post-production and release information.
03.17.09
Hello Fans & Friends!!!
Here, officially, is the poster/DVD art for NOVEMBER SON. The DVD will street date on Tuesday, April 14th at the SRP of $29.95. It's available through Amazon.com, or can also order it direct from our distributor ariztical.com.
Also, sales for NOVEMBER SON are already on the upside, with the film listed on the TOP 10 sales lists for TLA.com and 10percent.com!!!
Scoot to those sites and many others and pre-order your copy today!!
The news keeps coming! Fangoria.com has been running an on-going interview with director Jason Paul Collum in Sean Abley's "Gay of the Dead" blog. The third and final installment went live today. Go check it out!
There's still more to come... Next week (March 24th) Fangoria will release a hard copy, 4-page spread in FANGORIA magazine to stores (it has apparently been popping up here and there). The cover story is "Laid To Rest" with a photo of a silver masked skull.
FINALLY - OCTOBER MOON will get big screen treatment on Monday, April 13th and NOVEMBER SON on Monday, April 20th. Both shows are FREE and begin at 7 p.m. in the Union Cinema at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside in Kenosha, WI. We look forward to seeing you there!
We are delighted to announce a distribution deal has officially been signed for NOVEMBER SON (a.k.a. OCTOBER MOON 2). Ariztical Entertainment, a well-known distributor and production company whose focus is on indie, art-house and gay-themed product, has picked up our film for a tentative Spring 2009 DVD release at the suggested retail price of $29.95.
While Ariztical does serve up some "straight" fare, the fact that they mainly put out gay product will be a huge help in getting NOVEMBER SON into stores, onto television and across the internet. They have an excellent advertising department who regularly gets their films into all the major gay magazines like Out, Instinct, Genre, The Advocate and so on, plus mainstream horror mags like Fangoria, Rue Morgue, etc. So this deal is a very, very good thing.
Some of their most popular titles are the successful Eating Out comedy franchise (starring American Idol contestant Jim Verraros), Butch Camp (with Judy Tenuta), Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (with Mario Lopez in a speedo) and the just released horror-comedy The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror.
Continue checking in for updates on poster art, additional theatrical screenings this winter, and more specific street dates as that information becomes available.
To see their product, go to www.ariztical.com.
For more NOVEMBER SON information, check out our sister site: www.novembersonthefilm.com.
OCTOBER MOON will screen at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 9th. The trailer for NOVEMBER SON will follow. Collum and other panelists will appear throughout the day on Wednesday, September 10th, to discuss ways of getting into the film, television and broadcasting industries when you don't live in a big Metropolis. This event is FREE to the public.
In NOVEMBER SON news, we are in the final stages of locking down a contract with a well known distributor (whom we'll announce when the dotted line is signed). At this point, it looks as though more limited theatrical screenings for NOVEMBER SON will begin in November 2008, with a DVD release following possibly as early as January 2009!!! Stay in touch for more specifics in the coming weeks!
6.4.08 - PUBLIC PREMIERE EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
After two very long years, we are THRILLED to announce the first public screening of NOVEMBER SON (a.k.a. OCTOBER MOON 2). Mark your calendars for:
Sunday, July 13, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Club Icon*
6305 120th Ave
Kenosha, WI 53142
(262) 857-3240
Admission Prices are yet to be determined, but we are working out a possible deal for FREE entry. So keep your eyes posted and fingers crossed.
*Please Note: As alcohol will be available for purchase during this screening, you MUST BE at least 21 years of age to enter.
Additional theatrical screenings (including a double feature with the original OCTOBER MOON) in Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, plus several smaller cities, are in the works, so please continue to check back for those official date announcements.
Want to see NOVEMBER SON screen in your town at the local theater, university or night club? Contact Jason Paul Collum with the location address, phone # and additional contact info.
As always, keep up to date at www.novembersonthefilm.com and www.octobermoonthefilm.com.
4.8.08 - Tempe Video direct has officially dropped the price on DVDs of OCTOBER MOON! After two years at the staggering cost of $24.99, you can now grab copies for a mere $14.99 (plus shipping & handling)!
Want more for your money? You can also grab OCTOBER MOON as a part of the QUEER FEAR 5-pack DVD released late last year. In addition to our cult classic, you can also find the scream queen documentary SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT, the horror short JULIA WEPT (both produced by B+Boy Productions), Wayan Alan Harrold's lesbian slasher-fest GIRLFRIENDS, and Tempe's own comedy BAD MOVIE POLICE, CASE #1 (featuring OCTOBER MOON actors Jeff Dylan Graham, Darcey Vanderhoef and director Jason Paul Collum). To pick up any of these titles, visit www.tempevideo.com.
In other news, OCTOBER MOON continues to air successfully on the ON DEMAND network. Check your local listings.
Finally, we know you're all growing tired of waiting for the OCTOBER MOON sequel, NOVEMBER SON, to shine its pretty face. At this point the editing, color correcting and ADR/voiceover work is complete! All we're waiting on is the final 20 minutes of the music score by Jamey Sewell. Should we give a release date? No. NOVEMBER SON's production has been too bumpy of a ride with technical snaffus, reshoots, etc etc, and every time we've announced a release date, said date has come and gone. However, the light is finally shining bright at the end of the tunnel, so it's time to start checking in frequently again to watch for an announcement of our theatrical dates. Hopefully sooner than later. As always, you can get more details at our sister sequel site www.novembersonthefilm.com.
A distribution deal was recently signed for release in France thru the company Les Films de L'Ange. There is a minor change to the title, as company rep, Rémi Lange, recently informed us, "I entitled OCTOBER MOON le seul que j'aie jamais aimé (in French), [which translates to] THE ONLY ONE I EVER LOVED (taken from a sentence in the movie)....[the] DVD will release at the end of October 2007." More information posting as it becomes available.
Finally, for those waiting anxiously for NOVEMBER SON, we've finally shot the 4 additional scenes we felt needed to be added following our July test screening in Chicago. The new footage, involving some freaky interaction between Marti (Tina Ona Paukstelis) and Elliot (Jerod Howard), will amp up the suspense in the center of the story and bring more screen time to OCTOBER MOON's troubled couple, which we felt was missing. We're still looking to begin limited theatrical screenings this year - hopefully this November, which would make sense.
On a side note, the B+Boy Productions/Tempe Entertainment documentary SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT, has just received a drastic price reduction both in stores and even LOWER directly from the Tempe website www.tempevideo.com. Check out this look at the lives of 10 horror film actresses including OCTOBER MOON's Judith O'dea (Night of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Ariauna Albright (Bloodletting) and NOVEMBER SON addition Debbie Rochon (Witchouse 3: Demon Fire).
Keep stopping by www.octobermoonthefilm.com and www.novembersonthefilm.com for television, DVD and theatrical dates on both films.
6.23.07 - At long last (over a year and a half since our distributor Tempe made the deal), OCTOBER MOON is being released on DVD in the Ukraine with all new voice overs/subtitles and more!!! Tempe President J.R. Bookwalter says, "No idea of the release date (it may already be in release), but the distributor is Gemini Film, [which is] the exclusive distributor for 20th Century Fox in Ukraine...." Check out the All New box art which is very similar to the U.S. release version.
In other news, both OCTOBER MOON and NOVEMBER SON will begin back-to-back screenings beginning at the end of the summer. The double-feature event will be taken to film festivals around the country and will run through the fall of 2007. NOVEMBER SON will also begin public screenings on its own at the end of summer.
Finally, you can see OCTOBER MOON on the big screen on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at Java Vino in Racine, WI as a part of their weekly Cine-Ma-Tic film series. Showtime begins at 6 p.m. with FREE ADIMISSION and a Q&A with OCTOBER MOON/NOVEMBER SON cast/crew members present.
In other related news, director Jason Paul Collum will again be appearing at Chicago's Flashback Horror & Sci -Fi Weekend to sign autographs and promote both OCTOBER MOON and NOVEMBER SON.
Go to www.flashbackweekend.com for more info.
3.18.07
R.I.P. John Grzegorczyk
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of John Grzegorczyk on Friday, March 16, 2007. Few details are available at this time. John was an actor who portrayed the Detective/Lieutenant in OCTOBER MOON and the upcoming NOVEMBER SON. He was also a regular in the theater scene in South-Eastern Wisconsin and held additional behind-the-scenes positions on other independent feature films such as the 1992 thriller
THE PAINT JOB (1992). More details will be passed on as we hear them. It is believed a funeral will be held in Kenosha, WI on Tuesday, March 20th. Please keep John and his family in your thoughts...
(L-R: Mark O'Meara, John Grzegorczyk, Jason Paul Collum)
In celebration of this honor, Tempe has temporarily reduced the price of OCTOBER MOON from $24.99 down to $14.99!!! Scoot over to www.tempevideo.com to snag your copy today. You can also get a look at our biggest competition DAWN ($14.99) and THE STINK OF FLESH ($14.99). Both great horror flicks our crazy Elliot would love!!! And if you're hankering to see more of the starlets of OCTOBER MOON and its upcoming sequel NOVEMBER SON, pick up a DVD of SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT , now reduced to a mere $7.99 and featuring interviews with Judith O'Dea, Debbie Rochon, Ariauna Albright, Debra DeLiso and hosted by Brinke Stevens. (It also includes B-divas Julie Strain, Felissa Rose, Lizzy Strain, Denice Duff, Lilith Stabs, and Brandi Burkett.)
If all this isn't exciting enough, or you already own OCTOBER MOON, scamper over to our Yahoo Group where we've just launched a series of polls about this sleeper hit and its upcoming sequel. You'll also get a sneak peek at some of those new photos.
More news and recently discovered pictures from the OCTOBER MOON vaults will be posting soon, so pay us another visit in the upcoming weeks!
Tempe DVD has struck a deal to release OCTOBER MOON throughout France, complete with subtitles and possibly dubbed language tracks! We'll keep you posted on release dates and labels.
1.16.07 - HAPPY NEW YEAR fans and friends! We're back with some fun news.
The popular Internet Movie Database has added many new questions/answers to their FAQ listings for both OCTOBER MOON http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460887/ and its sequel NOVEMBER SON http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870176/ . Simply go to the correct page for each film, scroll down to mid page and click on the FAQ option. Quite a few facts are given about the making of each film you may not have previously known.
In other news, NOVEMBER SON star Sacha Sacket begins his three month "LOVERS AND LEADERS" music tour in February! See this amazing performer in person if you can.
Go to http://www.myspace.com/sachasacket for a complete concert schedule.
We'll be back soon with more info on the release of NOVEMBER SON, still planned for screenings beginning this summer! Plus we'll begin adding some sound and advance scene clips to whet all of your appetites in the coming weeks, so keep checking back! And be sure to seek us out at You Tube, My Space and Yahoo Groups!
This past October found a feature story on OCTOBER MOON and its sequel NOVEMBER SON in an issue of Instinct Magazine. We'll be posting a copy of that piece online sometime in the near future. It was a beautiful full-color two page spread which even made the cover of the magazine, so it's an awesome publicity piece! The issue just left newsstands last week, but if you'd like to purchase a copy for $9 (includes shipping and handling), please write to jasonpaulcollum@hotmail.com.
OCTOBER MOON also received more big screen exposure at the IT CAME FROM LAKE MICHIGAN film festival. Stars Brinke Stevens (Nancy), Darcey Vanderhoef (Maggie), Jerod Howard (Elliot), plus director Jason Paul Collum, and Executive Producer Michael John Isaacson were all on hand over the weekend to greet fans and talk about the production.
Finally, we have a new review which is currently running in the November issue of COLORADO SPRINGS INDEPENDENT. Pick up copies on newsstands now, or go to our REVIEWS section and take a gander.
In coming weeks you'll be finding additional glimpses at past publicity from Instinct, Fangoria, Quest and many other sources on both this site and our sister site www.novembersonthefilm.com, so keep checking back!
9.5.06 - OCTOBER MOON invades Chicago! Yes, it was a month ago, but the cast and crew of OCTOBER MOON and its currently filming sequel NOVEMBER SON showed up to terrorize the masses at Chicago's 5th Annual Flashback Weekend Horror and Sci-Fi Convention.
The following weekend found OCTOBER MOON's Sean Michael Lambrecht, Jeff Dylan Graham, Jerod Howard and Executive Producer J.R. Bookwalter haunting the desolate halls of Cleaveland, Ohio's
Twisted Nightmare Weekend, back for it's 4th Year!
Find out more about these trips of terror at the newly launched NOVEMBER SON website!!!! Go to www.novembersonthefilm.com to find all new goodies on the making of the sequel to our successful indie shocker!!!
Second, a trailer is now online!!!! You can see all the hard work put in by Judith O'Dea, Brinke Stevens, Debbie Rochon, Tina Ona Paukstelis, Darcey Vanderhoef, Ashley J. Anderson, Jerod Howard, Sean Michael Lambrecht, Karen Dilloo, and newcomers Sacha Sacket and Lloyd Pedersen, among many others. Click on Trailers and select NOVEMBER SON.
That's right, for our third announcement, you can get more details out of the new production at our new MySpace page. It's all listed as NOVEMBER SON: You'll find the trailer, photos, and have more direct contact with the cast and crew, as many of them are already memebers! All the same goes for the original OCTOBER MOON, which as well has its own MySpace page.
As always you may contact me through this site with any questions regarding the films. And if you're a mid-west horror convention lovers, you can catch myself and many cast and crew members at the upcoming "It Came From Lake Michigan" horror film festival this Halloween. Go to www.itcamefromlakemichigan.com for info.
Best as Always,
Jason
7.21.06 - We are delighted to announce that principle photography has begun on NOVEMBER SON, the sequel to OCTOBER MOON. The title has officially been changed from the previously announced OCTOBER MOON 2 NOVEMBER SON for a number of reasons, but mainly because the shorter version just sounds cooler.
For those of you hungry to see some sneak peeks of what we've been up to since cameras began rolling on July 9th, here are just a very few we're releasing to the public.
Emily (Judith O'Dea) awakens from an early nightmare.
The coffin floats by.... (literally a last minute moment of inspiration developed on set by Jason Paul Collum and brought to life over the course of two hours!!!! You'll have to hear the commentary to understand how this came to be!)
Corin (Sean Michael Lambrecht) and Elliot (Jerod Howard)...lovers at last....
Corin (Sean Michael Lambrecht) asks Nancy (Brinke Stevens) for one last kiss....
We'll be honest...this shoot has been rough and exhausting for all involved, but in looking at the footage thus far shot by Jason Satterfield and the wonderful behind-the-scenes pix taken by set photographer Daina Tomsons, we seem to have struck gold twice!!! Spirits have been raised and enthusiasm returning as we prepare to wrap this sucker up! Sure, we've been shooting 17 hour days and living off of a diet of McDonalds and pizza, but that's what true indie filmmakingis all about!!! And hey, no one' s been rushed to the hospital....yet....
So with that we leave you, our devoted fans, a few nasty pix to whet your appetites. More info on the production is on the way including more pix, a brand new website devoted entirely to NOVEMBER SON, and even a TRAILER, making its debut at Chicago's FLASHBACK WEEKEND OF HORROR this coming Saturday, July 29th! Meet the cast and crew of the original OCTOBER MOON and its sequel!!! The trailer should be up for viewing within the next two weeks, so check back here for more info!!!! You can also hang out with us under "November Son" on MySpace.com and check out the single theme-song "Sweet Suicide" by musician Sacha Sacket, who plays our sexy male lead "Eli." See you back soon!
6.13.06 - We have an all new review of OCTOBER MOON in our REVIEWS section of the site by Brant Johnson of Horrorwood Babble On (cute, heh?), so click over to check it out.
In sequel news, OCTOBER MOON 2 NOVEMBER SON is thrilled to announce one of our Fave Genre Actresses Miss Debbie Rochon has joined the returning cast as "Hillary," the very young mother of lead mystery man "Eli," portrayed by newcomer Sacha Sacket. Seems Hillary holds a major key in the truth to Eli's path, and if that key unlocks the wrong door, she just might find herself on the wrong end of a butcher knife. Yikes!
Another tid bit of sequel news - albeit not a major one - is that shooting dates have been pushed just a mere 3 days: Cameras now role July 9th thru July 13th. Yup. We're pulling this off in just 5 days! Think we can't do it?! You'll have to wait to find out.
Now for the sad news. Vinnie Evelyn Campeau, grandmother to director Jason Paul Collum, passed away on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 after 90 wonderful years. Vinnie Executive Produced many of her grandson's earliest features like 5 DARK SOULS (1996) and JULIA WEPT (2000), though she often did not receive on screen credit for her contributions. She will be missed by all for her graciousness, love and on going support in seeing all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren chasing their dreams.
Rest in Peace
Vinnie Evelyn (Rosenberg) Campeau
December 11, 1915 - June 7, 2006
Horror faves Judith O'Dea (Night of the Living Dead) and Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre) reunite with Tina Ona Paukstelis (Aswang: The Unearthing), Darcey Vanderhoef (Bad Movie Police, Case #1) and most of the original cast members for a sequel to the indie success OCTOBER MOON, released by TempeDVD earlier this year. Filming is set to begin July 6, 2006 on OCTOBER MOON 2 NOVEMBER SON under the direction of the original film's Jason Paul Collum and produced under his B+Boy Productions banner.
The thriller follows the surviving characters
whose lives begin to intertwine with Eli, a new mystery man (musician Sacha Sacket, pictured) hiding a very dark secret of his own connecting him to the events of the first film. Two as-yet-unnamed, but well-known genre actors are expected to fill the roles of Eli's parents, plus appearances by Robyn Griggs (One Life To Live) and the original film's Jerod Howard ("Elliot") and Sean Michael Lambrecht ("Corin"). Collum promises, "...the sequel will be even darker in tone, and the horror will begin much earlier in the story, compared to the original, but will maintain the dramatic events and characterizations which pleased so many of
the fans. There will be a bit more grue as well." He also confirms the theme will be less in-your-face gay vs. straight-oriented, "...since I already covered that ground. Now it will simply follow characters of both orientations, whose personal sexuality has little to do with the events around them. The women actually become more of the focus this time, as they deal with their losses from the first bought of mayhem. Don't, however, rule out a few political references to our culture and the state of marriage equalilty, etc. I have to use my voice in some way....You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll scream."
A mid-2007 release is expected. Additional information is continuously updated at this site. Watch for more photos, cast interviews and a whole new site dedicated to the first gay-themed horror film franchise in history!!!! YEAH!
If you haven't caught the original OCTOBER MOON, copies are still available nationwide at various places (including their online sites) like Best Buy, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Roger's Video, Blockbuster, and more... or order direct from this site in the "Store" section or go browse www.tempevideo.com.
More NEWS in the upcoming weeks!
Plus, only a month on store shelves and we're incredibly thrilled to announce DVDs of OCTOBER MOON have gone into their 3rd (!) pressing, thanks to an additionally huge re-order from Netflix and re-orders from Amazon, which has already SOLD OUT (!!!!) of its initial buy! How cool is that?!?!
More big news on the way in the next few weeks, so be sure to check back soon!
3.17.06 - HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!!!
Just posting this cool pic from a friend in
Ottawa, Canada who caught our film
in Roger's Video!
Thanks Brett!!!
From his obituary:
TUCSON, AZ – David A. Collum, 59, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, March 1, 2006 in his sleep after a long battle with congestive heart failure and Multiple Sclerosis.
David was born May 17, 1946 in Milwaukee, WI, but lived most of his teen and early adult years in Racine. He was among the highest grading students from Horlick High School’s Class of 1965. He moved to Tucson, AZ in the early 1980s. Throughout his life David worked as a nurse aide, often in retirement homes, and was active in many organizations to help less fortunate and disabled people. He was also a published poet, an artist, and a lover of music and film, especially scary movies. He also loved to swim and spend time out in nature.
He is survived by his son, Jason Collum of Racine; his mother Roma Lee (nee: Forrest) and step-father Irwin Collum, his sister Jade (nee: Lown) and brother-in-law Eric Marshall, nieces Sierra, Erica, and nephew Shane Tols (all of Tucson, AZ), aunts, uncles, cousins, and a large group of friends. He was preceeded in death by his father Robert Lown, maternal grandparents Frankie and Grace (nee: Erskine) Forrest, paternal grandparents Ross and Eva (nee: Wright) Lown, and longtime companion Kurt Trembelin. No service is planned, per David’s request.
Happy Valentine's Day! And what a great day it is!!!! It's been One Year and five months since cameras started rolling, so at loooooooong last it's a thrill to announce our little horror movie, OCTOBER MOON, is FINALLY available nationwide on DVD in retail and rental outlets and also online vendors!!!!
Among the more well known stores and online sites are Netflix, Blockbuster (in stores in Canada, available online in US), Amazon, Circuit City, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Roger's Video (a huge rental chain in Canada), DVD Empire, 10percent.com, and so many more! Plus you can always buy direct from our distributor at www.tempevideo.com.
That's not all! Reviews are out with critical praise galore! To highlight just a few:
"Four Stars! A seriously great psycho-drama that you need to see...Without a doubt the best gay film I have ever seen." - Frederik Nordstrom, Slasherpool
"Three & a Half Stars! Creative and Haunting!" - Michael Szymanski, International Press Academy
"Compelling...a first half whose drama works so well you can't abandon the characters...OCTOBER MOON is a Must See...!" - Fishcom Collective
"...[Successfully] explores gay & straight attitudes toward just about everything..." - Tom Steele, Out Magazine Online
"OCTOBER MOON speaks with a universal candor that makes us connect with the characters and their situations....the suspense builds with a maddening intensity to an extreme climax." - J.Read, Monsters at Play
What more can we say, but go out and rent or buy this genuine cult classic. And keep tuned in to this site for announcements on our live online chat with the cast and crew of OCTOBER MOON in the next few weeks!
Finally, look for a gory pic of star Sean Michael Lambrecht in the current issue of Fangoria, plus past coverage in Rue Morgue, Instinct, Scene, and the upcoming issue of Quest.
And Thank you for all of your support!
Jason Paul Collum,
Director/writer, OCTOBER MOON
In other news, more excellent reviews have been posting all over the internet. You can also catch a big GORY photo of actor Sean Michael Lambrecht in this month's issue of Fangoria magazine. We've also added two new film convention appearances, so skip over to the Showtimes & Special Events section.
We're only TWO WEEKS away from our official DVD release date in stores nationwide, so start reserving your copies now! Netflix is already accepting reservations, and Amazon has just ordered a big bundle of copies to fill their pre-sale orders! Finally, if you live near South Eastern Wisconsin, don't forget to attend our DVD Release Party at 94 North in Kenosha, WI on Sunday, February 12th! Showtime begins at 7 p.m.!
offices at Tempe Entertainment, so those of you who have already ordered copies will likely receive them by early next week. Check your mail boxes in eager anticipation... If you haven't ordered yet and were waiting for them to be immediately accessible, now is your chance! Go to 
