Greetings
from Filmmaker's Hell!
I
am obviously Warren F. Disbrow, I make feature
movies and I currently live in Neptune,
New Jersey.
I
love horror, scifi and fantasy movies and you can
kiss my ass if you don't. I can enjoy other kinds
of movies too, but most of the movies I deeply
love and collect posters, models, movie mold
castings from are in the horror scifi realm.
I
was born in New Jersey and haven't escaped yet. I
went to Bible Baptist Church and Trinity Christain
School, so I see Mel Gibson's PASSION OF THE
CHRIST as a movie Satan would love - 2 hours of
killing Christ. I'm not a bible thumper it's just
my thoughts on the film.
I
always wanted to make the same kind of wonderful
movies I watched secretly as a kid on TV
(despite parental disapproval). As a young child I
wanted to see BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN(1935) on TV
and no amount of disturbance I created changed my
parents' "No" into a "Yes". I
remember sneaking downstairs in the middle of the
night to see Peter Cushing in Hammer's fantastic
BRIDES OF DRACULA(1960) and before the movie was
finished being caught and thrown back into bed by
angry parents.
The
first monster movie I saw was when I was
roughly 5 or 6 years of age. On a very
small black-and-white TV on a Sunday afternoon was
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON(1954). CREATURE
just excited me no end and it still does. As an
adult (at least I grew taller) I still love The
Gill Man movies and love the original 1954
amazingly life-like suit. I now know Ben Chapman
who was in that suit for the land scenes and now
get Christmas and birthday cards from "The
Gill Man" - how cool is that? And I have been
able to collect casting out of the 1954 original
studio molds of the suit's authentic head, claws
and feet. I also collected Lon Chaney Jr's Wolfman
appliances, Glen Strange's 1948 Frankenstein skull
cap, and had a one time some of the original 1940s
Universal studio old molds themselves. I collect
anything "real" I can from horror
movies, like the head cast from Linda Blair in THE
EXORCIST.
I
also collect castings of Gerry Anderson 1960s TV
show puppets from FIREBALL XL5, STINGRAY,
THUNDERBIRDS, CAPTAIN SCARLET, JOE 90 and SECRET
SERVICE. Check elsewhere on this web site for a
page on them.
As a
teen I started shooting Super 8mm horror film
shorts which I continued when I went to Brookdale
Community College studying under Tim Nesterak and
Stu Beach.
I
went from Brookdale to Jersey City State in
...drum roll...Jersey City. I was mentored by a
wonderful Professor named Mark Eisenstein and
started shooting 16mm horror films. I made a bunch
of shorts, the longest being KISS OF MEDUSA which
was 25 minutes and in color and primered at the
Hoboken Art Festival in 1982.
During
this time I worked at CNN with Stewart Varney and
Mary Alice Williams in World Trade Center
Building 1. I handled lighting, mostly operated
the studio cameras for live shows, alittle floor
managing, etc. It was during this period I
purchased my own complete Super 16mm film
production/post production equipment to shoot my
own movies. Mark sold me his 35mm Arri and his
35mm moviola to edit on. Sam Sherman, President of
Independent-International Pictures, gave me a gift
of a theater 35mm projector so I could screen my
rushes at the studio rather than paying local
theaters to see my raw footage after the feature.
My
idol was and is George A Romero, who made the
classics NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD(1968), DAWN OF
THE DEAD(1977), DAY OF THE DEAD(1985) and the
brand new LAND OF THE DEAD(2005). We corresponded
for a period just before DAWN was released and a
few years back I got to actually meet him and talk
in person and he gave me his private phone number
to talk some more.
Dailing
Romero's house for me is scarier than any horror
movie because I admire him so much he's slightly
intimidating so I can't say I've taken full
advantage of the confidence that he showed me by
giving me his number. I'll get up the nerve to
call him soon :o) .
The
movies I made myself in the last 15 years, and
which were distributed all over the world,
have sold well, recieved very good reviews
and even got me fan mail. Despite their very small
budgets and primitive conditions under which they
were made, they were and are to this day very
successful.
Currently TROMA,
INC has re-released special collector's additions
of two of the older movies, FLESH EATERS FROM
OUTER SPACE and INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD. They
are also releasing my newly filmed modern
vampire movies SCARLET MOON(2005) and DARK
BEGINNINGS(2006).
My
father, Warren Disbrow Sr.,has become
internationally famous for his reoccurring role as
Prof. Hertz in all four of my movies. He recieved
a good review in Italy and is usually recognized
within the first hour of arriving at scifi/horror
conventions.
At
a May 19th, 2005 theater showing of INVASION
FOR FLESH AND BLOOD in Red Bank, NJ sponsored by
TROMA, my father got tremendous applause when his
credit came on the big movie screen. He started
his acting career in Sam Sherman's THE BLOODY DEAD
(1987) as a victim of a killer. Its been
nothing but fun for him.
Over
the years many people have helped me with the
movies, like Tony Annunziata, James Cirronella,
Nick Primiano, Rubin Santiago, Shawn T. Reich,
AnnMarie Donato, Warren Disbrow Sr.,
Francesca Chirelli, Dominic Gregoria, James
Andriani, Mike Bruce of THE ALICE COOPER
GROUP, Forry Ackerman of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF
FILMLAND MAGAZINE, Desire'e Russo, Sam Sherman of
INDEPENDENT-INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, Jack Russo
of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, author Stephen King,
Kathy Monks, Debbie Boenig of JERSEYWOOD
PRODUCTIONS, Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman of
TROMA, INC, Hollywood Effects Artist Ed French,
Tim Ferrante of FANGORIA MAGAZINE, Stephen Mezo
Jr. AKA TATTOOED STEVE, Horror King George A
Romero and many others. Thanks guys for having
faith in me.
There
are a few scripts from my past I'd still
like to make into movies, like RULERS OF THE
APOCALYPSE, DEMON AT LEEDSPOINT and LAVIATHAN
TEMPLE.
I
actually started shooting RULERS on my own money,
it was a dinosaur movie, but the needed funding
never came and it was being shot on film which is
very expensive. I had to pull the plug myself
before I went broke. We still have the full size
animatronic dinosaurs intact so maybe I can get
someone to finance it someday. You never know.
There
are several things I need to do but I am also
going to try to shoot my own zombie movie within
the next several months. I am doing all the PR
work I neglected to do over the last 20 years of
being in show biz and I am trying to raise money
to shoot DIABOLICAL right, but I am also antsy to
do another movie as soon as possible too. Its an
addiction :o) . But before I can go into Romero's
kingdom doing a zombie movie, I have to finish and
get DARK BEGINNINGS to the distributor.
If
you have helped me make these movies over the
years or helped me promote them, or if you have
supported my movies by renting or buying them, I
sincerely thank you and I hope I can count on your
continued support.
Spectrum
is Green,
Warren
F. Disbrow
President
Visual
Experiences, Inc.
Contact
me at: Visualexpe@aol.com
