Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Corpus Christi Originals back at it again. Coming from the Produce Stream Lab Studio, downtown Corpus Christi, Texas. We got in the building. Night Creature Productions.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all?
[00:00:12] Speaker C: Hello.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: Hey, what y'all doing? How y'all doing today? What's going on?
[00:00:16] Speaker B: We're doing good. Do it good?
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So how'd y'all feel when I invited y'all into the show, or when you were introduced to the show or you were coming onto the show, how'd you feel?
[00:00:26] Speaker B: A little bit of nervous first. Still kind of nervous, but we're starting to get over the jitters right now.
Why are you nervous?
[00:00:32] Speaker D: What do you mean? We lied.
It could happen.
[00:00:38] Speaker C: You can't cut and then re edit.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: We're used to that.
[00:00:42] Speaker D: Making it look really nice.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: That's like, we'll do our best.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: That's an editor joke right there for you guys.
That's what's up, man. Matt. So you guys been in the Corpus Christi scene for 25 years?
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Since 1998.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: Yeah, 98. Wow. So when I hear that, I'm thinking about, like, the equipment that you gotta have at that time. You know what I'm saying? So how did. So what, what's the deal? Like, what. Why did y'all start. Why do y'all decide to start at that time in history?
[00:01:14] Speaker C: Oh, I would say. Oh, I would think is when we were back then, younger, we would watch horror movies till one or 02:00 in the morning and sometimes not the greatest horror movies in the world. And Chris and I started thinking, you know, we can probably do better than that, you know? And then it just started talk about, maybe we can do better. We can do better. And then we decided, let's try to make our own little horror movies. And then it starts stemming from that. And then we just borrow the vhs from one of our parents and just start shooting.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: And, wow.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Actually, back in the day, our first movie was like, we rented a video camera from Les Felzers for a weekend, and we shot at Tom Brown, and it was just us playing, like, zombies and stuff like that. And that was essentially kind of the starting point. And since I was a horror fan, I still am a horror fan. I started to learn how to do the special effects makeup on this guy.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:02:11] Speaker B: And that's how we honed our craft. So we would see something in Fangoria magazine or something in those star logs and stuff like that. That was kind of like the catalyst that got us going.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Wow. So I'm stuck on less felders what is that? I heard that name.
It's not around anymore, is it?
[00:02:30] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a video store, but they used to rent out VHS decks and they also rented out video cameras. And you could rent a video camera for the weekend. And that's how we kind of started. Two VHS decks and. And a VHS camera. And we would shoot our videos on the weekend and then start editing them out.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: Wow. So. So you had to show. You rented them out. So I'm thinking you owned it. Wow, that's.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we didn't own a camera until way later.
[00:02:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Y'all were dedicated.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Golly. So, man, so you. So you decided, all right, we could probably make films better than this. So y'all just. Y'all just went at.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: So I just wanted to make films. We just love it.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: And so horrors is the genre that you all obviously liked.
[00:03:11] Speaker C: Yeah, it was the movies that parents didn't want us to see.
Yeah, they're like, you know, watch Disney movies. You know, we liked watching the horror movies. So it's like, you know, this is our rebellion. We like watching horror movies and we like them a lot more. So that's how we kept on watching and watching them getting ideas.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:30] Speaker C: You know, see, now, certain scene, the person died angry. Well, let's try to redo that. You know, so fortunately, I was the guinea pig. But, I mean, he eventually got it all down, and I suffered a couple of times, but, you know, I came out okay at the end.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: Only a few minor burns to the face.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Anthony Diaz, Facebook. He's on Facebook.
He said in the house. Thanks you. Anthony franchise. Yeah. Garza on tick tock. Thanks a lot, you guys, for joining. Wow. So form of rebellion.
What do you think? Because you're saying your parents wanted you. Like, of course it's something that they didn't want you to watch, but you're like, I'm gonna watch this anyway.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: Well, it was down over the former rebellion. So, like, oh, why are you watching that stuff? It's like, you know, that's not good stuff to watch, you know?
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:04:18] Speaker C: So something we enjoy doing. So it's something we just continue to do.
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Right. So, like, so I guess in my household or whatever, if you listen to heavy music or whatever, don't listen to this heavy stuff. Yeah, okay, I got you. So it's like. It's like what you're interested in or whatever. And it's amazing to me how many horror people are in the city.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: Like, you know what I mean? The amount of people that are in. You're just being on my instagram and being introduced to Ronnie. Well, I forgot your tag name. Was it? Yeah. Corpse Christie. Goth girl. Like, she shares my stuff often. And then having the network that she has on Instagram, like, a bunch of different horror people, it's amazing to me. So y'all being out here for these people that like y'all, it's awesome to know that y'all are out here. So. And I was just researching y'all a website and found y'all on YouTube, and then I found y'all on Amazon.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: That's amazing. That. That's big, isn't it? I mean.
[00:05:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, that's more the hotels.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Of ours on there. Yeah.
[00:05:24] Speaker A: Plex, you know, even got a IMDb profile on there. Yeah, it's pretty cool, man. So. And then y'all were mentioning earlier, so some kind of distribution deal. What's that about?
[00:05:35] Speaker C: Like, cinema epics?
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah, we signed when we started. Mario mentioned it earlier, but we were working on a short film called a date, and we showed it to somebody that we knew that was a filmmaker, sales agent for cinema epics. And he basically said, if you do a couple more of these, then we could sell this. We can actually turn it into something that we can, you know, distributed on. Onto different platforms. So that pretty much set the movie more details of horror into motion.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:06:05] Speaker C: So we decided. So we had several short films. From what Chris told me, he said, I can't sell short films. I can only sell features. So we had three or four short films filmed, and we're like, well, you know what? Let me just combine all the four short films together, put a storyline to tag the. Combines them all together, and then we'll have our two hour feature film.
And that's kind of how when the tales of horrors came about, and that's always, people enjoyed it, and we got it all disputed, and so a lot of people get to see it.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: It was a lot of work.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome. So did you. So you had to put those four short stories together. You had to change it. Change. Because it had to go connected to each other, I'm assuming.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: Whatever.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Until you have to change it. Change it around or whatever to make it fit right into. So does it have to be a certain amount of time long to be an actual movie?
[00:06:56] Speaker B: 90 minutes.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: So it's got to be 90 minutes. Yeah. Okay. And the short film does that. Does that a certain length.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: They were all different links. They all kind of changed, and they all had different kind of vibes to them, too. There were some that were more Sci-Fi oriented, more that were straight horror, you know, in that slant.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: That's interesting. So Sci-Fi and horror, they're not the same. They're not the same.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Oh, no, no.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: So there's a. I guess a boundary.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: It was a tonal shift more than anything else, because we had one about a guy that goes on a date with a vampire and he turns out to be a cyborg.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: That was kind of a setup, the.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: Vampires and stuff like that.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: So.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: And that, that one's definitely more of a light hearted tone versus, you know, mirror that's more of a possession story, you know, that kind of thing. But we definitely wanted the South Texas vibe in the film.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Yeah.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: So that's why we had Elkakui.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, right, right, right. El Kukui.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: So we had. We tried to kind of do a blender of a bunch of different ideas and genre attempts and what, you know, Sci-Fi fantasy, horror, essentially.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: So. So again, you decided on doing. Keeping it South Texas just cuz or.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: I mean, it's just our. Just the thing that we don't see a lot of that, you know, latino filmmakers going out. I think we were the first ones to actually do a kukui short film, so.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Well, in horror form or whatever. Yeah, that's dope. That's pretty cool, man. So you're. And you and y'all do, like, like, screenings and showings, like the contests, I guess you can call them. Is that what you call them?
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we've done, we've done contests, we've done film festivals and film festival.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about. So, so what are some, like, what are some of the other type to do the other types of shows that they show? Are they. Do they, are they kind of the same to y'alls or whatever? Do you have. Do you try to have your own distinct, like, voice, I guess, to it, like, because you said the South Texas feel. Right. Do you feel like you have to have that?
[00:08:54] Speaker B: I think it's just part of our identity as filmmakers, I would say. And I felt like that was kind of what we tried to do with Elkakui.
[00:09:03] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that.
Let's see, like, what Chris was saying. We don't see a lot in mainstream with, there are some latin based movies out there, but the ones I've seen stray away from the story or don't tell the story like I was told. I mean, there is a couple of kukui movies out there that people have made. I think there was one on Sci-Fi but didn't really touch the story of Kukui. There wasn't talking about Kukui I grew up with. My grandmother tells me, hey, you don't behave, you know, Kukui's gonna get you. You know, and that's how we grew up and scared the crap out of me. You know, I would listen to my grandmother and she told me that stuff. So that stuck in my head. But then as time went on and I was doing research for the part because I played Elkoku in the. And the movie part. In the movie, I did a little research about what the story really was, and that kind of intrigued me that hopefully sometime in the future we're running for the script of a standalone cookie movie that will more or less talk about his, you know, where he came from, you know, the. His backstory, and then bring it into the present is what we're trying to do. So that's, and it's very important, I think, that we, as Latinos, show what we grew up with, what our background is. We don't see a lot in cinema. That's it's, you know, here and there you'll see some things on tv and stuff, but for the majority, you had to go look for them or you have to go into spanish networks and stuff. I think that maybe we're trying to do is highlight the latina culture, latino culture and other things. It's just not just with cuckoo. There's other things. Just us being Latinos brings that to the. To the movie itself or film products that we're doing.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: It's almost like it's underground, too. That makes me think about how it's just underground what y'all are doing. And a lot of production companies are like that. And it seems like that only certain production companies are actually seen.
[00:10:50] Speaker D: You kind of have to be either really, really big or small because in between gets squished. I mean, you just compete against major studios. So independents have a little bit more leeway with people who are, you know, in SAG and have a, you know, union stuff. We're a little bit, we can get people that are not in a union and we can do things that are, that maybe the bigger production companies couldn't get away with, I guess.
And we've, and which was good about Chris and Lewis and for that matter, Oscar, we've learned to find, especially me in the last few years, learned how to do what we have. It's kind of hard to sometimes to put a production together and make it look really good. If you go back and look at it, I mean, we had no budget, and you couldn't tell. If you look at the effects on it, they're really legit. I mean, they're top notch for not having any money to do this movie. A lot of it's noise and sound and a lot of faking and things that you don't really see is more of in your head that you get out of that movie. But I think that they did a lot with nothing. And it's amazing. You go back and forget that movie. It's very impressive. And that's 2017, what we're doing now. We're advancing into a bigger. A bigger step and to more visual effects and those kind of things.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: Right on, right on. Anthony Guzman says, hi. Uncle Doctor. Uncle Doctor Scott.
[00:12:12] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, I was in. I was in a play last year, the Rocky Horror show. I played Doctor Scott and Anthony's. He was my nephew Eddie plays Eddie in there, so he's my nephew. And.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Is that at the Harvard Playhouse?
[00:12:25] Speaker D: It was at the war. Yeah, yeah, it was great time.
[00:12:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I played guitar at the one over here for, like, maybe like, one show. I think it was Oklahoma or something. Like. Okay, yeah. For just that one time, and some people asked me to play that one, but they went more me play bass. I was like, I don't really know base.
Well, it's cool.
[00:12:44] Speaker D: They have a live band, so it's always cool. Yeah, they do. They play with live music, so.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[00:12:48] Speaker D: Really good. It's not done a lot, so.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Just looking at you, bro, I'll be scared of your. Your character, and then whatever. Yeah, go look at it.
[00:12:55] Speaker D: Go to the website. My pictures on handsome.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: So Mario really suffered that film, because if you see the film, he's wearing a black leather jacket.
[00:13:06] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: And everybody who are filmmakers know that audio is very important, so we have to shut off the AC in most of those rooms. So it starts getting really hot. So Mario was a trooper on that film. He was like, you know, after he said, chris says, cut, like, mario, want to give me the jacket? Yeah, I can sing off of me now.
[00:13:31] Speaker D: It's kind of a woman's jacket. It was a woman's long coat.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:34] Speaker D: That just happened to find in a garage. So the day we started filming, so that was on with this long wig and, of course, the prosthetics on. In this house with no air condition and. No. It was October, November. Still kind of warm.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker D: So, yeah, after 210 minutes, we had to stop because I'm starting to sweat and it take ten minutes to pat me down and give me some air and then go back and do it. So it was kind of one of those things. That's why it took so many times to do it that, yeah, we all did on the weekends. It wasn't any, it was all of labor of love because we are doing all our time on and on through a long seven, eight hour shoot sometimes. But yeah, I said I had a great time. I'll do it again. Yeah, me too. I'll do it again.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: So you, Chris, you learn how to do makeup through magazines?
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I was an avid fangoria reader back in the nineties. It was, it was a different vibe back in, back in the day, there wasn't a whole lot of us, you know, so it was whatever we could find. Any of the videos, any of the Fangoria magazines, makeup books and stuff like that. We basically tackled it.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Yeah. See, self taught.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Very self taught.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: Yeah. And Fangoria, that, is that still around?
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's still around.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. And so it's a popular, I guess, magazine. Yeah. Horror fanatics. Yeah. It, does it teach about production as well or, I mean, does it.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: No, but it kind of, they interview the filmmakers and they talk a little bit about the process of making the films. And sometimes they would get into the logistics of making horror movies. And especially in the late eighties, early nineties, censorship was a big issue at that point. So, you know, it was kind of a, you know, you can see where making a film takes a lot of work.
[00:15:08] Speaker C: And that's kind of where whenever with the fangorious, you know, we were able to see some of these films back in the seventies and go, that looks pretty cool. What's the name of this film? And we'll go try to find it and rent it. And we find it, rent it and see it. And we're like, oh. And then we start learning that way because the Frank or magazine will give you italian horror movie filmmakers, you know, all sorts of different types of them. And we said, let's go get that movie and see what it's all about.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: We watch like deep red, like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, you know, these are producer names.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Directors.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: Directors.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: We watched zombie and, and these are from the seventies, late seventies, early eighties.
[00:15:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
What do I think? Do y'all, do y'all get into like, Vincent Price? Is he like a horror guy?
[00:15:57] Speaker B: Yeah, but we watched like House of wax and the Tingler all, all the stuff from the sixties, seventies, eighties, you know, as much as we could absorb at the time.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: Yeah, right on. So. And you and. I don't know if we brought this up, but you guys knew each other in high school, right? Is that how y'all got introduced?
[00:16:12] Speaker C: No.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Or. Oh, yeah.
[00:16:14] Speaker D: Far back. Before that.
[00:16:16] Speaker C: Yeah, we grew up. I grew up across the street from Chris, so. And then we went to our. Went to elementary school together, so I've known him since going to elementary school, so.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: Nice.
That's cool. And do y'all have brothers and sisters, or.
[00:16:30] Speaker C: I have two sisters.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: I have a sister, but she's passed away. And I have a half sister and a step brother.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: Oh, man. Sorry to hear that. But, yeah. So y'all are pretty much brothers.
Oh, that's awesome, man.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: And the movies also just really kind of gave us an excuse to hang out with Oscar and Jason.
It was just an excuse for us to.
[00:16:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Do things, you know, make movies and be silly and nerd out about.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: Geek out about it. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, you gotta have some kind of, like, network system, you know what I mean? To help continue to, you know, I guess, progress as people, I think. You know what I mean? I'm into shoot, man music, basically. I got a degree in music, so just being around musicians is helpful for me, but. Yeah, man, that's awesome, dude.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: It's like a tribe or a band. It's kind of the same vibe.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And then, of course, you got tribes that don't like other tribes, you know what I mean? You can get into that or whatever.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: Secular. Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: Right on. So you have an upcoming project called Project Evil Inheritance.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Yes, we do.
[00:17:31] Speaker A: All right, so what's going on there?
[00:17:34] Speaker D: Okay.
Chris wrote a screenplay called Evil Inheritance, and it's basically. I'll just do a little summary without giving too much away.
Evil house, kind of doorway to hell kind of place. And things happened bad when a little girl was younger and she inherited a house from her parents, and then things go kind of crazy from there. I want to give a lot away because there's a lot of things that happen, but that's kind of the gist.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: So it's a screenplay, originally written for. Oh, screenplay. Okay. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Wow. That's awesome, man. That's cool. So how do you. How do you go about funding the film? You use your own money, do you. Ads for donations? Like, how do you need. You obviously need to fund the film, right? Yes.
[00:18:18] Speaker C: All the love, you just said yes. Okay, so all those together, fundraising our own money.
Right. In the process trying to get some grants for free money. So. And we. So fundraisers, pop ups we're doing, you know, that's what we try to try to get donations. You know. You know, screenings for donations. So we at least be able to pay our bill to pay. All our actors may have the right to makeup effects and everything. So. Yes.
[00:18:45] Speaker A: Wow, that's awesome. So, yeah, y'all got to go through actual actually testing out different actors and stuff like that too, right?
[00:18:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we're in the middle of the audition process.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: All right. All right. So what y'all looking for currently? Just different. Does it. Is that okay to ask?
[00:19:00] Speaker D: No, you can ask him.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:03] Speaker B: Mario's the casting director, but yeah, right.
[00:19:06] Speaker D: Now we're looking for pretty much, if you go to the website nightcreaturesproduction.com, there's a page for evil inheritance. They're all the character descriptions are on there. So something that somebody might be able to think that AI might do well doing that as a character and want to give an audition, they're happy to send us an email. My email is night creature casting mail.com. That's the one we use for all our auditions stuff. So just if you have a resume or you want to try and even if it's not for this, for something in the future, we keep everybody in file. So that way, in case something else happens or we need an extra person, we can. We can call somebody. So looking for some local people who want to, you know, if they've never done it before. If they've done it before, it's great. We're looking for some extra extras, but that'd be further on when we do the production stuff. But if you just male, female, if you want to try out, there's description, like I said on the website, and if it fits you send me an email and we'll take a look at you. We are in the process of still auditioning some people, but that we've already done a few weeks ago, and. But we're always looking for new people.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: So no spam, right? Don't spam. Don't spam, man. Please don't spam me.
[00:20:15] Speaker D: I got no time for that.
Just resumes, please. Thanks.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what's up, dude. So do you have, like, a release date? Do you set a release date? Like, okay, this is by the time we have to have it done. Do you do that for yourself or.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Kind of a floating deadline right now? And I think the thing with this project, too, is like, you know, we're, we're trying to do something a little bit more ambitious and a little bit more linear. So we want to make sure that we're, you know, getting the right proper resources to realize what we're trying to accomplish here.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: There's definitely a lot of planning seems like going on, a lot of keeping up the great work. Thomas Grainley says yoga. Mark.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: So speaking of yoga, you guys got something coming out? Yeah.
[00:21:01] Speaker B: So we're going to be having goth yoga, and it's going to be on April 20 over at the Corpus Christi and wellness center. And tangent.org is going to be hosting the yoga. And we're going to have vendors and we're going to have food trucks, and we're going to have a screening of our, a short film that we just did recently called Nosebleed. So you'll be able to get to see that film there, too. And it's be fun. It's from 530 to 730. You know, it's just come out, hang out with us. And we're also doing a fundraiser for the film, so we want to make sure that, you know, people that are interested in being involved with the project that they'll be there. And we'll also have raffling for certain items as well.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. April 20. April 20, you guys.
[00:21:42] Speaker C: April 20. Yes.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Thought you're gonna say something. Oh, Lord. Scuba cabrera. What's good, man? He said, what's up, homie Chris, what's going on? All right. Yes. Scuba. Scuba. And she was, he was, y'all know scoop Steve?
[00:21:55] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: We all worked on a film together, actually.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: No kidding.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: All right.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: Couple of films, actually.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Okay, cool. Horror film also, obviously. Yes.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: Another horror film.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. Have you tried other genres but surprised.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: Nosebleed is not a horror.
[00:22:10] Speaker D: Yeah, that's the only one.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: What'd you say?
[00:22:12] Speaker C: Nosebleed is not a horror film.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: No kidding.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: It is not. It is a dark comedy.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: A dark comedy. Wow. So is that something that y'all just recently ventured out to do or.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: Well, that was something that Chris said that he was in a situation, and what you see on the screen is kind of like where he went through a type of situation like that.
[00:22:31] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like kind of a blender of a whole bunch of things that it happened. And I was just like, oh, you know, this is kind of a weird situation. It might make an interesting movie. And I felt like, you know, it'd been a while since we worked on something, so I felt like we needed to get back into that, that mindset, right? Making a film.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: So I guess pulling upon your your personal, I guess, situations is helpful to put into it or hopeful, easier to put into a film.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: They always say that, right? What you know, you know, so if you can kind of take an experience and make it cinematic or, you know, if you're in a particular type of genre and you, you just love it and you have ideas for it, yeah. You just write what you know.
[00:23:09] Speaker A: So so obviously there's there's a recent regarding AI and, like, chat. GPT basically, how do y'all feel about that coming out? Because you could just be like, hey, write me a horror film or whatever.
What do you think about that?
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Well, I would say it's another tool. I just don't think everybody understands the tools and how it will be applied. It's just like we've been around so long too. You know, we started on tape to tape and then we've gone to Minidv and then digital and then full digital and stuff like that. Everything evolves over time, the editing the way, but the basis of making a film and the basis of making a story come to life, that never really changes and stuff like that, that's just one more layer of things that you'll add on top of the process of creating.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: So, so don't rely on it, but use it, but don't rely on it, would you say?
[00:24:00] Speaker B: Absolutely. Just think of any kind of horror movie you've watched that has way too much CGI in it and they don't balance the practical with all the other elements of telling the story and it gets lost or it becomes very shallow. And that's a big problem, you know, and that that will also be a problem with the AI, too. If you don't apply it in a correct way and you just kind of use it to get through or eat by something, they'll be just as sloppy as anything else.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: You had an idea, Maya. Oh. What was your thoughts on laying out with the devil? I liked it.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: I thought the ending was abrupt, but other than that, I thought the movie was really good.
[00:24:33] Speaker D: It was a good movie.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Was it called Maya? Late night with the devil? Late night with the devil controversy because they use AI. Oh, yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: They generate some images and AI on the film, but it's, it's very sparse and it's not detract.
[00:24:47] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't know. Fact that you had to point them out to me to understand where they were not real or what AI. I mean, it wasn't that much of the film. Now, if you say, write me a film, and this is what I want, and then you go with that, and that's a little different.
[00:25:01] Speaker A: I think that's cheating and maybe do some editing.
[00:25:04] Speaker D: I mean, if you use it, I'm stuck in a scene, and I need to figure out a way to get out of this situation in the scene. And you give that information and it gives you an idea, and then you write something for that. That's okay.
[00:25:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker D: But if you're gonna come, hey, write me the scene word for word verbatim. I think it's a little cheating.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I got you. So I kind of agree. Like, use it, but don't, like, rely.
[00:25:24] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: You still got to be creative also.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That's cool. So, man, making films in corporates for 25 years.
So you got zombie walk. What's going on there? Is it part of our walk?
[00:25:39] Speaker C: Oh, no. So our friend will Diaz owns comic junkie toy and comic junk toy and Comic Con junkie. And he came up with the idea, and he said he wanted to do, like, a zombie walk on May the fourth, and then the day after, he's have free comic book day. So he gives away free comic books over there. So again, they're toying with the idea. Do a zombie walk. And also they're thinking maybe zombies versus heroes. You know, people come in in their own hero costume or come in your own zombie costume, and they do a little walk or do a zombie walk and then celebrate, you know, may the fourth and then free comic book day the next day.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: I believe it's a collaboration between them and suicidal butterfly. We're going to be involved, too. I think we're going to do, like a, like, we're going to raffle off a makeup or something. We're still working out the logistics of our involvement.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: But, man, that's. That's. So you got. You got us constantly being involved, and this is to help, obviously, market your stuff and to help. Yeah.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: Brand awareness for us.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that's interesting, man. So how do you find yourself? I mean, I guess that's one of the ways that you market your. Your production company. Like, how do you find yourself doing that? Because obviously, we have social media now, too, and you have a YouTube channel that. How do you find yourself going about that?
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Basically, I think a lot of what we have to do is, you know, kind of build awareness of what we're trying to do, get the word out to people. This is just another perfect example of us communicating with you. About what our ideas are and what we're trying to accomplish and getting people behind the idea. So it's hard to stand apart from everybody, too. So we kind of have to find our own little niche. And of course, we are a team. It's just not me. It's all of us. You know, we're all involved. We all have our part in this production, so.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Yeah, right on. Thanks a lot. Kaylee Diaz. She's talking about AI being a great tool, where you're going to be passionate about and magic comes from. Yes. Yourself. I can't read it, or I can't read from there. And then Thomas Greenlee says, may the force be with you.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: Yeah, we're also big with you.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: Are y'all Star wars fans? Yeah.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: And transformers nuts.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Quite a few other ideas behind that, too.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So we got some questions that, on a post recently, I was. I was asking them what, what to ask y'all, and then I got a question here that says, regarding film directors and writers. What film directors or script writers do you admire and why?
Me?
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Personally, I'm huge George A. Romero fan. We just recently saw dawn of the Dead, and that's a perfect example of taking what you got, knowing what you do, and making a great story. And it's lived on 45 years later.
Great filmmaker. Also, Robert Rodriguez, you know, another guy that made El Mariachi for a shoestring, you know, Kevin Smith, also with clerks. That would be my top three right there.
[00:28:32] Speaker C: Yeah. And I would say Chris covered some of the ones I would like, like Robert Rodriguez and George Romero. So, I mean, those are one of my two favorites.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: So they're mainly, like, Latino or Hispanic, the names. Right.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: I can see something going there.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Lucio Fulci.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: So you just like their style, right? I mean.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Yeah, their style, their stories.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Right on. Yeah. So we got another one here. What are. What are the main hurdles that you face when filming a new film in Corpus Christi?
[00:29:08] Speaker C: I would say one of the hurdles we. We face most of times. Location, you know, where we can shoot at and how long we have this location for, I would say 20 years ago. We're doing making the films, and we can easily just go to someone, a manager and go. So, hey, we're shooting your theater for about two or 3 hours. Sure, no problem. Now it's more like, well, you have to call our corporate office, and it's going to be like, almost maybe $900 for the first hour. And so it becomes more challenging of networking, talking to other people on the scene. Who knows who can do us a favor or, you know, go back to our roots. We're at Del Mar, and it's, for example, nosebleed. We got a hold of Kim Fredericks, one of our old teachers from Del Mar, and we asked him, is there a way we can use the theater to shoot a movie? And he said, let me think about it. And then eventually said, yeah, sure, no problem. But of course, he gave us deadline of how many, how long we can be there. He told me, you can start at 09:00 a.m. And you have to be out the door, walking out the door at 05:00 p.m., yes, because I leave at 05:00 p.m. I'm not gonna wait for you all to set up, get everything out of the building. So, yes, I say that's one of the biggest challenges we have right now. At least we're looking at the script right now, evil inheritance locations, where our challenges are right now.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Yeah, appreciate that. Anthony Diaz. Yeah, he's, he's got these questions here. I hear it. I always shout him out, man.
So what are your, what are some of your goals in the film industry?
Yeah, do y'all have any goals? Obviously you've been talking about them, right? So what's some, I guess, future aspirations for you guys?
[00:30:51] Speaker B: For me, it's to be able to sustain what we're doing into the next ten years and, you know, being able to produce a project every so often and, you know, just having that creative outlet, you know, more than anything else. And just at a certain point, you know, technology changes and stuff like that, it'll hopefully get easier for us to make projects and. And we just keep advancing and keep making better films and, you know, just telling the stories that mean something to us.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow, that. That's amazing to me. Because you got. Because we were talking earlier, like, we got day jobs, right? We do this, like, on the side, and it's like, why are you doing it? You know what I mean? Cuz it's like, why my podcast? You know what I mean? I got my day job, I got my family. I could just go home and do this, but I actually want to do this, you know what I mean?
What do you feel about that? Like, is there like, like, what, what if, like, would you still be doing it? Like, cuz you obviously I don't make a not, do I make a lot of money from it? No, you see what I'm saying? Like, y'all have to love to do it, to be able to do it.
[00:31:52] Speaker C: Well, not yet, hopefully, but, I mean.
[00:31:54] Speaker A: So, okay.
[00:31:55] Speaker C: But we like to make some money, use that money to make other films.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: But, yeah, if it was money, then we would have stopped a long time.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Gotcha. Minerva on tick tock. Thanks a lot. She says, talented dudes.
Tom Greeley on YouTube. He's got a question. He says, what is your favorite local folklore spooky South Texas story and why?
Oh, that's.
[00:32:23] Speaker D: Wow. Of course, it's obvious, though, at Kukui. But there was. And I'm not gonna go in there because we'll talk about it anyway. But there was here in corpus, there used to be called a place called goat man's.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:32:35] Speaker D: And it was off of staples. Back then they didn't have back there. Now we have all this stuff there, but back then it was just all land field, Saratoga. Barely had a road. Must have double with lights and stuff. So you go past staples on the way out to Yorktown. And that area between there, there was a road that you'd go down this road, and it was into this bushes and stuff for trees. And there was a house in there. And when we were younger, we'd say, oh, there's a. There's a goat man that lives over there. My brother would throw us in our heads. He's two years older than me, so he's making me scared, of course. And so we would go down this thing real slow and. And, you know, it's kind of scary, but it was nothing. It was just a folklore. But that's. That was the one here. Corpus.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Corpus.
[00:33:17] Speaker D: Goat man's. And I. I never really heard what the story really was about this, just that it was. And people lived there. And, like, I'm sure they got bothered with people just going down that dirt road all the way down there. So that's what. That's what I know here locally, other than that's kind of the big one for us.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: Elkucouille and Lachuza, right?
[00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah. So which side of town did y'all grew up on? Did. So you said.
[00:33:43] Speaker D: Okay, yeah, well, I grew up on, actually, when I was younger, right near Ray, Casa Bonita, which is right there off of Pine Ray High school. I grew up there. When I was younger, I went to Casa Linda. There's no longer Casa Linda there. And then came, I moved over 6th grade to the south side, Castor's south Park. Carol area. Yeah, Carol and Carol.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: So they're about. So all. So all you guys from Carol.
[00:34:08] Speaker C: I found out, yes.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: Surrounded by tigers here, so.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm not surrounded completely. We got a texan out here. Yeah, she's off screen. Got a person off screen. Got a texan off screen. Appreciate y'all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up, man? So they're gonna get rid of that building, the old school Carol building, because they built a new one, didn't they?
[00:34:38] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: Actually took a tour of it.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Oh, seriously? Wow. Oh, they had tours, right.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Well, I took a tour. A friend of ours works over there at Carol, so she took us around, or took me around, showed me the new school. It was very big. And then I went and actually walked around right before they closed it, and they had a last tour of Carol, and it was like all these people kind of touring the place and stuff, so a lot of memories because I hadn't really been in a lot of those spots for many years.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. My wife, she's from Carol. She's a tiger, man. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, man. That. Appreciate you guys for joining everybody on the live. Thank you. Yes. Thank you so much.
Wow. Yeah.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Hanger, right?
[00:35:20] Speaker A: Yeah, the airplane hanger.
[00:35:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
Horror films. Dark blood. That was one we made in 2000. We shot part of it at the airplane hangar.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Nice.
Got another question from Facebook. Madico cartoon. What made y'all keep the filmmaking local versus going out to bigger cities?
[00:35:38] Speaker B: It's a really good question. For me, it's just the familiarity with everybody here and just, we've been here so long, we've seen the evolution of the scene, and I've had friends move away, and then, you know, they get kind of eaten up by the business sometimes, and they just kind of lose their passion for it. And I was just kind of hoping it was kind of like with George Romero. He never left Pittsburgh.
[00:35:59] Speaker A: Kept.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Try to keep making films in his hometown for as long as he could.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Like you were saying earlier, like, do what, you know, like, work with what, you know.
[00:36:07] Speaker B: Same thing with Robert Rodriguez. He still works in Austin.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Wow. Crazy. He's from Austin.
[00:36:12] Speaker B: Well, he's from San Antonio originally.
Yeah.
[00:36:15] Speaker A: Wow, dude, man, it's pretty cool, dude. I wish, like, that our creatives in the city would, like, have bigger than what we have, you know what I mean? But I guess. I mean, I don't know.
[00:36:26] Speaker D: You know, it's also good things that. That I noticed, too, that we actually took part of it. And then you go watch it and Welte, you're certain there's parts of the city, especially downtown, that are not filmed or not seen too much. And it's cool that we used and Chris used. There's a couple of alleys down here that down here that just are perfect for filming. And Chris saw that and saw there's another to film and what's good. And I see some other filmmakers as well, use certain parts of corpus that, when I was younger, I remember that actually being a functional place, like the Ritz theater, or it was going on. We filmed in there, then other people filmed in there. But that's what I like about local filmers, that they know where all the cool things are at when they were kids.
[00:37:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:37:09] Speaker D: And that this will be cool to film at.
[00:37:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:10] Speaker D: And where you wouldn't even think about that would be a good base of film. So there's a lot of places in corpus that you can do, especially downtown, a lot of really cool little nicks, places where you can just film a good scene. Yeah.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: I think also, too, I'm not mistaken, talk to rob about this, but South Texas underground, you know, they've been big supporters of what we did, and I've done, and I think we were the first ones to actually screen a locally made film in the Alamo drafthouse here. I think we were the first ones to do that. Don't quote me on that. But I remember there was kind of, like a thing at that point, and that was quite an accomplishment. That was probably one of the things that drives us, too, is that we got to see our film on the big screen like that, you know, spending so much time in that theater watching other movies, and to see our own projected that huge.
[00:38:01] Speaker C: And I think that's what all the filmmakers here in corpus, I think that's one of the things they want to strive to. They want to see their film on the big screen. It gets that sense of accomplishment. They, oh, wow, look at that. And once you. Regardless what people think of your film, they're watching your film. And that's the whole purpose of this, is get your film out, get it watched, and see what everybody thinks about it.
[00:38:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:20] Speaker C: You know, like it, don't like it. But still, I mean, you go to the movies every day, all the time. A lot of times you don't like the films, films you see, other times you do. Yeah, it's really great, because that's interesting.
[00:38:32] Speaker A: To me because, like, we, the only films that a lot of us know is just big, huge production companies and y'all. And y'alls is basically like a. Like an indie, right? Would you say?
[00:38:43] Speaker B: Yeah, micro.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Yeah. So when did you start to, like, being, like, actually liking in the other indie artists, I guess you could say, like, has it. Have you? You know what I mean? Yeah.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: I think that's also the other thing that Celtics underground does really well, too, is we've gotten to meet a lot of great filmmakers and make some good friendships and see their movies and they see ours and kind of that reciprocation of work, too. Yeah, that's, that's really, that's really, really important. I think, as filmmakers, that kind of keeps us motivated and keeps us cheering each other on, you know?
[00:39:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: Because I. We just got to see Madicio's film recently too.
[00:39:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: Who's that?
[00:39:23] Speaker B: Barber.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Yeah, dude, Chris's movie too.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Yeah, Chris.
What's it? I don't know. What's it? You know?
[00:39:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: Shout out, Chris. Yeah, man, for sure. Yeah, he's another. Is there any other production companies in town, y'all know?
[00:39:41] Speaker B: Yeah, there's.
[00:39:41] Speaker D: He still has one is motion picture company, right? Yeah, I'm in one of his movies too, actually. He's coming out a couple of weeks here, actually. They're showing it at the art thing. They have it on Thursday.
The art at the art museum.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:57] Speaker D: They show it. So it's called inside my heart.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:00] Speaker D: And Madisio can do directed it. It's a film project for Tambuchi, see, and it came out really good. So it's a short 15 minutes.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: Mario is a working actor, by the way, so he's looking for actors. He's right here.
[00:40:13] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:40:13] Speaker A: You got an IMDb, I bet you.
[00:40:15] Speaker D: I do.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. Oscar does too.
Yeah. Yeah. We got, we got some people, some fans off screen or some, how do you say people relate to the production off screen? So.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Executive producer.
[00:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
Let's see. Oh, how do you feel about the, the set Sag writers strike from Anthony Diaz?
If you don't like that one, go to new.
[00:40:42] Speaker B: No, I got a lot of opinions on that, actually.
And it's true because we've found ourselves in interesting waters as well. It's just that people aren't getting paid what it's like musicians. They're just, the streaming is not included in what they were striking for and their rights and stuff. And it's tough. You just don't see the returns. They're trying to pay them on an outdated system. So things have changed. They're drastically changing. And it's tough. It's hard. It's hard to put, pour yourself into a project and then get paid back. Peanuts.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: No, man, I can't stand that. Yeah, I can imagine, because, like, I'm a musician. And music. Music is just like, you just turn on the radio and you got music, you know what I mean? It's not like you can have somebody actually, they're playing for you, and people actually appreciate it, you know what I mean? Because I played in restaurants before. I used to play classical guitar, and people were just like, oh, just music. You know what I mean? And you're actually there trying to play for tips, you know what I mean? And it's like a for granted thing, I guess you can say.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: And I think a lot of what streaming has done, for my opinion, too, is it's kind of made movies almost like where we used to go to the video store and put some thought into what we were looking for and, you know, doing a little bit of research into it. I think streaming is just a lot of going through stuff and not really investing in it and stuff, and it's kind of hard to make people care about it. And that's the thing. You got to kind of build your brand that way around it.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Wow. And you got the short videos that.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: Are, like 30 seconds long fighting the short attention spans.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow, man. Wow. So you. So you have to. You have to guess. Keep up with the times to continue moving forward, right? Yeah. Yeah, man. So Anthony's got a bunch of. Bunch of different questions here, man.
Anthony, he's got better ones than I do.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: We got a good answers.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he's. Dude, I keep shouting him out. I should probably make him a co host or something. Geez. For sure, man. You guys have been awesome. Coming on. Is there anything y'all want to share?
[00:42:45] Speaker B: Well, I mean, we do have a YouTube channel, and it features a lot of our previous projects. And I think what's interesting about is you can see the progression in our work. You know, we started very, like a garage band, you know, with duct tape and glue and, you know, stuff like that on old, grainy high video, because we were that style of filmmaker back then, very micro budget. And then we progressed into, as we learned from our professor Mack Hyperspaugh. Thank you, Mac. You know, he taught us the way to edit and, you know, compose shots and stuff like that. And you can see, as our films progressed, you know, we just try to advance every time we try to do something more challenging and more daring and, you know, like. And we hope people like it and hope people get behind it.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: Why do you do that? Like, what do you. What do you just, what do you. So I guess it's a challenge for you as a person or as a producer continue to.
[00:43:35] Speaker C: Yeah, so I always, we always tell. I always tell Mario and I still, Chris and Oscars, what can you do better? Every time we film a product, finish a project, what can we do better? I mean, what can we done to better that make it better film, you know, and that's just more of us, you know, stepping out of our comfort zone and taking a step forward and get a little bit better at certain things. A little bit better at doing it. What we're gonna do this, let's make sure we have a high end camera this time. That was a good camera. Let's make sure it is higher in, you know, give more production value to the film, you know. You know, who do we have on sound? Who's doing audio? I mean, I like, instead of us doing hands on, because a lot of independent filmmakers, it's a one man show. You, the person, the average independent filmmakers, a one man show here. He's filming. He's doing the audio. He has everything on his. On his back, and he's doing it on his own. But since we have a good group of people for Nico productions, you know, utilize the great people, you know, and try to make sure we can make it interesting. We make it fun for everybody. It's like, yes, it's hard. Mario can say it's hard, but at the end of the day, when we finish a project, I know we finished nosebleed. It was a. It was great because our turnaround from editing to getting that done was short amount of time. So we always want to make sure we get better, get bigger, and see what we can do, you know, see how far we can push ourselves.
[00:44:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I think it's cool that y'all had that y'all have each other to bounce those ideas off of to help elevate each other in that sense. And I think that because you're saying you have some productions. Just have a one man dude.
[00:45:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:08] Speaker A: Doing everything.
[00:45:08] Speaker B: It's been done. I don't recommend it.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Yeah, you mentioned so many great things. I forget. I always forget, but, yeah, man, that's awesome. So you got that going on. What was I thinking about?
Yeah, so you gotta. You gotta put all that stuff together and make it presentable for. For view. For people to view it. So do you have to get, like, engineers to, like, put. Put it all together because you said sound?
[00:45:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:38] Speaker A: And you got to make sure that everything's level and all that.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: Yeah. So, yeah, so, like, with Chris, you know, Chris was pretty good at what he does, and so does everybody. Also record sound on a different.
Different from video or so we can, like, match them up later. And that's his headache when he does editing or whoever does editing.
[00:45:57] Speaker A: Right, right.
[00:45:58] Speaker C: But it's just like trying to find the right people. You know, a lot of times, if there's no one doing audio, it could be I'm doing audio and I'm the producer on the thing. And that just takes away from the producer trying to make sure this guy, the director, is staying on schedule.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:12] Speaker C: You know, it's not, you know, tender off a different location or it goes off in a tangent on a different. Something else. Because, you know, we try to, in our, at least in our group of people are not actors. We try to make it a fun experience for everybody.
[00:46:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:46:26] Speaker C: You know, people don't want to be in a part of a film if it's not, like, fun, you know, so we try to make it fun for everybody, you know, make it more comfortable now, you know, so when they're there, they have no idea what's going on behind the camera. They don't know if we're an hour behind schedule or 2 hours or right on schedule. They have no idea. All they know is they're acting in front of the cameras in front of them, and they're doing their acting and they're having fun. And that comes off a lot in movies when you can see the chemistry of all your actors and then you see a movie, and all of a sudden it looks like that was a fun movie to make it look seems like they're all having fun, and that comes off when all the actors are, like, came to have that come straight together. But, yeah.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: So how do you go about making it fun for them?
[00:47:10] Speaker C: Um, we, uh, go ahead.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: We cover them in a lot of blood, bake them in a hot room.
[00:47:18] Speaker D: Sweat for a little while.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: I mean, there, yeah, it's, it should be equal amounts of fun, but equal amounts of work. You know, it's. I think it's, you know, they, they get as much out of it as anything else, too. So I can.
[00:47:33] Speaker D: I can talk on my side. On the actor side of it is that when we were doing with that, even as chaotic as it was and we did have people helping us, it still was a lot of moving parts going on, and they did make it easier for the actor to be able, especially for me, when I had all the makeup on, all that stuff, it's very hot and uncomfortable. But when I had to come back in and do the. Do my acting, I felt comfortable to be able to do that. In other words, Chris would allow you to do what he. I want to do the scene this way. Do it, and then he'll let me do it the way I want to do it. And then, and like I said, chris has a really good eye for directing, so he knows what's good, what's not to good, and how many takes it to do it, and it's just a lot of stuff that goes along with doing it. If it's not fun for the actor, they're going to not give a good performance. And I noticed that I never think of myself that way, but I know I felt more comfortable and more at ease, especially being my first film. Major film were film. So on set, it was, you know, kind of what's gonna happen and what I'm gonna do. It's a lot easier when you got makeup on your face. You don't, you covered your face, you kinda yourself a little bit, so you can kind of be a little bit more free. But it's cool that, that the atmosphere was there for that. And I've been in other film sets, and they're not like that. And so that's why I kind of gravitate to these guys, because they, they're having fun while doing work, really, really busting their butts. And you'd be surprised on how much stuff has that happened behind the scenes to make something happen for two or 3 seconds on film.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:07] Speaker D: So a lot of work, a lot of moving parts.
[00:49:09] Speaker A: So. So only on either side. Y'all both know that y'all gotta put in the work.
[00:49:12] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:49:13] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:49:13] Speaker D: On both sides. And I gotta see on Nosby, I worked behind the camera. On Nosby, I was in front of it, and I learned a lot. Chris and Oscar and Louis and other people, even some of the actors, like, I learned a lot. And so just doing a lot of work and understand how much it takes to get that scene and move everything across to do another scene in the same place. It's not easy. So I really give credit to people.
[00:49:36] Speaker A: So you, so y'all have to work with each other. You got to tell them, hey, I got, you got to do this scene. Like, this has. How's yours? So you have, like, some, like a, like a relationship, right? With each other. Like, you took. Has it, has it progressed since. Oh, how long have you all been working together?
[00:49:52] Speaker D: Well, I've been with him since 2017. Since doing what? Actually the date, but that was just a one time thing as an extra, but when he called me under do it was method. We got more involved. I come from a graphics background, so I had some. A little bit of skill doing graphics. I'd do some the posters for. For all our movies, and I went back and did all the old post for. For the old movies that they had done before me. We had in the movie and wept that we had a comic book that we had to put together, and so we kind of mean Chris got together and got pictures from the film and put it all together, and it was kind of one of those things, film after we did everything, because they were actual pictures from the movie that we filmed, and so we had to film the comic book after everything was done, so you can see all the pictures in there. So we put that together kind of the end of the filming process, and.
[00:50:39] Speaker B: It was not the last thing we.
[00:50:41] Speaker D: It was really difficult, but it worked. If we. If it wasn't for that, we were kind of worried that that might not work or come off good on screen, and it actually came out pretty good for, like I said, not having any budget at all. We're paying for all the stuff ourselves and just our time, and that's something I love to do. So being creative, first let me do it. And so, hey, I like a kid in a candy store, I'll sit there, start creating all day long. So something I love, so he lets me do it. So they haven't told me no yet, so until they tell me no, I'm gonna give you.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: So how do you. How do you feel about where. Where it's gone so far?
[00:51:17] Speaker B: I feel really good about what we've gotten to do and how we've been. Been able to get it out to the public, too. So, you know, and it's. And again, too, like what we did maybe five years ago, things are going to change, and we're going to have to adapt to new structure of distribution, and we're going to have to look at all sorts of different things. So everything that we're doing for evil inheritance, you know, we're definitely trying a lot of different things to make sure that we get what we want, you know, that, you know, the film comes out the way we were planning it, because we put a lot of effort in this.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Yeah, so, I'm sorry, man. I was paying attention. So you were sit. So you like where it. Words come worse become. And you just wanted to continue to progress?
[00:51:56] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: Yeah. That's awesome, man. What's your favorite scary movie?
Love cc goth Girl by Roni Martinez. On YouTube.
[00:52:08] Speaker C: It's always, no, Ronnie, let's have Ronnie go first.
[00:52:13] Speaker A: Yeah, Ronnie go first.
You go first, bro.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: Come on, cc goth girl.
[00:52:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, you can if you want.
We got the cc goth girl here, you guys.
[00:52:28] Speaker E: Hi.
So. Okay, so, hello.
Favorite horror movie? Actually, it's. It's.
It's depending on, like, if you mean a horror from american horror, like, Freddy Cougar is my man.
[00:52:45] Speaker A: Yeah, whatever.
[00:52:46] Speaker E: We're going to. My overall, it's going to be Takashi Miyeki, japanese director, Ichi the killer. And battle Royale is also japanese horse. Yeah. I have a tattoo of the main character, Kakihara.
[00:53:02] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. So what's the difference between, like, is there a huge difference between the Japanese, or is it.
[00:53:06] Speaker E: You can tell the difference between it, like, the asian horror and then american horror, even italian horror.
So, yeah, there's every. There's. There's just so much difference. And then, of course, indie horror, you know, you're always gonna get different aspects of horror everywhere, and I think that's what's it.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: So how did you find out about the night creature productions?
[00:53:24] Speaker E: How did I get to meet you?
[00:53:29] Speaker B: We were talking about transformers.
[00:53:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:31] Speaker E: I'm a big transformer Star wars fan. I have lightsabers, and then, of course, horror. And then, I don't know, we just started hanging out, and then he's like, you want to be in the movie?
Yeah. And I auditioned, and I'm like, one of the bitchy girls in there.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: So, yeah, a lot of attitude in that movie.
[00:53:50] Speaker A: Right on. Yeah.
Wow. So you got. So you got to deal with him telling you, hey, you got. You need to do this or you need to act or whatever.
[00:53:58] Speaker E: Yeah, I had fun, actually, on nosebleed, and I was like, hey, can I do this with my character? And they're so easy to work with, and they're like, let's try it out, see how it works. And it did work out and threw with some little things of my own on there, and it came out. People laughed. So that was good. So now it's Yasir to tell.
[00:54:20] Speaker A: You.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: You want to go first?
[00:54:21] Speaker D: Go ahead.
[00:54:22] Speaker B: Oh, me.
[00:54:24] Speaker A: Gosh.
[00:54:26] Speaker B: My to go to is dawn of the Dead 78, and then Evil Dead 81, and then probably the exorcist after that.
[00:54:34] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:54:39] Speaker C: I would say I like deep red. That's italian horror movie. The Exorcist was really good and evil Dead with Bruce Campbell.
[00:54:51] Speaker D: Yeah, well, they took all mine. I say three that they didn't say. Suspiria was, is a really good movie. The original Suspiria, though, it's more I guess kind of on the Sci-Fi side. I like the thing from carbon, right? Yeah, I just love the makeup of that.
My dad took me to see that movie when I was a kid. I remember going to the theater, the day came out and my dad works all day, so he was tired. So back then they didn't have movies at one. And today's five, seven and nine it. And on that Friday it came out. I went to cine six, I remember, locally, and went to watch that movie. And it freaked the crap out of me because it was so realistic. The practical effects in that movie are so awesome. If you haven't seen it, you gotta see it. It's so awesome. So just one of those things. That's what got me really into more the practical makeup effects. And I started doing that with Halloween stuff at the house. But yeah, that's the thing is really top of my list. John Carpenter's a great director. I mean, Halloween's one of my favorite too. And he's done, like I said, when somebody with a. No but very limited budget did a lot and did a lot, especially in that movie, Halloween. He did a lot of new things, invented things that people use now. And filmmaking, if you see that first shot in Halloween when they go up the stairs, that's all, almost all one shot. And there hadn't really done that before because there's no way to do it with a film camera. Digitally you can do it, but with a film camera, you went out of film and so you've got to change it. So they, on that film. That was kind of one of the things that really struck.
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Steady camera.
[00:56:28] Speaker D: Steady camera. He actually embedded that, invented that camera for that movie.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:56:32] Speaker D: That's. That way they stayed that he walked up, the guy walked up the stairs. Kind of one of those cameras you stand in front of you and it bounces.
[00:56:37] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:56:38] Speaker D: That was kind of the first kind of prototype of that kind of camera. They've gotten so great now that you can balance cameras on, you know, gyroscopes down.
[00:56:48] Speaker A: I love y'all, like love for all this stuff out here. Who we got, who we got coming on?
[00:56:52] Speaker C: Oscar Martinez or is that his horror movie?
[00:56:57] Speaker A: Mine's gonna be a cliche. Mine is. Mine's gonna be a cliche cuz mine's a scary movie. I love slasher films. Yeah, scream. Scream.
[00:57:07] Speaker D: Yeah, scream.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what, that's why I said it's gonna be cliche. All right. Because it's. What's your favorite scare? Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I think everybody. A lot of people know about that one. I seen that. That's, like, one of the very few horror, I guess, films that are.
[00:57:20] Speaker B: Yeah, obviously self referential.
[00:57:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:23] Speaker B: Wes Craven, another master, too. I mean, it's hard to pay.
[00:57:27] Speaker A: Wes Craven. That's. He's the producer.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: Yeah, he directed scream and nightmare, Elm street and the hills have eyes, so, I mean, he's a man. He's the master, too.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Oh, he's the dude. He's the man.
[00:57:37] Speaker B: And John Carpenter as well. You know, huge fans. We watched all the movies growing up.
[00:57:41] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:57:42] Speaker B: That's what's boiling in our heads, you know?
[00:57:45] Speaker A: Man, I love y'all. Y'all's love for this. It's pretty. It's awesome. Like, it makes me want to, like, love it with you. It's pretty cool. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Kaylee and Marie, for. For commenting. Appreciate you guys.
[00:57:56] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:57:57] Speaker A: What do we got, Maya, what do you got the time there?
858. You guys have been here for an hour. What do you think?
[00:58:03] Speaker B: Oh, yes. This is awesome. Thank you for having us.
[00:58:06] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:58:06] Speaker A: Yeah, and thank. Yeah, thanks to the Cc goth girl for putting us together. Yeah.
[00:58:13] Speaker B: Thank you, Ronnie.
[00:58:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. So I got. I gotta have the Corpus Christi Heb question. That's famous question. Which one do y'all avoid or which one do you go to?
[00:58:25] Speaker B: I don't avoid any of them. I go to them all.
I used to work in the news business. You went wherever the Heb was closest.
[00:58:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:32] Speaker D: Yeah.
Void ATB or Walmart.
[00:58:36] Speaker A: Or Walmart.
[00:58:37] Speaker C: Either.
[00:58:38] Speaker D: People mad at me, man. Don't you like that, ATV?
[00:58:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:44] Speaker B: The traffic in the more plaza ones kind.
[00:58:46] Speaker D: Yeah, that's kind of crazy now, but, yeah, I love Heb.
[00:58:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:50] Speaker D: They want to sponsor us. They're more than happy.
[00:58:54] Speaker A: Sparkling water.
[00:58:56] Speaker D: Oh, that's it. Come on, AGB.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:58:59] Speaker D: You got some money? I can help with that.
[00:59:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Come on, AGB. Help us out.
[00:59:02] Speaker C: So all of this out.
[00:59:04] Speaker A: Yeah. So do you feel like the. Like the. I guess the corpus community, like, doesn't want to support or, like, what do you think about that?
[00:59:13] Speaker C: I think. I just think that corporate community doesn't know what we're doing out here because, for example, on the last screening we had at the annex, we have some people out there, and I said I didn't know that people in corporates are making movies and, like. Oh, yes, they are. We're not the only ones. There's. There's a lot of us out here making movies, and I just feel that maybe it's just that they're like, they're not on social media. Maybe they just didn't know. And I, maybe I feel that's probably one of the things. I mean, that's why we're not getting a lot of support. And maybe they don't like horror movies. Maybe they don't like movies in general, but still, I think they just don't know about it.
[00:59:50] Speaker B: And I think for us, too, it's just getting the word out, you know, it's, it's just there's so much, so much chatter out there and, you know, breaking through it and without paying enormous amounts and advertisement, you know, get those ads out there and those posts done and repost it and stuff. It's just, it's just building the awareness of what we're trying to do and hopefully people get behind it and we're always, you know, very open as much as we can be.
[01:00:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So how do we, how do we find you guys on? Because everybody, we're on social media. How do we find y'all to get to know y'all?
[01:00:21] Speaker B: We're on all the social media. And then definitely our website, Nightcreature productions.com, there's ways that contact us there.
[01:00:27] Speaker A: You're off. And you're also on YouTube. Nitro Creation productions. Are y'all on to be or to buy? Yeah.
[01:00:33] Speaker B: The film Martha Tales of horrors, on to be.
[01:00:37] Speaker A: And then you had one on Amazon, too. I was on prime. Wow.
[01:00:43] Speaker D: Flex.
[01:00:44] Speaker A: Kelly Diaz, we got a question. Are there any outdoor screenings coming up for the summer?
[01:00:50] Speaker B: Not that we're aware of, but there's always time to plan one.
[01:00:57] Speaker A: We've got some great ones coming up in the summer that we're planning right now. So we'll make sure we put it on the website and get it out to everybody so that way you can see it right on. There you go.
[01:01:06] Speaker B: And we'll be there.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out. Follow the. Follow. Follow them on social media, you guys, if you want. If you want to figure out if that screen is coming up, we even.
[01:01:15] Speaker B: Have a TikTok, but I mean.
[01:01:17] Speaker A: Oh, you got a tick tock?
[01:01:18] Speaker B: We have a tick tock. We have Facebook, we're on threads. We're on x. We're on.
What else?
Instagram. Yeah. So you can follow us at night. Creature productions.
[01:01:32] Speaker A: Right on. All right, you guys, thanks a lot, Kaylee. Thanks, everybody, for watching on the live stream, if not the house you want. Sure.
[01:01:38] Speaker C: Just a reminder that we do have something coming on April 20 this Saturday at the community wellness center. The yoga.
Goth yoga. So if y'all have something, don't have anything to do that Saturday, come visit us. We do our screening nosebleed. It's only 15 minutes so you can sit down for 15 minutes and watch the film. You pretty sure you enjoy it. It's pretty funny. So.
[01:02:04] Speaker B: And everything's donation based. You don't have to pay, but if you feel inclined to donate, please do.
[01:02:08] Speaker D: Yes.
[01:02:09] Speaker A: You have a donation page? Yeah, we do.
[01:02:12] Speaker C: It's on our website.
[01:02:13] Speaker A: Yes. Okay, cool. All right. All right. Well guys, thanks a lot for coming on the show.
[01:02:18] Speaker B: Thank you for having us.
[01:02:19] Speaker A: Yes, thank you so much. Stay tuned for the next couple episodes tomorrow. I got Joshua Badusco, registered dietitian, state of Texas going to be in tomorrow. Check it out. And I got some other people lined up. So stay tuned for the Corpus Christi Originals podcast next week and tomorrow. Appreciate you guys.
