| ] What does it say about American culture if Venice] filmmaker Tim Sullivan can't get financing for a remake
 ] of the 1964 splatter classic "2000 Maniacs"?
 ]
 ] What it said to Sullivan is that raising funds for
 ] low-budget independent movies -- never easy -- has gotten
 ] tougher since Wall Street laid an egg.
 ]
 ] At 38, Sullivan is a 20-year horror veteran. His first
 ] break came in his hometown of Metuchen, N.J., on 1983's
 ] forgotten "Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn."
 ] Sullivan's job, wielding a Black & Decker hand pump
 ] behind the scenes, was to make sure the blood gushed on
 ] cue and on budget.
 Tim is also my cousin, so meme/blog this around and get my kin some attention.. ] The plot: Confederate zombies take revenge on] present-day Yankee tourists.
 Whole bunch of folks in the southeast on MemeStreams.. If this dosen't get you going, what will? ] A couple of characters will be dropped and some action] sequences trimmed. However, there are some compromises
 ] he won't make. The script said eight murders, and eight
 ] murders there will be.
 ]
 ] "If I have to choose between a decapitation and a
 ] motorcycle chase," Sullivan said, "I'm going with the
 ] decapitation."
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