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Syndicate ready for Halloween Midnight Syndicate writes the soundtrack for Halloween, and, early next year, will roll out ‘The Dead By CARL E. FEATHER - Lifestyle Editor - cfeather@starbeacon.comStar Beacon “It was very cool,” Douglas says. “It was a great honor to be asked to do something like that for someone like them.”
Dead Matter With their music a success, Douglas has been able to revisit his first love, filmmaking. While a college student, Douglas wrote “The Dead Matter” with Tony Demci and produced a low-budget version of the feature film. After eight years of living with the film and getting feedback from viewers, Douglas and Demci were ready to revise the script and produce it as a big-budget feature. Over the course of several months, Douglas pulled together a group of mostly northeast Ohio investors who put up the $1.5 million he needed to shoot and edit the film. He chose Robert Kurtzman, a Hollywood special effects legend, and his company, Precinct 13 Entertainment, to produce the film, directed by Douglas. Midnight Syndicate previously worked with Kurtzman on “The Rage,” a horror feature that went straight to DVD. Douglas wrote the music for the film and Midnight Syndicate produced the soundtrack CD. “The Dead Matter” was shot during a very intense four weeks in the summer of 2007. Mansfield was chosen as the shooting location because of Kurtzman’s familiarity with the region and Midnight Syndicate’s desire to make it an Ohio production. The film also used Ohio cast and crew members whenever possible. “It was pretty cool to have that all come together using mostly northeast Ohio investors and an Ohio crew,” Douglas says. “It was a good thing.” The film was test screened in a rough cut version earlier this year and is now locked into editing. Douglas says the audience response has been excellent and they are looking forward to a limited theatrical release in early 2009. “The Dead Matter” is classic horror with a strong story line, says Douglas. “It’s not a blood-and-guts slasher,” he says. “If you like the old horror movies, even going back to the Universals of the 1930s and ’40s, this is going to appeal to you.” Recognizing the crucial element of marketing, Midnight Syndicate Films created a teaser Web site, TheDeadMatter.com, and named their 2008 Halloween music release “The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates.” The trailer for their film is on the Hot Topic Web site. Hot Topic is one of the vendors that carries Midnight Syndicate CDs. Other vendors include many of the ephemeral Halloween party stories that spring up in malls this time of year and Party Center stores. Online music sellers have the CDs, and they are offered through midnightsyndicate.com, as well, although Douglas really hopes buyers will support local vendors first. Goszka went off on his own tangent and last year produced and recorded a CD of Victorian parlor music updated in a folk-rock style. Goszka, who’s collected sheet music of that era for years, says the Victorians wrote good songs way back then, the arrangements just needed a little updating. Goszka did all the arrangements and vocal/instrumental performances on the CD, “It’s Not the Coat Makes The Gentlemen.” Gavin calls his updated music “Parlormuse.” “This is just one more instance of running off on a tangent with this Victorian thing,” Goszka says. 
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