The Box: Writer/Director Richard Kelly "Exactly, they’d be Googling everything, doing Internet searches and they’d be in front of their laptop for half the movie, you know? (Laughs) They wouldn’t go to the library, no one goes to the library anymore, [people just surf] a bunch of websites. That’s not fun storytelling, you know? " By: Chris Eggertsen
The Possession of David O’Reilly: Director Andrew Cull "Police were called to a block of converted Victorian apartments, and what they found inside one of them was puzzling and disturbing. There were no signs of a break in, or reason to suspect drugs or other foul play and police attributed the events to a domestic dispute or love rivalry gone wrong. A diary was found full of strange ideas and drawings." By: MrDisgusting
My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Director Jacob Gentry "Well you know going in you’re not making IRREVERSIBLE or MARTYRS or ICHI THE KILLER, but you just go as far as the story and the slasher genre demands and let them pull you back if need be. I think some of the most influential slasher films could play fairly unedited on basic cable." By: MrDisgusting
Antichrist: Writer/Director Lars von Trier "You know, writing is something you can do while laying in bed for a long time and be depressed and still get up and write for half an hour. But when you shoot, you have to be there all the time so shooting was the worst part of it. I wrote about 10 pages a days for a month or two. Early in my career, I thought for a long time and then wrote the script in a week. But, that didn't happen this time."" By: David Harley
Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D: Director Zeb de Soto "Zombies have always been an obsession of mine. Night of the Living Dead Origins has been quietly gestating in the Reese's pieces of my candy coated zombie obsessed mind for quite some time. And as a true fan boy of the genre, I've felt that it was necessary to go and make the most kick ass zombie film every f**king created." By: MrDisgusting
Necromentia: Director Pearry Reginald Teo "Director Pearry Reginald Teo made an impact in Hollywood with his first feature length film, the cyberpunk The Gene Generation starring Bai Ling and now he’s back with his latest, the dark and disturbing Necromentia. A while back I caught the trailer for the film and it had such an impact I immediately wrote about it, I hadn’t seen something so hellish since Clive Barker’s original Hellraiser movie." By: Phil Wheat
The Loved Ones: Director Sean Byrne "I was searching for a low budget horror idea and woke up one morning thinking what if I fused Carrie and Evil Dead, bringing the Prom to the cabin and making its very traditions – the decorations, the dress up, the dancing and, of course, the crowning of the King and Queen – the instruments of torture." By: MrDisgusting
Birdemic: Star Whitney Moore "You know, all the major decisions that were made in the movie, I’ll say- we didn’t have any control over anything. If we asked a question about any of the major plot twists - for example, why are the eagles exploding, or why do we have M16s, or why are these people getting acid dumped on them? The answer to all these questions would be, because it’s a movie. And it would be left at that. And we would sort of not ask any more questions, because you wouldn’t get any more answers." By: Simon Barrett
New Terminal Hotel: Writer/Director B.C. Furtney "Enough to keep the nasty spots nasty. Big thanks to Jerry Gergely and Chris & Sabrina from Tom Savini's Makeup FX Program in Monessen PA, for coming in and kicking ass for us where it was needed. But y'know, the film's really driven by its characters. They're real." By: MrDisgusting
Zombieland: Excl Interview with Director Ruben Fleischer "I guess the thing that I had to get comfortable with was just splatter and gore because that’s where my taste lies, but I know that zombie audiences are not afraid of some blood. So in studying horror movies, I just realized that, even though it’s not what I love, I’ve gotta go big with the blood. Movies that maybe informed that were Peter Jackson’s DEAD ALIVE, which might be the bloodiest movie I’ve ever seen. Mowing down people with a lawn mower and putting a baby in a blender..." By: Jeff Otto
Human Centipede: The First Sequence Star Ashlynn Yennie "I read the synopsis of the film and then had the option to stay and audition or leave. Me being the curious creature I am had to find out what this was all about! I talked Ilona’s ear off for about 20 mins asking her every question imaginable. I kept saying 'how are you going to make the “centipede” really attached?" " By: MrDisgusting
The 69 Eyes: Lead Singer Jyrki 69 Talks 'Back in Blood'! "Goth probably comes from my deep vocals but I'm just trying to sound like Elvis, hahah... We've always been trying to mix Goth and Glam sound somehow together - you know like we're as much influenced by Danzig as L.A.Guns in a way. When we're playing live, we're rocking much harder than on the albums and that's something that Matt wanted to bring into this album..." By: MrDisgusting
Zombieland : Exclusive Chat with star Jesse Eisenberg "I had to audition for the movie several times and then my final audition was with Woody. I think they were trying to cast it with someone who had chemistry with him. We did a lot of improvisation and some of that made it in the movie. When you’re doing a lot of improvisation, it forces you to step into your character in a really fun way." By: Jeff Otto
The Blair Witch Project 10th Anniversary Retrospect "Can you believe it's been ten years since THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT took the world by storm? Remember the build-up? Those mysterious posters months before release making everyone think it was a documentary? “In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage was found,” read the eerie teaser." By: Jeff Otto
REC 2 (TIFF '09): Directors Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza "They can interact with a movie - laughing, clapping, screaming, all those things, you know? We presented this as a big homage to the genre with demons and infected, with all these things we love in the genre." By: MrDisgusting
Human Centipede: The First Sequence Star Ashley C. Williams "I met Tom at my first audition for the film. He wanted to show me a sketch of what the human centipede would look like. Before he showed it to me, I will never forget, he said “Are you easily shocked?” and I said “nope!” so then he showed me the sketch. I wasn’t shocked at first but I had never seen anything like that before, I was like this guy is crazy, but he was so sweet and passionate about the story..." By: MrDisgusting
Daybreakers (TIFF '09): Directors Peter and Michael Spierig "We just came up with the initial idea which is the world of vampires. That’s where it started. We spent a couple of years just nutting out ideas like ok, so if it’s a world of vampires but its not your traditional post-apocalyptic world where everything is destroyed and civilization is completely run down. What if it’s a world where they accept this whole new thing called vampirism and they try to go back to their normal lives." By: Mike Pereira
Pandorum: Exclusive Interview with Star Dennis Quaid "I play Lt. Payton. I wake up after this long sleep. And the only reason I know [my name] is I wake up and I have a locker and that’s who it says I am and there’s my uniform and a couple pictures. But I start to remember things and that’s the great thing about it. The audience finds out along with the characters what’s going on in the movie and who they are. It turns out I am not who I think I am." By: Jeff Otto
The Final Destination: Interviews with the Cast and Crew! "Bloody-Disgusting spoke exclusively with Ellis, Bress, Perry and star-on-the-rise Haley Webb about THE FINAL DESTINATION'S creative kills, what 3-D meant to the project and if, in spite of the conclusive-sounding title, there might be an FD5 on the horizon." By: Jeff Otto
Legion: Full Set Report from Albuquerque, NM "Arriving in Albuquerque, NM and driving to Santa Fe to visit the set in May of 2008, we first stopped at the University of Santa Fe’s Garson Studios to check out the interior sets. New Mexico has been a hot spot for films as of late, with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Terminator Salvation both shooting in the desert and No Country For Old Men using the sound stages at USF." By: David Harley
Sorority Row: A Visit to the Set Part 2 "On a cold and windy night last October, I arrived on the set of Summit’s Sorority Row – a remake of the 1983 slasher flick, The House On Sorority Row – in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both nights I spent on set took place in a rock quarry on the outskirts of town, complete with a small pond/lake, a small clearing and a mine shaft of sorts. In other words, the perfect place for a murder to be covered up." By: David Harley
Pandorum: Producer Paul W.S Anderson and Star Antje Traue "As a producer, I was mainly involved with the development of the project. I read the original script about five years ago, and as soon as I read it I thought “this is a movie I’d really really want to see.” So I was involved in the development, but when they were shooting I was finishing up Death Race, so I wasn’t present during much of the shooting."" By: BC
Sorority Row: Stars Briana Evigan and Margo Harshman "The bloodiest I ever got was Simon Says, I was covered head to toe. And I got bloodied for this other movie called Rise, and From Within. I think this is probably my favorite shoot though, it was all encompassing, even off set it was amazing, great people. Pittsburgh was great, I can 100% defend Pittsburgh." By: BC
The Hills Run Red: Director Dave Parker "There were certain aspects to the slasher film that we wanted to do – and in some ways try to capture the feel of those original 80’s slasher movies, and then turn those conventions on their head during the middle and certainly the 3rd act." By: MrDisgusting
The Box: Writer/Director Richard Kelly at the SDCC '09 "A simple wooden box promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world." By: MrDisgusting
A Perfect Getaway: Writer-Director David Twohy "I think it came about as maybe an overreaction to big-scale filmmaking and thinking that maybe I should do a thriller next, something very contained; something more about characters and turns of plot than green screens and motion control and second unit and that kind of stuff." By: Jeff Otto
A Perfect Getaway: Star Milla Jovovich "For me it’s really important to run lines so I can find a comfort zone with my voice. My normal voice is a bit L.A. and nasal. In RESIDENT EVIL my voice is [lower] and I’m always speaking down low. In post on RESIDENT EVIL, I’ll be horrified when I hear my normal voice and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I sound like a Valley girl with a gun.’ It was nice to relax and use my normal voice for this. It was okay for the part because she is this typical L.A. girl, kinda dorky." By: Jeff Otto
Halloween II: Rob Zombie at the SDCC '09 "We got our R-rating. Shocking how easy we got it. They are just not worried about violence right now I guess. It was unbelievable. I also think that because it’s Michael Myers, that makes it easier." By: BC
The Final Destination: Producer Craig Perry "...at the end of the day, the simple schematic, what’s happening married to great set pieces, it’s what people want to see and have fun with, and if you add one little twist, it keeps the thing fresh." By: MrDisgusting
I Sell the Dead: Director Glenn McQuaid "I storyboarded a fair amount, very sketchy stuff. And I did animatics too, the vampire scene for example. I went into production armed, but I didn’t always necessarily follow what I thought I was going to do. I felt comfortable, being prepared as possible is a good thing as long as I’m not too precious about what it is I thought I HAD to get, because sometimes, you know, you can’t get it! (laughs). " By: BC
