ON THIS DAY IN HORROR - January 22nd
"THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE" released in 1992
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A frog-like alien attacks a group of teenagers who are camping, to mate with the girls. But a boy's previous horror film viewing helps them fight against the monster in Rolfe Kanefsky's There's Nothing Out There!
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Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings of a person that watches too many movies, but there really is something out there, and the teens begin experiencing an attrition problem when they start stumbling into all the cliches found in a typical teen horror film.
Above: Doreen (Wendy Bednarz) and Stacey (Bonnie Bowers) make the classic horror movie mistake - investigating the strange noise downstairs!
[Stacy is vulnerable to an attack from the creature]
Mike: Is someone paying you to stand by an open window? There are some razor blades in the corner you can play with if you like.
Rolfe Kanefsky wrote the script for this film over a 5-day period while still a senior in high school, and two years later - at age 20 - began to make the movie, after his parents put a mortgage on their house in order to raise the $350,000 (estimated) budget of the film.
The cast rehearsed almost the entire film on video prior to the shooting of the picture (working on deferred salaries) with a production schedule of 24 shooting days in August,1989; filmed with 16 mm film, with the editing done on a Steenbeck. It would take another 3-years before There’s Nothing Out There received a theatrical release in New York in 1992. Although it did not make a profit at the box office, Kanefsky managed to make a profit selling the video rights to Image Entertainment/Troma Entertainment, before premiering on HBO in 1993.
The cast rehearsed almost the entire film on video prior to the shooting of the picture (working on deferred salaries) with a production schedule of 24 shooting days in August,1989; filmed with 16 mm film, with the editing done on a Steenbeck. It would take another 3-years before There’s Nothing Out There received a theatrical release in New York in 1992. Although it did not make a profit at the box office, Kanefsky managed to make a profit selling the video rights to Image Entertainment/Troma Entertainment, before premiering on HBO in 1993.
Above: The frog alien takes another victim!
Doreen: You really think there's something out there trying to kill us?
[Something inside the house breaks]
Mike: No, now it may be inside.
Tom Becker, of DVD Verdict, concluded his review with, "A cool, if slightly loquacious, release from Troma, There's Nothing Out There is a fun little film that's worth checking out". Interestingly, the concept used in this film - a horror film that references and satirizes other horror films - predated Scream by over 5-years!
Rolfe Kanefsky wanted to do a sequel called There's Still Nothing Out There. Later he scrapped that idea for a film set in the same universe entitled, This Isn't Funny Anymore.
Rolfe Kanefsky wanted to do a sequel called There's Still Nothing Out There. Later he scrapped that idea for a film set in the same universe entitled, This Isn't Funny Anymore.
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