeves
Co-producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Executive producer: Jason Clark
Director of photography: Bruce Douglas Johnson
Editor: Norman Buckley
Production designer: Maurin Scarlata
Music: Peter Harris
Music supervisors: Emily Kaye, Alex Patsavas
Costume designer: Julia Schklair
Casting: Joe Garcia
Choreographer: Kelly Devine
Sound mixer: Ed White
Color/stereo
Cast:
Harry Sawyer: Jeremy Northam
Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. : Steve Zahn
Sheriff Chappy Dent: William H. Macy
Josephine McClintock: Ally Walker
Ms. Schaefer: Illeana Douglas
Bob: M.C. Gainey
Nalhober: Ron Perlman
Mrs. Bromley: Mo Gaffney
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A down-home farce, "Happy, Texas" plotwise is smack dab in the middle of genreville. It's the snappy yarn of a couple of outsiders, two escaped convicts who happen into a small burg and are mistaken for pageant producers who are due to help the locals with a beauty/dance show. Schoolgirl beauty pageants are one of those important Texas things, and evidently the townsfolk take it as seriously as they do their high school football.
What makes this thing a hoot is that the cons, Harry (Jeremy Northam) and Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. (Steve Zahn) are not exactly the kind of chaps in touch with their feminine side, and the Happy people are expecting a couple of gay pageant producers. Pulling a reverse "Birdcage", Harry and Wayne take to acting fey as well as trying to muster the wherewithal for the pageant.
Fortunately, the tale involves a lot more than this slapstickish, sexual-misidentity situation, and the two not only get involved with the townsfolk but actually come to be embraced by them. Amid the silliness and farce, there's a lot of heart, a credit to the screenwriting triumvirate of Ed Stone, director-producer Mark Illsley and Phil Reeves, who not only hit the right generic marks but spruce up the narrative with tenderness.
Zahn is downright show-stealing as the dumb-cluck con. His antic mannerisms and blank stares are stoked high with the frustrations of a guy who doesn't catch on real fast. As the smarter, straight con Harry, Northam shows the inner conflicts of an inherently decent man who has always taken the easy road. Many of their exchanges are of the Butch/Sundance variety in their easy give-and-take.
The townsfolk are a well-selected lot. William H. Macy is especially engaging and sympathetic as a decent, lonely lawman, while Illeana Douglas is winningly full of beans as a lively, frustrated school teacher.
Under Illsley's tangy-sweet direction, the technical contributions are a perfect fitting for this off-road lark. Cinematographer Bruce Douglas Johnson's brightly lumed lensings and zingy compositions and Peter Harris' jaunty, homespun music are just the right saucy ingredients.
HAPPY, TEXAS
MARKed Entertainment presents
An Illsley/Stone production
A film by Mark Illsley
Producers: Mark Illsley, Rick Montgomery, Ed Stone
Director: Mark Illsley
Screenwriters: Ed Stone, Mark Illsley, Phil Reeves
Co-producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Executive producer: Jason Clark
Director of photography: Bruce Douglas Johnson
Editor: Norman Buckley
Production designer: Maurin Scarlata
Music: Peter Harris
Music supervisors: Emily Kaye, Alex Patsavas
Costume designer: Julia Schklair
Casting: Joe Garcia
Choreographer: Kelly Devine
Sound mixer: Ed White
Color/stereo
Cast:
Harry Sawyer: Jeremy Northam
Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr. : Steve Zahn
Sheriff Chappy Dent: William H. Macy
Josephine McClintock: Ally Walker
Ms. Schaefer: Illeana Douglas
Bob: M.C. Gainey
Nalhober: Ron Perlman
Mrs. Bromley: Mo Gaffney
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/27/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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