Today is a great day! It’s my birthday–my 38th–and I’m fully enjoying my day. Things lately have been going very well. I can say that I’ve been happy. And, like a good Buddhist, I want to make you happy by sharing cool things with you.

Here’s my new film, ‘How To Train A Mean Girl’s Ass’. In all the excitement of its premiere at the 29 Days Later Film Project last Wednesday at the Creative Alliance Patterson Theater, I forgot to post it here. This is the short cut of the film made for the competition but I intend to finish a director’s cut in the weeks ahead, as there was so much funny stuff left in the cutting room that it was just criminal.

Also, I want to remind everyone that we have a big, big open casting call for comedy films on Wednesday, August 31st, 6pm to 9pm, also at the Creative Alliance Patterson Theater. See the post below for details. Please tell all your actor friends!

I’m feeling revitalized and liberated after making this new short film. And I fully intend to make more: Horror, comedy, drama and more. Stay tuned!

How To Train A Mean Girl’s Ass from ArmandoValle on Vimeo.

Folks, lots of stuff happening with Xterminating Angel Films this month. The new comedy film ‘How To Train A Mean Girl’s Ass’ debuts at the 29 Days Later Project screening this Wednesday night (Aug 17th) at 7pm. Please come to the Creative Alliance Patterson Theater in Baltimore (3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore MD) to check it out as well as other exciting indie film shorts.

We’ll be holding another open casting call for comedy and acting talent on August 31st, in partnership with Bad Intentions, Dire Wit Films and Level 17 Films. If you’re a DMV area actor or actress looking for an opportunity to break into indie film, this is your chance! The call will take place also at the Creative Alliance Patterson Theater, again on Wed, Aug 31st, from 6pm to 9pm. Please bring your headshot resume. For more info, email me at info@xterminatingangel.com.

There’s more! We’re working on a TV commercial that we expect will be broadcast in the Baltimore area in the coming months. And here’s a treat for you: Thanks to filmmaker Tommy Duncan, you get to take an early look at ‘How To Train A Mean Girl’s Ass’ with this Behind-The-Scenes video. Check it out and see how I roll on set!

Before you go onto the video, just a quick shot-out to my good friend Erik Kristopher Myers, whose dramatic, intense feature film ‘Roulette’ screens at the World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington, DC tonight at 7pm. For more info, go to wmiff.com. If you’re reading this in time, come on down. I’ll be there!

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? It’s amazing how time flies and how the currents of life take you away from projects and in new unsuspected directions. Never meant for 10 months to go by before making another post or further developing this site. For those who want to know what happened, here’s the short version: My life took a detour. I lost my way and focus. But now, I’m regaining them. So…where were we?

I’m currently editing a new comedy short tentatively codenamed ‘Celeb Sex’. It’s my first film in a little over a year. And I’m quite excited to be sharing it with you soon. In August. Look forward to a link here.

I’ve also partnered with two friends from Philadelphia, and together we’re forming a production shingle called Bad Intentions Pictures. Our aim is to shoot a series of comedy shorts in the coming months at locations in Philadelphia and Baltimore. What the shorts have in common are intrinsic subversive ideas. These shorts will ‘push the envelope’ with edgy content, absurd concepts and a more accomplished visual style. So to speak, these shorts have.. ‘bad intentions’.

I also hope to post all my shorts to date here in the coming months and to complete my vision for this site as home to my work and launching pad to future projects. So.. that’s where I am? And, oh, I really got to go back to cracking on that feature length horror film script. Wish me luck.

Sincerely,
Armando Valle

edited to add: At this time, Horror-101.com has gone to the great website heaven in the cyber sky. We stopped updating in December 2010. Alex went onto write news for ArrowInTheHead, another horror film site. I want to concentrate on filmmaking. The site is now archived. It might return, but for the time being, it’s just resting and pining for the fields.

Hola! It’s been close to a month since I put up the preview version of the new site. So where do we stand? As usual, life found a way to get in the way of the work. Currently, I must work on a Horror-101.com sponsored screening of Mondo Baltimore taking place on Oct 7th. Really wanting to finish this site, as finishing opens the door for me to work on my next serious film project. Stay tuned!

Here’s a preview of my new site, XterminatingAngel.com. Things aren’t 100% yet. Don ‘t even think about clicking on the banner links, as they’re not functional yet. There are no other categories or posts yet, but here’s my ‘Hipsturbia’ film clip just to test the layout. I promised myself I would have it by the morning of Aug 20th, so here it is. It’s about 70% done, really, so I plan on coming back next week and finishing all that remains to be done. How are you liking it? Oh, you can’t leave comments below yet.. so any feedback just email me at armandovalle@gmail.com.

Hipsturbia from ArmandoValle on Vimeo.