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If you haven’t checked it out yet, Alamo Drafthouse’s The ABC’s Of Death con­test is really heat­ing up with a vari­ety of entries.  Shade Rupe, author of Dark Stars Rising, has recently added his own entry into the run­ning.  It has got­ten acco­lades from no less a genre titan than Clive Barker (his quote on the film: “An ele­gantly shot, sharply edited, and strongly con­ceived and directed four min­utes of film-making. Colour me impressed.”).  Shade has kindly pro­vided Schlockmania with a few words about his film and how to check it out, which are pre­sented below.  Read on for all the NYC-style night­mare details…

A Message From Shade Rupe:

Hey film friends! I just entered Drafthouse Films’ THE ABCs OF DEATH short film con­test with my entry “T IS FOR TRICK.” There are 26 direc­tors doing all 26 let­ters of the alpha­bet and they left the let­ter T open for the con­test. We get points for votes and the top ten voted go to the next level. If you’d enjoyed some of the work I’ve done before and have four min­utes to take a look, here’s the link, and the vot­ing but­ton is in the upper right. A con­fir­ma­tion email is sent back which has a link which must be clicked to con­firm the vote. And the rules allow vot­ing with­out watch­ing if you feel like offer­ing sup­port but find it hard to find time to watch the film.

If this feels inter­est­ing enough for a story I pub­lished Funeral Party in 1995, Funeral Party 2 in 1997, and Dark Stars Rising in 2011. This sum­mer I directed the home video ver­sion of Teller of Penn & Teller’s off-Broadway show PLAY DEAD (http://playdeadnyc.com), and am cur­rently han­dling the national the­a­trial release of Howard J. Ford’s THE DEAD, open­ing in Los Angeles Friday Oct. 7 and New York Oct. 14 with over 60 other screens booked in major cities through­out the month, in addi­tion to han­dling pub­lic­ity for Synapse Films. I’ve made a few shorts before includ­ing Self-Immomulsion (NYUFF 1994, CUFF 1994), penisknife­vagi­na­wound (CUFF 1997; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADo1Fcn97Ac) and was the pop­u­lar vote win­ner for the Kuchar broth­ers IT CAME FROM KUCHAR con­test in 2009 with Whimsellica’s Grand Inheritance (http://www.indiepixfilms.com/videocontest_sv/kuchar/10179816). I pro­duced and pro­grammed the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Portland and Seattle in 2009 (fea­tur­ing Frank Henenlotter’s BAD BIOLOGY, David Gregory’s PLAGUE TOWN, and Jonathan Lewis’ BLACK DEVIL DOLL), the 26th Olympia Film Festival in 2009 (http://2009.olympiafilmfestival.org/movies), and the SHOWWX Film Festival at Sundance 2010 which was writ­ten up in Wired (http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/showwx-sundance).

My film is T IS FOR TRICK:

http://26th.theabcsofdeath.com/t-is-for-trick-2/

Hope you enjoy!

Shade
http://www.darkstarsrising.com

http://www.shaderupe.com