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Local Info on Vince's
Movie
The landscape is filled with heart-eating
zombies whose souls are trapped within a wooden box. No, this is
not dinner at your in-laws' place, it's the storyline for Dead and
Breakfast.
The independent movie, filmed in
Livermore (California) on a shoestring budget in the winter of 2003,
showed in town Thursday night (Oct. 28, 2004) for the first time. |
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A packed crowd at the Vine
Cinema laughed in unison at the campy jokes and seemed
to revel in the local scenes. "Hey, that's
Greenville Road," one man said during the opening
sequence of a truck rolling along a country road.
Those who stayed until the
end of the movie — a few people left during the middle
of the screening, apparently put off by all the severed
heads — took part in a question-and-answer session with
the movie's producers.
They learned details
about how the movie was created, including that it was
shot at just two locations — an old Victorian house on
Tesla Road and a barn on Greenville Road. A
graveyard was created for one scene at the Victorian
house property, explained E.J. Heiser, one of the
producers. |
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"By shooting at just two
locations, we were able to stay under our budget of less
than $1 million," Heiser said. "Moving to
different sets really drives up the cost of producing a
movie." Ambush
Entertainment and Pleasanton's Goal Line Productions,
run by Joe Madden, produced the movie. Madden's
parents, Victoria Madden and the football broadcaster
John Madden, owned the Victorian house at the time the
movie was made, which helped keep costs down.
"The idea for the movie
came about the time my parents bought the house.
My mom likes to try to save historic buildings, and it
made sense to film the movie there," Joe Madden said
after Thursday's screening.
In June, the Maddens sold
the property to the owners of Concannon Vineyard, which
is next door to the Victorian house. |
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The screening was a
precursor to next week's California Independent Film
Festival. About 65 films will be screened at
various wineries in the Livermore Valley from Thursday
to Sunday. Similar to the format at the screening
of Dead and Breakfast, the festival will give
movie buffs the unique opportunity to talk directly to
those who produce and act in films.
The Livermore movie,
meanwhile, may be one of the first to be shot almost
entirely in the Valley, but it has other unique features
as well. It may set a record for the number of
ways heads can be severed from bodies. Tools
involved in the decapitations include hammers and the
ubiquitous chainsaw. In one scene, a bass player
gets his head removed thanks to an errant cymbal. |
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The movie begins when six
friends on their way to a wedding Galveston stop for the
night in the town of Lovelock, Texas. A French
chef dies, which in not an altogether unfortunate
happening for town residents, who prefer eating road
kill. But it sets in motion events leading up to
the friends barricading themselves inside the bed and
breakfast, fending off the possessed townsfolk.
The movie will be released
in theaters next year in four cities, including New York
and Los Angeles, Joe Madden said. If it's popular,
Dead and Breakfast will be released in other
cities, he said.
Source: Tri-Valley
Herald
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