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Chiseled is being produced by 1252 Films, a new independent production company dedicated to making quality horror with 100 percent in-camera FX for brutal authenticity. Producer Peter Abrahams describes CHISELED as a “meshing of the classic horror film like TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with the new-wave gore types such as |
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HOSTEL,” and writer Jay Benton is proud of its “high production quality, crew skill level, solid cast, more structured story, memorable characters and multiple bad guys, fantastic effects and million-dollar location.” The cast of newcomers is headed by Jessica Graves, William Waterson, Paul Cram, Gustavo Flores and Lacey Bullard; other talents involved are visual FX creator Eric Lusk, makeup artist Jen Raheb and director of photography Peter Young. |
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Minnesota actor Paul Cram will be among the glitterati tonight at the midnight premiere of "Intermedio," a horror movie in which he appears. Cram, a Wyoming, Minn., native, appears alongside Edward Furlong and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" Amber Benson. They play adventurers trapped in a haunted (and bloody) Mexican cave. The film's premiere is in Los Angeles. But the Twin Cities premiere is likely to be on home video. |
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The DNR does not lie, they just doesn't tell the truth," reads a hand-scribbled sign at the country gas station where Chris Benton (Paul Cram) and sister Aurora (Billie Jo Konze) stop en route to meet their dad and stepmom at the family cabin. When they get there, Dad is nowhere to be seen, the family pooch is dead, and somehting is going bump in the |
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night. Rendered in high-contrast black and silver, the look of the film registers somewhere between the dusty bite of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the otherworldly sheen of Sin City. Albeit rough around the edges, this local production from siblings Tim, Gregg, and Meagan Holtgrewe is mature, patient, and restrained compared to the average low-budget video feature. By framing the cabin, the siblings, the woods, and not the monster, the filmmakers craft an atmosphere of desolation and unease that makes the 60-minute running time feel much longer. Rather than fixating on the typical kill shot, Dawning broods on the finality of death and creates a feeling that hasn't been common to the horror movie since it merged with the action film in the '80s: helplessness. In one carefully paced and frightening sequence, brother and sister do the only thing they can do after a cabin-mate commits suicide: They dispose of the body and slowly clean the blood from the walls. By John Behling, Citypages. |
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Diesel and Me Twin Cities actor Paul Cram has landed his break-through role: "Rat," Vin Diesel's sidekick in the upcoming film Culture Shock, an action drama that spotlights a conflict between suburban teens and working-class toughs (Inspired by S.E. Hinton's classic The Outsiders). |
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Paul Cram Portrays Meth User Anoka native Paul Cram filmed a low-budget movie in July called "Indelible." The story tells the bleak tale of an ex-con and his journey back to his daughter through the methamphetamine underworld of the midwest. Cram said he was at first apprehensive about the drug tweaking |
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character, Rickey, but after some research on the devastating effects of the drug, he decided to play the character. He hopes the audience, after witnessing the effect of meth on Rickey, will steer clear of the drug. "The irony is that I have the physical build of a tweaked-out meth user. Yet, thank God, I've steered clear of chemical abuse." Cram said. |
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Actor Paul Cram Reaches Coast to Coast. During 2005, actor Paul Cram worked in films around the nation. Traveling to Boston in the spring to play "Lance, The Naked Roomate" in the comedy Not the One. Then headed to Des Moines, Iowa in the Summer for his role of "Rickey," an abused meth user, in |
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the movie "Indelible." The largest and most challenging role of the year was in the Autumn working as the lead actor in the subtle drama titled (Yielding to) A Willing Breath in which Paul played the role of Brian Warren, a quiet socially awkward recluse. Paul said, "The roles I have had the opportunity to play in 2005 have been a dream come true for me. I spent 8 months with director/writer Gregg Holtgrewe in preparing for my role of "Bryan Warren." It was intense. I am looking forward to all that 2006 has, especially playing the dual roles of "Jacob/Jeremiah" in the thriller Roneys Point this March." |
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Cram appears in thriller film 'Intermedio' Wyoming native Paul Cram plays the role of abused teenager ZEE in the supernatural thriller film "Intermedio" alongside a star studded cast including Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, American History X), "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" Amber Benson and Cerina Vincent (Not Another Teen Movie.) The film was |
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released in Japan, Canada, Russia and the UK on March 29. The film's director, whom some may remember as the roller skater wearing Charlie on the hit television show "Caroline in the City," said he was looking at tons of guys in Los Angeles for the role. When he saw the Minneapolis actor's audition he said "It is nice to finally see someone that can actually act." Paul was flown out to Hollywood two days later and began filming the project for two weeks. When he started to pursue his dreams of becoming a movie actor at the age of 17, he was criticized by some of his friends. Some of them laughed right to his face when they heard about his endeavors, Cram said. "I just decided that I didn't care what they said. They aren't the ones that have to live my life for me." he added. |
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Paul Cram lands work in Hollywood. Already an up-and-coming artist, Wyoming native Paul Cram is trying his hand at the silver screen. According to Paul's father, Hank Cram of Wyoming, Paul took off for Hollywood to play the lead in a |
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unnamed science ficiton film with locations in Los Angeles and a nearby desert. "Paul sent in his resume, and the directors said he was the best they've ever seen," Hank Cram said. Paul Cram will be in Los Angeles for the next few weeks with acting plans into the summer. According to his father, Paul is also planning work on a film based on the 60's television show "Ginsmoke" with actor Matt Dillon later this year. Paul is the owner of Flare Photography in Minneapolis; his painting career was written about in the May 12 edition of the Forest Lake Press. -Compiled by Kevin McCahill, Forest Lake Press. |
