MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE
Midnight Syndicate Nightmare Soundtracks
Over the past nine years, Midnight Syndicate has been creating soundtracks for the imagination." Formed by composer/director Edward Douglas in 1996, the band 's music has become a staple of the Halloween season, in addition to making an impact in the haunted attraction, gothic music, and role-playing game industries. With a catalog of horror music CDs that blend dark, orchestral horror movie score-style music with sound effects, the band consisting of Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka has had it's soundtracks to imaginary films featured in everything from Barbara Walters TV specials and Monday Night Football to X-Box games and King Diamond concerts. Every October Midnight Syndicate's music is featured in thousands of haunted attractions, amusement parks, stores, and neighborhoods worldwide to provide atmosphere for the Halloween season.
Midnight Syndicate creates the greatest horror music in the universe. --Tom Savini
In the beginning . . .Before forming Midnight Syndicate, Edward Douglas directed, scored, and produced a feature-length horror film entitled, The Dead Matter (1996). Driven by a strong belief in the story, the film was shot for under $2000 and released with the intention of remaking the film later on a larger scale. Many of the tracks and song ideas from Douglas' score to the film would become early signature Midnight Syndicate tracks (Nightstalker, Forbidden Crypts, Eye of the Storm, Born of the Night, Vampire's Kiss). Midnight Syndicate graphic designer Mark Rakocy shot and helped produce the film and Midnight Syndicate voiceover artist and contributor Christopher Robichaud co-starred in the film.
In 2004, Douglas reunited with co-writer Tony Demci to begin what would be a two year-long process of re-writing The Dead Matter script and then preparing it for production with the help of Ethan Dettenmaier of Snap Kick Productions. "It's a great story that we've been waiting over ten years to be able to share once again," said Edward Douglas, in 2006, "we're very excited to be on the road to making it a reality." Douglas guaranteed that fans of Midnight Syndicate would not be disappointed. "Not only will we be scoring the film but producing The Dead Matter puts us in the position we need to be in to begin work on the Midnight Syndicate DVD and live shows that we've been talking about doing again for so many years."
9 / 13 / 06 - Development on The Dead Matter has begun. The script has been finalized and the project is moving forward. Look for MAJOR announcements towards the beginning of 2007. If you would like to receive updates as soon as they are announced, be sure to join the Legions of the Night mailing list by sending your email and/or mailing address to: info@midnightsyndicate.com.
2 / 6 / 07 - Midnight Syndicate announces plans for The Dead Matter, Douglas to direct, multiple CDs planned for release with film.
Midnight Syndicate will be teaming up with Hollywood FX legend Robert Kurtzman (Dusk till Dawn producer, co-founder of the KNB EFX Group) and his production company, Precinct 13 Entertainment to produce the horror-suspense film, The Dead Matter. Development has been underway for several months and pre-production will officially begin March 1st. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Northeastern Ohio this August with a projected release date sometime in 2008. Edward Douglas will be directing the film and producing it through the newly-formed Midnight Syndicate Films division of Entity Productions, Inc. The company is currently in talks with Doug Bradley (Pinhead from the Hellraiser series) and Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster, Air Force One, Lost) to star.
"This is a really exciting time for us. One of our main goals over the past ten years has been to get into a position to remake The Dead Matter with an actual budget" said Edward Douglas who produced and directed an earlier version of the film for $2000 in 1996 before forming Midnight Syndicate. "Horror movies are at the core of what Gavin and I do in Midnight Syndicate. It's what we love and that's why we believe in remaking this particular film. Co-writer Tony Demci and I have had a lot of time to take what we felt was already a good story and develop it into something very special that we know is really going to deliver for both our fans and other fans of the horror genre."
The Dead Matter tells the story of a vampire relic with occult powers that falls into the hands of a grief-stricken young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother.
The Dead Matter soundtracks - Entity Productions plans to release multiple discs of new Midnight Syndicate material in coordination with the film. "As far as the next Midnight Syndicate CD goes, fans are really going to like what we have planned for the soundtrack," said Gavin Goszka, who will serve as Music Supervisor for the film. "The Dead Matter soundtrack CD will be in the style of our other Midnight Syndicate releases. Our plan is to integrate music from the movie with new material and atmospherics which will allow listeners to further explore the dark and supernatural world created in the The Dead Matter film.
A lot more information will be coming in the upcoming months on both the Midnight Syndicate website and the official The Dead Matter website - www.TheDeadMatter.com.
