Mars is one of the dozens of horror industry professionals interviewed in Greg Lamberson’s book “CHEAP SCARES” which has been nominated for a 2008 Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in Nonfiction category.
Fingers crossed Greg!
Mars has moved into video game music with his offbeat “Middle-East meets Ms. Pacman” musical score to the upcomming PC Game, “DURKA 3D: The Fall Of Ahmadinejad” from Petrilla Entertainment.
This action packed, satirical, first person shooter will guarantee laughs, and an orgy of onscreen violence. Yep, fun for the whole family.
More info HERE
Mars has signed on to score the upcoming horror comedy “Wonton Baby!” for Morgue Art Films. The film stars Suzi Lorraine, and Debbie Rochan, and is set to begin principal photography in May 2009.
Mars will soon be scoring the 80’s influenced horror comedy “Demon Divas and the Lanes Of Damnation”. Written and directed by Mike Watt, the film boasts a cast featuring legendary genre ladies Brinke Stevens and Debbie Rochon, as well as Amy Lynn Best (who will be producing as well), Robyn Griggs (NBC’s Another World), Lilith Stabs (Malefic), Nikki McCrea (Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut), Sofiya Mina Smirnova (A Feast of Flesh), Rachelle Williams (Jess Franco’s Take-Away Spirit), Aaron Bernard (Pirates of the Carribbean 3: At World’s End) and micro-budget favorite Henrique Couto (Faces of Schlock).
Mars promises the score won’t feature a synth sound newer than 1988, and will be very much an homage to filmscores like “Night Of The Demons”, “Fright Night”, and “Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers”.
More info can be found HERE
The ambitious folks at rocketmania.com have been hard at work on episode 1 of their retro sci-fi homage to the Rocket Man sirreals of the 1950’s. Titled “30 Second Doom: Terminal Dive”, the awesome short film captures the thrills,chills, and fun of the original. Mars has provided a score that is very stylized and full of classic hero fanfare in the great tradition of “Buck Rodgers” and “Flash Gordan”. The film will play at Wondercon later this year,where it has been nominated for a 2008 Rondo Award.
The trailer is available for viewing HERE
Mars has signed on to score the long awaited sequel to Greg Lamberson’s 1988 splatter-classic “SLIME CITY”. The film, titled “SLIME CITY MASSACRE” will star genre favorite Debbie Rochan, as well as Jennifer Bihl, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Robert Sabin (who starred in the original film). Writer/Director Lamberson promises this film will be wilder and crazier than the original and will be “A celebration of 1970s cinema nihilism and 1980s latex spaltter flicks. Featuring an all out war between Slime Heads, homeless people, cannibals and merceneries!”
More info can be found HERE
Mars has completed the music selections for the DVD adaptation of Stephen Romano’s brilliant book “SHOCK FESTIVAL”. Awarded “Best Fiction Book 0f 2008″ by Rue Morgue Magazine, the book is an homage to all things exploitation, and has to be seen to be believed.
Says Mars: “Stephen’s vision is amazing, and this release is just going to kill from the minute it hits the shelves, I promise you. I adopted the mindset of Stephen’s fictional composer, Jimmy Cooper Jones, and wrote some really gritty, 1970’s/80’s exploitation style music that sounds like Euro-sleaze, funk, and surf music all mashed up. I started with lots of great old school synth tones, and retro drum/bass/horn arrangements that I “aged” with lo-fi equalization, and other sonic tricks to make them sound as authentic as I could manage.
It was a lot of work, but well worth it.”
Fangoria online has more information , plus an advance look at the 3 disc-set’s cover art HERE.
The ultra-groovy horror site FearZone.com has posted an in-depth interview with the Maestro of the musical macabre, Mars. For a glimpse into his forehead, have a look HERE
Mars has recently completed a short promo video for Wildstorm/DC comics upcoming title “NORTH 40″ which is described by writer Aaron Williams as: “Basically what happens when you take a small backwoods county in the Midwest and drop H.P. Lovecraft on it. An old spellbook, belonging to a witch who practiced the odd incantation or two, was opened and as a result, plunged Conover County into a C’thuloid nightmare.”
In addition to Williams story, the comic also features the awesome artwork of Fiona Staples.
The comic debuts in July of 2009, and the video is Here