TALES OF THE DAMNED POST PRODUCTION

I had seen Creepshow by George Romero in 1982 and watched in over 100 times and I got the idea to make Tales a homage to Creepshow. We edited the movie on Avid Xpress, the main editor was John Mathias and I was there every second as well. It took three weeks to edit the film and give it color and a comic book look.
I think we succeeded. Editing was long and hard but John is a pro and knows what he is doing although we were both winging it at this point. We decided to put all the bloopers on during the closing credits and this is another thing people really like with this film.
While editing was being done Skip Shiver was putting together the most ambitious packaging we had ever attempted for a movie. He developed a full color comic book cover circa 1969 and it looked like a winner to me. He came up with the idea in two weeks!!
I had planned a release date of October 2nd because that was the date back in 1968 that my all time favorite film, Night Of The Living Dead was released. While editing and packaging was going on I was also busy hawking my product to different stores to see if they would carry my product. With the help of Jeff Eads who owned a music store and furnished me with 70's music for my listening enjoyment and Tim Gable who owned a small book and video store called Books Ect. I was able to get some product into stores. This was many years before DVD technology was affordable and I had a lot of tapes to make up before release and I finally got the master broadcast copy into the duplicators on Sept. 29th!!
I had to pay a small fortune to get the copies made by the first and after that I lived off of Hershey kisses for a while...yummy. Now after release came some of the most interesting things I have ever had happen.......