Dunn Films

Background
Dunn Films was a production company formed by Robert and Linda Dunn in 1997. The company operated out of Carson City, Nevada and Stafford, Staffordshire, each office ran by Robert and Linda respectively. The company produced independent films, landing a co-financing agreement with Winchester Films. In 2001, the company moved to the United Kingdom and would shut down after the financial failure of their last film. The Dunns would become part of Entropy Films in 2004.

1st Logo (1997)
Logo: We fade in to a beige room with a green-frame window leading to a grassy field. A table with a chair and typewriter is by the window, along with a waste basket with balled up paper inside. The text "DUNN FILMS" is typed in above the window. Suddenly, a knife flies in and strikes the wall. The image shakes as a paper wad falls out of the waste basket.

FX/SFX: The typewriting effect, the knife and the paper wad.

Music/Sounds: Sounds corresponding to the actions, along with a horror stinger and a woman screaming.

Availability: Was only seen on the TV movie Rabies: A Neighborhood's Nightmare.

2nd Logo (1999-2003)
Logo: On a black background, a grey image slowly materializes. Once it does, fading in we see silhouettes of a man standing behind an old camera, with another man standing by the front of it. The camera fires and hits the man with a bullet. In the trail, "DUNN FILMS" can be seen. The grey background turns black soon after, and everything fades out.

Variant: On Restless and Fisherman’s Den, the print logo is shown to the right of the logo for Spice Factory.

FX/SFX: The background and silhouettes.

Music/Sounds: A somber tune with bassoon and clarinet notes. As the text appears it ends with a powerful flourish.

Availability: It was seen on Restless, Fisherman's Den, Idols and Inch to a Mile.

Editor's Note: The logo was said to be made as a tribute to the production company "The Shooting Gallery", who was behind Sling Blade, and whose founder aided in producing the company's first film; indeed, the end product resembles that of an early print logo The Shooting Gallery used in advertisements for Sling Blade.