Putting the laughter back in slaughter! Reel Splatter Productions is an independent film troupe from PA.
we specialize in low budget splatter comedy and generally fu***ng weird s**t. Our goal is prove that artistic expression can involve necrophilia and chainsaws. Check us out at www.ReelSplatter.com and Youtube.com/ReelSplatter
TIME IS RUNNING OUT! Down to the final 9 hours of the Dead Format IndieGoGo campaign! We need your help to make our 90’s video store nostalgia horror feature the absolute best it can be! Check it out down below and please donate and share before the click runs out!
!!! ONLY 45 HOURS LEFT UNTIL THE DEAD FORMAT CAMPAIGN IS OVER !!!
NOW IS THE TIME!
The campaign ends around 4am tomorrow morning, let’s blow this sucker out so we have the resources to make Dead Format even better!!!
Please, share the link far and wide, grab those cool video store perks you’ve been eying up! We only have 3 Executive Producer perks remaining, the screen used fake VHS covers are halfway gone, as are the Video Castle tshirts, grab them while you can!
The last 58 days have been an unbelievable whirlwind of excitement and stress and it’s hard to fathom it’s coming to end. I am still in awe at the amount of love and support from you folks, and one night, deep into production, when the imposter syndrome and self doubt are knocking at my skull, I will remember these last two months and it will give me the strength to keep going.
As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart, and find the place down below!
Did you hear the big news??? We are incredibly excited to announce that Damian Maffei will be playing the Reaper in Dead Format! Damian is best known as the Man in The Mask in The Strangers Prey at Night, Devil in Haunt, and Johnny Slaughter in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Video Game. Reel Splatter fans will recognize him as Simon, the dad in I’m Dreaming of a White Doomsday! We are super stoked to be working with Damian again.
Today also marks the final 5 days of the Dead Format campaign. We are currently at 92% funded and need YOUR help getting to the finish line! Details below.
We are down to the final 7 days of the Dead Format IndieGoGo and are only 13% away from our goal! If you want to see this film get made, we need YOUR help! Please check out the campaign below and grab one of our cool perks. Even a $10 donation helps up get closer to our goal!
Down to the final 10 days to help us bring Dead Format to life! Check out the campaign below and help fund a film about nostalgia, death, and video tapes! We are only 18% away from our goal!
Movie Knight says there’s only 15 days left to support Dead Format and help us reach our goal! We are currently sitting at 77%, please check it out and donate/share! Every dollar helps!
Eternal gratitude to you all and the place to go is down below!
Here's a little behind the scenes peek at the photo shoot for the fake vhs tape of Weekend at Escobar's (based on the short story in Please Don't Tap on the Glass) we're doing for the video store set in Dead Format!
Speaking of which, it's down to the final 19 days to raise the budget for the film and we are only $228 away from hitting 63% funded on the IndieGoGo. Will one of you beautiful folks out there help us hit that milestone tonight?
Also, in case you missed it, we added a new perk today where you can spend the day with Brian Keene and get a personally guided tour by him of the real life central PA locations that are in his books! Get the details below, and as always, eternal gratitude for all the love and support you folks have given us so far!
With only 19 days left to help us get Dead Format made, we added our coolest IndieGoGo perk yet! Get a personally guided tour by Brian Keene himself, of the real life central PA locations in his books & dinner!*
Grab the Bonus Features perk before it sells out, only 6 available!
Check it out below!
Travel & lodging not included*
Had the pleasure of being a guest on the Coming-Soon-Podcast last night to talk about Dead Format, video stores, and horror memorabilia collecting! Give it a listen and then head over to the Dead Format IndieGoGo and support the film! We are down to the final 3 weeks and we need your help!
A few words with Mike Lombardo. We'll be talking about his project, past works and wht other we ca bring up! So Listen up and Follow up! -sPidA
Let's just say that anyone who doesn't grab the "Staff Picks" perk (a random screen used fake movie box, signed by yours truly) on the Dead Format campaign is going to be very upset...We did our first photo shoot for the covers and "screenshots" on the back of the fake VHS tapes for the movie, and well...
Now keep in mind these are .raw pictures straight out of the camera with no editing whatsoever, so they will look much much nicer when they're cleaned up and on the boxes. I normally wouldn't post stuff this early on in the process, but I am goddamn giddy right now so I had to share some.
The "movies" pictured are Weekend at Escobar's (from the short story in Please Don't Tap on The Glass" and L***r Con. And this is just the tip of the iceberg for what we have planned...
Talked nostalgia, philosophy, grief, and of course Dead Format last night on The Horror Syndicate Live! Check it out and get the full scoop on what we have in store!
“Make tonight a Movie Knight!”
This guy (who is over 6 feet tall!) will be the centerpiece of the Video Castle store set. After scouring the internet for an affordable suit of armor, I ended scoring this at an antique store out in the middle of nowhere way back in February. We drove about an hour and half with this thing damn near touching the windshield, but he made it home without killing us.
To turn him into our mascot, Movie Knight, this weekend I went out to the craft store and found some cool shiny fabric to cut into a cape, the chain linking it on the collar was leftover from the wall mount of the neon sign for the video store. To make the helmet plume, I got some socks at the dollar store and spray painted them yellow, then hot glued feathers from a Party City boa to it. This I slipped over the little metal ornament that was on his helmet and voila!
The tapes he’s holding are actually resting in a wad of crumpled up newspaper that I duct taped behind shield and the popcorn bucket
Is actually filled with newspaper with popcorn glued to it.
There will be two versions of this prop, this is the 1996 video store flashback version. The modern version will have a tattered & sun faded cape and will be falling apart.
I hope you dug this little behind the scenes glimpse of Dead Format pre-production. We are currently 53% funded on the IndieGoGo with a month to go. Please check it out and donate, maybe grab yourself one of the ultra limited Dead Format vhs’s we just added! Every dollar helps us make the movie even cooler! The info will be down below!
Thanks gang!
Not only are we now 53% funded on Dead Format, we just added a super limited edition VHS of the movie perk! Only 13 copies available, grab it while you can!
DEAD FORMAT IS 50% FUNDED!!!!!!
I don’t even know what to fu***ng say right now.
THANK YOU.
This is a huge milestone and it would not have been possible without the huge outpouring of support from all of you wonderful fiends out there! Every share, every donation, every comment and like, has gotten us to this point. A super big shoutout to Paul Gerard Grammatico who’s incredible support took us to 50% today!
Today we crossed a big bridge, but we’re only halfway there. Please keep sharing and supporting, I know it’s getting annoying seeing me ramble about this every day, but this movie is my life right now. It’s my mutant little baby and the whole Dead Format team is so excited to introduce you to it!
DEAD FORMAT MILESTONE REWARD! Folks, we are currently 45% funded on the Dead Format IndieGoGo! We are $2,790 away from hitting 30k which would put us at 50%.
If we can hit 50% by Sunday night, I will once again open the childhood vault of personal embarrassment and record a VHS video of myself reading “The Blob”, a short story I wrote in 4th grade about the blob coming out of the vcr and killing my family.
Going through this notebook and rewatching my first short film, The Video Dead, it’s funny how obsessed with the idea of my beloved horror video tapes coming to life as a child. I’m proud to be able to honor this weird fascination of mine with Dead Format.
As always, none of this would be possible without you and your support. Thank you so much to everyone who has already donated and shared the campaign, we can’t do it without your help! Let’s blast the link (I’ll post it below) out there and make it to 50%!
Thanks gang! ❤
WE DID IT! We hit 23k on the Dead Format IndieGoGo last night and I am a man of my word. Here’s your “reward”, my first ever short film, shot on vhs at the age of 13 for my freshman year high school Communication Technology class.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tX3iVh-lw
Enjoy! And please don’t forget to donate to and share the Dead Format campaign, we’re kicking ass but we’ve still got a long way to go!
Well folks, we made it to $23, 000 on the Dead Format IndieGoGo campaign (check it out and donate here! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dead-format/x/1712...
Alright everybody, time to show you just how goddamn serious I am about getting Dead Format made.
The picture below is from The Video Dead, my first ever attempt to make a real short film. It was filmed on my VHS camcorder in 2001 for a Communication Technology final project my freshman year of high school. Outside of my immediate family, a handful of friends, and Mrs. Dorman's 3rd period Comm Tech class, NO ONE has ever seen this and for good reason. It is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of absolute personal embarrassment.
It was my first taste of what making a movie would be like: every single conceivable thing that could have gone wrong, went wrong. Most notably it raining the entire weekend I was supposed to shoot, and none of the zombie extras I had wrangled were available the to come the day we ended up shooting so I had to use my mom (pictured below in all her early Mike Lombardo FX attempt glory), my cousins, and my little brother and the friends he happened to have over that day.
It was edited on vhs on a linear analog editing dock, which those of you old enough to remember will feel the pain of this.
We are currently sitting at $21,352 on the IndieGoGo. If we make it to $23,000 by Sunday night, that's $1,648 in donations from now until then, I will upload The Video Dead to youtube for you all to "enjoy"
In an effort to make sure this post gets seen, I'm putting the campaign in below in the comments.
In the first 48 hours we are 30% funded on the Dead Format IndieGoGo! This is huge gang, thank you all so much for the support in helping to get this crazy movie made!
If you haven’t already, please check out the IndieGoGo page and snag yourself some awesome perks like signed blu rays, tshirts and screen used video store props!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dead-format/x/17127151 #/
Hey fiends! Thanks to your help, Dead Format is 19% funded in the first 24 hours! You guys are amazing! We added signed Im Dreaming of a White Doomsday copies and an international option for Dead Format blu rays as well, so check it out!
We’re off to an amazing start, but we still have a long way to go! Please keep sharing and donating, every dollar counts!
a feature horror film about nostalgia, death, and videotapes | Check out 'Dead Format' on Indiegogo.
ITS TIME! Excited to announce that we are working on our second feature film, Dead Format, based on the short story from Mike Lombardo's collection, Please Don't Tap on the Glass and Other Tales of The Melancholy & Grotesque! Its a story about nostalgia, death, and videostores, and I think you are going to love it!
The scope of this project is huge and we need YOUR help to make it happen! Please check out our IndieGoGo and donate, share, and spread the word far and wide so we can beat the icy tendrils of the algorithms and make independent art!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dead-format/x/17127151 #/
ITS TIME! Excited to announce that we are working on our second feature film, Dead Format, based on the short story from Mike Lombardo's collection, Please Don't Tap on the Glass and Other Tales of The Melancholy & Grotesque! Its a story about nostalgia, death, and videostores, and I think you are going to love it!
The scope of this project is huge and we need YOUR help to make it happen! Please check out our IndieGoGo and donate, share, and spread the word far and wide so we can beat the icy tendrils of the algorithms and make independent art!
a feature horror film about nostalgia, death, and videotapes | Check out 'Dead Format' on Indiegogo.
The end is near.
Tomorrow. 7am. Stay tuned…
The acrid scent of burning candles begins to emit from the television, and beyond the analog noise, something stirs…
Staring at the screen, you can’t help but feel that something is on the other side of the glass watching you right back…
Under the hissing static, you hear the faintest whispers. A familiar voice saying, “Soon…”
The swirling noise on the screen once again calls to you…what does it mean?
The sand in the hourglass is almost up…
Proof of life.
Merry Cystmas from Reel Splatter! I hope you all remembered to leave out meat and deactivate your security systems last night so Santa could get into your homes and leave you special things!
Merry Christmas from Reel Splatter Productions! Enjoy a quick and fun recipe for Christmas cookies that will absolutely kill this holiday!
WARNING! THIS VIDEO CONTAINS I'M DREAMING OF A WHITE DOOMSDAY SPOILERS! Join writer/Director Mike Lombardo and special guest Santa as they teach you how to m...
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