FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN Available Now in 3D from YouTube

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman 3D is now available via YouTube's 3D service. This allows the user to custom tailor the 3D experience for the capabilities of his or her display.

Just click the red '3D' button in the toolbar. Have red & blue glasses? We've got you covered. Got one of the new 3D HDTVs? Click "Change Viewing Method" and select Side By Side. YouTube's service works with a wide variety of 3D systems.

Check it out below:

FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN Now Compatible With New 3D Displays

Own a 3D TV? Head over to Vimeo and you can download a side-by-side 3D formatted version of Frankenstein vs the Wolfman!

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman 3D from Colin Clarke on Vimeo.

FvTWM screening at On the Waterfront festival in Rockford, IL

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman will be showing as part of Rockford, IL's On the Waterfront music festival. This year, the festival will be incorporating a film festival at the Sullivan Theater (the former New American Theater) at 118 N. Main Street. Frankenstein vs the Wolfman will play as part of a shorts block on Saturday, September 4th beginning at 5pm.

Click here to visit the OTW Film Festival on Facebook for a full list of selected films.

FvTWM Screening at Tri-City Independent/Fan Film Festival in Richland, WA

FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN will be showing in 3-D as part of the Tri-City Independent/Fan Film Festival in Richland, Washington! The festival runs October 15th & 16th 2010.

The creation of TCIF3 is for the promotion of Independent and Fan Films, especially in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Comic genres. We support the education of the general public in these areas by hosting film festivals, and bringing guest professionals to the community and into the local schools to educate and encourage future artists and artisans.

TCIF3 motto is “To spotlight short films made by fans with limited budgets but unlimited imagination!”

Visit the fest online at www.tcif3.com

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New Screening Announced: Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman in 3D will be screening as part of the Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest on May 16th at the Science Fiction Retail & Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada!

The festival, which will take place May 13, 14, 15 and 16, is going to consist of four days of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double features each day, bookended by trailers and music videos.

Located at the northwest corner of the Commercial Center (right off Sahara on 2520 State State, Las Vegas, NV 89109), the Sci-Fi Center is a comic book and film geek’s paradise. Owned by William Powell, the store houses a true grindhouse movie theater dubbed “The Underground Screening Room” that showcases arthouse, horror, cult, science fiction, fantasy and independent cinema not usually available at traditional theaters in Sin City.

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman now on FilmNet.com!

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman (2D version) is now available on FilmNet.com! Check it out!

FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN now available on TiVO (via OpenFilm)

According to a courtesy email from OpenFilm, you should now be able to see FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN (2D or 3D versions), and my older films RAVEN and its sequel, RAVEN 2, on your TiVO!

Check it out and let me know how it is!

FvTWM Playing at Spooky Movie: Washington DC Int'l Horror Festival

More news, fright fiends... Frankenstein vs the Wolfman (2D version) will be playing on October 25th as part of the Spooky Movie: The Washington D.C. International Horror Film Festival as part of a shorts block at 11am. Admission is FREE and open to ages 10 and up!

From the official website: "Before things get too crazy, bring the youngins on down for a fun filled hour of six short films (including three favorites from previous years of the Spooky Movie Film Festival), all at no cost! What better way to exploit that extra time you’ve gained from Daylight Savings than by sharing a wonderful program of animated spooky shorts, followed by a fascinating documentary, with your favorite little ghouls? Free admission!"

FvTWM Playing at 6th Annual Eerie Horror Film Festival

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman will be playing in 3-D at this year's Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, PA at the Warner Theatre, Oct 8-11. If you're in the area, be sure to check it out! Celebrity guests include Alice Cooper, a Lost Boys reunion (minus the Haim), and a Phantasm reunion. Plus, there's plenty of indie horror flicks on display!

Screening Update - Paranoia Horror Convention and Film Festival on 3/14/09

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman in 3D will be playing (in 3-D!) aboard the Queen Mary 2 in Long Beach, California, as part of the Paranoia Horror Convention and Film Festival on Saturday, March 14 at 10:00am.

Find out more details here - http://www.paranoiafest.com.

FvTWM now available on DVD!

At long last, Frankenstein vs the Wolfman is now available on DVD!

The disc comes with the following features:

16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen5.1
Dolby Digital surround
English subtitles (on 2-D version of movie only)
Three versions of the movie:
- Standard 2-D version
- Anaglyphic 3-D version (2 pairs of red/blue 3-D glasses included)
- High Quality Field Sequential 3-D version (shutterglasses viewing system sold separately at razor3donline.com)
Director's commentary
Audio-Only Deleted scene
Alternate Main Title Sequence
Early Test Render Version of the full movie
Teaser trailer
Trailer
Raven & Raven 2 trailers
DVD-ROM Screenplay

The self published DVD+R disc is available by clicking here for $9.99 plus shipping and handling.

FvTWM on IMDB!

Believe it or not, Frankenstein vs the Wolfman in 3-D has now been immortalized on the Internet Movie Database! The title page for my little film was offered due to a couple of film submissions I had made via their online festival submission partner, Withoutabox.

In other news, Andy C. printed up a couple of full sized 27"x40" movie posters of FvTWM over the weekend, one of which is now hanging in my basement along side company such as The Return of the Living Dead, Jaws 3-D, Friday the 13th Part 3 and that 80's heavy metal horror classic Trick or Treat! It's surreal to be able to see it in full sized glory on my wall...

A few words on the Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D Deluxe Edition DVD

I just picked up the Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D Deluxe Edition, which has been a long time coming - something I've been waiting for since 1982 (I was too young to see the movie in a theater at the time.) I can only express my disappointment with the 3D transfer on the disc.

When the disc first started up, I was thrilled to finally see the "Ladies and Gentlemen: the first few minutes of the movie are not in 3-D but you will need to wear your special glasses anyway" screen prior to the movie, something not seen on any home video format before. But the thrill was short lived as Paramount, for some reason, decided against encoding the opening title sequence in 3D, one of the most memorable moments of the theatrical experience. I can only guess as to why this was omitted; maybe it has to do with the fact that the titles are bright red and would not code well in the red and blue anaglyphic process used for the disc. (In theaters, the film was presented in a full color, polarized process, a forerunner to today's Reel D system.)

The disc's version of the movie goes full 3D beginning with the scenes in the roadside convenience store. And it is here that the disc's biggest shortcoming becomes apparent. For proper 3D alignment, the right and left eye images should be lined up with each other from top to bottom so that your eyes can cross/adjust focus to focus. But the entire Friday the 13th Part 3 disc is mis-aligned, with (for example) the right eye image being slightly higher than the left. Your brain attempts to compensate by having your eyes try to bend the left eye image upwards and the right eye image downwards so they meet as a three dimensional object. This causes eye-strain and headaches in the viewer. The larger the screen the movie is viewed on, the more pronounced the effect.

Unfortunately, the entire movie is rendered this way - as if the telecine operator lined up the image by the top of the frame and not the side-by-side alignment of the 3D image pairs. This is in no way representative of the 3D effects that can be experienced on the recent Polar Express or Journey to the Center of the Earth discs, or even the low budget Night of the Living Dead 3D remake.

The best way to see Friday the 13th Part 3 3D at home remains to be via the bootleg copies of the Japanese VHD disc, which recreates the full color theatrical version by way of electronically controlled LCD shutter glasses.

My Bloody Valentine and Other News

We were able to check out My Bloody Valentine 3D over the weekend, having to make the trip to a Regal theater in Crystal Lake, IL because Rockford, despite being the 3rd largest city in Illinois, still doesn't have a digital theater (thanks, Kerasotes!). I just recently caught up with the original MBV (unfortunately, not the just-released uncut version) and thought it was a decent entry in the '80's slasher cycle. The remake never aspires to be anything more than a continuation of that lineage, and with the added value of Real D 3D, makes for one of the most fun times had at the movies I've had in the past couple of months (this after suffering through the sheer awfulness of David Goyer's The Unborn). There are a couple of memorable scenes and 3D gags, including a pickaxe through the eye, a jaw ripped off and flung at the audience, a character aiming a shotgun over the viewing audience, and a lengthy nude chase scene through a motel room & parking lot.

In FVTWM news, I received an invitation out-of-the-blue from the IMDB to create a page for the movie on the famous online database; it's a bit of a shock to think that FVTWM will be immortalized forever within it's pages! Plus, we'll be screening in March at the Paranoia Horror Convention and Film Festival, which will take place aboard the haunted Queen Mary 2 luxury liner docked in Long Beach, CA!

I'm still working to arrange further screenings across the country as time & money permit. Plus, I haven't forgotten about those DVDs! Stay tuned...

Merry Scary Winter Horrorland

If you're in the Sacramento, CA area this weekend, Frankenstein vs the Wolfman will be playing as part of the Merry Scary Winter Horrorland (an offshoot of the Sacramento Horror Festival) on Saturday, December 6th between 1-3pm.

You can find out more by visiting the official site here: http://www.sachorrorfilmfest.com/merry_scary.php

3-D on Blu Ray

Just a heads up for 3-D enthusiasts: following the release of the Miley Cyrus concert in 3-D on Blu Ray, Warner Bros has stepped up and released their major theatrical films Journey to the Center of the Earth (via New Line) and The Polar Express on Blu Ray disc in 3-D.

I haven't checked out Journey to the Center of the Earth yet (although I'm told it uses a magenta/green anaglyph 3-D encode instead of the traditional red/blue - ostensably to make sure that you can only use the glasses included with the disc to view the movie), but I did pick up The Polar Express and gave it a spin last night.

Polar Express uses the tried and true red/blue method, but because of Blu Ray's VC1 codec the technology is more able to accurately reproduce the correct shades of red & blue than MPEG2 was. I've got a Samsung HDTV and found that by setting the TV's Picture setting to the vivid "Standard" setting, and then by turning off the DNIe (Digital Natural Image Enhancement) I was able to get what is possibly the cleanest 3-D effect I've ever been able to acheive at home, producing very little ghosting and sensational depth effects.

And, to top that off - I've just read that Paramount is set to release the 3-D holy grail: Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D Deluxe Edition on February 3rd, 2009.

First Screenings for Frankenstein vs the Wolfman!

Regrettably, neither is in 3-D! You can catch Frankenstein vs the Wolfman at the Madison Horror Film Festival pre-party on Friday, October 24th at the Inferno nightclub in Madison, WI (details here: http://www.madisonhorror.com) or showing on the big screen at the Historic Beach Theater in St. Petersburg, FL as part of the Halloween Horror Picture Show on Sunday, October 26th. Click this link http://www.halloweenhorrorpictureshow.com for details.

We were a bit late to gain entry into this year's round of horror film festivals around the world, but we're already pursuing festivals for 2009. Stay tuned... Frankenstein vs the Wolfman in 3-D could be coming to a theatre near you!

FRANKENSTEIN VS THE WOLFMAN IS ONLINE NOW!

The full movie is available either in 3-D or 2-D versions over at Openfilm.com!

Check it out and let me know what you think!

It's Alive! It's Ali-hi-hive!

We're done.

Frankenstein vs the Wolfman is complete.

Andy C and I went into the studio on Saturday and worked only a few hours mastering the 5.1 soundtrack; with that work completed, we're finished. Frankenstein vs the Wolfman now exists as a movie, the culmination of work that began in December of 2004.

Andy Kalbfus' thunderous score blares, crashes and booms impressively out of a 5.1 home theater setup; our surround effects are (to my ear) subtle and not overdone.

I've spent the weekend testing the film on a number of different systems and displays - and the 3-D effects work better than hoped. If your television is calibrated correctly, you should have no problem perceiving the super-depth, putting my earlier fears to rest; on PC monitors (especially big widescreen units) it looks even more impressive.

My own opinion of the finished movie? I like it better (right now - this fluctuates month to month) than the two Raven movies. It has better characterization, a better story, and better overall production values. On the flip side, there are issues I'm painfully aware of - shortcuts I took in animation, a line of dialogue here, a sound effect there, and some niggling concerns with the placement of the 3-D 'window' - but overall, I'm proud of it.

So, what's next? I've got to mix the film down into a number of formats to distribute it - one for online submissions, one for festival submissions, one for an eventual DVD. Speaking of DVDs, the disc itself is already authored (with the exception of menu screen music, which I'll be putting in this week), and we'll be spending some time running off DVD-R copies for promotional hand outs. Andy C wants to actually get some discs professionally pressed, so I'll have to keep you posted on what the timeframe is on that. We're also hoping to have a local premiere in Rockford sometime within the next few months, followed by film festival screenings into the future (stay tuned to MySpace for a schedule).

Stay tuned!