Mark Tierno Movies
- 2005
A young man finds himself losing his grip on the dividing line between fantasy and reality in this independent drama. Colin Carter (Christopher Preksta) is a high-school student who is struggling to find a way to alleviate the stifling boredom of life in a Midwestern industrial town. Colin's favorite comic book character as a child was crime-fighting superhero Captain Blasto, and as he looks back on his old comics he recalls his youthful ambition to one day become the costumed hero himself. Colin decides there's a lot to be said for living out your dreams and begins fashioning a Captain Blasto suit, which he wears as he foils phony bad guys staging fake robberies arranged by Colin. But as Colin sinks deeper into the Captain Blasto character, he finds himself dealing with real criminals rather than fake ones, which changes the stakes in his game considerably. Written, directed and edited by Christopher Preksta (who also played Colin), Captain Blasto was shot in Pittsburgh, PA, using digital video equipment on a bare-bones budget of only 7,000 dollars. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Preksta, Aaron Kleiber, (more)
- 1994
The life of a regular guy is the focus of this slice-of-life film. The film has no real plot; it simply follows the life of Eddie a single working man going through the motions of life. He rooms in a suburban house with his dog. He and his landlady who is married to a jerk, are becoming attracted to each other. Eddie is also trying to find Connie, a woman he met at a wedding. When he is not working as a machinist or out drinking at the bar, he is attempting to study at a community college. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Amplas, Lori Cardille, (more)
Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have taken refuge in an underground missile silo and argue and yell at each other like players in a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode. Among the survivors are Sarah (Lori Cardille) -- a scientist who is trying to reverse the process whereby the dead turn into flesh-eating, irrational zombies -- and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) -- an out-of-his-mind psychologist who wants to capture the zombies and turn them into domestic help. Things heat up when the military tries to take over the scientific experiments. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, (more)
