{"id":2289,"date":"2010-10-29T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:34","slug":"iow-farm-boys-dread-undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"IOW: FARM boys dread undead"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing we figured out early in the Age of MICRO-FILM<\/strong> is that it\u2019s often hard to accurately set up discussion for a movie we haven\u2019t seen yet, even more so when the outward appearances of something like FARM <\/strong>all but say, \u201cThe devil is in the details of this<\/em> motion picture.\u201d Thanks to editor Andrew Gleason<\/strong>, whom we quoted yesterday<\/a> in C-U Biz-en-sc\u00e8ne<\/strong>, we\u2019ve read through the FARM <\/strong>press notes in advance of writing about it. They\u2019re certainly specific enough about the core filmmakers\u2019 background and the movie\u2019s stressful two-year genesis yet, conveniently, the dramatic plot synopsis does little more than broadly draw the characters, the setting, and the fact that a form of Armageddon is upon them. Darn you, creative types! At least they\u2019re consistent, since the first full trailer hints at no more or less than the promo copy, while you seriously must <\/em>dig on that gorgeous final shot:<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll also find the official FARM <\/strong>Web site<\/a> to be sparse in strange ways, especially since the filmmakers\u2019 identities are all but nonexistent here. (One wonders if they had faux v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/em> in mind at some point.) We do learn a bit about the principal actors: Missouri<\/strong> native Michael Hotop<\/strong> (\u201cCharlie\u201d) has done construction and factory work but is gunning for full-time acting employment, Freddie Meyer<\/strong> (\u201cSimon\u201d) comes from the Chicago <\/strong>suburbs and loves to play drums, and Ashley Salazar<\/strong> (\u201cSarah\u201d) lives in St. Louis<\/strong> and is a professional model and photographer. Her own Web site also details a million other things<\/a> this ambitious 26-year-old is or was involved in, such as a six-year Air Force career and a budding sideline as an amateur MMA fighter. One hopes the latter came into play down on the FARM<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

Below you can enjoy some behind-the-scenes pictures that show off the titular living quarters and feature actors Salazar (pictures 1, 4<\/em>), Hotop (1, 4<\/em>), and Meyer (5 left<\/em>), co-directors Andrew M. Jackson<\/strong> (2, 3 center<\/em>) and Hank Bausch<\/strong> (2 right, 3 left, 5 middle<\/em>), cinematographer Evan Kimball Plochmann<\/strong> (2 left, 4 right, 5 right<\/em>), and key grip Nathan Ackerman<\/strong> (3 right<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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And, yes, you\u2019re not seeing things \u2013 and neither is the Simon character, apparently \u2013 for actor Meyer is wearing a make-up appliance over his left eye, which is also evident in the trailer although the filmmakers do a good job of downplaying the deformity except for one brazen close-up. Presumably this resulted from a prior run-in with the undead and hints at Simon\u2019s ultimate fate.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Get your first good look at the no-budget, southern Illinois indie FARM, and then peruse exclusive behind-the-scene photos courtesy of the filmmakers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,19,20,441],"tags":[464,513,510,463,512,514,511],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-images-du-cu","category-videos-du-c-u","category-c-u-confidential-youtube","tag-andrew-gleason","tag-andrew-m-jackson","tag-ashley-salazar","tag-farm","tag-freddie-meyer","tag-hank-bausch","tag-michael-hotop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}