Saw II: Director Darren Bousman Gets Chiseled "James and I have a lot of similar influences horror wise, so that helps. But we are two different person(s). This is a sequel to a huge horror film. I can't walk on set and change the tone of what SAW was nor would I want to. However, this is a DIFFERENT movie than the first film." By: Mike Pereira
2001 Maniacs: Phenom Giuseppe Andrews "I was born in Key Largo and my dad and I moved out to California for his music business when I was 10. You’ve probably already read all the stories about us living out of our van, spending nights in grocery store parking lots and dad taking experimental drugs for hospital surveys." By: Elaine Lamkin
The Lost/Girl Next Door Author: Jack Ketchum "Well, MAY for one. I liked SAW. But mostly I've been finding a richer vein in Japanese horror stuff, not so much the films we seem to love adapting but rougher stuff like the Matsumuru ALL NIGHT LONG series. I love the way the better movies play with silences." By: Elaine Lamkin
Land of the Dead: The Legend Himself- George A. Romero "After licking my wounds from Bruiser I started working on this, and I wound up having something I thought was presentable and started sending it around, right before 9-11, literally a few days before, then everybody wanted to make soft fuzzy movies, so I put in on the shelf for a year and a half." By: Oversights
Hive & Skin Medicine: Writer Tim Curran "Lovecraft is tougher to read now, I guess, particularly for someone just discovering him as an adult. I think when we’re younger in school we read a lot of Poe and Hawthorne and Henry James etc. in English classes, so that dense antiquated voice Lovecraft uses just seems natural to us. I still read him a lot, though." By: Elaine Lamkin
2001 Maniacs: Writer/Director Tim Sullivan Speaks Out! "Then on the second day, Todd Turner, my second AD, fell and hit his head, resulting in a concussion. I myself was stung by some wasps and went into mild anaphylactic shock. They were going to take me to the hospital but it was the day we were shooting the "Acid Moonshine Death" so I rallied from the stretcher because I HAD to film that scene." By: Elaine Lamkin
Upcoming Horror Director Mike Hurst "It was our money we were spending and we frequently had to put the filming on hold while we went off to make money, for instance working as research assistants on Kenneth Branaugh’s Frankenstein. In the end we put about 10,000 pounds into the film. So, it was tough, but fun." By: Phil Hobden & Ross Boyask
Seed of Chucky DVD: Director/Writer Don Mancini "There really was no escape. But that said, I can’t wait to do it again. It was an incredible experience, all the more special for me because I got to do it for the first time with the characters that I’d created, and with people – David, Corey, Brad, and Jennifer – that I really love." By: Mr. Disgusting
High Tension: Ten Minutes with Alex Aja "Because of the limited budget of the film, we wanted to make sure that the special effects were the best. No ketchup! So I contacted someone who knew someone who put us in touch with Gianneto and he came to Bucharest all on his own, without his own crew. Just him, some latex and a lot of blood. He was amazing to work with," By: Elaine Lamkin
Home Sick: Interview w/ Director Adam Wingard "The Little One” was actually the second thing I did after “Home Sick”. I was really dying to work on something new but I felt before I jumped into another feature film I wanted to get more experience not only as a director but also as a cameraman and editor." By: Elaine Lamkin
The Fog: Interview w/ John Carpenter and David Foster "I don't want to remake this. I mean, I did it once. This was not my favorite experience of my own career making "The Fog." It was difficult. We had to go back and fix it once we shot it. I've done this once. Let some younger person do it." By: Mr. Disgusting
House of Wax: Chad Michael Murray Makes the Girls Melt "I don’t know- I was in the middle of a take, I was laying on the floor of one of the sets right around here, and next thing, I looked to the right and fire was shooting out of the ceiling. Everyone took off, but everyone was fine. Everybody got out, I mean, they did a great job of just getting everybody together." By: Oversights
House of Wax: Elisha Cuthbert Gets Sticky "This is, like, ridiculous. It felt scarier seeing it dark and in the theater and cut together and put together finally and finished then actually being there because I think I was so focused on what I needed to do. It was very physically demanding, so I was constantly sort of trying to not get like sick or hurt or, you know, just trying to get it all together." By: Oversights
House of Wax: Joel Silver & Jaume Serra in the Hot Seat "I think for a director, to get your career started you just need to be a director. It’s very difficult, that someone will just give you an opportunity, he (Joel Silver) gave me the opportunity to do my own film, but I’d been directing for like eight years doing commercials, before that I had to spend my own money." By: Bob G. Smith
House of Wax: Paris Hilton Gets Drippin' Hot "I love Marylyn Monroe, she was the coolest blonde. I think like me she doesn't really care what anyone thinks, she's happy, smiling, I don't know, I just thought she was always so beautiful, I don't know like magical." By: Bob G.
Dead Birds: Alex Turner and Simon Barrett "When you want to make a unique film, you have to accept that unique films are definitely considered financial risks for producers and you probably won’t get all the money you need, unless you live in Europe or a country with decent arts funding, of course, and then you can make a feature-length film of yourself chewing on your fingers. We’re lucky we got the film made at all, to say nothing of getting to shoot with a cast of talented name actors." By: Elaine Lamkin
Amityville Horror: Commercial Director Andrew Douglas "You might have a perfect, immaculate conception of what the film is going to be, and then the studio will argue that they know the audience, or other producers might argue that they know about rhythm and speed, so what you end up with in the studio world as opposed to the independent world - which is not necessarily better" By: SuperHeidi
Amityville Horror: Melissa George as Kathy Lutz "Look, let’s start off saying I’m not sure- - personally, these things I don’t really believe. But when you really read about what happened, you kind of think something did go on. As an actor doing a role in a true story, I’m not trying to imitate her at all." By: SuperHeidi
Amityville Horror: Funnyman Ryan Reynolds "I read the book when I was sixteen and it scared the shit out of me… only because of the true story stuff. When you're sixteen you know you're really into it but probably now it would still scare me. The movie I saw years ago and I felt like this was a worthy remake." By: SuperHeidi
Amityville Horror: Producers Andrew Form & Brad Fuller "From the day that was shot, no one thought that was going in the movie. No one thought it would end up in the movie. You see it in the editing room, people start filing in, you start showing it to friends, people start responding to it and so what we think isn't always the ultimate determiner of what is too far or not far enough. People seem to gravitate towards that scene." By: SuperHeidi
Room 6: Christine Taylor Heads Back to Horror! "I want to say that the first one [horror film] that I remember seeing was Halloween. That, still to this day, is my all-time favorite... to me that film still holds up." By: SuperHeidi
The Jacket: Star Jennifer Jason Leigh "I am not much of a careerist; I don't plan things so specifically. If I read something and I like it, I take it, or if I like the director. Like in this case, I love John Maybury, I was very impressed with Love is the Devil, I try to do things that appeal to me and different things appeal to me at different times." By: Mr. Disgusting
The Jacket: Director John Maybury "I described it from the get-go as a subversive psychological thriller, which seems to be a kind of meaningless phrase. But I kind of know what I mean by that. It plays with conventions in that the film actually, I think, changes genre with each reel as the movie progresses." By: Mr. Disgusting
The Jacket: Adrien Brody Gets Strapped Up "That's part of what drew me to being an actor. I have a very vivid imagination and you take it seriously and it's not a joke and it's not like, 'oh my God, there's the monkey again!' It's like what do you do when there is a 25 pound, a 25 foot creature that sees you and senses you and smells you and doesn't like you from before. What do you do? You smile or you run..." By: Mr. Disgusting
The Ring Two: Hideo Nakata Changes US Cinema Forever "We experimented with a lot of special and visual effects in making water look scary. Basically, the challenge was in controlling the water through means of physical effects, which is difficult to do in Japan." By: Mr. Disgusting
Asia Extreme: Sinje Lee on 'Koma' "There will be some difference between US and Asian films for sure. In fact, I have appreciated the originality of US films very much. I don’t know much about the audiences, but I think wherever they are from, they will enjoy the film with much appreciation as long as if it is produced with heart..." By: Mr. Disgusting
Sam Raimi & Robert Tapert on EVERYTHING Horror! "I had a hit movie! It gave me opportunity to start this company with Rob Tapert and our partners Nathan Drain and Joe Drake where we could get financing to make really fun, really cool, new director-type horror films."-Sam Raimi" By: SuperHeidi
