The Cottage: Director Paul Andrew Williams
"When I was young my friends and I spent all our time trying to hire out the films we were to young to see. The thing about the slasher/ stalker genre is we all understand the clichés now don’t we. I wanted to make a film that exploited all that but for sake of the audience. I wanted the audience to be in on the joke if that makes sense."
By: The Undead Comic

The Chair: Interview with Writer-Director Brett Sullivan
"I shot the same dialogue scene numerous times in various locations. I then intercut the shots seemingly random. The dialogue is linear whereas the location and visual story is non linear. Of course, had my 'experiment' not worked, I could easily have edited the scene more traditionally as well."
By: Dominic F. Marceau

Dying Breed: Writer and Producer Michael Boughen
"I had learnt about Pearce at school some years before and was fascinated by the whole story. I have been a fan of horror and thriller movies so it just seemed natural a story like this could really work. Tasmania is a place with a violent history and it is very isolated, both good fundamentals for a horror. Add into that the Tasmanian Tiger story and it just seemed to gel."
By: MrDisgusting

Splice: Director Vincenzo Natali and Producer Steven Hoban
"But then, that’s also I think what makes the movie special, because it really is an emotional monster film, and it really is about the relationships between the two scientists and the creature that they make."
By: Nelson

Dance of the Dead: Cast and Crew Interview
" It reminded me of my own high school experiences, minus the zombies. I just loved the characters and their relationships. I could've literally pull out my yearbook and point to all the characters. I think its kind of fascinating to see a group of kids who've never said a word to each other have to band together and fight for their lives. You watch those social barriers that you put up in real life break down."
By: Tim Anderson, David Harley

Shuttle: Edward Anderson, Peyton List, Cameron Goodman
"But, sufficed to say, a lot of it happened when I got off of a plane at LAX in broad daylight at noon. I got on a shuttle to go pick up my car at a parking lot and halfway down Century Boulevard, my mind started to wander. I just love movies that are contained and compressed and happen over a short period of time and when a normal day turns into a bad day."
By: Tim Anderson, David Harley

Otis: Director Tony Krantz and Writer Erik Jendresen
"The other thing, on our part of Raw Feed, was to do anything but take advantage of this opportunity from Warner Brothers. Here's a budget, here's how many days you have to shoot to do what we wanted to. It was always our intention to do something different and twist the genre a little bit. Do something fresh."
By: Tim Anderson, David Harley

The West is the Best: Full SXSW 2008 Report
"If it’s March then it must be time for my annual sabbatical to Austin, Texas—the weirdest city south of the Mason/Dixon line. The South by Southwest Film Festival has become an annual ritual and the only film festival I regularly attend…including the one that’s a 15-minute drive from my house. Why you might ask. Well, in the event that you missed last year’s article—here’s the annual breakdown."
By: Tim Anderson

Doomsday/Beyond the Rave: Actor Les Simpson
"The reaper virus doesn’t re-animate you as a zombie, doesn’t leave you craving human blood, or digest you alive in a larval cocoon. The reaper virus doesn’t cause pink eye, or leave you with an upset stomach. The Reaper virus kills. Full stop. Horribly and painfully, granted.""
By: Elaine Lamkin

Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie: Director Jay Delaney
"But, the interesting thing about NOT YOUR TYPICAL BIGFOOT MOVIE is that it grew out of a short film I made back in 2001. I made it on some really crappy equipment, it was like the family camcorder. And I always wanted to try and get back to story and treat it with a little more time and a little more care and even some better equipment."
By: David Harley

Doomsday: Director Neil Marshall
""Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was another film I give a nod and a wink to at the very beginning of my film. I wear those homages on my sleeve when I start writing - those are the kinds of films I would want to see again and if people get the homages, great."
By: Elaine Lamkin

Doomsday: Actor Nora-Jane Noone
"Neil is brilliant! He's a genuinely lovely guy and he really knows his stuff, it great working with him because he chooses to work with people he thinks will make a good team and it just makes going to work a pleasure. He trusts that his actors will do their best and will point you in the right direction. It's a great atmosphere to work in."
By: Elaine Lamkin

Doomsday: Star Craig Conway
"I loved doing "The Descent", the cast and crew were amazing to be with and Paul Hyatt, heading the special FX team, they were a force to reckoned with, they worked real magic, as did the whole production team. It was exhausting at times, PINEWOOD in February is cold, but more so when your shaven bald body is running around in nothing but a sock to keep your dignity and KY JELLY to give you a monsterous glimmer!"
By: Elaine Lamkin

Automaton Transfusion: Director Steven C. Miller
"I stayed away from wide shot theater and playing it safe. I wanted to take risks that normal indie films stay clear of because the challenge usually becomes too intense. Intensity is exactly what I wanted for my film and its something we strived for a on a daily basis. I don't believe you make kick ass films by playing it safe and that is something i will never do."
By: MrDisgusting

Poultrygeist: Director/Troma Founder Lloyd Kaufman
"Gabe Friedman really is responsible for the majority of Poultrygeist's scenario. He and I go back about 10 years and we both are very dark and cynical and well read on whats going on in the world. We spent at least a year working on the script and writing the lyrics to the songs."
By: David Harley

The Signal: All Three Directors Talk Apocalypse
"Straws, no it was a knife fight "Beat It" style. We actually just decided from the beginning what section we would each grab, and then we were all responsible for the over all arc of the story. Kind of tag-team directors at any given point I may be directing Dan might be shooting and Jacob is in the other room prepping some blood FX or working with an actor setting up for the next thing. It was like Three Man and a Baby, except a lot funnier, but no Guttenberg.""
By: SpookyDan

Killer Pad: Director Robert Englund
"Tell my fans to tell there kids to send out for a pizza and crack open a beer and sit down with Killer pad, its good silly fun and I guarantee that there is some good laughs in it!"
By: SpookyDan

Timecrimes: Writer-Director Nacho Vigalondo
"You can be sure my next one hundred movies won’t have time travel in it. Well, actually you never can tell. I’m thinking now porn and time travel would be an incredible combination: People fucking themselves!"
By: Mr. Disgusting

Repo! The Genetic Opera: Star J Larose
"I was doing a play at a small theatre in Florida and a fellow actor told me about an audition for a short film. I went with him to the audition and read the breakdown of the lead character. It was basically everything I wasn’t… a Caucasian, clean cut, all-American, apple pie type of guy."
By: Elaine Lamkin

Horror 101: Editor: Aaron Christensen
"That said, the “Dr. AC” title was just to add of bit of faux pretentiousness to the horror fan proceedings I was encountering on various horror message boards – the idea that someone could have a Ph.D. in horror cracked me up."
By: Elaine Lamkin

The Broken: Director Sean Ellis
"Tricky question that. It has elements of horror, thriller and supernatural but it’s none of them at the same time. For me, it’s like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid."
By: Mr. Disgusting

Donkey Punch: Writer/Director Olly Blackburn
"Well… the title is particularly weird and unpleasant sex act. If you don’t know what it is – Google it. How did I hear of it? Several months before we came up with the story, my co-writer was at a stag party, everyone started trading different weird sex stories, as drunk blokes like to do..."
By: Mr. Disgusting

The Lost Tribe: Producer Mo Ramchandani
"INTERVIEW REMOVED BY REQUEST... TOO CONTROVERSIAL!""
By: Mr. Disgusting

Otto; or, Up With the Dead: Director Bruce LaBruce
"This is my first horror-type film. I do like to work in blood, and I’ve done several photo series, including porn ones, in which the models are blood-splattered."
By: Mr. Disgusting

Boy Eats Girl: Director Stephen Bradley
"We were actually already filming when SHAUN OF THE DEAD came out so it seemed like we were following the crowd but were actually just slightly and unluckily behind with our timing. My main aim for BOY EATS GIRL was to make the horror traditional without digital effects and to have one climactic sequence that nobody could possibly forget. Nobody does!"
By: Mr. Disgusting

Storm Warning: Director Jamie Blanks
"I enjoyed the nastiness of the script and I’m a long time fan of revenge themed movies. All of my movies have been based around the themes of revenge, but this time the revenge was justified by the need for survival, not merely the motive of a deranged psychotic killer intent on taking out young TV stars by means of some contrived slasher themed motif."
By: Mr. Disgusting

Eat the Dark: Horror Author Joe Schreiber
"The earliest story I remember in a very visceral sense, I don’t even remember the name of. It was in one of those old Alfred Hitchcock anthologies—I was probably ten years old—with a title like Pardon My Ghoulish Laughter, and there was a scene that took place completely in the dark, a character walking barefoot through a cave and steps on top of a dead body."
By: Elaine Lamkin

Halloween DVD: Rob Zombie Clears the Air
"Yeah, there’s a lot of everything. I packed the two discs with as much as they would accommodate. So there are all the deleted scenes, which there are quite a bit, interviews with all the actors, the documentaries, casting sessions, commentaries, blooper reels, basically everything we could find."
By: BC

The Mist: Director Frank Darabont
"I think it’s more relevant now than ever! I don’t think it was ever not relevant, ‘cause human nature is pretty consistent. This stuff goes back to Greek tragedy, but it has become very relevant because we are in a culture of fear and we are seeing people making, I think, mistakes as a result."
By: Kara Warner

The Mist: Religious Freak Marcia Gay Harden
"I don't think religion is the bad part, but I think extremism allows a consistency of behavior that is bad. Certainly she had a mania, which I discovered only in shooting. When they first called her the "kooky" lady in the script I thought that's what you call somebody you don't like. But in shooting it, I actually understood that she was probably a paranoid schizophrenic because I felt she was hearing god."
By: Kara Warner