Interviews

WHO: ROBERT KURTZMAN : DIRECTOR, FX WIZARD – NEW FILM: DEADLY IMPACT Mike Joy: What should fans expect from ‘Deadly Impact’? Robert Kurtzman: An energetic tense action thriller. Mike Joy: Was it a smooth transition going from make-up and special effects into directing?  Robert Kurtzman: It was a gradual progression as I started doing sum directing on second unit before …

Mike Joy: What is the concept behind your movie, “ Come and Get Me” ? Chris Sun: It is about 4 beautiful young girls out for a night on the town but forget to organize a way home. Calling on an old school friend for a ride, they find that a simple lift home is going to become their worst …

Extra! Extra! Tingler Loose in Louisville! Horror Hosts are as well-loved these days as the monsters they present on television. Zacherley, the Cool Ghoul is my personal favorite but they do abound. One such character presents himself as Dr. Gangrene and runs amok periodically when he gets loose from the TV studio. The actor who gives the good Doctor voice …

Talking With The Dead: 15 Questions With Kevin Strange 1. After visiting your site, I have to admit that I was rolling on the floor after watching your trailers! The twisted and perverse things that I saw not only showed me that you guys have more balls than 95% of the industry, but that beyond the jokes and gore, there is …

Welcome back kiddies. This time I have lured Gary Reed into the depths to pick his brain about all things Deadworld. So sit back and relax we find out why we should all read be reading Deadworld, and what the future holds for this long running series. Decapitated Dan: Lets start off simple who is Gary Reed? Gary Reed: Wow, that’s …

1. How did you get involved in the film Albino Farm? My Son was actually doing some Halloween costume modeling on a morning show in Tampa and the traveling host that was with the costumes was Shawn McEwen who is the writer and director of Albino Farm and while all these kids were running around going nuts Shawn and I …

MIKE JOY : Evilution has a great tag line, “The End is Here!” It’s short and to the point. I’m a big fan of tag lines as strange as that sounds. I think every great movie needs a great tag line. Alien, I think had one of the best tags of all time, “In space, no one can hear you …

One of the problems of life that continually vex me is what the hell to do with all the dead hookers. It’s almost a weekly distraction for me and it gets in the way of all the grave robbing. Not even quantum mechanics has come up with a theory to solve such an issue because the equation. Never seems to …

Nevermore in Baltimore – Mark Redfield on Producing Live Theatre and the Edgar Allen Poe Bicentennial Celebrations in Baltimore, MD When you have friends all over the globe, you aren’t always entirely up to speed on what their current projects are. In this case, my darling friend Mark Redfield has gotten himself entangled in a morass of Poe tendrils worthy of …

What can our HorrorNews fans expect from Gun Town ? Fans can expect a new approach in horror with a western theme involved, along with a picture in high-definition. Why did you decide to go with the combination of horror/western? My friends who own the western town have dreamed of making a movie there for years, so it seemed the …

From psychopathic to ecclesiastic! An interview with the former bad boy of Italian horror cinema, John Morghen! John Morghen, or Giovanni Lombardo Radice if you will, is one actor whose characters always seemed to get into a lot of trouble. Perhaps he was type casted a lot, but there wasn´t many other actors had could portray these characters in such …

It’s my understanding that you will be returning in Jeepers Creepers III? JB: Yes! I just received an email the other day regarding another possible sequel. I am very excited about it. I am pretty happy with the script and it should be released next fall. What were your thoughts when you read the script of the first Creeper films?

Mike Joy : When you are embarking on a writing project, do you isolate yourself from the rest of the world or what is your normal routine while writing? Joe R. Lansdale : I usually work five days a week, three hours in the morning in my study. But no, I don’t isolate myself, and if I have the urge to work …

Since he burst on the scene with the wildly imaginative 1993 stop-motion animated feature The Nightmare Before Christmas, California Institute of the Arts graduate Henry Selick has been one of Hollywood’s most innovative filmmakers. After his stop-motion followup to Nightmare, the well-received 1996 film James and the Giant Peach, Selick directed the partially live-action film Monkeybone in 2001. Now, the long-in-the works …

Mike Joy: I’ve been a fan of www.indieproducer.com for awhile now and when I read about the new www.kerrydavid.com website, I thought your film consulting services would definitely benefit some up and coming horror directors. I’m glad to have you here at Horrornews.net to talk about it. Why did you decide to start this website now?  Kerry David: I’ve been mentoring filmmakers for over ten years, …