Kevin Lindenmuth - Horror Movies: The Good, The Bad & The So Bad Theyre Good

THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE SO BAD THEYRE GOOD

By Kevin Lindenmuth

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Cover Photo:

Actress Sasha Graham in Addicted to Murder (1995)

Photo by Bill Brady

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Kevin Lindenmuth has worked in the film/television business for nearly thirty years, both in New York City and Detroit. During his career, he has produced over a dozen independent movies, including Vampires & Other Stereotypes (1992) and the Addicted to Murder trilogy (1995-1998), which were distributed worldwide, and seven feature documentaries, the majority of which have been broadcast nationally on PBS. In addition to having written for such magazines as Cult Movies, World of Fandom and Fangoria , he is the author of four books on independent filmmaking.

Previous Books:

How to Make Movies: Low-Budget/No-Budget Indie Experts Tell All (2013, McFarland & Company Inc)

The Documentary Moviemaking Course (2010, Barrons)

The Independent Film Experience (2001, McFarland & Company Inc.)

Making Movies on Your Own (1998, McFarland & Company Inc)

He has also written segments for The Independent Filmmakers Guide to Writing A Business Plan for Investors (2004) and 130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking (2010).

Kevin Lindenmuth filmography: (Producer/writer/director unless otherwise noted)

Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1992)... aka Hells Belles

Twisted Tales (1994) co-directed with Mick McCleery, Rita Klus

Addicted to Murder (1995)

Alien Agenda: Out of the Darkness (1996) co-director with Mick McCleery

Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1996) co-director with Tim Ritter, Ron Ford, Gabriel Campisi

There & Back: Interviews with Near-Death-Experiencers (1997)

Alien Agenda: Under the Skin (1997) directed segment Guys In Black, The

Addicted to Murder: Tainted Blood (1998)

Creaturealm: From the Dead (1998) segment Eyes Of The Ripper

Creaturealm: Demons Wake (1998) producer only

Caring for the Caregivers: Living with Cancer (1998) documentary-co-producer, co-director, Distributed 2000-2006 by Films for the Humanities.

Walking Between the Raindrops (1999)

Rage of the Werewolf (1999)

Addicted to Murder 3: Blood Lust (2000) Co - Producer, Co-Director with Tom Vollmann

Beyond the Lost World: The Alien Conspiracy III (2001) co-director with John Bowker, Tim Ritter

Time Enough: The Alien Conspiracy (2002) co-director with Ron Ford, Alexandre Michaud

Grey Skies: The Alien Conspiracy (2002) co-director with Tom Nondorf & Les Sekely

Blood of the Werewolf (2002) co-director with Bruce G. Hallenbeck, Joe Bagnardi

But You Look So Well (2002, documentary) Broadcast Nationally on PBS 2003-2008

Werewolf Tales (2003) Producer, Co-writer

Turning American: A German Immigrants Story (2004, documentary) PBS.

But You Still Look So Well : Living with Multiple Sclerosis (2005) Broadcast Nationally on PBS 2006-2011

The Healing Prophet: Solanus Casey (2006) Broadcast worldwide EWTN Internationally beginning in July 2007.

Im Not Nuts : Living with Food Allergies (2008) Broadcast Nationally on PBS beginning May 2009)

Blood of the Werewolf II: Wolves & Zombies (2010)

The Life of Death (2013) Distributed by Libre Verde.

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Special Thanks to:

My amazing wife, Kate

My horror fan grandmother, Marie Urban

Stephen C. Seward

Every indie horror filmmaker Ive ever met

This book is by no means a complete A-Z of horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. In fact, some of the movies contained here you may not even think of as a horror or fantastic movie per se. Then, why are they reviewed? Simple: personal preference. Either I had an interest in seeing the movie, it was sent to me to review or I knew the filmmakerand was interested in viewing their latest project.

Why my interest in horror movies? Ever since I was about three years old Ive enjoyed them, from watching Saturday morning hosted horror television shows such as Sir Graves Ghastly in Detroit to seeing Friday the 13th movies with my grandmother because they were rated R and I was under 17 at the time (and she loved those movies as well!). I even went on to make a slew of low-budget horror and science fiction films in the 90s, to the best of my ability, and got to know hundreds of independent filmmakers along the way, which, in turn led to several Indie filmmaking books.

You probably will not find reviews of horror flicks that have been reviewed in dozens of books already. Who needs another review of Carpenters Halloween or of Universals Frankenstein ? This is also not a reference book, listing who was the best boy on Dune . What you will find are a prevalence of giant animal, dinosaur, time-travel, vampire films and horror related television series, many bad Hollywood remakesand more than a few horror(ible) movies that youve never seen or heard of, all readily available in this age of the internet and downloads. Heck, there are even some short films that warrant a review.

Enjoy the book and the movies.

Kevin Lindenmuth

March, 2013

Aaah! Zombies! (2007)

This is one of the more interesting and unique zombie flicks Ive seen in years.

Tim (Michael Grant Terry of the tv series Bones ) and his friends Mike, Vanessa and Cindy eat some contaminated ice cream cones, which have a strange side effect. They become incredibly strong and everyone seems to be afraid of them. Its not until they go into a bar twenty minutes later that they realize something is terribly wrong with them...

Nick Steele, a rogue soldier shows up, telling them they are Super Soldiers and that the dairy they ate was infected with a secret army weapon. He thinks its their job to kill the zombies that are appearing in town. To themselves, this group of odd characters appears normal but to others they are horrible looking zombies, which we see through their point of view. Also, everything the zombies see from the normal people appears to be in sped-up, fast-motion since they move so slow as the undead. If youre sick of the usual, often-times boring zombie movie check this out. The films original title is Wasting Away .

Abandon (2002)

Katy Holmes ( Dawsons Creek, Batman Begins ), who I think will always look like shes thirteen-years-old, is a college student whose rich, narcissistic boyfriend had mysteriously disappeared a year before. The boyfriends Estate wants him declared dead rather than missing. A police detective starts investigating the case and finds himself becoming romantically involved with Holmes. Hes going through some serious problems of his own, primarily being an addictive personality, and ends up quitting the police force because he realizes he doesnt want to do that work anymore. Yet, what he ultimately finds out about the disappearance-and how his new girlfriend fits into the scenario is disturbing. Abandon is one of those movies which thinks its clever but is extremely predictable from the start. Also, Holmes doesnt have the hmph! to carry a movie on her own and you quickly get tired of her character. The worst part of all is that this is basically a slasher movie in which theres no slashing!