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P.M.A.C.: WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK!!
SOTA TOYS and GRIMM GROTTO GOODS Unleash WAKER SAFETY PUPPETS
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Los Angeles, CA. (04/19/04) -- You just can't keep a good zombie franchise down. Sota Toys and Grimm Grotto Goods are releasing a line of eerie puppets, as seen in the outrageous short film, Waker Safety (which can be seen on-line at www.ctc-pr.com/wzabuzz.html), from Chad Waters and Matt Rose, the same geniuses who brought us P.M.A.C.: When Zombies Attack!! Officer Frank Hadely utilizes these monstrous creations to teach young children how to avoid the horrors of a zombie ("waker") attack. Although only four zombie puppets were used in Waker Safety, other puppets have been created to "flesh" out the line, including a witch and an evil pumpkin head. The 10-inch mechanized hand puppets are being released at the collectible suggested retail price of $12.99. The first series of six puppets will be exhumed just in time for Halloween 2004 under the banner "When Puppets Attack!".What began as an improvisational aside about using puppets to educate people to the dangers posed by "wakers"--by Frank Rydberg as Officer Frank, in the original short film P.M.A.C.: When Zombies Attack!!--led to the creation of another short in the series, entitled Waker Safety. Told in the scratchy style of old reel-to-reel educational films, Waker Safety features the zombie puppets prominently, in a cautionary tale of young Tommy Tendertreat, who foolishly takes a shortcut through a graveyard on his way home from school one night. The results are disastrous for young Tommy, but the children get the message and from a tongue-in-cheek "beginner responsibility" film, a new franchise was unexpectedly born.
Ironically enough in this age of action figure concepts and fast food merchandising, the creation of a new line of puppets was not the initial reason for producing Waker Safety. Creators of the P.M.A.C. series Chad Waters and Matt Rose had just come off a successful stint creating the amazing make-up effects for the lead character in the movie, Hellboy, and were ready to get back to their pet project when the idea of creating puppets for mass consumption was introduced. "We made the puppets as props for the video. We weren't really thinking toys," says Waters. "But when we went to [the San Diego] Comic Con to promote our video, people were really interested in the puppets and we just kind of took it from there."
"We hope that if these puppets are popular, then people might also check out P.M.A.C.: When Zombies Attack!!. Puppets aren't the only thing that could come out of it," Waters says. "We could do action figures, video games... Especially when we expand beyond zombies, we have vampires, werewolves, other paranormal entities to take on. It's up to the buyers. If people buy these things, we'll be able to give them more."
P.M.A.C.: When Zombies Attack!! is an outrageous, award-winning independent short, created by special effects wizards Matt Rose and Chad Waters as a brilliant spoof of reality television. The film follows a paranormal clean-up crew--the bureau of Post Mortem Animation Control (P.M.A.C.), headed by Officer Frank Hadely (Frank Rydberg)--as they chase down and dispose of the corporally-challenged. It has appeared on Showtime Next as part of the multi-content series Piratenet, twice on MTV UK and can also currently be viewed at IFILM.com and Hollywood.com. The follow-up short, Waker Safety can now be seen at www.grimmgrottogoods.com
ABOUT GRIMM GROTTO GOODS, LLC:
Creative partners for six years, at Rick Baker's Cinovation Studios, Matt Rose and Chad Waters share a combined total of 25 years in the special effects/make-up field. Together, they have worked on such memorable characters as: the mummified remains of Mother Bates in Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, the guilty space alien, Mikey, in Men In Black, the loveable giant gorilla, Joe, in Mighty Joe Young, the Samara corpse at the bottom of the well in The Ring and the big red title character in Hellboy. Their need to produce their own work led to the creation of the memorable characters and unforgettable stories behind the P.M.A.C. Putting their years of combined experience to work through the formation of Grimm Grotto Goods, not only did the duo create the make-up, effects, props and costumes for this pilot episode, they also wrote, produced and directed the project. They are developing further adventures for Officer Hadely and the P.M.A.C. and are currently in production on the next installment.Contact Joe Venegas for more details or to discuss potential coverage for this unique, merchandising opportunity. Find out more about P.M.A.C.: When Zombies Attack!!, Waker Safety, the Waker Safety puppets, Chad Waters and Matt Rose and other endeavors of Creative Talent Communications on-line at www.ctc-pr.com. For more information on Grimm Grotto Goods, visit the official site on-line at www.grimmgrottogoods.com
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