Tis the season and all that, here is an excellent Christmas horror comedy short -Rob Cotterill and Jason Eisener’s Treevenge.

It takes a while to buffer, but is well worth the wait – check it out!

Eisener and Cotterill were behind the famous fake trailer Hobo with a Shotgun that floored everyone as an entry to the Grindhouse trailer competition a few years back.

Much like how that trailer succeeded in raw ballsy energy, this does too and as for my obligatory horrible pun, the whole thing comes across as quite pulpy.

Anyway, to give credit where credit is due, check out Treevenge’s official website.

Instead of carving a pumpkin this year I put together a video mash-up using some shots of The Mummy Ted Johnson (from The University of Illinois vs a Mummy of course ) and the always-quotable-for-every-occasion scene from The Monster Squad

It’s only 18 seconds, so check it out!

I mean we had the shot of Rudolphe kicking the Mummy “in the balls” anyway, so it would have been harder to not make the edit.

Sloppy masking job aside, I think it turned out pretty well! My endearment to The Monster Squad has only grown over the past few years as I think about the kind of story I’d like to tell in whatever my next major project turns out to be. What is the adult version of ‘the 80’s movie’? Have all the kids who grew up with this (and similar films like Goonies) completely moved on, or is there still that spark of imagination when dealing with the unbelievable supernatural forces of evil, that can surely only benefit from an R rating?