Chillers, the classic film from Troma Studios that captured the Silver Scroll Award now returns with all new tales in an original graphic novel. Writer and director Daniel Boyd is joined by some of the best in horror to present more terror and chills. Troma Films is supporting the release of the graphic novel with a re-release of the film on DVD and the Buddy Black Band is releasing a tribute album, Witchfinder, to also coordinate with the graphic novel. Evil travels in many forms, even by bus. But this bus takes its riders to a journey that they can never return from.
Writers: Daniel Boyd, Robert Tinnell, Jason Pell, and others.
Artists: Ger Cuti, J.C. Grande, Juan Romera, Wayne Reid, and others.
Cover: David Michael Beck
Introduction: Morgan Spurlock
978-0-9836307-6-0 128 pages, black and white, 12.99
Release date- May 2012
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CHILLERS Creators
writers
Daniel Boyd is an acclaimed filmmaker with dozens of films, including Chillers, Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers, and Paradise Park (aka, Heroes of the Heart) to his credit. A media studies professor at West Virginia State University since 1983, Boyd has also taught around the world including in Tanzania as a three-time Fulbright scholar.
Robert Tinnell is a screenwriter, director and author whose graphic novels include The Black Forest, The Living and the Dead, Sight Unseen, Demons of Sherwood and EZ Street. His book, Feast of the Seven Fishes was nominated for a, 2006 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – Reprint.
Gary Reed was the founder and owner of Caliber Comics. He has written over 30 graphic novels and books for publishers as diverse as Penguin, Image, Actionopolis, Palladium, Caliber, Transfuzion, and others. His most notable works include Deadworld, Saint Germaine, Renfield, and Red Diaries.
William Bitner collaborated with Daniel Boyd on Death Falcon Zero Vs The Zombie Sluglords, and is the author of numerous horror/science fiction short stories, many of which are collected in M is for Monster, T is for Thing, and the forthcoming N is for Nightmare.
Jason Pell is an acclaimed graphic novelist whose work has been published in several different languages internationally. His most recognizable creation, Zombie Highway, has been critically praised worldwide and has gathered a substantial cult following. Jason’s newest graphic novel, Woody and the Noble, was just released through Arcana.
Betsy Allen is the Senior Editor of the literary magazine “The Kanawha Review. She is studying to become a children’s librarian and writing graphic novels and to jump into writing children’s graphic novels and picture books.
artists
Juan Romera has been drawing comics for 7 years, as a penciler, inker and colorist. Some of his published works are: Zombie Highway: Directionless (Digital Webbing), Woody and the Noble (Arcana), Fall (215 Ink), the webcomic The Fighting Stranger and many more.
J.C. Grande is a Salvadorean comic-book artist known internationally for his work on books like Necessary Evil for Desperado Publishing and Johnny Monster for Image Comics. J.C. has worked for many years in the comic book field doing pencilling, inking and coloring.
Wayne Reid is known for his historical depictions in various publications including Zulunation, Camelot Eternal, El Cid, and the upcoming Subversives. His artistic talents have also been seen on such characters as Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft.
Jason Rhodes’ operates as an illustrator, animator, graphic designer and all-around visual gigolo. He is currently working on future Chillers stories and drawing the webcomic Wizard School.
Ricardo Mendes studied Visual Arts at Federal University of Bahia for a time. In 2005 and 2006 he won awarded by the Anipolitan illustration contest in Salvador for his work. Ricardo currently works with in Brazil where he illustrated for Mongoose Publishing, the game Vera Blanc: Ghost in the Castle, and Chillers.
S.R. Ayers:-a core member of the ‘Ink-Wave Frequency’ (transmedia band in Vienna, Austria, where he resides), fistfuls of print with Warrior 27, Gray Matter, a bi-monthly comic in Augustin.
Balsa Gobovic is a recent West Virginia State Universaity Media Studies graduate where his thesis creation, Adria City, was the first graphic novel ever to be published by West Virginia State University.
Ger Curti was born in Rosario, Argentina. Always interested in art, he started studying comics with a local teacher and then with the acclaimed Horacio Lalia and is fully dedicated to comic creation as penciler and inker.
Cover artist
David Michael Beck has produced dramatic illustrations for a tremendous variety of international clientele for 40 years. Rising to prominence in comics with his work on Star Wars, G.I. Joe and for Chaos! Comics, Beck has also created covers for Jonah Hex, Vamprirella, Red Sonja, and Highlander. www.davidmichaelbeck.com
About chillers–the film
EVIL TRAVELS IN MANY FORMS… EVEN BY BUS!
Emerging from the twilight… from out of the crypt and beyond the darkside comes…CHILLERS – Winner of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film’s prestigious Silver Scroll Award.
Five lonely travelers, thrown together by chance realize that they have more in common than just bad dreams, when they are stranded overnight in a rural West Virginia bus depot.
Swapping their tales of terror becomes much more than killing time… from the Boy Scout who learns what survival really means; to the man who lifts the dearly departed from the obituary pages back into the world of the living; to a pool where swimmers are haunted by accident victims of the past; to an innocent coed who becomes host to the ancient Aztecs most feared spirit, Ixpe; and lastly of love affairs with vampires.
Brilliantly directed by Daniel Boyd, CHILLERS has received critical acclaim for its ingenious special effects and chilling mood. Five people fighting for their lives as the demons of their nightmares come alive to haunt, to hunt and to horrify! Evil Travels In Many Forms… Even By Bus in CHILLERS.
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REVIEWS:
“CHILLERS manages to exhibit more imagination than many a fear film costing several times its modest budget. The movie mixes sporadic gore with moodier, subtler and ultimately more unsettling tableaux that successfully unite the authentically eerie with the convincingly mundane.” – NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
“Low-budget horror fans have a new hero and his name is Danny Boyd!” – FILM THREAT
“CHILLERS is tense, taut experience in terror!.“- HOLLYWOOD HOTLINE
“Dropping the usual slasher nature of most contemporary horror flicks, the nightmares of CHILLERS offer more personal fears, and, in doing so, give the audience more sympathy for the characters. Boyd excels in setting the character and weaving a tighter story line before the thrills take over..”- UPI
“A creepy anthology that delivers, with scary twists and fright-filled turns. A classy horror package like CHILLERS proves that quality regional video has finally come into it’s own.”- FANGORIA
“The CHILLERS segments weave together to form very good entertainment, like listening to an absorbing campfire story.”- CHARLESTON GAZETTE
“CHILLERS is one of the best ‘B Videos’ to come out in a long time. Each sequence is genuinely creepy and hard to forget. Portions are extremely intense and unpredictable..”- VIDEO SHOPPER
“A rare treat for fans of horror anthologies. CHILLERS is a classy, well-made, and scary movie, with a touch of humor.”- GOREFEST
“CHILLERS – take B-movie making a step into the future. Despite the paltry budget, the script, photography and ambitions of CHILLERS outdistance most of the slash and gore films that line the shelves of video rental stores. There’s plenty of sordid humor, lots of good music and decent acting to boot.”- CREEM MAGAZINE
“CHILLERS is a very well made, serious horror anthology. All stories have clever plot twists and the music and effects are mostly top notch.”- PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO
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ABOUT DANNY BOYD
Danny Boyd is a Professor of Media Studies at West Virginia State University (since 1983) and has actively involved his filmmaking students in his professional projects. As a three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Boyd taught the first filmmaking and screenwriting classes at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 98-99 academic year in East Africa when he embarked on a pilot program TeleDrum (teaching filmmaking to American and African students while producing films for international aid organizations), resulting in the award- winning films, Duara and Sound The Drum.
A former National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Boyd has also won awards in documentary, horror, comedy and dramatic filmmaking, as well as screenwriting. He was named, “Filmmaker of the Year” by the WV Filmmakers Festival in 2003. Two of Boyd’s archeology documentaries, Red Salt & Reynolds and Ghosts of Green Bottom won national Telly awards, and both were regional Emmy nominees. The third in the series, Secrets of the Valley – Pre History of the Kanawah was released in late 2010, premiering on WV PBS in December. In 2006, Boyd was inducted into the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the music genre through his film work.
His first feature film, Chillers, was released in 1988. Still in international video and television distribution, this horror feature was awarded the Silver Scroll for excellence from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in Los Angeles.
Boyd’s second feature, a science fiction/comedy, Strangest Dreams (aka, Invasion of the Space Preachers), premiered on the USA Network in 1991. It remains in domestic and international video and television distribution through Troma.
Boyd’s third feature film, Paradise Park (aka, Heroes Of The Heart), a dramatic- fantasy, received Gold Awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival, was selected for the Breckenridge Festival of Film and the American Film Institute’s, American Independents series. Currently distributed by Vintage Home Entertainment.
Chillers is scheduled for a re-release from Troma Films to coincide with the release of the original graphic novel anthology, Chillers, as well as the Chillers EP, Buddy Black’s Witchfinger The graphic novel will feature all new stories from various creators, including Boyd, and be released from Transfuzion Publishing in May, 2012.
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ABOUT TRANSFUZION
Transfuzion Publishing launched in 2007 and started regular publishing of graphic novels in 2008. Initially begun as a publishing house for collections of previously published material, the company has recently released a number of original graphic novels. In the four years of publishing, Transfuzion has released about 30 graphic novels which range from horror to war. Some of the notable titles include the entire series of Vietnam Journal, three books based on works of H.P. Lovecraft, three Sherlock Holmes books, and a variety of other material formerly published by Caliber, Image, and others.
