A big congratulations is in order to two of our friends here at HorrorSociety.com – Cameron McCasland and Larry Underwood. Their first television movie, The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special, was nominated for an Emmy. Not only that, but the “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” PSAs also earned two more Emmy nominations. If you are unaware, “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” is a series of PSAs that mix old school horror with environmentally friendly messages. This campaign is part of a franchise surrounding the character Dr. Gangrene, who is played by Larry Underwood. Cameron McCasland is the man behind The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special, “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene, AND the director of the upcoming horror film The Lashman. Also, a warm congratulations to Penny Dreadful for her appearence in The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special and Stacey Dixon for her appearance in the PSAs. For all other information on the award nominations, you can read the press release below.
Dr. Gangrene Scares Up Three Emmy Nominations
NASHVILLE, TN (11.20.2011) The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences announced their Midsouth Regional EMMY Award
nominations on Friday, November 18, at a party hosted by Broadcast Music
Incorporated (BMI) on Nashville’s legendary Music Row. Among the nominations were
three for the creative minds behind television horror host, Dr. Gangrene.Larry Underwood & Cameron McCasland picked up an EMMY nomination in the
Entertainment category for the made for television movie “The Dreadful Hallowgreen
Special” as well as two more nominations for Best PSA Campaign, and Best Short Form
Writer for the “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” series.The good doctor said of the nomination, “This is a huge honor and it’s great to see
all our hard work appreciated. A big thanks to all the cast and crew who helped make
these projects possible. We had a lot of fun with them and look forward to more
horrific projects and collaborations in the future.”The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special pairs TV horror hosts Penny Dreadful & Dr. Gangrene
together. The duo finds themselves readying for the upcoming Halloween season when
suddenly all things go awry. It’s up to the physician of fright, Dr. Gangrene, and
the eerie enchantress, Penny Dreadful, to set things right and save Halloween for
everyone in this half hour special. Narrated by Washington DC’s legendary horror
host Count Gore De Vol, this Halloween treat is packed with fright.The “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” series is a continuing collaboration between
Underwood and McCasland and provides ways to make a safer, cleaner planet while
using a horror theme as their backdrop. The 2011 installment featured Frankensteins
monster, The Werewolf of Nashville, and The Creature from the Nashville Lagoon. The
three newest shorts entitled, “Wolfbite”, “Creature Cooler”, and “Heating Up”
provide tips on conserving the planet by cutting down on excessive waste, littering,
and keeping tabs on pets. All three were filmed in and around Nashville landmarks,
and are shot in glorious black & white as a loving nod to the classic monster films
of yesteryear. McCasland was previously nominated for an EMMY in the Best Short Form
Writer category for his work on “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” in both 2008 and 2009.McCasland said of the nomination, “We’re just so happy that people like our show.
Dreadful Hallowgreen was such a blast to make, and I’m not sure if we could ever
pull something like that off again. Go Green has been a great joy for me to work on,
and this past year even more so, as I got to bring in a lot of people who I had
worked with in the past to play small parts. We’re just out there with rubber
monster masks, and people seem to love it.”The Dreadful Hallowgreen Special is distributed in the U.S. on home video and DVD by
Alpha New Cinema. It premiered locally in Nashville on WNAB CW58 during Halloween
weekend 2010, and was syndicated around the country. The made for television movie
is a co-production of Shackle Island Studios and Peculiar Productions.The 26th Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards will be announced during a live telecast in
Nashville on March 17, 2012 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. For a full list of
this year’s nominees please visit https://nashville.emmyonline.org/Jennifer Lane of Decosimo Vaden. CPAs, who tabulated the ballots, announced that the
700 entries for the Midsouth Emmy Awards were judged by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter,
the Mid-America Chapter based in St. Louis, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter based in
Philadelphia, and the New York Chapter. She said Sixty-five television stations,
production companies, and independent producers are named on the list of
nominations.Larry Underwood is an award winning writer and television producer. Outside of his
role of Dr. Gangrene , he writes a regular column for Scary Monsters Magazine and
daily musings in his Tales From The Lab Blog at drgangrene.com. Recently he was
featured on the cover of Nashville Scene Magazine and in four color ink solving
crimes alongside Dick Tracy in the classic comic strip.Cameron McCasland is an Emmy nominated film maker from Edgewood Texas who has called
Nashville home since 2001. His work has been seen on MTV, CMT, and film festivals
around the globe. His upcoming feature film “The Lashman” is currently in post
production.Founded in 1957 The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a non-profit,
professional organization dedicated to fostering excellence in television. The
academy has 19 chapters with 15,000 members nationwide.
