WISHING AND HOPING

First of all I wish a very HAPPY 2011 to all of you!

If it goes just a bit worse for me I'm a dead man.

As for poor ZAGOR, obviously the DVD is not out yet.
Lack of money and lack of good mood are bad consultants I'm afraid.

Ok, I'm saying I'll try to put it out by the end of January but who would believe me?

WHERE IS ZAGOR??

Like I had prophecised, I wouldn't be able to get the dvd out in October NOR November.

Lack of cash? Sure! Sales have hit bottom.
Lack of interest and excitement to get me moving? Sure! In the past months, only 2 or 3 persons (ALL strangers) bothered to ask me when I'd release Zagor.
PLUS, when your health sucks and your mood sucks too then even spending time on a dvd is a real herculian task.

...Which means... I'll TRY to release it just before Christmas.

KILINK WHO??

Those who bought ALTIN COCUK may remember a small teaser I prepared for a LOST KILINK film I found, ok?

I thought that fans would wonder which one it was but I swear NOT A SINGLE SOUL asked me about it.

Anyway, this time, I'll make a proper trailer which will be on the coming Zagor dvd.

All I'm asking now is to play a guessing or wishing game...

WHICH KILINK WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO BE???

The ones thought to be lost are:

SASKIN HAFIYE KILINK'E KARSI= SILLY DETECTIVE VS KILINK
KILLING CANILER KRALI= KILINK KING OF CRIMINALS
KILLING FRANKENSTAYN'A KARSI= KILINK VS FRANKESTEIN
KILLING OLULER KONUSMAZ= KILINK THE DEAD DON'T TALK
MANDRAKE KILLINGE KARSI= MANDRAKE VS KILINK
KILLING OLUM SACIYOR= KILINK SPREADS DEATH
KILINK KOLSUZ KAHRAMANA KARSI= KILINK VS THE ONE ARMED WARRIOR

OK, I got one of them, so let me see which one would YOU wish it was...

SALES EXTENSION, ZAGOR, NEWS ETC...

Hi again!

I really hope you all had a great summer.

As for mine, it was the worst in my entire life.
Right now, after my brain operation, I'm having daily radiotherapy and chemotherapy etc and this has turned me into a zombie. I can hardly move my ass and stand on my own legs. But this will soon be over and my ass will HAVE to move again because ZAGOR is calling!

HERE, LET ME SHOUT OUT A HUGE THAAAAAAAAAANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO SUPPORTED MY IN MORE THAN ONE WAYS!!!

But before the Zagor DVD, let me point out that my SUMMER SALES took another extension throughout September. I had to do that because August brought zero sales and now I'm on ground zero, with zero budget for the dvd and I- the fool- got plans to get it released in October.
My humble plan was to also have time and money to release another dvd at Christmas.

So, the first Zagor, will be ZAGOR KARA BELA, with lots of exclusive extras, soon to be announced!

It's pathetic to have no money at all while there are still lost treasures found.
Very soon I'll tell you what else I found which I can't afford and I bet you'll curse me for not buying it!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

In these terrible hours good words and wishes work miracles.

Tomorrow it's the operation. I'm trying not to think about it a lot but it's like some inner little goblin nesting within my stomach spits out fireballs and hits me with blasts that give me nausea and a flaming knot in my guts.

BUT, some encouraging words from here and there are my only weapons.

Speak again next week...

BEST AND WORST NEWS OF MY LIFE!!

How could this be??

Perhaps some of you remember that the films I considered the "lostest" were ZAGOR KARA BELA and ZAGOR KARAKORSANIN HAZINELERI.
At the same time they were my hugest obsessions since Zagor has always been my favourite comic book hero!

All those years, the biggest collectors, the biggest researchers, the biggest archivers, the biggest companies etc have always told me to "FORGET ABOUT THOSE 2 ZAGOR FILMS!!".

But somehow, God helped me unearth both of them!
I couldn't believe it if I didn't have the copies in my hands of course.
And the copies ARE in MY hands!

SO WHAT'S THE WORST NEWS IN MY LIFE??
That the same day I got the Zagors in my hands I was found with a brain tumour!
And the last 5 days have been a nightmare.
I've never felt so broken or hopeless and weak.

In one week I'll go to a hospital for an urgent surgery.
I'll spend a big fortune which I'll borrow from some bank and after the surgery God only knows how things will turn out, how I'll look like, if I'm cured, if I have side effects etc.

For the moment though, you can enjoy the 2 Zagor trailers and hope I'll be well enough to release them soon enough...

http://www.youtube.com/user/onarfilms#p/a/u/1/shr1vG7bFqs
http://www.youtube.com/user/onarfilms#p/a/u/0/rhNQI9DZYGQ

MENTION THE RAREST, CONSIDERED LOST, FILMS..

At different occassions, I have mentioned the rarest films ever.
Books, scholars, collectors, producers, you name it agreed on that.
Films that are not just rare in the sense of "hard-to-find".

I'm talking about films that are considered REALLY LOST FOREVER.
Films, that even the greatest collectors, the greatest researchers, the greatest fans, the greatest
film wackos have agreed they are LOST, DESTROYED, BURNT IN FIRES etc.

Now, among all these films, that even I have given up hope for, there are a few that are my personal dream, my personal all-time bet.

So, don't tell me "what about a clean copy of Turkish Wizard of Oz?".
I'd like you to come and mention here a bunch of titles that are considered LOST FOREVER by everybody, even me. If you have access to some of my past interviews or we have talked in person, or you have read some books (like Metin Demirhan's FANTASTIK TURK CINEMASI) you will sure know some of these titles.

Finally, I'd care to see who knows/remembers what my personal obsession is.

There's a reason I'm asking for this...
THANKS!

SPECIAL OFFERS EXTENDED TILL THE END OF AUGUST!

Since sales during my "lowest prices ever" period weren't exactly what I had in mind I decided to let the offers run throughout summer.

Besides, there's a particular reason I NEED to raise some fast cash ASAP.
Please check the following post above...

Some help to design an ad at a mag, anybody?

Hey guys!

I was wondering if someone of you out there had the knowledge and time and kindness to do me a small favour.

I have a nice offer for an ad at the GOREZONE mag.
Too bad the deadline is this Friday and even worse I suck when it comes to this stuff.

So, if anyone of you think he could make a fan ad that would be awsome.
It's going to be 1/4 of a page and the specs they need are:
Height: 149mm + 3mm bleed
Width: 105mm + 3mm bleed

As for the ad itself I'll leave it up to you.
All I want is to let readers get a picture of my dvd sleeves, plus some witty slogans... whatever.

So, if anyone thinks that would be possible before this deadline please let me know now.

And of course, one good turn deserves another so please feel free to ask for favours too!

Thanks!

BILL BACK, SITE UP

There were times that I didn't believe I would get out of hospital alive.
Even now, restricted in the house, not allowed to step out, not allowed to sit in front of the pc more than a few minutes at a time, I still think I'll go back to hospital or I'll have some final deadly epileptic seizure.
14 whole days in hospital, neurological clinic, among dying and/or insane people, were enough to break my morale and force me down on my knees.

I feel exactly like the zombie guy from Bob Clark's Dead of Night.
I feel I spent 14 days in Silent Hill and now I still don't know if I've escaped.
Maybe it's the pills' side-effect, maybe my mind and soul our out of place for ever...

Anyway, today, it's the day that my site www.onarfilms.com is back up.
I already received a correct order so I assume it's not going to explode one of these days again.

Thank you so much for your interest and wishes!
You don't know how good wishes can be to a sick person!

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ONAR FILMS SITE??

For those who happen to wonder what the hell happened with that site, here's some update.

3 months ago I was convinced the site was non-functional and crappy in more than 1 ways.
For example, I was NOT able to send Newsletters.

So, I had my webmaster pull it down and reconstruct it all over again.

BUT, how can I ever forget about the Devil, or, more precisely, how can the Devil forget about my ass??

More collateral damage then, with my webmaster facing some horrible family and personal and professional tragedies.

Until, 2 days ago, after 3 months of hard work from him, and days of work from me filling in the products etc, the site was supposedly "UP".

BUT then, all of a sudden, without any god damn reason at all, the whole construction, the whole site, goes KA-BOOOOM and gets KA-PUT!

My webmaster is already insane.
He must work all around the clock now just for me to get it up again and as for me I must enter another mind-boggling, nerve-wrecking marathon of doing everything all over again.

But then again, what's the point?
If people wanted to buy my stuff they could easily do it via EBAY.
And this just does NOT happen...

That's it for the moment gentlemen...

Interview on ALTIN COCUK DVD

I feel I have to explain why the Interview on ALTIN COCUK DVD looks somewhat grotesque to some.

First of all we're talking about worldweirdcinema's review.
My good friend Jared pointed out there is a problem with this interview.
For some reason, all the other reviews I've received so far didn't notice that, obviously.

Maybe they were tactful but the problem is there and I'm not blaming Jared for bringing it up.

Well, it's one of those damn fuckups that usually fuck me up with those fucking dvd's:

1) The interview I received was TERRIBLY PATCHED UP and AWFULLY EDITED.
It was BEYOND REPAIR.

2) PLUS, they sent it on a MISERABLE, BROKEN DIVI, with dozens of PICTURE SHAKES!!!!

So, if I wanted to make it look more "like it" I should have just chopped it half.

Therefore, I simply opted to leave it all there AFTER SPENDING DAYS ON THE EDITING ROOM.
And as for the PICTURE SHAKES, I was just forced to cover those spots like this:
I had it re-recorded on another tape. Then, I covered the shaky scenes with scenes from the movie.

But STILL, there seem to be some problems and that's because I had to add the subs FIRST as I didn't know what to further cut and what not.
But then, with the subs on, it was impossible to do a new editing because the whole subs set would fall apart!

That's the whole story folks.

Looks like most of the people who saw it didn't mind.
Some others DID mind and some others WILL mind.

So, better be warned and think twice before spending your cash on a somewhat faulty DVD.

Sorry guys but shit ALWAYS happens with me...

Onar site down, because of RECONSTRUCTION

As if I wasn't deep enough in shit, my site, www.onarfilms.com fell apart and now it's being reconstructed.

In a few days it's supposed to be up again, in better shape.
And of course, I'll have to pay through my nose for all this.

By the way, one of its bigest problems was that I wasn't able to send NEWSLETTERS to my registered customers.

Last week I made an experiment and sent a newsletter concerning my 2 new dvd's.
However, I think nobody, or just a few people, received it.

I'd really like to know if some of you actually received such a thing last week...

ALTIN COCUK DVD, Reviews links

Congratulations to NINJA DIXON and a huge THANK YOU, for the first review!!

I'll be adding links as they come:

http://ninjadixon.blogspot.com/2010/01/altin-cocuk-1966.html

http://www.searchmytrash.com/movies/altincocuk(1966).shtml

http://10kbullets.com/reviews/a/altin-cocuk-golden-boy/

ALTIN COCUK DVD, AVAILABLE AS OF JANUARY 7.

Today I got it from the factory, a few days earlier than expected.

Looking forward to your comments, especially on my 2 NEW trailers of those LOST films!

Here's the link to my site:
http://avon.anyservers.com/~onarfilm/description.php?iddesc=23

ALTIN COCUK IN THE FACTORY

At long last, after countless fuckups etc, today I took the godamn master to the factory.

But due to holidays traffic, it won't be ready before January 11.

Meanwhile, enjoy the festive season!

LATEST ULTIMATE CALAMITY!!!

I'm sick and tired of speaking of the devil and how often I ruin innocent people's lives.

Well, today I went to the studio for the final authoring touches etc and I found the chief guy ready to collapse, on a nervous crisis.

What had JUST happened?

Remember the FINAL DESTINATION horror series where death devises 100's of multi-complex plots in order to get the victims?

Similarly, if not identically, the devil did this:

The main studio room, with dozens of machines, pc's, servers and what not has an air-condition unit that keeps the room cool.

Now, the devil managed to cause a mysterious damage to the A/C unit which started leaking water at night while the chief was away of course.
It could have done this all the other 15 hours that he was there but it didn't.

Then, the water dropped on a pc monitor.
Somehow the water hit the proper circuit that caused a short-circuit on the pc.
As a mysterious result the short-circuit spread all over the other machines and blew them up.

And NOW, all the machines are dead, including the server that hosted ALL his projects including MINE.

Therefore, as it seems, all his work is gone to hell and unless it gets fixed somehow, he will have to buy new machines and start all over again which would cause a huge delay on my project.

When I went there and saw him ranting I felt like laughing and crying at the same time.

This could happen any of the other 51 weeks of the year BUT it HAD to happen the exact week that my project was being processed!!

GOD HELP ME!

Sinematik is Dedicating December to Onar Films and Altin Cocuk

I must thank the great blog http://sinematik.blogspot.com/
because they're going to run an important festival in Italy, dedicated to the Altin Cocuk movies.
They also prepared an article on James bond on Yesilcam turkish cinema. There is going to be a capture galery and a small photo galery about Aksoy. 2 small videos off the movie to tease etc...

For more info, check this page:
http://sinematik.blogspot.com/2009/11/altin-cocuk-aralik-ayinda-sinematikte.html

and even better, contact the guys directly for more info.

GOOD LUCK SINEMATIC AND CONGRATULATIONS!

CURRENT SHIT...

A guy earlier suggested I should get promotion and visibility on big sites like Eccentric Cinema or Av Maniacs.

Well, I already tried them but they just connected me with their balls.
Not even a response to say "no thanks".

What's funny is those particular sites boast they present independent labels and other crap but obviously I'm not independent enough for them.
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Otherwise, these days I'm experiencing the bad old days' usual devilish shit.

My daughter is sick and every day we're running from doctor to doctor.

I got a horrible pain in the back which kept me some days in bed and now I'm walking like Star Wars' Yonda and I can't even lift a feather.

My studio guy who's working on the dvd authoring is ill with the flu.

PLUS, the guy who designs my covers just got divorced just like my webmaster!

So, ALL the people connected with me are going through hell and me and my family are currently bazzard's meat.

All in all, my mood and psychology are below zero and I just feel like killing myself...
...Something that sure delays the new dvd process....

UN-CARING AUDIENCE????

I felt I HAD to clear this in public..

A faithful buyer, Fred Anderson at Av Maniacs who also runs the great blog http://ninjadixon.blogspot.com/ was hurt by my words "UN-CARING AUDIENCE" in my previous post about the hassles of getting some new films.

Ok, DEAR Fred and everyone else hurt by my words...

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT "UN-CARING" STRICTLY REFERS TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT MY DVD's!!!

I'd be nuts if I called my CARING buyers UN-CARING, for God's sake guys!

I was just talking about people who call themselves cult/trash/pulp/b-movie/mondo fans BUT prefer to either download my (or anybody's) releases or just read about them and NEVER EVER buy them.

I'm a PROUD fan because I have spent a fortune and have got not even my cash back, let alone any profit.
I've made sacrifices, I've given blood sweat and tears too for this kind of films and I find it absurd that only a few dozens of people THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PLANET buy my dvd's.

I mean, I could just release 500 copies of PAINT GOING DRY or GRASS GROWING and I BET there would 500 wackos who would buy those 500 copies.
And there are NOT 500 curious "fans" to check those turkish films?

I mean, I can see 100's, 1000's of blogs, sites, magz, whatever, with millions of people participating and obviously eager to experience this kind of films, ok?
BUT WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY WHEN A DVD COMES OUT?