The Awards Season is Hotting up! While I was in LA I saw three movies, one wonderful, one a bit so-so and the third, interesting but challenging. These included “The Counsellor”, interesting but challenging to watch and “Kill Your Darlings”, a true story about the early careers of some of America’s great poets. I went…
I am now juggling between three websites, all becoming one in due course and the technical aspect is quite a challenge on the new one: janemerrow.com an update of janemerrow.net. In the meantime life goes on and we are preparing a clip from THE DAMNED THING to put up on to some crowd funding sites, to raise…
My Favourite people this week are Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the English writer Joanna Trollope. Both are talking about the falling literacy rate in both our countries. Justice Day O’Connor is appalled by the fact that too many Americans have no idea which three branches of government exist in the US. This is amazing ..…
A spine-chilling tale of magic and retribution. Based on the short story “The Monkeys Paw” by W.W. Jacobs, the film won the Jury Prize for Best Art Direction at the Barcelona Film Festival. This is the first of a projected series of films under the generic heading of “New Chilling Tales. This film is proposed…
A heart beating, a man obsessed with an old man’s eye, these are at the core of the magnificent story by Edgar Allan Poe and here is a brand new film to give you that story. Learn More
The Woman, who is driven mad by her obsession with the wallpaper in the bedroom, while is trying to recover from a near nervous breakdown. Confined to the room, the Woman is finally driven over the brink into madness, by seeing herself trapped in the wallpaper. This film is from the 19th century story THE…
We’re in the middle of a massive heatwave in the USA and here in Idaho it’s 104 degrees Farenheit, whew! And I have no air conditioning in my little house, could do with it now. I remember a horror film I did way back when, called THE NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT…… in the US…
Recently I moved Hosting Companies..again. I had found one that I really liked and suddenly, I found that the actual hosting had become grindingly slow and any time I wanted to add something to the newchillingtales.com, I could hardly get a sentence up. I don’t know what happened and as no explanation or help was…
The one good thing about the weather has been that one is more or less forced to stay indoors and GET ON WITH IT. In my case it has been writing and sending out our recently completed film to various film festivals. Now I am just waiting for the results, will we be accepted at…
