"The Jungle Man" - Behind the scenes!

Here's a few pics from the making of 

"The Jungle Man"

 

 

Don't forget to check out the short if you haven't yet!!!
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THE JUNGLE MAN - Cast

The new Elmwood Productions short is hitting in time for Halloween!

Part of the "Graveyard Gil's Midnite Thrills" series!

"THE JUNGLE MAN"!

Some horror/comedy...  It's actually pretty absurd and outrageous! 

Check it out on Elmwood's VHX network!

And the cast from left to right:

Hillbilly - Rich Misivets
The Jungle Man - Jon Bristol
Richie - Rich Mislivets

Billie - Tabitha Cole
The Lunar Lady - Jon Bristol

Kerry - Kerry Lord

Raul - Pete Lucco

John - John Fulcher
Pauly - Alex Sims
Brenda - Nicki LaPorte
Hillbilly - Gabe Finkenstein

Check it out NOW!!! 

Can You Picture That?

Gotta love The Muppets!

Couch Grouches - Podcast Appearance!

I was a guest on COUCH GROUCHES this week!

Check it out!  

HEAD - Now On Vidi Space!

HEAD is now on Vidi Space

And don't forget all the other great place to get HEAD as well:

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 Amazon Prime

iTunes

TubiTV

VUDU

Swallowing Souls at Local Fairs Everywhere!

HEAD is Screening in Pennsylvania THIS WEEKEND!

HEAD​ is screening 10/13 in PA!

At the Vidjam Horror Festival​!!!

Join director Jon Bristol (and a surprise guest or two!) at the screening for a Q&A following the flick!!!  

HEAD Screens at 2:30

Also - Jon will be holding a workshop about Puppetry on Film!

Don't miss out!  

http://vidjam.org/horror/

Grandma Virginia

Grandma

Mouth Puppet

Used in a commercial for Dean's Stove & Spa.

Watch the commercial below! - 

I know I've been lacking in post on puppets I've built...  But I am building!  Just they are all for somewhat secretive projects.  As soon as I can share them, you'll see them!

Bambi, Can't You Understand?

Life Is Good.

I'm Coming to Pennsylvania! 10/13!

HEAD​ is screening 10/13 in PA!

At the Vidjam Horror Festival​!!!

Join director Jon Bristol (and a surprise guest or two!) at the screening for a Q&A following the flick!!!  

HEAD Screens at 2:30

Also - Jon will be holding a workshop about Puppetry on Film!

Don't miss out!  

http://vidjam.org/horror/

OCTOBER IS HORROR MOVIE SEASON!!!

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iTunes

TubiTV

VUDU

Lucky Numbers

In early 1995 I went to Florida with my dad and two uncles to visit my grandfather for his birthday.
One nite we stopped at a very out of the way restaurant,  that had some amazing food.

On the way out I say a funny looking machine that would guess your weight and give you a fortune.
I don't remember if it got my weight right.
But it did spit out this card, with a fortune, some lucky numbers, and some additional words of wisdom.
All these years later I still have it.  It's hanging in the studio now.  It has been in all the studios over the years.  It's a nice thing to look over and see when I'm feeling down, or overwhelmed, and so on.
It's also a nice reminder of some great times when thins in my life weren't so great.  Sometimes it's the little things that make life good.

This little piece of cardboard is one of those.

Remember - "Happiness Lies In The Heart, Not In The Mind." 

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Should I be sent to Guantanamo?

I just read a post on Facebook by a guy who really hated HEAD.

I mean REALLY hated it....

"Go find yourself a movie called HEAD (not the Jack Nicholson-produced Monkees one) and if you haven't destroyed your surroundings in shear, blind, frustrated rage like a steroid-fueled gorilla in a Samsonite ad by the end and somehow still have faith in humanity as a species to give it a pass cuz, hey, it's got puppets in it, then you'd last longer in Guantanamo than me. It's a movie that fails on so many levels, I wouldn’t dare give it a third grade "aww, you tried award" because I'm not entirely sure it even did that."

I kind of want that on a plaque on my studio wall...

This guy didn't just hate the flick he probably lost sleep over it, holy shit, hahaha...

Normally this kind of thing I laugh at.  He obviously missed the point of the film.

A straightforward B-Horror film in the style of the late 1970's/early '80's that could have been down with (bad) actors but instead done with puppets.  And I feel like he was looking for high art, or a Muppet movie.  Or at least something "more".

I'm not upset he didn't like it.  But I'm actually surprised he would attack it so hard, especially since I know the guy, and even went out of my way to screen a film he was part of at the old Paris In Plantsville gallery for the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry.

His flick was pretty much the same as HEAD, but not horror/comedy but a crime/comedy...  Puppets dropping F-Bombs, doing bad things, and getting killed...  And that's why I'm not laughing too hard at the moment.  His post really seemed to be aimed at "Happytime Murders" for being so close to the project he had worked on (and screened at Paris).  And he isn't wrong.  They are very alike.  But why drag you fellow local puppetry group and film makers into your vitriol?  We had nothing to do with "Happytime".  Hell, "HEAD" was shot and released over there years ago at this point.

He mentions in the same post how it's human/puppets and the puppets are lower class citizens, and so on...  How his flick and Happytime are similar like that, feeling ripped off...  And, yes, I am paraphrasing.  Hell, his show was in 2011.  "Josh and Todd" was shot in 2008/9 and released in February of 2011 and I didn't say his flick stole the idea when we met.  

It's an old idea...  

Greg the Bunny did it.  Even the Muppets had hints of it.

Relax.

Enjoy that fellow artists are bringing the art you love to the masses.  

Then work on doing the same with yours.

I'll laugh real hard later though.  Don't worry about me.

What I don't find funny is that I did something nice for him.  

And for an organization he is a part of.  And I did it for free, being told the favor would be re-paid.

And as of yet years later, the favor has not been.  

Maybe now is the time for me to call that favor in?

So...  

Wanna see what he hated so much?

Love it or hate it - HEAD is available HERE

And heres's a picture of me the night of the premiere of the film back in 2015.

You can see I am smiling.  Surrounded by some awesome people that helped make the movie happen.

I'm smiling cuz we did it.  We made a crazy movie people said couldn't be done.

A movie that has played festivals worldwide and won awards in the process.

I movie I am proud of.

Sorry, I'm not a bitter asshole.  Just gonna keep making movies with puppets.

Cuz I love it!

Kids, be careful who you spit on.  Someday you may have to answer to them.  Or even worse, not have the opportunity to because they saw what ya wrote on the internet.

Driving Rain... On a rainy day...

I love when puppets are in music videos!

Sunday...

Piano & A Microphone 1983

Double Standard!

 

Not everyone has a handle on proper sexting etiquette!  

Thankfully Elmwood Productions has this handy little video to teach you more about this!

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