Awesomeness On The Way

Black Goat production design is crawling along and we have several talented individuals working away including Anthony del Rizzo, Velocity Branding from Winnipeg, and THE Dave Carson.  You’ve probably seen Dave’s Shub illustration making its way around the web – this is NOT the design for the creature in Black Goat; Dave did this before we invited him on board so expect to see something new.  In the meantime we are slowly posting character design on our Facebook page HERE so drop by and check ‘em out.

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Black Goat T-Shirts Have Arrived!

This is your chance to go down in cinematic history and look swell doing it. Here be the Black Goat logo shirt designed by crew member and art director Alan Lukatela. The shirt features the roots logo, big and bold in white on black. But that is far from all . . . when you purchase the shirt from this first batch of 50 you will be thanked in the upcoming credits of Joseph Nanni’s feature film version of Black Goat. What? Just for buying and awesome shirt? Ya, that’s right.

Click HERE to visit our shop on Etsy!

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Black Goat Besieged By Indonesian Pirates

When our new short film popped up a few weeks back its enigmatic content was the source of much speculation.  Some people thought it was a teaser for a feature, some thought it was a new Slipknot video (we weren’t at all opposed to this interpretation), and some thought it was a scene from an existing film.  We were getting hundreds of hits a day so we really didn’t care what people thought.  And then some bullshit happened.  Eager to dupe the public someone started sharing a work print of a feature length film under the name Black Goat.  Not only that, they used our poster for their film.  On top of that they used images of Adam Wilson as screen grabs from their film.  And the piste de résistance . . . they used our short as the trailer for their film, and our synopsis too.  We can’t imagine what people were thinking when they pressed play on the illegal download.  The “work” is in no way related to what we are doing.  The film that is out there trading under our banner is, well, let’s just say, not really our thing and now this completely random piece of work is dragging us down on IMDB and discussion boards.  We are not amused.  So if you have a second please  head over to our IMDB page HERE and give us a vote or help set things straight on the boards.  Thanks.

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Guillermo Del Toro To Pass Judgement On Black Goat

As is if making insider films in a sub, sub genre of horror and science fiction, loosely based on the writings of a relatively unknown misanthropic pulp writer from the 20′s/30′s wasn’t hard enough, now we find out that a giant of the horror genre, and arguably one of the best filmmakers of the 21st century, will be judging said films.  Guillermo Del Toro will be judging the short films at this years’ HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Los Angeles, Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17, at the Warner Grand in San Pedro.  This will also be the world festival premiere of Black Goat, so you may want to see it here before all the nerds start asking, “why does a coureur de bois have a viking axe?”*

*  We’ll be happy to explain why when some gives us a bucket of money to make the feature.

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Be Cool, Black Goat is Coming

The hotly anticipated new chiller from Bad Advice for Good Times and Joseph Nanni was due out five days ago.  But after several viewings we decided it needed to be 10% awesomer.  The film we be available to our YouTube channel subscribers first and then begin a festival run in early September – it was shot in 2K, 2:35 so you will want to see this on the big screen.  In the meantime, please enjoy our other films or read a book – may we recommend The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.

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See Black Goat Before The Herd

Subscribers to Joseph Nanni’s Youtube channel Bad Advice For Good Times will see the new short film Black Goat weeks before it is released to the public.  The film is currently in the final stages of post production and will be screened at a handful of festivals this fall.  But anyone who hits “subscribe” between now and June 30 will not only be among the first to see the short but will also have access to exclusive character designs and a limited edition comic based the expanded story.  Good times.

Click here for the channel!

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Loki and Rubber Pixel Breathe Life Into The Black Goat

Bad Advice For Good Times is pleased to announce that two of the country’s top animation houses will be doing character design and effects for the short film/teaser Black Goat: Two Hunters. After an extensive search we were lucky to discover these two exceptional houses whose work speaks for itself. We are also lucky enough to be working with Stealing Time for editing, Alter Ego for compositing and colour transfer, and Silent Joe for sound and music. We are looking to have the project completed by early July and no word yet on where it will premiere . . . but we probably won’t wait for a festival and give fans the opportunity to see it first, here.

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