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UNIVERSAL DEAD

Universal Dead posterUNIVERSAL DEAD - 2010
Director: Vernon Mortensen
Writer: Kelly Parks
Production Design: E.C. McMullen Jr.

Making Movies is the Hardest Drug and Worst Headache You'll Ever Enjoy
- Feo Amante

UNIVERSAL DEAD was written and produced by Feo Amante's Horror Thriller alumni and producer of my short film, LAST CALL, Kelly Parks. It was directed and produced by my editor for LAST CALL, Vernon E. Mortensen. I served as Production Designer, Art Director, Props, and Special Effects Make-Up Artist (along with my SFX MUA assistant, Jeremiah Vargo).

UNIVERSAL DEAD was shot in 2009 and released online in 2010. In late 2012, Writer and Producer, Kelly Parks, had editor John Niewiadomy edit the three separate episodes into a single short.

AND THE WINNER IS...

Original Web Series

UD1
WEBISODE ONE
Doug Jones
WEBISODE TWO
UD
WEBISODE THREE
NEWS: OCT. 2009 - MAY, 2010 NEWS: JUNE - OCT. 2010 NEWS: JAN. 2011 - JULY 2013

The webseries cast includes Doug Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Gary Graham, Michael Broderick, Valerie Perez, Cade Courtley, and Craig Sawyer.

Doug Jones signing
Doug Jones, at the Dark Delicacies bookstore in Burbank,
signing the character poster I created for him.
Now obscenely rare and collectible!

Watch for my cameo as a Zombie in the black "Cruel Satyr" T-shirt. This and two more webisodes were shot in a rush of only three days and a budget that would usually pay for just one day of craft services on any other film project.

The World Notices!

COMING SOON
Doug Jones, DB Sweeney Topline Universal Dead
A morsel of production value goes a long way as evident in Universal Dead, a new web series from Kelly Parks and his Unconventional Films banner.

io9.com
Get addicted to zombie action web series "Universal Dead"


The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic Con 2010
And you'll notice that Tron Legacy isn't on the list — in its third year at SDCC, Tron Legacy maintained the high level of buzz it already had among the SDCC crowd. There's a big difference between "buzz maintenance" and generating new buzz. Ditto for a lot of other Comic Con favorites that continued to be Comic Con favorites, but didn't really gain or lose new buzz.

So with that said, here goes, in no particular order:
The buzz winners of SDCC 2010:

Universal Dead
This zombie webseries, which co-stars our personal favorite monster Doug Jones, was a big hit of the Celebrate The Web event — and then it was announced that Paramount has optioned it as a full-length movie.
Continued at Gizmodo.com.

UNIVERSAL DEAD Cast & Crew


Cena Do Crime (Brazil)
Universal Dead
Web-serie são uma constante nos EUA. E aqui está mais uma para você acompanhar de perto: Universal Dead.

La Fin Du Monde (France)
Universal dead
Le 1er épisode d’Universal dead, une nouvelle web-série sur une épidémie de zombie vient de sortir et cela donne franchement envie de voir la suite.

MIND'S DELIGHT (Germany)
Universal Dead - The Webseries from Hell

ZetaComeZombie (Italy)
Universal Dead

Zomicz.com (Spain)
Contenidos - Capitulos de Web Series


UNIVERSAL DEAD:
World-Wide Phenomena

Webisode One - Feb. - May 2010

Webisode Two - San Diego Comic-con

Webisode Three - After

Last Call The Crusader The Night My Monster Died
LAST CALL THE CRUSADER THE NIGHT MY MONSTER DIED

This article copyright 2011 and 2013 by E.C.McMullen Jr.

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Joe Mynhardt interviews E.C. McMullen Jr. in the book HORROR 201: The Silver Scream.

Matt Jarbo's interview with Feo Amante at The Zurvivalist.

James Cheetham's Q&A with Feo Amante at Unconventional Interviews *.

Megan Scudellari interviews Feo Amante and Kelly Parks (of THE SCIENCE MOMENT) in The Scientist Magazine.

Check out our interview at The-Scientist.com.

REFERENCES
Anthropologist Gretchen Bakke, PhD, references my UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHE ALERT as an expert resource in her 2010 Anthropological Quarterly essay @ Johns Hopkins University

Researcher David Waldron, references my review of UNDERWORLD in the Spring 2005, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture entry, Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right: Community Formation in Response to a Moral Panic (downloadable pdf).

E.C. McMullen Jr.
Author page at Amazon (Amazon.com)
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Internet Movie Database resume (IMDb.com),
Stage 32 listing (stage32.com),
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20+ year member of the San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC).
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