A study of Art and Film: I love stuff that is so Weird and Bad it's Good:
Vance Mellen, writer, screenwriter, artist, storyteller, novelist, videomaker, After Effect Expert reviews film and art.
One of my all-time fav. movies is on Xfinity FREE on demand. THE SHOUT written by Skolimowski (Polanski's fav. screenwriter). A domestic horror. This shaman invades a musicians home and takes over his wife and life... Very moody and weird. Must see but RARE and hard to find.
5-minute excerpt from my novel: CREEPY CLOWN. Available on Amazon/Kindle/iTunes/Audible.
After his nose falls off, Creepy Clown narrator goes to a
costume shop in search of a new one. He crosses a line when he touches the shop
girl. He can't ever go back to innocence after that. This is the real
moment in which he becomes CREEPY CLOWN.
Too bad the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is closing. Many good (and Creepy!) memories of that place. Go to their Midwest museum if you have a chance. It is fantastic!
Love this old book so much that I had to make an animation of it. I loved telling this story to my peers back when I was very young. If you haven't read it YOU MUST. All of the stories are great. Rats, aliens, bogeymen, all sorts of freaky stuff.
Watching (and HIGHLY RECOMMEND) "Hunting Hitler" on history channel. Fantastic. Damn Nazis put tunnels EVERYWHERE. Oh to be an urban explorer in BERLIN. Tunnels reminded me of THESE I shot twenty years ago for low budget horror film "Screatures" in the sub-basements of The Kansas State Mental Hygiene Clinic.
It was a lot of work producing this five-minute excerpt/sample of my book. Send me a question if you need any advice on how to do it yourself. Can be done on a budget.
This is my newest "Creepy Clown" promo. A 5-minute sample of my Audio Book. GET IT TODAY! on Audible/Amazon/iTunes. by Vance L. Mellen
This is the beginning of the book. The "Hook" that pulls the protagonist into his :adventure" and starts him on the road to CHANGE! Forever changed! A new man! Get the book/audio book and find out WHY!
This is Vance Mellen. I am taking over my wife's blog. This is too important to NOT post: I was working on a video for a local BIG PHARMA company which I cannot name. I found this disturbing footage on the tail end of the old tape. I had to post it...