New York Premiere of "What Really Frightens You?"

Here are more details about the upcoming NY Premiere of the horror film What Really Frightens You, starring our very own Chris Riquinha!

LAFAYETTE THEATER IN SUFFERN, NEW YORK TO PREMIERE "WHAT REALLY FRIGHTENS YOU"

THE LAFAYETTE IS A RESTORED MOVIE PALACE

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The HORROR-THON!

The Lafayette's world-famous "Horror-Thon" returns the weekend of November 5-6-7 with 9 fantastic shows, including Saturday's salute to Universal Horror and the New York theatrical Premiere on Friday night of the indie horror film "What Really Frightens You?", which had several scenes filmed at the Lafayette! Here is the complete Horror-Thon lineup, all tickets are $9 for each show:

Friday, November 5
7:30 - Carnival of Souls (1962, Candace Hilligoss)
9:45 - What Really Frightens You? (2010, New York Theatrical Premiere of the indie horror film from director Richard W. Haines - Note: certain scenes from What Really Frightens You? were filmed at the Lafayette!

Saturday, November 6 - A Salute to Universal Horror!
2:00 - The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, Boris Karloff)
4:00 - House of Dracula (1945, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine)
7:30 - Phantom of the Opera (1943, Claude Rains)
9:45 - Dracula (1931, Bela Lugosi)

Sunday, November 7
2:00 - The Raven (1962, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre)
4:00 - Mario Bava's Black Sabbath (1963, Boris Karloff)
7:30 - Poltergeist (1982, directed by Tobe Hooper, produced by Steven Spielberg)

Check out this recent review of What Really Frightens You from Horror News!

Naama Kates Featured in the Soho Journal

Our very own Naama Kates is featured in the Soho Journal this month. Physical copies will hit the streets in December.

The article features more of Naama's very eloquent, honest and personal writing. She talks briefly about Cookies & Cream and announces the titles for her next collaboration with director Princeton Holt, as well as for her debut album:



"There are no stars in Hollywood.

I live in Hollywood. You can call it Los Feliz, or Silverlake, or Little Armenia but it's Hollywood. It’s only a couple miles from the Walk of Fame, you know, with all the stars and the handprints and Graumman's Chinese Theatre.

And I am a big fan of celestial bodies— stargazing and such. I can name a lot of the constellations, especially in the winter skies.

And here I am, looking up at the smoggy and light polluted sky of my new home, and I see zilch.

I think most of the heavenly bodies in this town are busy at this hour, probably on the West Side surrounded by psychic noise and floating promises. They’re sidling up to self-proclaimed producers, cleavage out, and four overpriced Belvedere cranberries in.

Sigh.

I moved out here with a lot of stars in my eyes, and quite frankly, a lot of smoke up my ass. My management team, actually reputable representation, was riding on the "momentum" of a great gig, a two-episode arc on an unfathomably popular network TV show. I wanted change. I wanted the ocean. I thought I wanted stardom, at any cost, and left behind everything I couldn't fit into my newly bought blue clunker. Fact: nobody else fit in there."

Read the rest of her piece HERE.

"Cookies & Cream" Makes Another 'Best Indies of 2009' List

We just discovered that Movie Room Reviews listed Cookies & Cream on their list of "Best Indies of 2009!" 'Cookies was acquired for distribution in July, and is now available on DVD. Here is some of the piece below:



"While some of the best independent films sometimes lack the blockbuster production, advertising, and star power of bigger budget works, the best indie movies often develop cult followings that extend beyond the product itself and lasts for many years. Some of these go on to greater recognition once the masses get the word of their brilliance, other times, they live in fame in the inner circles of those people who fell in love with them.

What makes the titles on the best indie films list so powerful is that they often delve much deeper into character development and they weave together an artistic and moving story with writing that is sometimes more brilliant and real."

Read the full piece HERE.

Get Him to the Greek

Tom's Corner:

Get Him to the Greek
(Nicholas Stoller, dir. 2010)



Remember This Is Spinal Tap? Remember those really broad but often pitch perfect skewerings of rock star excess and hubris? Nicholas Stoller does. He trots one out constantly in this movie. I watched the unrated cut of this movie, which added 4 WHOLE MINUTES (for fuck's sake) to the movie. I'm one thousand percent certain that those four minutes were a waste...as were the other 110.

So we've got this whiny annoying music company intern (Jonah Hill) who lives with his annoying and overbearing doctor girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss) and dreams of making it big in the music industry. At least, that what it seems he wants. We never really hear him talk about his goals and aspirations, other than getting back with the aforementioned doctor-ette, who dumped him because he didn't want to move to Seattle to follow her dreams (how dare HE have dreams, right?). One morning, he's pitching ideas with his co-workers to his boss, Sergio (Sean “Puffy, P. Diddy, whatever the fuck he's called this week” Combs) on how to save the music industry, apparently.

And Now...a word on Mr. Combs acting “ability (if you are weak of stomach, you may just wish to skip this paragraph).” The festering pox ridden asshole of a streetwalker in Kabul would impress me more as an actor. You have as much talent at acting as you do at writing original music to commemorate your dead friend. You are not funny. Your delivery sucks like a herpes ridden glory hole diving transsexual. You are as funny as finding out you have terminal rectal cancer. In short, Mr. Combs, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE never attempt to act again.

So anyway, he's to escort Aldous Snow, the asshole junkie rockstar whose last album flopped big time (Russell Brand) to L.A. from his home in England. Snow is a royal pain in the ass. He does far too many drugs and fucks around, and is generally stupid. That...fairly well sums up the whole movie. Fat guy wants junkie to stop doing drugs. So he does them to get them used up. Junkie wants drugs, makes fat guy go and get 'em. Repeat and shake, and also add some sex jokes and up the ass jokes. Oh, and the ending. Fuck that everything gets tied up in a happy knot shit. Seriously.

Sigh.

Goddamit. I wasted two hours on this shit. TWO FUCKING HOURS. I could've done so much more with my time.

- Tom

"Miranda" - Backer 1-10

This project means something special to us all - as owners of a company, contributors to a cause, and filmmakers with a message. For some in our team, "Miranda" represents a continued movement of personal storytelling that true independent cinema offers best, for others it stands as a testiment of where our company came from and how it would like to move forward, and still for others it reveals a unique opportunity to bring attention to a serious issue in a massive and intelligent way. By contributing, you have become part of our One Way family. You have extended your time, your faith, your compassion and your money to our project and our cause, and in return we will extend our commitment to you to produce a film that you will be proud of so that we may be able to share it in a way that will inspire many.

Thank you so much for your contributions!

One Way Team

www.indiegogo.com/miranda

Iconoclasts: Fiona and Quentin

Throwback Sundays this week is a personal treat and a great find. Here are two of my favorite artists, Fiona Apple and Quentin Tarantino, hanging out and talking about the creative process on Sundance Channel's "Iconoclasts." Enjoy!



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Backer #10: Philip Saparov

Backer #10 reveals himself to be Philip Saparov, an Associate One Way team member thanks to his very generous contribution. Philip is a colleague and friend of our producing partner Brian Ackley! They studied filmmaking at Brooklyn College together, sharing production and film studies courses, as well as some exhausting set time.

Philip eventually transitioned from Film to English Literature at the City University of New York, where he remains studying for his MA. The last few years have been especially fruitful and busy for Philip: in addition to writing fiction and non-fiction, he has been teaching college-level composition.

Currently, Philip's main focus is on making essay writing quick, easy, and fun for college students through his blog Tutor Phil.

Thanks you, Philip, for your generous contribution to our cause!

One Way Team

www.indiegogo.com/Miranda