OPEN LETTER TO ALL HORROR FANS:
WE NEED TO START A VIRAL CAMPAIGN TO GET CLIVE BARKER'S 'MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN A WIDER RELEASE!!!
It is clearly not healthy for investor relations to dump a movie that has a vocal and dedicated audience. Midnight Meat Train represents the kind of horror film that audiences have been dying for!!!
There is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this decision over the edge.
If you wish to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory at a THEATRE near you, please do the following:
Cut and paste the message at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to:
1) investor relations at Lionsgate: keasterling@lionsgate.com
2) Lionsgate: general-inquiries@lionsgate.com
3) call Lionsgate at (310) 449-9200 and express your desire to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN get the release it deserves.
BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL! We do not want to piss them off, just want them to know how many fans out there would like to shell out their hard earned cash to see the most groundbreaking horror film of the past ten years in a real movie theater!
4) SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS MOVIE TO LET IT GO STRAIGHT TO DVD!!!
Post this message everywhere, send it to your horror friends and spread the word! We need to act FAST to have an effect!!!
And LONG LIVE THE MEAT!!
HERE’S A SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE (or feel free to compose your own):
Dear Lionsgate,
As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong desire to see “The Midnight Meat Train” on the big screen.
Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my opportunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in over a decade in all of its big screen glory!
There are millions of horror fans like who have been disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror movies. Clive’s work represents a return to serious, thought provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended: in a packed theatre with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!
I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!
Many thanks to 'Meat Lover' for this Blog
Simon Bamford actor, writer and director graduated from Mountview Theatre School in 1981.
He has recently been filming in Edinburgh on Clive Barker's 'Book of Blood' which is due for release in December 2008. Simon plays the Character of Derek in the movie, the film has a UK cast including Sophie Ward, 'Robin Hood's' Jonas Armstrong, and Doug Bradley. As Principal filming has now finished the film is in post production. More details can be found here http://www.clivebarker.info/newsbobjournal.html
His first film appearance was in The Who's Quadrophenia with Sting, Toyah Wilcox, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone, Leslie Ash, Phil Daniels and Timothy Spall.
He created the role of 'Butterball' in Clive Barkers cult movie 'Hellraiser' and it's sequel 'Hellbound', working with Claire Higgins, Oliver Parker, Doug Bradley and Kenneth Cranham. http://www.clivebarker.com/html/visions/bib/movie/hellraiser/hell1.htm
Playing the ill-fated 'Ohnaka' in 'Nightbreed' gave Simon the chance to work with Craig Sheffer and David Cronenberg. http://www.clivebarker.com/html/visions/bib/movie/nightbreed/night.htm
Simon can also be seen in Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation with 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre's' Gunnar Hansen and 'Nightmare on Elm Street's' Robert Englund.
He is associate director of Richmond Productions which tours mainstream work throughout the world. His long theatre career has been extremely diverse; from 'Seymour' in the 1st UK tour of 'Little shop of horrors,' to 'Othello, Cleopatra, Macduff, Ophelia, Tybalt, Juliet', and others in 'The complete works of William Shakespeare (abridged)'.
Simon has played in 78 professional productions from the the West End's Young Vic to the Chichester Festival Theatre, from Vienna's English Theatre to The Vassa Theatre in Stockholm.
Simon is a full Equity member, is CRB checked and has �5million public liability insurance
Feel free to browse the site.
Simon is represented by
Jeffrey White and Silvey Associates
16-19 Southampton Place
London WC1A 2AJ
020-7745-7181
info@jwassociates.co.uk
