December 6th 2015
Wow, didn't realise how much I sucked at updates on this. Apologies for those that care! To make up for it, there will be a little surprise soon but, in the meantime...

MEET THE CADAVERS made this list of 10 British Zombie films waiting to be seen. I feel both proud and ashamed. Proud that we made this list and ashamed at the progress. Anyway, here is the full list

British Horror Revival Ten British Zombie Features We're Waiting To See

So, what's taking so long? Here is what I have learned in the process of making my first film.

1) Writing it was easy. Took 10 days and, if I do say-so myself, it is a nice, tidy script with a good story and great characters.

2) Organising the actual filming is a monumental task. If I were being paid to do it, it would never be enough. It is hard, hard, HARD.

3) Filming was also difficult - coping with uncooperative weather and the likes - but also a lot of fun. The most fun. Those were the days were I would go on forever, if it weren't for the fact that I am pretty sure there would have been mutiny and I would have found myself swinging from a tree.

4) When problems happen in filmmaking, they cause big problems. Almost immediately post-production (the bit that comes after the filming), we lost our editor. No fault of his or ours, just life stuff. This meant having to think again.

5) When life gives you lemons, you move to the opposite end of the country. After the awesome Cannes trip in 2014, life as we knew it came crashing about around our ears. Long story short, me and Vikki (partner, producer and Kelly Cadaver) moved a long, long way away. And then David (producer, director) also did a location shift. Even in this day and age of awesome communication tools, they aren't quite awesome enough to bridge the gaps.

6) Things don't always work out how you thought they would... This time last year, some stuff was being edited. The last post I was excited to see the first cut. Unfortunately, it wasn't even close to what I had in mind. They say a film is written three times: when you put pen to paper, when you shoot it and when you edit it. Alas, this last bit changed the film too much for me and, eventually, it was obvious things wouldn't work out as hoped.

7) Back to square one sucks major ball bags. It really does. I must admit, at this point going from an extreme high to massive low hit me hard. I wanted nothing to do with it for a while. Eventually though, you do dust yourself off and get on with shit. So the search for another editor was on.

That is where we are at right now. One of two things is going to happen from this point. Either way, the film will get completed in 2016. Hopefully, released as well, but I have learned not to look too far ahead. Looking around me at other indie filmmakers, this situation is not unique. When you don't have buckets of cash to throw at a project, things go s-l-o-w.

Thanks for all those that do care. Another update soon.

Zion x!

July 5th 2014
Karl, AKA Barnaby, got a great Birthday cake.  The first of many MTC Birthday cakes, I'm sure!

January 22nd 2014
A historic day in the Cadaver Camp - the first day the entire editorial crew (me, David & Matt) got together to start viewing rushes.  The first 8 scenes were viewed and are now being edited together by David & Matt.  We expect to have an edit assembly of the full movie in 10 weeks!
 

January 15th 2014
Our co-editor has been hard at work synching the images to the sound so that we can start going through all the scenes, take-by-take to determine what stays, what goes and what might stick around for a bit longer.  This starts tomorrow!

January 8th 2014
Here it is, the feature article from TBFM magazine, taken from an interview Vikki and I did at the Hard Rock Hell festival back in December.  Click on the image to enlarge and read!
 

December 17th 2013
Now this is cool - our first magazine cover!  The next edition of TBFM mag (available in all good music venues from January 2014) has done a feature on MTC based around the interview me and Vikki gave them at the Hard Rock Hell festival.  Best of all though, they stuck it on the cover!

December 7th 2013
One of the movie extras is also a Forumla 6 driver and he kindly stuck our movie logo on his racing car!  Many thanks to Nicholas Taig for the image and for doing it.

December 4th 2013
Two more bits of press today.  First up, an interview me and Vikki did for AllAboutTheRock.co.uk at the recent Hard Rock Hell festival (where our band, SPiT LiKE THiS were playing); next up, the local paper The Crawley News did a nice feature on the film and one of it's locations [digital version].