Interview: Doug Jones on “Falling Skies”, “Raze”
The film business has often acted like a double-edged sword to those inclined to prosthetic-heavy creature roles. Where as actors like Lon Cheney Jr. and Max Schreck were able to cement their legacies in the early years of film through those roles, other actors, especially in the genre world, have found creature roles to be professionally unrewarding, often eliminating the chance to escape the typecasting of silent, physical acting. Peter Mayhew, Kane Hodder and Ray Park are all living examples of how the industry can treat talented actors as if they have limited range because of iconic creature roles. These…
Interview: Director Don Coscarelli Keeps It Weird
Don Coscarelli is back. The director of Phantasm makes a bizarre and welcome return to skewed storytelling along the lines of such exploits as Naked Lunch, Buckaroo Banzai, and Brazil, stirring up a potent, psychotropic blend of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi and bakes up a very altered state in John Dies at the End. Michele “Izzy” Galgana talked to the director for Diabolique. Tell us about how you found this novel. John Dies at the End may be the first motion picture project selected by a robot. I had been reading some transgressive fiction from an imprint called Permuted Press. One…
