The people behind the new horror feature THE GRAVES gave Fango a whole bunch of fresh material today—including an exclusive first look at their tie-in music video for the Calabrese song “Vampires Don’t Exist,” which intercuts performance footage of the horror-rock band with lots of grisly snippets from the movie. We also got some exclusive comments from cinematographer Adam Goldfine and pics of him on the set, plus the latest character/teaser poster. Feast your eyes on it all below the cut!

Written and directed by EVIL ERNIE/LADY DEATH comics creator Brian Pulido and produced by Mischief Maker Studios and Ronalds Brothers Productions, THE GRAVES (which we last covered here) stars Clare Grant and Jillian Murray as Megan and Abby Graves, beautiful road-tripping sisters who become stranded in an abandoned mining town populated by assorted freaks and creeps; Tony Todd, Bill Moseley and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET’s Amanda Wyss co-star.

“Brian and I have been best friends since age 12,” Goldfine tells us. “I mostly got out of the film business when I left Los Angeles in the ’90s, but I figured someone has to keep him out of trouble. So when he told me he was making this film, I said, ‘Sign me up!’ All kidding aside, he has some pretty serious blackmail on me, so I didn’t have much of a choice.”

Goldfine lensed THE GRAVES on the new RED One camera, which has been the rig of choice on a number of much bigger features, including KNOWING and JUMPER. “It’s a very high-resolution digital camera, much higher than high-definition,” he says. “Other than recording digitally, it operates very much like a 35mm motion picture camera.” In other areas, though, the GRAVES team had to contend with more restrictions than those found on major features, and Goldfine says the biggest challenge was “the schedule, more than anything else. We shot the entire film in 18 days, which meant we had to go through about five pages per day. A studio feature films about two or three pages per day, so we were moving at a very fast pace.”

Nonetheless, Pulido, Goldfine and co. did everything they could to assure THE GRAVES would measure up to its bigger-budget brethreen. “It’s all in the preparation,” Goldfine says. “Brian and Francisca [Pulido’s wife and co-producer] and I spent weeks up at the location, going over every scene and every shot, figuring the whole thing out. So by the time we got to filming, we knew what needed to happen. It’s important to be that prepared, especially on this sort of schedule. The trick is to know exactly what you want, but stay flexible. The actors are going to do different things than you imagined, so you can’t get locked into an idea. Sometimes you just come up with a better one on the day, and once you have the camera and actors there, the scene doesn’t work exactly the way you imagined. You have to balance being prepared and flexibility.”

With THE GRAVES successfully completed, Goldfine plans to reteam with Pulido on further fear fare. “Brian has two scripts ready to go, GONE and THE SICKENED, and another one he’s writing as we speak. We’ll pick one of the three, but there will definitely be another movie pretty soon. In the meantime, we like to stay sharp with music videos and commercials. We’re shooting two videos for the hard-rock band Butcher Jones. Both are as dark-themed as you’d imagine coming from us.”

Pulido and his cast will host a GRAVES panel at our West Coast Weekend of Horrors convention, running April 17-19; for more on the film, check out its official website here. For more on Calabrese, go to their official website here and MySpace page here, and see our review of their album THE TRAVELING VAMPIRE SHOW, featuring the “Vampires Don’t Exist” song, here.

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