Images from Nicole Thompson's 'Endless', featuring fellow Killer63 director Marc Adornato in an acting role (middle picture) and a trio of cult members (?)

A few teaser images from Jeremy Kennedy's dream inspired (or nightmare from the looks of it) contribution to the challenge. The pic's were titled 'Blur' (which I think is actually a pretty cool title for a movie), but the short remains without a name as of yet.

Brett's going with an adaptation of a classic for the challenge:

Here's some more shots from Ralph's short. Titled 'Reckoning', it stars Ray Besarah, John McLenachan, Kevin Preece, and Catalina LaForce.




I like the no-face white monster, very Clive Barker Cenobite reminiscent.

Here's a couple of picture's from Ralph's short, which he did some shooting for last weekend. Pretty sure that that skull head guy with the knife is up to no good.

Looks like Ralph is getting underway with shooting this weekend. That marks the first of the collective to bring their project before the camera. Here's a little update from him:

After searching all the Halloween stock at many stores I pretty much gave up on finding a good knife prop for my short. I had sculpted a half blade to fit into a plastic handle for another effect and thought; "…hey why not do a whole knife?". Well here it is, the prototype knife (measuring almost eighteen inches) that I sculpted this afternoon. It still needs sanding and paint, but it will handle my FX chores greatly, which is to safely slash a woman’s throat. I’ll post a pic or two after this weekends shoot. If I had thought it would actually look as good as it does I would have put tubing into it for a bloody better effect…. Maybe next time.

Nicole Thompson is the first to send in a title and a notice for talent for her short, 'Endless'.
She's on the lookout for the following:

female lead - mid twenties to early thirties
male - mid twenties to early thirties
male - mid thirties, more a character actor husky in build

Plus four or five extras (over eighteen)

If interested, e-mail in your acting resume (no head-shots yet please) to:

treasurecove@canada.com

Another letterhead logo design. The first one (below) was done up miraculously fast by Brett Kelly, as he, Jodi Pittman and I initially discussed the Killer63 endeavour via MSN. This new one was whipped up by Jeremy Kennedy.

Ok, so here's our rules:
Make a horror movie...keep it under at or under nine minutes.
Go!

There was some thought to add a rule...or a whole bunch of rules.
But a lot of the participants seemed happy with just the chance to do a horror movie and it came to conclusion that that was theme enough.
I think that'll work well too.
Maybe for the next one we can do something giant and complicated, but for the inaugural effort, keep it simple.

All of the filmmakers involved have access to the site, so once things get rolling I hope we'll see lots of updates and pictures and behind the scenes stuff.

Day 2: Now
Day 63: December 3rd

Today is Day 1 of the 2006 Killer63 filmmaker's challenge. There's a meeting tonight with about half of the participants (it's seemingly utterly impossible to get thirteen of us all together at the same time...well, one of us lives in the UK... so he's not likely going to be showing up). We're going to get together and discuss some thoughts on the joint theme of the shorts (besides for all being horror movies) and finalize the rules.

This here will be the venture's main blog, we'll have some links up to another site and the participant's other websites up asap.