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The fine folks at WYRD Features are set to unleash yet another awesome documentary. I’ve never seen my music used in conjunction with so much blood.
I like it.

Wyrd Features definitive documentary on the life,works, and influence of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft-”LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN” is out on DVD/Blu-Ray today!!!
It’s been over a year since Mars finished the score to the film, which went on to win Best Documentary at the 2008 Comi-Con, as well as recognition at film festivals all over […]

Mars has completed his score to Gregory Lamberson’s “SLIME CITY MASSACRE“, and the music has been dubbed “The best soundtrack I’ve ever heard for a low budget movie” by the film’s director himself. This is the sequel to his 1988 splatter-fest/cult film phenom “SLIME CITY“, and it is being courted by fans and press […]

POP/Alternative Cinema has posted the first trailer for their upcoming DVD adaptation of Stephan Romano’s award-winning book “SHOCK FESTIVAL“.
Mars’s homage to 1970’s funkploitation; the music track named “Damn Straight’ is the music used in the trailer.
The whole project looks amazing, and the actual release will feature 2DVD’s and a separate audio disc featuring 10 tracks […]

Mars has just finished a video clip for the legendary horror comic DEAD WORLD.
Gary Reed; the comic’s writer, and Mars collaborated on the project, and both men are quite pleased with the morbid outcome.
The comic is set to become a feature film, which is being written by David Hayter (screen writer of X MEN & […]

Mars has signed on to write the music for Red Hatchet Films latest Lovecraft film, “BOKRUG”, a stop-motion adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Doom that Came to Sarnath”. The film tells the story of the decadent city of Sarnath, whose greatness is built on the destruction of an older race of beings who lived in […]

When all the musical cues for a film project (seen here as the hundreds of green boxes ) are viewed together, the maze of interlinked audio looks like a strange map or perhaps a labyrinth.
Then again, after staring at this screen for the past few weeks… my judgement may be impaired.
In any event, CRAWLER is […]

Mars and composer Richard Band (Re-Animator, Ghoulies,From Beyond,Stargate SG1) discuss Richard’s amazing career, as well as the state of the modern horror score over at FEARZONE.
The interview is HERE

HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2007 Composer Panel (L-R) Stephen Parsons,Mars,Andrew Migliore,Richard Band

The illustrious DETOUR:NYC’s Premiere Film & Noir Arts Festival
screened Ken Hall’s creepy film “Night Visit” last weekend in New York. The film once again met with great response, and even better reviews. Not bad for a film that technically has been out of the festival circuit for over a year. The film stars genre legend Lynn Lowry (George […]

Mars will be doing the score for the upcoming film “Welcome To My Darkside-Women in Horror!”, a documentary from Last Doorway Productions which examines women’s roles in the horror genre. The film takes a look at women in all aspects of the filmmaking process, from the scream queens of the 60’s and 70’s to women […]