HELP SAVE CLIVE BARKER’S MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN
Current mood: distraught
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Hey Fellow Horror Fanatics!

     Just giving everyone a heads up, Lionsgates for some reason through bad politics is pushing for CLive Barker's midnight meat train to only show in selected theaters for a short period of time and then rushed to DVD, not giving one of the masters of horror the appreciation he deserves.  Horror Reviews and myself have posted some bulletins with the following info below.  So please read on and help support A great horror film and its director so it can be shown the way that it should be!   

Help Save Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train!
A Plea from Clive Barker:

My Dear Friends,
As you may or may not have heard, due to certain politics, "Midnight Meat Train" is in danger of Lionsgate not giving it a wide release. The below email was brought to my attention earlier today and shows a movement, of sorts, in order to get the picture the proper support and release it deserves. I'm asking you to please help spread the word in order for all to enjoy this film. I want to passionately encourage everybody who cares about my work to use this chance to change the minds of the folks at Lionsgate. I'm excited at the prospect of a movement of people who care deeply enough to initiate a campaign such as this.




Anything any of you can do - be it emails, web postings, word of mouth, and the like - to help encourage this movement would be deeply appreciated. The film is worth the effort in my mind, and I do not want to see my work fall by the wayside.




If any of you have any further ideas, thoughts, or suggestions to help with this effort, please let me know.






Thanks, as always, for your help and support.





Much Love,
Clive

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OPEN LETTER TO ALL HORROR FANS:

WE NEED TO START A VIRAL CAMPAIGN TO GET THIS MOVIE A WIDER RELEASE!!!

A very reliable SOURCE from within Lionsgate has told me that the decision to dump Midnight Meat Train in as few as 100 screens and then rush the film to DVD is based purely on INTERNAL POLITICS.





Something along the lines of: the new head honcho does not like the old head honcho so he is deliberately dumping all of his films out of spite and malice.





But there is HOPE. The only thing that overrides backstabbing politics in Hollywood is PURE GREED. It is clearly not healthy for investor relations to dump a movie that has a vocal and dedicated audience.



Midnight Meat Train represents the kind of horror film that audiences have been dying for!!!

There is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this decision over the edge.





If you wish to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory at a THEATER near you, please do the following:

Cut and paste the message at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to:

1) investor relations at Lionsgate: keasterling@lionsgate.com

2) Lionsgate: general-inquiries@lionsgate.com

3) call Lionsgate at (310) 449-9200 and express your desire to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN get the release it deserves.





BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL! We do not want to piss them off, just want them to know how many fans out there would like to shell out their hard earned cash to see the most groundbreaking horror film of the past ten years in a real movie theater!

4) SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS MOVIE TO LET IT GO STRAIGHT TO DVD!!!

Post this message everywhere, send it to your horror friends and spread the word! We need to act FAST to have an effect!!!

And LONG LIVE THE MEAT!!

HERE'S A SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE (or feel free to compose your own):

Dear Lionsgate,

As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong desire to see "The Midnight Meat Train" on the big screen.





Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my opportunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in over a decade in all of its big screen glory!

There are millions of horror fans like myself who have been disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror movies.



Clive's work represents a return to serious, thought provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended: in a packed theater with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!

I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!

Many thanks,

YOUR NAME

I have done my part ~ have you?

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UpDates! Updates! UpDates!!!!
Current mood: imaginative
Category: Life

Hello my fellow readers!!!

              It's been pretty crazy the past couple of months, so haven't really been able to post anything until now.  Anybody who has read my short short Story THE FIGURE OF SLEEP, one thank you and two the rest of it will come very soon.  Been writing my ass off, but have not been meeting deadlines.   MY BAD!  Plus the story i am currently writing and sending out now called Sentinel was giving me some problems, i could not find my voice for the story.  Just moments ago i've struck gold, it's color is faint, but its gold and written almost 2000 words.  Going to finish it tomrrow and spend as little time as possible editing and polishing it, NOT REWRITTING it constantly like what i have been doing!!!!   although frustrating it's been a great learning experience.  I have two other stories in the works, Caress of the Banshee and Death Highway, and yes the complete version of FIGURE OF SLEEP.  whew!   so expect it sometime in the next couple of weeks and we'll see how Sentinel does out there in the market world!

    Keep reading and i'll keep writing. 

            =) J.C. Walsh

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The Figure of Sleep
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Writing and Poetry

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    While The Compactor is being rewritten I've come up with another story idea and written a quick little preview, rough cut if you will.  I'm going to blog it AS IT IS with a few little changes just to make it sound better.  There's definitely something coming out of this but I won't know until I truly work on it.  So please check it out and tell me what you think, hell even throw a couple ideas out just for shits and giggles and we'll see how it comes out together.   An editor may fix the problem of the story, but it is you, the reader who determines if it sucks or not!   ..:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />

The Figure of Sleep

      Sleep would not come easy to Ben, ever since that dream he had, the one with the tall figure standing in his bedroom doorway.

     It seemed real enough that when he'd awoken from sleep his fingers had reached for the lamp and in a panicky attempt to turn it on, he nearly knocked the damn thing off his night stand.   

     No one was there. 

     His mind was a hail storm, thoughts rained down hard and fast as they smacked the concrete slab of his brain with a deafening sound.  Or was that the sound of his heart beat pounding into his ears?  Ben Pulled the sheets closer to his head in a child like attempt to find comfort in cocooning himself into security.  He was lying on his right side, facing his sleeping girlfriend.  Normally her steady breathing and light snores coaxed him into sleep, but not tonight, tonight his mind was owned by the deepening shadows in the small hallway just outside his bedroom door. 

     He couldn't help but continue to peer over his shoulder and expect something to move, to reach out of the darkness that wasn't his living room but something sinister.  With long fingers that would stretch and stretch until they were impossibly long, reaching for Ben, wanting to snatch him into the menacing shadows where it came from and show him things that were much worse than the figure that was in the doorway.  He squeezed his eyes shut, crushing the thoughts away.  When he opened them, he was looking at his girlfriend's peaceful pale face.  Except she had no eyes. 

     They weren't entirely missing, not like how one would look into the black empty voids of a skeleton long ago decayed; the sockets that held her eyes still could be holding her eyes were instead covered with her own skin.  The same with her nostrils, and her mouth.  All existence of facial details erased, looking like the plastic complexion of a mannequin.  Ben turned away from it; in fact he shifted his entire body so that he could lie on his left side this time, anything to stop looking at the mannequin posing as his girlfriend, which impossibly was still breathing.  It was the trick of the shadows, it had to be.

       He waited.  Snug as a bug with the covers up high, a shield he used when he was a child against monsters.  Ben waited for the threatening space between him and the shadows to be closed in together in a violent collision, an unholy symphony of meaty sounds of smacking flesh and inhuman screams to fill the night.         

J.C.Walsh

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A writing fool
Current mood: ecstatic

     In two days i have written well over three thousand words, yikes.  My short story the compactor is coming along nicley, and even its still the first draft i have great confidence in it and looking forward to editing it and seeing where i could go.  Last week i was only able to write about seven pages, then all hell broke loose.  My car rim needed repairing, but until i was able to do that i had to keep an eye on the tire all week becuase the damaged rim was causing a nasty leak that got worse when i drove it.  Plus looking at my story i realized something, why i've been having problems with it.  There was no structure.  No character devolpment.  NO plot or story, especailly story.  It was just a bunch of mumble jumble, ramdom ideas all put together desperately trying to all lead to the same thing.  It wasn't working. 

     I erased it!!! HA HA!!!!

     Then i began developing some ideas that's making the story worth wild, showing strong characters and a cool horrifrying Lovecraftian influence to it.  So hopefully it all works out in the end. Tonight i just wrapped another fourteen thousand words, and ealier in the day i got well over a thousand during lunchtime at work.  Whew!! Hoping to wrap it up tomorrow and take a break from it and pump out a rough draft of Marilyn's Garden, then i am off to editing The compactor. 

    Well thanks for reading this, here's to seeing something come out of this!!! Cheers! 

Currently listening : Internal Revolution By Diecast Release date: 19 September, 2006

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Starting off the new year....
Current mood: determined
Category: Writing and Poetry

 First things first, I am about to work on the first draft of my short story called the Compactor, and i plan on working my ass off and getting ten or more pages before two in the morning, lol.  Also began working on a rough draft of Marilyn's Garden. 

     As for the Compactor, that is planned to be sent out by Jan 28th, i am currently finishing school.  This assignment (Short story) will be my 11th one, and i will have one more assignment to go.  While I work on the last assisngment I will plan to have a couple of stories sent to magazines.  Of course I have to take one step at a time, but that is my plan and i am determined to do it!!!!

     Until then, to start off the new year with some great novels, short novels and short story collection oldies and new classics (in my ever so humble opinion) here is a list of books i had read that made 2007 a horrific year!!!!

1.Joe Hill- Heart Shaped Box   

2. Dan Simmons- The Terror

3. Brian Keene- Ghoul, The Rising, City of the Dead, Dead Sea

4. Stephen King as Richard Bachman- Blaze

5. Ramsey Campell- A Grin in the Dark

6. Jack Ketchum- The Girl Next Door

7. Sarah Pinborough- Breeding Ground

8. Michael Liamo- Dead Souls

9. Bentley Little- The Vanishing, The Collection

10. Al Sarrantonio - Horrorween, HalloweenLand

11. Catlin R. Kiernan- Threshold

12. Edward Lee- Slither, City Infernal

13. Johnathan Maebery- Deadman's Song

14. Gary Braunbeck- Mr. Hands

15. Clive Barker- Mr. B. Gone, Hellbound Heart

16. Stephen King's- The Mist

17. Scott Smith- The Ruins

18. Mark Morris- The Deluge

19. Norman Patridge- Dark Harvest

20. Richard Matheson- I Am Legend 

  Enjoy!!!

Currently listening : Down - Over The Under By Down Release date: 25 September, 2007

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