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Monday, August 23, 2004
IT CAME FROM TRAFALGAR
First came The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and now comes yet another black & white, tongue-in-cheek homage to the sci-fi monster movies of the 1950's called It Came From Trafalgar. Is that a trend I'm smelling or what?
First-time writer/director/producer Solomon Mortamur not only has a name that was seemingly meant to be seen in the opening credits of an old sci-fi monster movie, even the lengths to which he went to bring his vision to life sounds like the kind of thing a truly determined filmmaker of old would have done. The man behind this Indiana based b-movie tribute spent the past several years doing construction work, cleaning people’s homes, and emptying dumpsters just to scrape together the $100,000 needed for production costs. How many novice filmmakers can say they have a production studio next to their mobile home? Despite having no connections to the entertainment industry, a little local publicity and the luck of getting veteran scream queen Linnea Quigley to join the cast touched off a series of events that lead to his little homegrown Atomic Age monster movie spoof getting a roll call of b-movie veterans that would make most low budget genre movie directors drool. Or at the very least make their mouths a bit moister than usual. Just check out this all-star cast.
Scream Queen Linnea Quigley of Return of the Living Dead, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, and Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama fame.
Former "Leatherface" Gunnar Hansen.
Edwin Neal, the crazed hitchhiker from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre turned anime voice actor.
Scream Queen Brinke Stevens of too many movies to possibly even try and list here.
Bill Hinzmann, best remembered as the cemetery zombie from the opening of the original Night of the Living Dead.
Butch "Eddie Munster" Patrick
Dolemite himself Rudy Ray Moore
J.P. Richardson, son of the late 50’s rocker The Big Bopper.
Musician Hank Williams III- Actor/stuntman Jim O’Rear, whose website features photos from the film including a hilarious pic of the aliens themselves. (http://members.aol.com/sarcophagi/trafalgar.html)
Conrad Brooks, a regular of numerous Ed Wood movies including the king of the bad movies Plan 9 From Outer Space.
I’m actually shocked not to see the names Eddie Deezen, Debbie Rochon, Julie Strain, or Richard Gabai listed in the credits along with everyone else in this one.
As for the film’s plot, It Came From Trafalgar deals with a UFO crashing in Trafalgar, Indiana back in the 1960’s that leads to a madcap alien invasion 40 years by goofy looking bulb-headed creatures called Zongolians. Plus there’s stuff that somehow ties into the JFK assassination, Marilyn Monroe’s illegitimate daughter, and a wide variety of other popular conspiracy theories. Quoting Mr. Mortamur, "In the movie, Trafalgar represents kind of a new Roswell, New Mexico. There’s a nameless graveyard in Trafalgar, and it contains all the secrets that the United States is hiding from the world."
Mortamur plans to have the movie ready for a spring 2005 release. Despite numerous offers already from those looking to distribute the movie, he is determined to keep to his independent filmmaking root by selling the movie exclusively through the official website www.itcamefromtrafalgar.com, which currently has absolutely nothing at this time. Literally, there’s nothing there but a domain name. Still, Mortamur plans to sell the movie through the site for only $20, vowing to drop the price to $5 a couple of years after the film’s release. The first of a series of three CD soundtracks tied into the movie is set to go on sale through the site in about two months so I can only assume there will actually be a site there two months from now.
One thing’s for certain, even if It Came From Trafalgar proves to be a dismal failure on every level it’s still guaranteed to be one hell of a failure.
- Scott Foy
posted by Scott 1:22 AM | Comments
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