DARRIN MCDONALD
Filmmaker – The Horror Convention Massacre
(2007), Out of Place (2009), She Devils a Go Go (2011)
What would be your favorite horror double feature drive-in choice?
My favorite drive in memory happened during An American Werewolf in London. I was in a car with three other guys, one of which wasn't a horror film fan and he was a little on the squeamish side. All of a sudden, some guy in a werewolf mask jumps up next to his window and howls. Soda went everywhere! Popcorn went everywhere! I was laughing! Werewolf guy was laughing! The whole drive-in was laughing! Everyone was laughing except our squeamish friend. A few minutes went by and he makes the statement that he had spilled soda all over his pants. About ten minutes after that, the car just reeked of urine.
My favorite drive in memory happened during An American Werewolf in London. I was in a car with three other guys, one of which wasn't a horror film fan and he was a little on the squeamish side. All of a sudden, some guy in a werewolf mask jumps up next to his window and howls. Soda went everywhere! Popcorn went everywhere! I was laughing! Werewolf guy was laughing! The whole drive-in was laughing! Everyone was laughing except our squeamish friend. A few minutes went by and he makes the statement that he had spilled soda all over his pants. About ten minutes after that, the car just reeked of urine.
MICHAEL A. SIMPSON
Filmaker – Funland (1987), Sleepaway
Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988), Sleepaway
Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989), Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
What’s your favorite scary movie?
My
favorite depends on my mood on any given day. I love Phantasm (1979) - I recently watched it again. I first saw it
stoned in '79 with my brother and it scared the bejesus out of both of us. It
was playing at a majestic old theater house in downtown Atlanta that had gone
to seed. The place reeked of piss and alcohol. Street people were sleeping
around us. There was so much petty crime happening inside the theater that the
manager refused to dim the lights during the show. And the Tall Man and his
flying orbs of death were still scary as shit. Great use of sound design with
the spheres flying through the air. The dead shrunk down into dwarfs and
reanimated. Classic insanity.
RICHARD STANLEY
Filmmaker – Hardware (1990),
Dust Devil (1992), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), The Theatre Bizarre (2011), The
Otherworld (2013)
What is your favorite horror movie
franchise?
I'm not a fan of any of the existing franchises and only feel a deep
sense of weariness each time a new reboot shows up. I do have fond memories of
Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2, which was the first film I got laid in, but after that the series went
right off the boil.
MARK SHOSTROM
Special Makeup Effects Artist –
Videodrome (1983), The Mutilator (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 1-3 (1984-1987), From Beyond
(1986), Evil Dead II (1987), Prince of Darkness (1987), Phantasm II-III (1988-1994), Toolbox Murders (2004)
What’s
your favorite zombie movie?
Kerry Prior's The Revenant (2009), hands down. I knew Kerry from working
with him on Phantasm III (he handled
the silver sphere effects). To be honest, any time one reads a friend's
script or watches his/her film, you never know what to expect. There's always
that dread of 'will it suck?' But I was blown away by Kerry's film; it's
great fun and a clever twist on the zombie-horror-comedy genre. It's also
much funnier than the one or two zombie-comedy films that have been done (and
in an odd way, more insightful). Kerry's script was tight, it was really
well shot and the two leads were cast right. Also Kerry supervised all the
visual effects himself, and they're stellar. Many first time directors
fail at doing only the directing. I was impressed that Kerry not only wore
many hats, he also delivered a terrific film. That's quite an
accomplishment.
DAVID CHASKIN
Screenwriter – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), The Curse (1987), I, Madman (1989), Midnight’s Child (1992)
What has been your favorite Halloween costume?
Years ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I used to make the scene at a friend’s annual Halloween party; it was a massively attended affair and everybody always went all-out on their costumes. One year, I went as a (now most likely extremely politically incorrect) “Shopping Bag Lady”. Wig, rags, latex stipple on my face, neck and hands. I wrapped my legs in dirty bandages to cover the oozing sores and there was a severed human arm in my shopping bag full of street-crap. I had hoped to hook up with a woman with whom I had a long-time telephone relationship. She was coming in from Ohio and she had a really sexy voice and I had never met her. Needless to say, when we finally met face-to-face she seemed visibly disturbed by my costume and, ultimately, I went home alone that night.
On my way to my neighborhood, I came out of the subway and broke a heel on one of my mismatched shoes. I sat down on a nearby stoop and tried to repair it - I still had a bit of a walk back to my apartment. A few minutes later, some lady handed me a buck. I didn’t "get lucky" that night but I ended up making eight and a half bucks sitting on that stoop.
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Killian
H. Gore asks over 100 horror filmmakers and fans from all over the world the
same 13 questions regarding their favorite scary movies.
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(The Hills Have Eyes), Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad), Marcus Nispel (Friday
the 13th), Bill Johnson (Texas Chainsaw 2), Jack Sholder (Nightmare on Elm
Street 2), Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn), Mark Shostrom (Evil Dead II), Richard
Stanley (Dust Devil), John A. Russo (Night of the Living Dead), William Malone
(House on Haunted Hill), Greydon Clark (Wacko), Jeff Burr (Leatherface), Chuck
Parello (Ed Gein), Adam Marcus (Jason Goes to Hell), Tom Sullivan (The Evil
Dead), Michael A. Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3), Adam Simon (The Haunting
in Connecticut), Victor Garcia (Hellraiser: Revelations) and Sean Clark
(Horror's Hallowed Grounds).
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Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hellraiser, Evil Dead, Night of the Living
Dead, Child’s Play, Gremlins, Phantasm, Sleepaway Camp and the Wrong Turn
movies, as well as some of the most hardcore horror fans on the planet!
Killian
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TV shows plus favorite "bad" horror movies and Halloween costumes!
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