Stay Alive: The Beautiful Sophia Bush "October was such a great character to play because she was so different from me. She’s a stern, badass chick, sort of the mother hen of the group. She’s based on the Goth girls in the French Quarter and she’s into voodoo and Poppy Z. Brite." By: Elaine Lamkin
Hills Have Eyes: Wes Craven, Alex Aja & the Cast "For me, going to Hollywood is a dream come true. With the kinds of films we are making, being French isn’t important. If you know how to frighten people, you can do it in any language." By: Elizabeth Rizzo
The Descent: Writer/Director Neil Marshall "The CRAWLERS changed from being much more mutant-like to being as human as possible, because humans are far more scary! I wanted the CRAWLERS to be an offshoot of the human race. 'Cavemen' who stayed in the caves, and evolved to survive in that environment." By: Elaine Lamkin
Death By Engagement: Star Sascha Knopf "Phil was really sweet. I wanted to give them the best that I could. Sometimes I felt like I was disappointing them. It was stressful, but he was always there to make sure I knew he was behind me." By: Elaine Lamkin
SLiTHER: The Legendary Michael Rooker "I think it’s amazing that Universal green-lighted this film and has really supported it. Also the fact that the film is a mixture of gross-out horror and comedy – and the comedy in “SLiTHER” comes from the extremes in it. It really is over-the-top but it was so much fun to do!" By: Elaine Lamkin
Stay Alive: Star Jon Foster "No I didn’t but I did a lot of research and found it all fascinating. And the actress playing The Countess (Maria Kalinina) was SO scary when she was in her full Countess makeup! And the images from the game are horrifying – those little undead girls crawling across walls!" By: Elaine Lamkin
Dead and Breakfast: Star Oz Perkins "“Psycho 2” was a silly thing and I remember mostly being shit scared of the soundstage and of the stairs that lead up to Mother’s room where we shot my little moment. I think the fact that I somehow knew that there was nothing behind those doors up there, that they just fell off into the darkness where there should have been actual rooms that the set-builders hadn’t yet built probably didn’t help me feel any less scared." By: Elaine Lamkin
SLiTHER: Lots of Laughs w/Writer/Director James Gunn "Elizabeth had the role hands down. She was one of the first people to audition, and I nearly got on my knees and bowed before her. I thought Starla would be the most difficult role to cast. But Elizabeth got the script, she got the humor, and she got the character." By: SpookyDan
Death By Engagement: Star Christa Campbell "I have to tell you shooting “Maniacs” changed my life! I’m not kidding - on this film we had just a small amount of money and a lot of passion. Usually on big-budget film, you see the opposite. Watching Tim work and how passionate he was with this film - he sketched out each scene. He literally had drawings of all the killings." By: Elaine Lamkin
Death By Engagement: Writer/Director Philip Creager "I always found the idea of a huge gaudy wedding ring ridiculous. Think about it. You spend all this money on some stone someone dug out of the ground so your girl can show it off to her friends. Meanwhile the two of you are living in a Pinto."" By: Elaine Lamkin
Dead & Breakfast: Actor/Musician Zach Selwyn "Horror films are strange because they shoot at night. SO, we would wake up at 6:00 p.m. and shoot until 7:30 a.m. The, everybody would go back to the hotel and get drunk in the lobby while all these businessmen were eating scrambled eggs for breakfast and drinking coffee." By: Elaine Lamkin
Death Tunnel: Star Jilon Ghai "I WOULD have had a big break with the Ron Maxwell- directed film, “Father of His Country”, where I was to play George Washington from the age of 16 to 60. We had done all the makeup tests on how to age me – it took five hours – but one week before we were all going to fly to Virginia, the plug was pulled on the movie." By: Elaine Lamkin
Behind the Mask: Star Nathan Baesel "My family has always been very supportive. They knew early on I wasn’t going to be a doctor or a lawyer so what choice did they have? And I think it gives them a kick to see me nearly every week on “Invasion”." By: Elaine Lamkin
Silent Hill: Massive Interview with Cast and Crew! "Working with the script from Christophe is not working from scratch, as Samuel said. At that point it was so fleshed out and psychologically so rich that, that is definitely what appealed to me. Plus I had a relationship with Christophe that precedes that and immense respect for him." By: Mike Pereira
Silent Hill: Director Christophe Gans "Of course I’m a big film buff and when I played through the first game, immediately I saw the reference to Jacob’s Ladder, the movie by Adrian Lynn. But in Jacob’s Ladder, it’s basically two sequences. The sequence in the med ward at the beginning of the film and the sequence in the hospital where actually you see the framework for Silent Hill." By: Mike Pereira
The Hills Have Eyes: Star Ezra Buzzington "My first film was "Fight Club". I wouldn’t call that a "break" necessarily, but man, nothing like starting at the top, huh? David Fincher is a total genius and I’ve been incredibly lucky with the directors who’ve chosen to work with me since." By: Elaine Lamkin
R-Point: Director Su-Chang Kong "R-POINT was one of the items that I had in mind early on. Like most of Korean men, I spent some time doing my military service, and wished to write a script regarding such some time. I believe that fear and ghosts are the images that have formed out of the oppression that was hidden under the sub-consciousness." By: Elaine Lamkin
Saw II DVD: Director Darren Lynn Bousman "We both had similar influences and there are definitely hints of “Saw” in “Saw II”. I would say the styling and editing are different but David Armstrong DP’d both films so that dirty, grimy, gritty look is still there." By: Elaine Lamkin
Night Watch: Director Timur Bekmambetov "Russian audiences are hungry for movies with familiar contexts and characters. People got tired of seeing movies filmed in New York, which seemed exotic and which presented no context for their daily lives." By: Elaine Lamkin
Behind the Mask: Star Robert Englund "'Behind the Mask' has a strange “Blair Witch” element to it but it’s intellectual too. It’s about a documentary team working on a film about serial killers and they come across a self-proclaimed expert on serial killers, Leslie Vernon. I play Leslie’s doctor, Doc Halloran..." By: Elaine Lamkin
Behind the Mask: Writer/Director Scott Glosserman "'Mask' takes place in a world where guys like Jason and Michael Meyers actually exist. The next great psycho-slasher – this guy is supposedly gonna put them all to shame – he’s given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life while he plans his reign of terror over the next unfortunate town." By: Elaine Lamkin
Grindhouse, SIn City 2: Star Danny Trejo "Let me tell you, indie filmmakers wouldn’t be where they are today if it weren’t for Robert [Rodriquez]. And working with Antonio and Johnny was great but here I am, stuck between these two beautiful men who don’t have a pore on their face (laugh)." By: Elaine Lamkin
Death Tunnel: Writer/Producer/Directors the Booth Bros. "'Death Tunnel' is a different kind of movie, we wanted to make a grittier film yet with a glossy visual look like the big boys, “Sin City” meets “13 Ghosts”, style-wise. As filmmakers, your creativity should not be suppressed by your budget, you need to just go ahead and film your imagination!" By: Elaine Lamkin
Final Destination 3: Producer Craig Perry "the difference is that the first one the ending was a little bit more contemplative and thoughtful, and I think it was such a ride up to that point that people were like, “The hell with that. Take us out with a big bang!" By: Spooky Dan
Final Destination 3: Director James Wong "We tested the movie and I really thought that the audience were totally with us until the very end and I actually even heard a couple of people go, “Oh”. (Laughs) And you know that’s no good. But even before we tested it as I was cutting the movie with Glen and Craig we knew that it wasn’t working. It was just too abrupt." By: Spooky Dan
Final Destination 3: Stars Mary Winstead, Ryan Merriman "Yeah, We were harnessed but they let the harness loose so that we still actually had to hold ourselves in. So were like using all our ... trying to hold our entire body weight up with our arms and then the cart was like cutting into our knees and everything..." By: Spooky Dan
Undead: Stars Emma Randall and Mungo McKay "Yeah, It was unconventional in terms of what happens on a fully financed production. None of the actors & crew were paid up front, pay pending should the film turn a profit. And the Spierig Brothers injected their own funds into the project, which is risky for any-one to do." By: Eaine Lamkin
Death Tunnel: Star Steffany Huckaby "Loads of fun in the desert! An eclectic array of people, indeed! All, while I was playing the leader of a religious cult with leukemia who gets kidnapped, shot and run over, but manages to survive. The movie’s a black comedy, so that description of my character is really funny to me. Everybody just had fun." By: Elaine Lamkin
Not For The Squeamish: Writer/Director Jason Stephenson "I started NFTS Productions in late 2002 as a creative release from the daily grind! With no previous background in filmmaking, I bought my 1st digital camcorder, some halogen lights, found some willing friends and set out to make my mark in the in the Independent horror scene with a couple practice short films and haven’t looked back since..." By: Elaine Lamkin
