Jason Paul Collum's October Moon


	Thank you for visiting the Official website for the indie horror film OCTOBER MOON. Here you will find exclusive photos and information from the production, bios of the cast and crew, fan photos, drawings, trailers, reviews from critics, alternate websites where you can vote and post opinions (preferably positive) about our humble production, and a store where you can purchase related materials. Plus theatrical and festival showings, television airdates and DVD information. We're hoping this becomes "the little movie that became something big... or at least something everyone remembers..." Hopefully, you can help make that happen.

So what's this all about? To repeat our tagline, OCTOBER MOON is "A Drama of Horrific Proportions... You've Never Seen Anything Like It..." How is that true? Well, it's one of the first gay-themed horror films, weaving its story through the lives of three gay men and how an obsession between them leads to deadly consequences for them and those around them. While other gay-themed terror tales have begun to pop up in recent times, OCTOBER MOON is neither slasher-based nor relishing in beefcake shots. It is a drama which slowly and eerily evolves into a horror film. Though exaggerated in several aspects, it is based upon real people and real events and conversations. In other words, Corin, Jake, Elliot, Marti, Nancy and Elliot's mother, Mrs. Hamilton, all really exist... we just had to change some names to keep from the legal issues thing....

So now you're wondering, what exactly is the storyline? As many gay men and women will be able to relate, OCTOBER MOON follows Elliot (Jerod Howard), a young, "straight" man who is shunned by his family, friends and fiancée when he falls for another man, Corin (Sean Michael Lambrecht). Unfortunately, Corin already has a significant other (Jeff Dylan Graham), and as Elliot finds himself rejected at every turn, things get ugly…
very, very ugly, and bloody.

	The movie also features horror vets Judith O'Dea (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) as Elliot’s homophobic mother, Brinke Stevens (THE SLUMBER PARTY MASACRE) as his boss, Jeff Dylan Graham (DEAD & ROTTING) as Jake - Corin's long-term boyfriend, Tina Ona Paukstelis (ASWANG: THE UNEARTHING) as Elliot’s jilted fiancée, and Darcey Vanderhoef (BAD MOVIE POLICE, CASE #1) as Jake's fruit fly best-friend, Maggie.

Shot in Racine, Kenosha and Burlington, Wisconsin from September 21 through October 10, 2004, OCTOBER MOON has been a labor of love for writer, director, producer Jason Paul Collum, whose documentary SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT was released to three and four star reviews this past year and began airing on the Showtime Beyond Network in January 2005.

Collum, who has also worked on such homo-erotic fare as THE BROTHERHOOD (2000), THE BROTHERHOOD II: YOUNG WARLOCKS (2001), FINAL STAB (2001) and THE FRIGHTENING (2002), began trying in 1999 to get a series of gay-themed horror projects into production. Though he came close a few times, the general reaction from potential studios and investors was "American's aren't ready to see gay men as the lead characters in a film, especially horror... who would audiences relate to?" Hell bent to prove them wrong, Collum finally found a private investor in August 2004.

Knowing the seasons in Wisconsin would change rapidly within the next month and a half, he decided to rush the feature into production in order to capture the proper Fall atmosphere. Collum had already pre-selected his cast as he was writing the feature, so plans were immediately made to fly in horror film favorites Judith O'Dea, Brinke Stevens and Jeff Dylan Graham and utilize more local actors from the nearby Milwaukee and Chicago area including Jerod Howard (HOME ALONE 3) and Tina Ona Paukstelis, whom Collum had worked with on a number of his earlier indie films.

Working on an a practically nonexistent budget, the cast wore mostly their own clothes, local friends and businesses donated their homes and space for locations, and the cast/crew survived on diets of McDonalds, Cousins, Arbys, Dominoes and Super China Buffet. To keep things moving as smoothly as possible, cast members were often seen doing dishes, washing each others clothes, and applying each others make up.

Catastrophes were few, but accidents many... Line Producer Jennifer Lynn Goebel managed to get a metal sliver into her tear duct... Tina Paukstelis came away from a battle scene with not only numerous real bruises and lumps, but also a back thrown out of whack... Sean Michael Lambrecht hobbled around on a sprained ankle.... Director of Photography Red Clark II literally almost overdosed on a Red Bull-type caffeine drink after many 17 hour days and nights.... All these and many more, yet no one complained....

In the end, the cast and crew came away battered and bruised, exhausted and emotionally drained, but remained true professionals throughout.

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