{"id":47,"date":"2006-04-15T02:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:02:17","slug":"mummy-werewolf-prowl-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"MUMMY, WEREWOLF prowl again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movie unveilings keep on a-comin\u2019 in MICRO-FILM Country<\/strong> as not one, but two<\/em> famous monsters (given a C-U twist) simultaneously return and premiere next weekend. Allow me to explain\u2026<\/p>\n

First on Saturday, April 22, 7 and 9 p.m.,<\/strong> in Room 100<\/strong> (the auditorium) of Noyes Lab<\/strong> on the main quad of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong>, is the long-in-the-making UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY<\/strong>. This full-length horror-parody, dreamt up by senior Chris Lukeman<\/strong> as an attention-getter and people-recruiter for the Illini Film & Video<\/strong> student club, stars Paul Karpenko<\/strong>, Jenni Kitchka<\/strong>, and Andrea Gordon<\/strong> as UIUC students (believe it!) who discover a bandaged ghoul that is wreaking campus-wide havoc. Needless to say, they and dozens of peers attempt to stop The Mummy, Ted Johnson, to varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n

Lukeman and his producer, junior Alex Wayman<\/strong>, attempted a rough-cut premiere back in the fall which resulted in a presentation featuring only one-half a movie. (They blamed an 11th hour computer crash that eradicated months of editing work.) We presume the edition to be seen at Noyes will feature a beginning, middle, and<\/em> end, although rumor has it that there isn\u2019t one fucking triangle to be found in the entire thing. Curses!<\/em><\/p>\n

Look here<\/a> for more information on UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY<\/strong>, and here<\/a> for details on Illini Film & Video, including a last-minute IFV festival<\/strong> that will also take place\u00a0the weekend of\u00a0April 22.<\/p>\n

\"Jo-Ann<\/p>\n

Whereas that hard-drive snafu once rendered A MUMMY<\/strong> an accidental cliffhanger, Jason Butler<\/strong> and Mark Peaslee<\/strong> have been embracing the multi-chapter format with their own creation. \u201cEpisode 2\u201d of WEREWOLF CEMETERY<\/strong> will finally take its bow on Sunday, April 23, and Monday, April 24,<\/strong> at the stroke of midnight<\/strong> in the beer garden (weather permitting) of Mike \u2018n\u2019 Molly\u2019s,\u00a0105 N.\u00a0Market Street, downtown Champaign<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the end of \u201cEpisode 1,\u201d which first screened at the same venue back in October (and should be available as a DVD at the upcoming\u00a0show), the young gravedigger named Ichabob (Steve Ucherek<\/strong> of The Living Blue<\/strong>) had just arrived in Amnesia Falls to escape his dour upbringing in the outskirts. \u201cEpisode 2\u201d will see Ichabob look for employment, the titular werewolves gain strength, and the mysterious Extermocorp \u2013 a band of werewolf-hunters \u2013 emerge from the shadows. The fact that their clubhouse bears an uncanny resemblance to the second floor of Mike \u2018n\u2019 Molly\u2019s is purely coincidental. We think.<\/p>\n

On each night, a pumped-up cut of WEREWOLF CEMETERY: EPISODE 1<\/strong> will start at 10 p.m.<\/strong>, followed by the debut of both THE ADVENTURES OF THE SCREAMING APE: PART 1<\/strong> and the Living Blue music video SERRATED FRIEND<\/strong> at 11:30 p.m.<\/strong>, and then WEREWOLF CEMETERY: EPISODE 2<\/strong> at 12 a.m.<\/strong> Admission\u00a0will be\u00a0$2.<\/p>\n

For more information on these and other BrainSmart Productions <\/strong>movies, give JB<\/a> a shout. Also, watch this space later next week for JB\u2019s first-ever MICRO-FILM<\/strong> interview!<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY photo
\ncourtesy of Chris Lukeman\/IFV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The complete UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VS. A MUMMY shambles forth on Saturday, April 22, 2006, 7 and 9 p.m. at UIUC’s Noyes Lab, while WEREWOLF CEMETERY: EPISODE 2 gets hairy on Sunday, April 23, and Monday, April 24, 2006, midnight, at Mike ‘n’ Molly’s in downtown Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events","category-student-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}