<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490033915722869435</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:15:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Corn Bred Films</title><description>Corn Bred Films is a Chicago-based Motion Picture Production Company committed to discovering, developing and producing films originated by artists living in the Midwestern United States.</description><link>http://cornbredfilms.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Eric Anderson)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490033915722869435.post-643398623110467717</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-10-10T13:52:11.733-05:00</atom:updated><title>A Corn Bred Films Halloween: Sica by Eric B. Anderson</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;From the darkness, the
wind whispers across Lake Tallahatchee.&amp;nbsp; It whispers my name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;

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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Celia
put down her pen and looked to the window.&amp;nbsp; The wind howled and hammered the
cabin with a steady onslaught of snow and ice.&amp;nbsp; The dark interior walls were
suffused in lamplight and the warmth of the fire burning in the hearth, but
neither afforded the slightest comfort.&amp;nbsp; Sweat slickened her thin, aged skin,
glistening in the flickering light.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;She
took another drink from the glass.&amp;nbsp; The heat of the room had warmed the
liquid.&amp;nbsp; She grimaced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Bitter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;With
trembling, withered fingers she picked up the pen and continued.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;We have always lived
on this lake.&amp;nbsp; For four generations, the Mulrays have been as much a part of
this lake as the water that spills across its banks, as the woods that surround
it, as the sky that hangs over it.&amp;nbsp; The roots of the weather-etched oaks that conceal
our cabin hold the ground in a fierce grip, their beginnings laid against the
earth like exposed knuckles, digging their fingers deeper, ever deeper.&amp;nbsp; Such
is our claim on the lake.&amp;nbsp; And its claim on us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It’s
dark tonight, a black, moonless darkness that drapes the trees and the lake in
a death shroud.&amp;nbsp; If this is to finally be the hour of my demise, I shall
welcome it.&amp;nbsp; I have become so very tired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Mother?&amp;nbsp;
He’s coming, Mother.”&amp;nbsp; Mary’s voice echoed down the hall.&amp;nbsp; The wood of the long
hallway was lighter, newer than the weathered oak of the outer walls.&amp;nbsp; Celia
heard her daughter’s footsteps shuffling slowly, cautiously closer.&amp;nbsp; She could
envision Mary’s fingertips tracing the walls of the narrow hallway, dancing
lightly over picture frames and mirrors, inching forward, betrayed by
blindness.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The
strokes of her pen became more hurried.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The troubles began
before I came into this world, and may continue long after I’m gone, though I
pray this will not be the case.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Many of the natives
that predated my family feared the lake.&amp;nbsp; Early settlers had named it
Tallahatchee, after the Indian tribe that first lived on its banks.&amp;nbsp; But that
is not the name the natives used.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Sica,” they called
it.&amp;nbsp; Bad.&amp;nbsp; Short and simply, “bad.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The Micmac and Shawnee had long feared the Tallahatchee.&amp;nbsp; When my family came, the Tallahatchee had
vanished, but their mark would still be felt.&amp;nbsp; None of the other tribes dared
to settle near the lake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;A bulb above the
kitchen sink blinked once and burned out with a sizzle.&amp;nbsp; Sweat began to seep
through the thick wool of her dressing gown.&amp;nbsp; Her breaths were becoming more
labored. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It was 1836 when my
grandfather discovered the lake.&amp;nbsp; The area was beautiful then, a lush green
thicket of trees surrounding a placid body of water.&amp;nbsp; The sun glanced off of
the lake at sunrise and bathed the banks in warmth.&amp;nbsp; It is no wonder that
Seamus Mulray’s westward trek ended on the banks of this lake.&amp;nbsp; Seamus and his
family built this cabin, a cabin that still stands one-hundred and sixty-three
years later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The howling
of the wind barely masked the cries buried within.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Mary
appeared at the end of the hall, her white hair wild, haphazardly scattered.&amp;nbsp;
The purple veins in her hands marked a path to long, claw-like fingers.&amp;nbsp; Her
face still bore the scars of her blinding, deep gashes that trailed into the
lines that old age had wrought.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Go to bed,
my precious one,” Celia said.&amp;nbsp; The words sounded more pleading, cloying than
she’d intended. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“I’m
hungry, mother.&amp;nbsp; So very hungry.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“I know,
beloved.&amp;nbsp; It won’t be long.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It was not
long after my great-great grandfather put up stakes on this land that the
troubles began.&amp;nbsp; My father, Joshua Mulray, and his brother Michael were
swimming.&amp;nbsp; The boys took to grappling with each other, trying to pull each
other under, as young boys are prone to doing.&amp;nbsp; Although my father was older by
several years, Michael was the bigger and stronger of the two.&amp;nbsp; After several
minutes of playful wrestling, Michael got the better of my father, grabbing him
by the shoulders and forcing him downward.&amp;nbsp; Even as my father began to
struggle, Michael continued to hold him down, kicking at his waving arms,
avoiding his frantic hands.&amp;nbsp; Finally, Joshua stopped moving.&amp;nbsp; Michael,
realizing what he had done and fearing the worst, quickly grabbed the limp form
of his older brother and pulled him to the shore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;My father
was not breathing when he reached dry land.&amp;nbsp; Michael shook him and beat on his
chest, somehow forcing the water from his lungs, but still he did not breathe.&amp;nbsp;
Michael ran to the cabin, tears streaming down his cheeks, shouting for his
father.&amp;nbsp; When Seamus and Michael returned to where my father lay, they found
him sitting up, smiling, his cheeks flushed with color but otherwise apparently
unharmed.&amp;nbsp; This of course filled Michael with both relief and rage.&amp;nbsp; The latter
of the two being the stronger emotion, he shook my father and screamed at him
until he was blue in the face, but my father continued to smile.&amp;nbsp; Michael later
received quite a beating at the hands of Seamus Mulray, but that would be
nothing compared to the fate he would ultimately suffer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;My father’s
mind appeared to be elsewhere after that.&amp;nbsp; His family would talk to him
directly, but he seldom answered with anything more than the same distant grin
he wore the day the change occurred.&amp;nbsp; They began keeping their distance from
him, fearing the worst:&amp;nbsp; that he’d gone mad.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They did not know that madness
was not the worst of their worries, or that he was only waiting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;When winter
came, the wait was over.&amp;nbsp; Lake Tallahatchee is set in a valley, surrounded by
bluffs that are treacherous to cross in the best of conditions.&amp;nbsp; This, in part,
was the charm of the area.&amp;nbsp; The lake was secluded and safe from the outside
world.&amp;nbsp; Protected.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;But in the
winter, it became a fortress, impenetrable.&amp;nbsp; In the winter, the natives left
the valley, knowing that staying inside meant certain death.&amp;nbsp; Only the
Tallahatchee had ever survived a winter in the valley.&amp;nbsp; But then, the
Tallahatchee were devourers.&amp;nbsp; Cannibals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;When winter
settled on my family’s land, Seamus, his wife Alice, and Michael found out what
my father was grinning about.&amp;nbsp; In the lake, my father had seen what had become
of the Tallahatchee, and he knew what he had become.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;My father
had seen death in the lake, and death was hungry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;By the time
springtime rolled around, all that was left of my father’s family were the
bones that he hauled into the lake at the first thaw.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Of course,
my father was no longer himself from the day he entered the lake.&amp;nbsp; He was
Tallahatchee, and the Tallahatchee were sica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The
Tallahatchee had survived for years on stranded settlers caught by winter in
the valley or the stragglers from other tribes, left behind due to illness or
injury.&amp;nbsp; In the valley, the Tallahatchee were the hunters, all else were prey.&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Ultimately,
they became too greedy, too cunning, and too ravenous for their own good.&amp;nbsp; The
best hunters tried to hoard food from the weakest.&amp;nbsp; The weakest were not
lacking in cunning, and they soon set traps of their own, killing those that
would deny them food, dividing the tribe into warring factions.&amp;nbsp; They did not
see the error of this infighting until winter held them firmly in its grasp and
it was too late.&amp;nbsp; My father says that in his dreams he can see the last two
members of the tribe, shivering with cold, afraid to fall asleep lest the other
attack.&amp;nbsp; By the time one man finally passed on, his flesh was so weak and
damaged it no longer held any power, and the second succumbed himself shortly thereafter.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;But evil
never dies.&amp;nbsp; It simply moves on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Since the
winter that my father first felt the hunger, more than a century and a half has
passed.&amp;nbsp; My father took a bride, hoping for a son to carry on the family name,
not knowing that death would not claim him so long as he continued to harvest
others.&amp;nbsp; Shortly after I was born, he devoured my mother, succumbing to a
craving deeper than sex or companionship.&amp;nbsp; He says he felt grief about that,
but I’ve always doubted his sincerity, watching the way he attacks the last
morsel of meat attached to the bone.&amp;nbsp; He must have felt something though,
seeing that he has allowed me to live all of these years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Of course,
my daughter and I are hardly innocents.&amp;nbsp; I was given human flesh from the time
that my mother was killed. I understand that I even partook of her, although I
was too young to have any distinct memory of it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Mary came
about by accident.&amp;nbsp; It was no accident that I desired the man who became her
father, but finding myself with child afterward was quite unexpected.&amp;nbsp; It made
me wish that he were still with us, but of course that was not to be.&amp;nbsp; Winter
was coming, after all.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;My father
and I hid our cravings from Mary for years, until she was old enough to
understand them, or so we thought.&amp;nbsp; We fed her the meat of an Indian woman,
boiled to a deep brown, before revealing the dinner’s source.&amp;nbsp; We were not
prepared for her reaction to the Indian woman’s corpse.&amp;nbsp; Mary’s eyes dangled
from their sockets, her fingers drenched in her own blood, before my father and
I could restrain her.&amp;nbsp; Her blindness ended up being more of a blessing than a
curse, however, as we continued to feed her, and she stopped asking what it
was.&amp;nbsp; I realize that the hunger had taken her, and she knew what the answer
was, whether she asked or not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Over the
years, we’ve gotten efficient at gathering food for the winter.&amp;nbsp; At first it
was difficult, and there were lean times, but as more and more people moved
westward, there was little to worry about.&amp;nbsp; In the early 1900’s, there was a
time when my father had to venture out of the valley for food, but he was a
successful hunter and we seldom went hungry.&amp;nbsp; We kept to ourselves and kept up
a good front for our inevitable neighbors, even growing vegetables out behind
the cabin to allay suspicious minds.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;When the
population slowly began to accumulate around us, we were forced to adhere to a
strict rule of not harvesting any neighbors closer than five miles.&amp;nbsp; The last
thing we needed was a lynch mob at our door.&amp;nbsp; We kept to ourselves, secluded
from the rest of the community, and were rarely hungry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;By the
1940’s, there were roads running through the valley and we found that travelers
were plentiful and nearly untraceable.&amp;nbsp; It would be more exciting to tell you
that there were close calls, but the fact is that there weren’t.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;But there
is, as you might have guessed, another side effect to the life that was thrust
upon us.&amp;nbsp; My daughter is nearly one-hundred and thirty years old, and I am
twenty years older than that.&amp;nbsp; My father is eighteen years my elder.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Most people
nowadays simply assume that we are either husband and wife (although they don’t
know which of us is the wife) or some other arrangement of family.&amp;nbsp; We are
ancient, bony and ugly, but still healthy and stealthy as ever.&amp;nbsp; I suppose that
our appearance has made hunting easier than ever.&amp;nbsp; Who would suspect us?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I may sound
smug and a touch glib (and reading over what I have written, I realize that
this is the case), but I am tired.&amp;nbsp; Desperately tired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Celia
stopped.&amp;nbsp; She could sense her father’s presence, getting closer.&amp;nbsp; She grasped
the box of poison in her unsteady hand and dumped the remainder of it into the
half-finished glass of cloudy water.&amp;nbsp; Grimacing, she lifted the glass to her
lips and swallowed it down.&amp;nbsp; Her vision was beginning to blur.&amp;nbsp; Her handwriting
became an unsteady scrawl as she rushed to finish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The trees
are dead.&amp;nbsp; They have aged as we have aged, withered as we have withered.&amp;nbsp; Their
branches reach to the heavens like greedy skeletons, seeking to pull down the
sky.&amp;nbsp; The banks of the lake are mottled and gray.&amp;nbsp; Beneath the ice, the water
is an impenetrable black.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Sica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The snow
outside is deep.&amp;nbsp; The interstate, a four lane superhighway that arcs around the
outskirts of the Lake Tallahatchee valley, was unveiled early in the fall and,
combined with the extreme foulness of the weather, it has sapped the traffic
through our valley to a trickle.&amp;nbsp; We were overconfident, lazy, and have failed
to stockpile in recent months, knowing that there was more, always more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;My father
has already taken our nearest neighbors, the Cavanaughs, and we are sure to be
discovered in springtime.&amp;nbsp; The extreme chill of the winter has brought the mice
inside, enticed by the warmth of our fire and the fresh corpses in the cellar;
another recent addition, dug by father last spring.&amp;nbsp; Father brought rat poison
from the Cavanaughs.&amp;nbsp; I’ve dragged more than one hundred tainted carcasses from
the cellar thus far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It has been
weeks since we’ve been able to leave our home, and between ourselves and the
rats, our food supply was depleted more than two weeks ago.&amp;nbsp; This morning I
discovered Mary crouching in the darkness of the cellar, the bodies of
dismembered rats littering the floor around her, the smell of fresh blood on
her breath. The small amount of poison in their bodies doesn’t seem to have
affected her.&amp;nbsp; The sight of Mary’s face, her cheeks smeared in flesh and blood,
brought the realization that immediate and extreme action had to be taken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;We are
ravenous. We’ve not gone this long without nourishment before, and I know that
it wouldn’t be long before we’d suffer the fate of the Tallahatchee, if I were
to let it come to that.&amp;nbsp; But I will not.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Before I
go, hear my final words of caution:&amp;nbsp; whatever you might find here, leave
immediately upon reading my words and burn this place to the ground.&amp;nbsp; Leave and
never look back, or run the risk history repeating.&amp;nbsp; This place is bad.&amp;nbsp; This
land is sica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;May God
look on us with mercy,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Celia
Mulray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;December 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Celia felt
a creeping pain in her belly as the poison began to take hold.&amp;nbsp; She prayed that
it would be enough for all of them.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;She looked
up from her writing. Mary had not moved.&amp;nbsp; She stood at the end of the hall,
breathing shallowly, listening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoBodyTextIndent2&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 16pt; margin: 12pt 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“He’s back,
Mother,” she whispered, her face taut with expectation.&amp;nbsp; “He’s here now.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The knob on
the front door of the cabin began to open.&amp;nbsp; Celia stood, stopping to retrieve
the razor-sharp hunting knife her father used to skin the bodies.&amp;nbsp; The knife
scraped the surface of the table as she pressed it into her shaking palm.&amp;nbsp; Her
father had returned, and he had returned empty-handed, as she knew he would.&amp;nbsp;
The bone-chilling winds and whipping snow wouldn’t have allowed him to stray
far enough to find sustenance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;“Mother?&amp;nbsp;
What was that noise?”&amp;nbsp; Mary stood, facing the door, her head moving from side
to side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Celia
plunged the knife deep into her own belly and yanked upward.&amp;nbsp; A burst of air
escaped her lips, echoing the gasp that Celia heard her father utter behind her.&amp;nbsp;
Hot, wet blood slicked Celia’s hands, pain slamming into her with the force of
a sledgehammer.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Mary’s head
swayed back and forth, her nose wrinkling in staccato sniffs.&amp;nbsp; She was
hunting.&amp;nbsp; With stunning quickness, Mary was upon her, her face buried in
Celia’s chest with ferocious zeal, her chin slathered in blood as she gnawed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;As Celia
swooned toward darkness, she saw her father appear over Mary’s shoulder, his
face a mask of insanity.&amp;nbsp; Mary howled in a rapacious rage as Joshua tore at her
hair, growling like a rabid beast. They clawed at each other, shredding flesh
and cloth in a frenzied battle for the prey that lay before them.&amp;nbsp; Joshua was
stronger, heaving Mary aside with a shove.&amp;nbsp; He yanked the knife from Celia’s
chest and plunged it into Mary’s throat.&amp;nbsp; Mary continued to clutch at his back,
consumed by a hunger more powerful than death, oblivious to her own pain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot; style=&quot;color: windowtext; font-family: &amp;quot;AGaramond&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;As darkness
overwhelmed her, Celia felt her father’s teeth scraping against her bones,
tearing the flesh from her ribs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Corn Bred Films is proud to announce the television premiere of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha &amp;amp; Potter Palmer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;In celebration of Women’s History Month, the &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;half-hour &lt;/span&gt;documentary will air on&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Chicago’s premier public television station WTTW11&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 5:30 pm&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The program will re-air on Monday, March 25 at 4 pm and again on Wednesday, March 27 at 4 am.&lt;span id=&quot;more-6340&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;times&amp;quot; , &amp;quot;times new roman&amp;quot; , serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #660000;&quot;&gt;Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha and Potter Palmer&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;tells
 the epic love story between young socialite Bertha Honoré and Potter 
Palmer, a self-made man 20 years her senior, whose passion for one 
another and the city they loved inspired the rebirth of Chicago after 
The Great Fire that left it in ruins. Because of their efforts, Chicago 
rose like a Phoenix from the ashes to become the world class city it is 
today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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timeless, especially as we honor women and their contributions for 
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</description><link>http://cornbredfilms.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-under-fire-story-of-bertha-potter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Eric Anderson)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490033915722869435.post-1953377425869662569</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-10T15:02:56.155-06:00</atom:updated><title>Apocalyptic film with zombies to be shot in SEK</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parsonssun.com/sites/2297/assets/SUNFLAG.gif&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; src=&quot;http://www.parsonssun.com/sites/2297/assets/SUNFLAG.gif&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;story_item_teaser entry-summary&quot;&gt;By Ray Nolting  &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:rnolting@parsonssun.com&quot;&gt;rnolting@parsonssun.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Eric B. Anderson and his wife, Amelia Dellos,&lt;span class=&quot;text_exposed_show&quot;&gt;  are producing the low-budget film, called “Zompocalypso.” The couple  own Corn Bred Films, based in Chicago, which is dedicated to projects  originating in the Midwest.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anderson was born in Parsons and  raised elsewhere. He spent a lot of time in Southeast Kansas, especially  the Riverton and Baxter Springs areas, where he has family. &lt;br /&gt;
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“I love the area down there,” Anderson said. “I just have a lot of fond memories of the area.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Corn Bred Films is raising money now for the production through a crowd sourcing website, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text_exposed_show&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://indiegogo.com/cornbred&quot;&gt;http://indiegogo.com/cornbred&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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What is raised will determine the equipment and other gear that can be  purchased for the project, which Anderson hopes to start filming in the  summer. Some scenes have been shot in the small budget movie. Some of  the shooting will take place in Chicago and some in Cherokee County.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anderson hopes to release the movie at independent movie houses by the  end of the year, which would coincide with the end of the ancient Mayan  calendar, the last entry of which is on Dec. 21, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ERVca9ojjh8uFB_Is9LVmLmw-8B5C-vX2LFO8a4exyofJ3afqUf-pgvvZcSlXsOpXiRsjfD4fdc-pAQu_GUNG1uGPkPgRYzZtZkh5DITqoOpSVNmWOFUV-u4Ie91IFwatmpk8ynUDbh5/s1600/DP-thumbnail-go-go.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ERVca9ojjh8uFB_Is9LVmLmw-8B5C-vX2LFO8a4exyofJ3afqUf-pgvvZcSlXsOpXiRsjfD4fdc-pAQu_GUNG1uGPkPgRYzZtZkh5DITqoOpSVNmWOFUV-u4Ie91IFwatmpk8ynUDbh5/s1600/DP-thumbnail-go-go.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text_exposed_show&quot;&gt;The  comedy/horror picture will be a story about two brothers who prepare for  this apocalypse with a small arsenal, a case of expired beans and a  camera. The Mayan’s didn’t predict the end of the world on Dec. 21, just  that a new age would start the next day on a new calendar. The urban  legend is that buried humans will come back to life as zombies on this  date and destroy the human race.&lt;br /&gt;
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The main cast has been  selected, improvisational actors Chris Meister and Mike Manship, who  will play brothers Dale and Darren in the movie. Anderson said some  extras may be needed on the film site.&lt;br /&gt;
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“It’s just a fun story and I can’t wait to do it.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Anderson and Dellos both have been involved in the film industry for  some time before they began their independent film studio. Anderson, a  graduate of the University of Iowa, has written more than a dozen  feature screenplays and several short films that have been recognized.  Dellos is working as an executive producer on a documentary about Bertha  Honore Palmer and the great Chicago fire for a Chicago TV station. They  both have a background in marketing and public relations.&lt;br /&gt;
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The  pair have written several screenplays together, including the romantic  comedy “Other Plans” and the urban drama “Save Me,” both in development  in a partnership with Rock On! Films. They also co-directed and produced  the documentary “Red, White &amp;amp; Blue: A Tale of Two Americas.”&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;postdate&quot;&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/author/admin/&quot; rel=&quot;author&quot; title=&quot;Posts by admin&quot;&gt;admin&lt;/a&gt; on Feb 10, 2012 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/category/featured/&quot; rel=&quot;category tag&quot; title=&quot;View all posts in featured&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/category/featured-filmmakers/&quot; rel=&quot;category tag&quot; title=&quot;View all posts in Featured Filmmakers&quot;&gt;Featured Filmmakers&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Terrence Flamm&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CornBredFilms.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;alignleft size-medium wp-image-3889&quot; height=&quot;228&quot; src=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CornBredFilms-300x228.jpg&quot; title=&quot;CornBredFilms&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As co-founders of the Chicago-based &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornbredfilms.com/&quot;&gt;Corn Bred Films&lt;/a&gt;,  husband and wife Eric B. Anderson and Amella Dellos spin tales of  mismatched lovers, ambitious politicians, serial killers, old school  newspaper editors, and zombie-fighting country bumpkins. Anderson and  Dellos work together, individually, and with other directors and writers  on a wide-range of full-length films, shorts, corporate videos, and  documentaries. Ultimately, they hope to put the Midwest on the same  footing as the East and West Coasts in terms of film production.&lt;br /&gt;
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One big step in that direction is a working arrangement to create higher budget projects with &lt;a href=&quot;http://rockonfilms.com/&quot;&gt;Rock On! Films&lt;/a&gt;,  the New York company formed by director Joe Eckardt. In a recent email  interview, Eric B. Anderson explained how the partnership came about.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CornBredFilms-quote.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;alignright size-full wp-image-3892&quot; height=&quot;169&quot; src=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CornBredFilms-quote.jpg&quot; title=&quot;CornBredFilms-quote&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“Joe  Eckardt and I shared representation in the early 2000s, so that’s how  we met,” Anderson said. “When Joe decided to launch Rock On! Films and  needed content to produce, he reached out to me and it’s been a very  rewarding partnership so far, with Rock On! co-producing five scripts  with Corn Bred.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;One of those projects is &lt;i&gt;You May Be Right&lt;/i&gt;, a comedy about a  talented but unsuccessful singer named Eddie who fronts a Billy Joel  cover band called Glass Houses. Considering that most of the group’s  gigs are performed before sparse crowds in dive bars, Eddie’s wife  Brenda seems justified in suggesting that he seriously think about a  more lucrative career. Especially now that she’s pregnant. But when the  actual Billy Joel crashes his car on the Long Island couple’s front  lawn, Eddie decides it’s a sign that Glass Houses is destined for  greatness. &lt;i&gt;You May Be Right&lt;/i&gt; is still being developed, and so far Joel has no involvement with the film.&lt;br /&gt;
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“Joe [Eckardt] has had conversations with him about another project,  so we’re hopeful,” Anderson said. “That’s something we’re still working  on, but since we’re using cover versions, we’re optimistic we’ll get it  all worked out.” Most of the songs are alt-rock takes on songs Joel  recorded for &lt;i&gt;Glass Houses&lt;/i&gt;. Anderson was particularly impressed with the band &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hussalonia.com/HRC_011.html&quot;&gt;Hussalonia’s&lt;/a&gt; interpretation of the Joel’s 1980 chart-topping album.&lt;br /&gt;
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The idea for &lt;i&gt;You May Be Right&lt;/i&gt; came  from another writer, who had based the story on an real life Billy Joel  car accident. Eckardt optioned the script with the intention of  directing and producing the film, but eventually became disenchanted.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;“Joe felt there was the seed of an idea in the original  script (which is why he optioned it) but the execution didn’t work at  all,” Anderson recalled. “So he asked me to take a crack at a page one  rewrite. I took the key element, the car accident, and turned it into  something very different. The script went from a sort of ‘dramedy’ to  the loopy musical comedy that it is now.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;At first glance, &lt;i&gt;You May Be Right&lt;/i&gt; seems similar to the Mark Wahlberg movie, &lt;i&gt;Rock Star&lt;/i&gt;,  in which a singer from a cover band winds up performing with the actual  group. Anderson deliberately steered away from that angle,  concentrating instead on Eddie and Brenda’s emotional struggle, and the  question of how far one should go to follow his dream. The action is set  in New York City and involves Eddie and his friend Ronnie’s comically  absurd pilgrimage to the clubs Joel played in, the homes where he lived,  and the places where his album covers were shot. Anderson concedes the  locale is unusual for his proudly Midwest-centric company.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;“So it’s heavily rooted in the New York area,” he said. “Now, I  recognize that goes against Corn Bred Films’ core mission, but in this  case, the script predates the launch of Corn Bred Films and the story  necessitates that it be filmed in New York. If there’s an opportunity to  film anything in Chicago, I will definitely be advocating for that.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;Anderson and Eckardt have hopes their collaboration will be widely distributed. Although &lt;i&gt;You May Be Right&lt;/i&gt; is  still in the development stage, some of the roles have already been  cast. Corbin Bernsen will portray a character named Captain Jack, Jason  Mewes plays Ronnie, and America Olivo will bring the combative Brenda to  life.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/RockOnFilms.jpg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;alignright size-medium wp-image-3896&quot; height=&quot;45&quot; src=&quot;http://diy-film.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/RockOnFilms-300x45.jpg&quot; title=&quot;RockOnFilms&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“I’m happy with the casting thus far,” Anderson said. “And I’m looking forward to rounding out the rest of the cast.”&lt;br /&gt;
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In the meantime, Anderson and Amella Dellos also remain fully  committed to creating work that is exclusively theirs, under the Corn  Bred Films banner. Dellos served as Executive Producer for the PBS  special &lt;i&gt;Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha &amp;amp; Potter Palmer &lt;/i&gt;(she’s also working on a feature film titled&lt;i&gt; Courting Bertha&lt;/i&gt;), and Anderson is particularly keen on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/CORNBRED&quot;&gt;Zompocalypso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a  comedy/horror flick he’s directing about a pair of dim-witted brothers  determined to ride out the effects of the Mayan-predicted 2012  apocalypse.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cornbredfilms.blogspot.com/2012/02/corn-bred-films-this-just-may-be-music.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Eric Anderson)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490033915722869435.post-3475780628667677080</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-02T16:08:09.840-06:00</atom:updated><title>WIRED  blogs about the Zompocalypse!</title><description>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/underwire/category/movies/&quot; rel=&quot;category tag&quot; title=&quot;View all posts in movies&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They showed up to audition for a commercial about life in 2015, but  once Chris Meister and Mike Manship started riffing about turkey calls,  bathtub electrocution and the “re-zombification of Dick Cheney,”  producer Eric Anderson realized he had a couple of real characters on  his hands.&lt;br /&gt;
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The pair’s goofy rapport, documented in the video clip above, inspired Anderson to write &lt;i&gt;Zompocalypso&lt;/i&gt;. The film, which Anderson is looking to finance through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/CORNBRED&quot;&gt;an IndieGoGo campaign&lt;/a&gt;,  will focus on two bumpkin brothers who hole up in a farmhouse equipped  with weaponry and a box of stale beans to brace themselves for a zombie  attack.&lt;br /&gt;
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“As I sat there and watched these guys — who had never met each other  before that moment, mind you — improv for a half hour about surviving a  zombie apocalypse it dawned on me that this could make a very funny  film,” Anderson notes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/CORNBRED&quot;&gt;the film’s IndieGoGo page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anderson, who will direct the movie, and his wife &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornbredfilms.com/#%21bio&quot;&gt;Amelia Dellos&lt;/a&gt; hope to raise $10,000 for their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornbredfilms.com/&quot;&gt;Corn Bred Films&lt;/a&gt; production through the site. But no matter how much they raise, the filmmakers plan to bring &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000054/&quot;&gt;Meister&lt;/a&gt; (on the left in the video above) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://iwillbefamoussoon.blogspot.com/2011/10/hello-my-name-is-john-michael-manship.html&quot;&gt;Manship&lt;/a&gt;  (right) to Joplin, Missouri by early summer to begin filming on the  backwoods zombie film, which Anderson describes as “an improvised  found-footage comedy with a sprinkle of horror… &lt;i&gt;The Blair Witch Project&lt;/i&gt; as directed by Christopher Guest.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Check out a teaser for the film below, then head to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiegogo.com/CORNBRED&quot;&gt;IndieGoGo page&lt;/a&gt; to help Anderson and his horde make their zombie apocalypse comedy.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zompocalypso.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Zompocalypso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt; by CORN BRED FILMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;color: #505050; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #505050; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;The  Mayan calendar tells us we have less than a year left until the world  as we know it ends, and a brave new world begins.&amp;nbsp; No one knows what the  new world will look like except, perhaps, our friends Darren and Dale,  who plan to spend the next year preparing for the coming storm in hopes  of &quot;twarting&quot; the Zompocalypse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #505050; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;Please watch their videos and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zompocalypso.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;kick in $5 (or more) to support their efforts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;.  Then please post our link and share this email to give the gift of  preparedness to all of the conspiracy theorists and zombie aficionados  in your lives (I&#39;m looking at you, Uncle Eddie).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zompocalypso.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; CLICK THIS LINK...IF YOU WANT TO LIVE &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #505050; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: dimgrey;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;The  duo retreat to their family&#39;s remote farmhouse to await the coming  storm. As sh*t begins to get increasingly real, the brothers prepare  themselves to become the last known survivors of a brave, new, and  possibly undead world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What is Corn Bred Films? &lt;/b&gt;Corn Bred Films is a Chicago-based Motion Picture Production Company committed to discovering, developing and producing films originated by artists living in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States&quot;&gt;Midwestern United States&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We chose the name Corn Bred because a) we&#39;re both born and bred Midwesterners and b) we intend to find and nurture projects that originate in the Midwest.&amp;nbsp; So if you&#39;re in Idaho, you&#39;re out of luck.&amp;nbsp; Missouri?&amp;nbsp; You bet.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hey, that&#39;s us!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Hope to see you back here soon!&amp;nbsp; We&#39;ll keep it interesting, or die trying.&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #783f04;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;* Odds are, we won&#39;t &lt;i&gt;actually &lt;/i&gt;die trying. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cornbredfilms.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducing-corn-bred-films.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Eric Anderson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-FUiZYpNTPonAApMCsPZqPyq_Y0viF87krxtU-1YnOFw4Rjweu1q4wGNgURc94zSkwKTj_4hzlkMlOcsf3YZ4Q1z1YFsgu2pRt2eHcHdblRqfV5gAdgu4OPn0HCSxN2WiCIABhlUEL8/s72-c/Amelia+and+Eric.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>