Demented Entertainment

2009-07-08T09:48:00.000-07:00

There has been some interesting stories surrounding the World wide travels of Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt.

This little film has traveled the globe on it's own. I am going to try and record all of them:

A couple of weeks ago I got a call from one of my actors in Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt. He had just got an e-mail from a Marine Corps Captain in Afghanistan. His squad was hanging out watching movies. Apparently the U.S. Military has a huge movie library. Well the Marine came across a burned DVD that had a cover written in black sharpie. The Marines decided to put it in because they liked the name on the jacket. He said they watched the flick and laughed their butts off. It turns out the film was Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt.

How this little film of mine has made it to the U.S. Marine Corps movie library, I have no idea. It really is the film that could.

A year ago I heard about Sonny Chiba (Kill Bill/The Street Fighter) watching a copy in Japan. He really enjoyed the film but was upset when it wasn't a feature.

Today I am meeting with a Producer about finally making Serial Killer into a feature film!

2009-06-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt: The Video Game?

Maybe!

That is what we are looking into as I write this. A perfect game for this era.

Keep the fingers crossed!

2009-04-16T13:47:00.000-07:00

The full version of Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt is now up on Youtube.com

Act 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsilXR4TQgs

Act 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p99HFBTo5E8

Act 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXOv6Zu9Kss

Never got to complete this short film...but here it is.

Hope you enjoy.

-Raul

2009-02-18T21:22:00.000-08:00

A new Oz image.

2009-01-23T16:12:00.000-08:00

One of the Greatest actors ever has requested and now has a copy of The Land of Oz.

If anyone reads this please send good karma!

2008-12-27T17:57:00.000-08:00

Here are a few more early Production Design ideas for Oz.

Jack and the Tin Woodsman at Glinda's

Jack in the Land of the Gillikins

Jack in Emerald City

2008-11-05T20:01:00.000-08:00

The Land of Oz is now Registered at the Library of Congress Copywright Office by Raul Contreras. Number: PAu3-358-568

2008-08-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

A couple of updates:

Oz...it seems no one knows who holds the Rights to "The Land of Oz". We have to physically go to The Library of Congress and find out. That begins tomorrow!

SKSH...the little film that wont die. Big Jed informs me that while attending a festival in Oklahoma they played my little film on the big screen to a enthusiastic audience. It just keeps going and going all on it's own merits...fascinating.

2008-05-26T19:21:00.000-07:00

Here are some new pre-production production design images of Oz's deadly deserts. I am thinking of a Salvador Dali approach.

2008-05-16T22:43:00.000-07:00

My adaptation to The Land of Oz was registered with the Writers Guild of America today.
#1276127

2008-05-01T19:57:00.001-07:00

Some additional images for my "Land of Oz"

Greg Burgan formally of Stan Winston Studios has begun construction on the Tin Woodsman.

This is the beginning of a classic...I can feel it in my bones...now I am starting to see it!

-Raul

2008-04-23T15:31:00.000-07:00

Here is some early design work. The characters are "borrowed" from Return to Oz, which are designed directly from W.W. Denslow's original drawlings.

I am playing with a desaturated look and an over-saturated look.

This week I begin making my own characters so I can continue with the design work.

2008-04-08T12:35:00.000-07:00

I might not have been working since that crazy strike but I have been writing!

I've come up with a very unique, eclectic, artistic approach for a new yet familiar classic.

This week I will have finished adapting "The Land of Oz"

My approach is to do the film almost entirely green screen.

I'm not looking for Lord of the Rings or 300...a much more creative and inexpensive approach.

I've been working with some top Sony Imageworks animators...they have offered to help and

give me the animation/editing software I need. (I did animation in college)

The beauty of this project is OZ...everyone one knows it around the world. Easy sell.

I just have to make the costumes and props...the rest I will do with guidance from my Sony guys.

Wish me luck!

2008-03-15T11:53:00.000-07:00

World of Warcraft

Yes, I have contributed to the "crack" of the masses.

We filmed a spec teaser of WoW for Legendary Pictures in hopes of landing the movie.

I was Production Designer and 1st AD on the teaser.

Enjoy the photos!

2007-11-24T21:57:00.000-08:00

A must see! Demented Entertainment's very own Joe McQueen has broken into a buzz around Hollywood. Please go watch. Confessions of a Superhero when it comes to your town. Available now on DVD.

Buy at Amazon.com

On a side note please be on the look out for The History Channel's Andrew Jackson. I was Art Director and if you look closely during the Battle of New Orleans you will see my mug as a pirate.

2007-10-22T22:19:00.000-07:00

Come on down to see the screening of my new short film "Welcome Home".

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Wilshire Screening Room
8670 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills

R.S.V.P. 818-831-8064

2007-09-06T02:55:00.000-07:00

I am pleased to say my new short film called "Welcome Home" was accepted into the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival.

"Welcome Home" among 75 shorts accepted...almost a thousand shorts were submitted.

Here are some screen caps.

2007-07-31T09:15:00.000-07:00

San Diego Comic Con 2007

Back from the Con. Once again much too crowded. But I got some advertising done for
"Die Hippie, Die!"

At the Con I ran into a film called "Doomsday"...to my dismay it has a "Die Hippie, Die!" look and feel to it!

And there was another film a children's fantasy with Robert DeNiro (I forget the name) that has flying pirate ships very similar to my children's story "The Helium King"!

Sometimes it feels as if someone is tapping into my work. When is the $$$ people going to see that?

I guess I will keep writing and plugging away...someday my vision will make the big screen.

Just a little rant.

2007-06-09T17:21:00.000-07:00

I have been working at Fantasy II special effects for the past week. They are the company that received an Academy Award for Terminator 2!

Fantasy II is one of the last of the old school special effects houses left. I have been working there on a sci-fi film called "Outlander" starring Jim Caviezel (Jesus of "The Passion"). We sunk a section of a space ship into their huge water tank and turned the bottom into a sea bed.

All fun stuff...next week I move onto a zombie movie...I only wish it was one of mine. One day.

2007-05-28T23:12:00.000-07:00

Just finished Directing a short film. It is a creepy, gothic tale about a woman blindfolded and chained to an old radiator heater. (We don't have an official title...but I personallly like Welcome Home. Lots of fun...great Cast, an amazing hard working D.P., fantastic set...just an all around fun film making experience.

2007-05-25T23:17:00.000-07:00

So I got this urgent call from Atlanta. The film is a mess and we need you to come out here and straighten them out. Ok...the next day I am on a plane to Atlanta.

I step straight into a shitstorm...stories I should not publish yet.

It was like herding cats. For the most part I got everything to calm down...everyone was much, much happier...but the major problems remained. Lucky for them they have enough money to throw at the problems...and get that dvd on the shelf...good or bad.

2007-04-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

Here is the trailer to "Beyond the Ring" a film I was Production Designer on last year.

2007-04-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

Serial Killer Scavenger Hunt's very own Deadman Jed:

Starland.com

Way to go buddy!

2007-04-16T17:35:00.001-07:00

Here is the trailer to the Andrew Jackson History Channel gig.

2007-02-27T10:51:00.000-08:00

Just complete principle photography on "The Andrew Jackson Story" for the History Channel. It is going to be airing at the end of the summer...so look for my name as Art Director in the credits and as a Pirate during the "Battle for New Orleans".