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 Interviews with horror "Masters" including Tobe Hooper, George Romero, & Robert Englund. |
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Following are Staci Layne Wilson’s on-the-spot arrival-interviews with
the directors, stars, and guests at the Masters of Horror launch party event,
which took place at the Element club in Hollywood in March 2005.
The Masters of Horror — 13 one-hour episodes — will air sometime
in the fall of 2005 and will get deluxe treatment on DVD. The director list,
and movies they’re famous for, is as follows:
Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera)
Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep)
George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Land of the Dead)
Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins)
John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)
John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)
Larry Cohen (It's Alive, Wicked Stepmother)
Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet, The Stand)
Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects)
Roger Corman (Little Shop of Horrors, Frankenstein Unbound)
Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dolls)
Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist)
Interviews:
ROBERT ENGLUND:
SLW: Robert Englund, you are a “Master of Horror” — but
are you involved in this project in any way, or are you just here at the party
as a fan and friend?
Englund: I’m here to see a lot of friends tonight. Tobe Hooper,
and a lot of people I’ve worked with, are here tonight. I got the invitation
and I was in town today doing cartoon voices, so I dropped by. It’s great
to show your support; I know from our films, everybody comes by and we are kind
of like a family in the horror community. I’ve been playing Freddy since
1984 — 21 years, and I’ve done three movies with Tobe Hooper, and
Mick Garris is here, and I’ve done work with all of these guys. It’s
kind of nice to support everybody’s projects.
SLW: Why do think horror is enjoying just a resurgence in popularity
these days?
Englund: I think everybody is finally thrown off this stigma of science
fiction, fantasy and horror films. They realize now that these are the westerns
of the new century and that they are one of the underpinnings of Hollywood.
Without the horror genre, there would probably be no “Hollywood”
right now. Every week, you look at the #1 movie and inevitably, at least once
a month, it’s a horror film. I think it’s kind of fun now —
we’re all kind of having the last laugh, because a lot of us were kind
of afraid to tell everybody, when we were kids, that we loved this stuff. We
are supposed to just want to like Shakespeare and Chekhov and French art movies,
but some of us wanted to talk about Rosemary’s Baby, or King Kong, or
Roger Corman movies. Now it’s cool to like that stuff. It’s sort
of similar to all those kids whose mothers burned their comic books —
now every other made is based on a comic book. Like, Sin City.
SLW: That’s right. I even said in my review of that movie that
it’s partially horror because there are so many dark, forbidden elements
to it.
Englund: Yeah — and I think Mickey Rourke has got a little bit
of wolf in him! [laughs]
GEORGE ROMERO:
SLW: Hello, Mr. Romero. May I get a few words with you, please?
Romero: A few words. I just said it: A few words. [starts walking away]
SLW: [thinking: “Smart-ass!”] Have you selected your story
yet, for the Masters of Horror project?
Romero: Not yet, no. I just saw a couple of scripts, but I’ve
been working on a film, Land of the Dead, so I haven’t had time to sit
down and write something myself. Mick Garris sent me a couple of scripts but
I haven’t had time to read them yet, so… I haven’t picked a story
yet.
SLW: What type of story would you like to do? Maybe something a little
different from your usual?
Romero: I don’t know… something scary? [laughs] I’ll either
get an idea in the shower, or I’ll read something and like it and do it.
DIRECTOR AND CAST OF 2001 MANIACS: TIM SULLIVAN, CHRISTA CAMPBELL AND DYLAN
EDRINGTON
SLW: What’s with the dog tags you guys are wearing tonight? Something
to do with the 2001Maniacs movie?
Dylan: All the cast and crew got this special dog tag at the end of
the shoot, and it has our name on it, the year, and the place we shot the movie,
engraved on it. So we just wear it when we go out — actually, I wear mine
every day.
Tim: Making an independent horror movie is like going to war, so I thought
instead of giving people some tee-shirts or crew jackets, I’d give everybody
these dog tags at the end of the movie that said their name and what they did
and all that, so it kind of bonds us together, you know?
SLW: What’s 2001 Maniacs about?
Krista: It’s different than anything you’ve ever seen.
SLW: [jokingly scoffs] That’s what they all say!
Krista: No it is, it really is. It’s a period piece. It’s
a horror spoof-comedy.
Tim: It’s a gross-out horror film. I call it “splat-stick”.
SLW: If it’s gross, there must be vomit. How much puke on the
old vomit-o-meter?
Tim: There is some vomit in it… in the beginning, Dylan…
Krista: [interrupting] The death meter is very high!
Tim: Yes. We have a very interesting scene where the lovely Ms. Krista
dispatches with Dylan using Acid Moonshine.
SLW: Oh, my goodness! All right, I can guess two of the ingredients…
anything else in Acid Moonshine?
Krista: It’s a concoction I made up back on the farm, but it’s
a secret recipe. It will burn holes right through you! [laughs]
SLW: So when’s the movie out?
Tim: Probably in the fall. We’re very excited, because we just
snagged distribution. We’re also very excited the first time out to be
working with Robert Englund, who also stars in our movie. He was great with
these guys.
SLW: Krista, do you have any scenes with him?
Krista: Yes, I did. He’s amazing. It’s like, when you work
with Robert, you learn so much. You forget you’re in the scene because
you’re so busy watching him. It’s like, “Oh, I have to act
too!” [laughs] I learned so much working with him.
Dylan: Robert is such a funny guy. And he actually knew my character
better than I did. He knew everything inside and out. He just quoted lines [on
the spot] and he helped me tremendously. It was such a weird experience for
me, being new to the whole entertainment business, but we had a really fun time.
COURTNEY GAINES:
SLW: It is really the 20th Anniversary of Children of the Corn already?
Courtney: Actually, October of last year was the 20th anniversary. Anchor
Bay did a DVD release on it. It was cool.
SLW: So when people recognize you, do they shout quotes at you from
the movie?
Courtney: Yes, they scream out lines to me. There’s a couple:
“Outlander” and “He wants you too, Malachai!” People
scream them at me in malls, or walking down the street, so it’s kind of
crazy.
SLW: Did you do some commentary for anniversary edition DVD?
Courtney: Yeah, we did interviews and commentary. Myself, John Franklin
who played Isaac, Fritz Kiersch he director, and the producer.
SLW: Any other horror movies in the works for you?
Courtney: No, I’d love to do one.
SLW: Well, hey — all the masters of horror are all around you.
Courtney: Now you know why I’m here! George Romero, give me a
job! [laughs]
E.G. DALY
SLW: Hey, E.G. I think the last time I talked to you was at the Powerpuff
Girls premiere. You were Buttercup in that, and you’re Candy in the new
Rob Zombie movie, The Devil’s Rejects. What was it like working with Rob?
E.G.: Rob Zombie is nothing like you would expect him to be. I thought
he was just going to be this madman, scary, you know… And I found this really
cool, down-to-earth, great director. I loved him. I just loved working with
him. He let me go, as an actor. He just let me fly. He just gets into it, and
he laughs a lot. You can get as crazy as to want to while filming with him,
and he’ll just keep rolling.
SLW: Sounds like you had a good time.
E.G.: I had an amazing time working on the movie. Candy is a totally
whacked out character. I have a gun, and I get to ride on Bill Moseley’s
back. Bill and I have some very sexy scenes together [laughs] in his bedroom
where I’m romping on top of him. It’s pretty funny.
SLW: I met Bill when he was promoting House of 1000 Corpses. He’s
a really nice guy, but he sure plays a baddie in these movies.
E.G.: In person, he’s nothing like that. He looks so unbelievably
different in person, but when working with him I felt like I was lost in a time
capsule. He looked like Jesus! He’s another down-to-earth kind of guy,
funny, a great actor to work with. We laughed hysterically between takes —
it was a really fun, good time.
JOHN LANDIS:
SLW: So, do you have your story all set for your Masters of Horror episode?
John: I’d better. I start shooting it in a week and a half. It’s
called Deer Woman.
SLW: Hm, that doesn’t sound very terrifying. What’s it about?
John: You’ll have to wait and see.
SLW: How about a hint?
John: It’s about a deer-woman.
SLW: Gee, thanks. Do you planning on using any real deer?
John: Well, that’s still a debate. I think we can, but they [the
producers] don’t think so. They want to CG it but I hate the way that
looks.
SLW: How did you get in on this project with Mick [Garris, the Masters
of Horror creator]?
John: There was a documentary called Masters of Horror, and Mick Garris
invited everyone who was a subject on the documentary — a lot more people,
like David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro — we got together with Don Coscarelli
and a lot of people in the Valley in some terrible restaurant. But it was really
fun because it was like, “The Masters of Horror… have coffee… da-da-dum!”
[laughs] There was also Larry Cohen and Stuart Gordon and John Carpenter and
Tobe Hooper and George Romero… and uh, so Mick just said, “Hey, let’s
do something together.” So we all said, “OK, Mick. Sure. You go
get the money and we’ll do it.” And he did.
SLW: You’ve done some great horror movies with werewolves, zombies,
and even Eddie Murphy. But no ghosts, as far as I know. Since I’m working
on a book about ghost movies, I’m wondering if you have a favorite?
John: I have a bunch. I never have “favorites”. I really
liked Stir of Echoes; I loved The Uninvited; I love Guillermo’s movie
called The Devil’s Backbone; The Haunting — the real one, not the
shitty remake; Kuroneko; and Kwaidan. There are a lot of good ghost movies,
actually.
DON COSCARELLI:
SLW: I’m just a minion of horror, so I must ask — what’s
it like to be a Master of Horror?
Don: Well, I’m a geek myself so I’m honored to be included
in this group. They’re all such legends and genuinely nice guys.
SLW: That’s always what’s struck me about the people who
work in the horror genre.
Don: Horror fans may tend to be a little scary looking and they might
be more pierced than the average person, but they tend to be gentle, intelligent
people. There’s a camaraderie with everyone who grew up reading the famous
monsters and all that. So it’s all been very fun.
SLW: I understand this project came together over coffee?
Don: There was dinner, actually.
SLW: No expense spared!
Don: Mick [Garris] is the one who started it. He invited a couple of
friends to dinner, and what’s really bizarre is that at the end of the
night, when it came time to pay the bill, there was about $300 extra. Everyone
was so generous, it was weird! [laughs]
SLW: I’ll bet that waitress was happy.
Don: You end up feeling there’s this level of integrity about
these guys, and they are nice people — that’s what this all came
out of was a spirit of friendship.
SLW: Do you know what your Masters of Horror story is going to be yet?
Don: It’s based on a really cool short story written by Joe Lansdale,
the author of the classic Bubba Ho-Tep short story. It seems like your very
traditional story of a woman in the wood versus a serial killer, but it’s
quite layered and complex and wonderful in its own way. It’s called Incident
On and Off a Mountain Road.
SLW: Do you like having one hour to work with? Is that a challenge or
a hindrance?
Don: I think in working with a short story the one hour format is just
perfect. It’s tight enough where you can do something with some impact,
but it’s not like you have to make an epic. So that’s what attracted
everybody, is the fact that you can exercise your craft a little bit and have
some fun at the same time.
SLW: I saw Angus Scrimm here at the party a little bit earlier, so is
it true… Another Phantasm movie?
Don: [laughs] Well, I hope to do one. I haven’t hung up the old
balls yet! But actually, Angus is going to make an appearance in Incident On
and Off a Mountain Road. [He’s much different from The Tall Man in this
one] he’s a really wild character. Much different. This character is a
complete 180 turn, but any fan of Angus will really enjoy seeing him do something
like this.
JOE LANSDALE:
SLW: Joe, I know you wrote Bubba Ho-Tep, but I understand that you’ve
also written something for Don [Coscarelli] for The Masters of Horror.
Joe: He’s doing an episode from one of my short stories, called
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.
SLW: So Don doesn’t quite have the cred yet for you to be writing
things for him — he’s still coming to you?
Joe: [Laughs] So far! We enjoyed working together, though. I think Don
and I are a good mix. I’d like to work with Bruce again, too. [Bruce Campbell
starred in Bubba Ho-Tep.] We had a real good time. It’s a good mixture.
SLW: It is, really. I mean, you three are all a little bit quirky if
you don’t mind my saying so…
Joe: No, no. I think so. I think that’s what we enjoyed —
we could trust each other. We could trust each other to go out on a limb… and
saw it off! [laughs]
SLW: What do you think of the state of the horror genre today? Every
other movie seems to be a remake of an Asian hit.
Joe: Horror in general seems to be making a comeback. As for how long,
or how powerful that is, I couldn’t tell you. But it looks good. It kind
of reminds me of the 80s, back when it first started and all films feed the
books, the book feed the films, et cetera.
SLW: You mentioned the 80s, but to me that denotes the slasher-era.
Today we have some more cerebral horror, don’t you think?
Joe: I think it’s more of a mixture. They have had some of that
for sure, but I think it’s exciting because it isn’t just
“slasher” sort of films.
SLW: What is it about the short story format that really gets your creative
juices flowing?
Joe: Well, I’ve written novels, short stories, screenplays, comic
books…
SLW: And I’ve read them all!
Joe: [laughs] What I like about the short story is that you can get
involved so quickly. And you can make such a powerful punch, that you can stun
the reader. I enjoy that!
COURTNEY PELDON:
SLW: Here you are, amongst the Masters of Horror. Are you scared?
Courtney: I am totally freaked out! [laughs] But I just finished working
with Tobe Hooper and he was absolutely amazing boss… I would love to do another
movie with him. He’s a sweet, kind, intelligent, encouraging director.
I mean, he really allowed the actors to work with the script and that’s
rare.
SLW: He’s got a couple of movies coming out. Which one are you
in?
Courtney: I’m in Mortuary. We just wrapped a few weeks ago, and
I think he did say he’ll have a first cut done soon.
SLW: Are you going to be all excited to see it, or are you an actor
who hates the sight of themselves onscreen?
Courtney: [laughs] It’s kind of ying and yang. At the same time
I love to see it, love to see a movie I’m a part of, but in another sense
of course it’s uncomfortable. You sit there going, “Oh, that’s
my ass!” [cringes, laughs]
SLW: Are you a good girl in the movie, or a bad girl?
Courtney: I’m a very bad girl. My character’s name is Tina
and I am the leader of the bad kids in town. I get taken over by evil, and I
turn on my friends but they don’t know it; so I just sabotage everything.
SLW: That sounds like fun!
Courtney: Yeah, yeah. It was.
SLW: The screenwriters, Jace [Anderson] and Adam [Gierash], I understand that
they were on-set all the time. Were you able to pick their brains a little bit
about Tina’s “motivation”?
Courtney: Constantly. I constantly picked their brains. And they’re
a really interesting couple, too — Adam is out there, wild, funny, and
Jace is so sweet and so kind, and lovely — together they are the perfect
balance. They really did offer a lot of help on the set. I think it’s
always more helpful to have the writer around. I’m from a television background;
I just spent the last four years on Boston Public, before that it was Home Improvement,
and so the screenwriters are always there and I’m used to that. I’m
used to walking off the set and going, “Hey, what do you think…?”
And in film it is very different, but to me as an actor, it’s very helpful
[having the writer available].
SLW: Where was the movie shot?
Courtney: Mostly in Pomona [California].
SLW: That’s not very scary.
Courtney: It was in a haunted house!
SLW: OK, you got me.
Courtney: It was in a historically preserved haunted house. And people
were seeing things, all the time! They said there were women in white clothes,
crying. I got creepy feelings. I’m a chicken. There were, like, fake dead
bodies and skeletons all over the set and I would not look at them. It would
freak me out. I had nightmares!
SLW: I’ll bet Tobe loved to tease you.
Courtney: Yes, yes. He did.
SLW: What’s your favorite Tobe film?
Courtney: Actually, we had a great conversation at one point. He always
expects people to say, “Oh, my favorite movie is Poltergeist or The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre.” Those are both really great films, but my favorite
was actually The Funhouse, because Dean Koontz had actually written a great
book off that movie. I watched that movie so much when I was a kid, before I
turned into a big chicken.
SLW: That’s funny, because I was just talking to him [a few minutes
ago] and I told him that’s one of my favorites, too.
Courtney: Are you serious? Well, there you go! Yes!
MICK GARRIS:
SLW: Well, if it isn’t the master of the Masters of Horror! Now,
I understand this whole project came together over a dinner you set up. Is indigestion
to blame, or what?
Mick: [Smiles indulgently] For a long time, a lot of us who worked in
the genre, film directors, had been saying, “Oh, we ought to get together
sometime, it would be great do this.” I decided to take it hand and it
took weeks to finally schedule a night where everybody could make it. So we
had a dozen guys — John Landis, John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Tobe
Hooper, and so on — and we all had such a great time, that a couple of
months later we did another one and it took me an hour to put it together. I’ve
been wanting to do an anthology series for a long time, so this kind of eased
the way.
SLW: Did it help that the horror genre is so healthy right now?
Mick: It must have helped. Showtime just recently came on board, but
[prior to that] we were fully financed. IDT Entertainment and the Anchor Bay
DVD company were going to finance it, regardless of having a television outlet.
But we knew we had to have an outlet with no censorship and no commercials,
so Showtime is the perfect place for it — it’s cutting edge.
SLW: I love the Masters of Horror, each and everyone of you, but I was
going over all the directors’ names and writers and didn’t see a
single Mistress of Horror. What’s up with that?
Mick: We’re looking for one! [laughs] We really should call it
The Masters of Horror & Mick Garris, just to be fair.
SLW: It must be really exciting to have all these directors that you
admire as a fan, to be on your project.
Mick: Well, first of all, it’s humbling to be working with these
guys on an even keel and writing for some of them as well. The first one will
be directed by John Landis, then Dario Argento, then Don Coscarelli, I’m
doing #4, Stuart Gordon’s doing #5, then John Carpenter, then Joe Dante,
we also have Roger Corman, and just a ton of great people.
SLW: What will your story be about?
Mick: It’s actually based on one of my short stories, called Chocolate.
It’s about a guy who starts receiving all the senses of someone else.
He doesn’t know who it is, and they’re just very brief snatches
of sight, smell, touch, sound… it turns out to be a woman and he doesn’t
know who she is. Or what she is. It turns very dark.
SLW: I love dark chocolate! OK, so some of these stories are psychological
horror, some have serial killers, and so on — there’s a lot of subject
matter for 13 stories.
Mick: That’s correct.
SLW: And you’ve just wrapped Desperation, which I am very excited
about since it’s one of my favorite Stephen King books.
Mick: Desperation is kind of a desert noir — or desert blanc —
through the eyes of Stephen King. It’s very much like The Stand in that
a lot of it is on the road and it’s a very large good vs. evil standoff.
It was one of King’s more recent really horrific novels. We got a great
cast. We have Tom Skerritt, Charles Durning, Henry Thomas, Steven Weber, Ron
Perlman… It’s just a great ensemble cast.
SLW: The Regulators was a companion novel to Desperation; any plans
or hopes to maybe do that story somewhere down the road?
Mick: I don’t know if there are plans for The Regulators. It actually
was based on a screenplay that King had written for Sam Pekinpah way back when.
SLW: You brought up The Stand, which is one of my favorites of yours;
I was reading about Dario Argento earlier, and how he was actually offered the
directing job on that but he turned it down. What kind of version do you think
he would have of The Stand?
Mick: I don’t know, but when I first met Dario a few years ago
at one of the Saturn Awards dinners, he didn’t speak any English at all.
I was introduced to him as the director of The Stand, and so Dario turned to
me, very excited and said, “Oh, The Stand… is… is… BIG!” [laughs]
So that was my conversation with Dario. But yeah, his version of The Stand would
have been wild.
SLW: You have Riding the Bullet coming out on DVD soon. What can fans
expect to see in the way of additional release material?
Mick: There will be storyboards, I did two commentaries — one
by myself, and one with the cast and crew — so there will be plenty of
really great stuff. They did a beautiful job doing the transfer and all, too.
SLW: It really deserves the royal treatment. It’s a great movie
— I highly recommend it!
Mick: [chuckles] Thank you!
TOBE HOOPER:
SLW: Every time I talk to you, you are so friendly and polite and kind.
One would never think to look at you that you’ve come up with all these
terrifying movies! I recently interviewed your two favorite screenwriters Jace
[Anderson] and Adam [Gierasch], and they told me that on their Toolbox Murders
script, you went far beyond anything they wrote in terms of gore. Is it fun
to make it as disgusting as possible?
Tobe: Well, I don’t know about making it “disgusting”,
I mean, what I’m going for is just to make you jump. Even with The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, you go back and look at it and it’s not all that gory.
The title is gory.
SLW: That drill-death scene in Toolbox Murders kind of reminded me of
Brian de Palma’s Body Double; I mean, that type of scene was so controversial
at the time, and apparently it still is because you had to cut a lot of that
out [of your movie]. What is it with the MPAA and drills?
Tobe: Goodness, I don’t know. It’s a new system now. On
HBO and Showtime you can see what the fans really want to watch. I don’t
have a fix yet on the new system.
SLW: Apparently what you’ve gotta do is, what Robert Rodriguez
did in Sin City: Make everyone’s blood white. He told me he had no trouble
getting an R from the MPAA on that movie, and it’s gory beyond belief.
Tobe: That’s a great idea.
SLW: It must be the red blood they object to.
Tobe: You never know. At one time they objected to yellow blood, and
I think they objected to white blood in James Cameron’s Aliens. I saw
the other night on Carnivale that the good guy had blue blood and the bad guy
had black blood.
SLW: I guess there’s no rhyme or reason to it. Now, I know you’re
doing a couple more movies with Jace and Adam — either you really like
those two, or they have something on you — can you talk a little bit about
those projects?
Tobe: I just finished a film called Mortuary, and then I’m getting
ready to do a zombie film that they wrote. I haven’t done my zombie film
yet.
SLW: Yes, you must feel so deprived. Everybody else has one!
Tobe: [chuckles] Right, right. I need a zombie film.
SLW: So how are your zombies going to be — the slow and lumbering
type, or quick and cunning?
Tobe: I think they’ll be speedy but I’m not quite sure,
Staci. It’ll be a little something different. I am in the process of designing
them and I don’t start shooting for another couple of months.
SLW: Zombies are kind of interesting because they’re undead but
there is no allure for mortals to be like them, unlike say, sexy vampires. So
you’ve definitely got to do something a little twisty, to give them an
edge. [Listen to me, giving the Master of Horror advice!]
Tobe: Yeah, I think so, too. But I have a really good plan for something
you haven’t seen yet.
SLW: Well, I can’t wait to see it then. But for now you’ve
got the Masters of Horror anthology story for Showtime here, which is neat because
you can run at breakneck pace with something that’s only an hour. What’s
your story going to be, do you know yet?
Tobe: I’m still working on it. I can assure you it will be frightening.
With the freedom that I will have, I can really [get into it]. I hope
this doesn’t sound pretentious, but my intent is to make you jump while
watching television.
SLW: Horror on television is really becoming mainstream. You were talking
about Carnivale; some might say that’s dark fantasy, but to me it’s
horror.
Tobe: Yeah, yeah it is. I think [this trend] is really cool.
SLW: I’m currently writing a Guide to Ghost Movies, and I’ve
been asking just about everyone I interview, “What’s your favorite
ghost movie?” Poltergeist is definitely one of the most popular answers.
So I must ask, “What is the director of Poltergeist’s favorite ghost
movie?”
Tobe: Robert Wise’s The Haunting. When I saw it when I was a kid,
it burned a hole right in my head. It was so well done, because it all takes
place in your mind. I think the only special effect in the film is the doors
blowing in. Everything else is just chilling. You don’t scream, you don’t
jump, but you surely get creeped out and it makes you believe in ghosts. I think
that’s the hard part. There’s a certain way to go in to a ghost
story. It’s actually easier for people to believe in UFOs and aliens than
it is human spirits becoming ghosts.
SLW: You definitely got it right. But Poltergeist is a few years old
now, so who do you think has gotten it right since you did? Any more recent
ghost movie choices?
Tobe: Ju-on: The Grudge, and actually a lot of Asian films.
SLW: Ghosts are definitely a pervading theme in Asian horror.
Tobe: I’ve met some Asian directors and [they say] it’s
in their culture and a part of their folklore. It’s very commonplace and
it’s [part of] their whole belief system. I believe in entities, though
I’m not quite sure what it is but there is something there. You see these
things in your peripheral vision. I’ll be working on a ghost story later
this year.
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While not every Masters of Horror director has picked a project yet for the
13-episode limited movie series to air on Showtime, here are six of the “for
sures”:
Chocolate, written and directed by Mick Garris, is about a man's mysterious
psychic connection with a female stranger which compels him to stalk and kill
her.
Cigarette Burns, directed by John Carpenter, is an original teleplay by Drew
McWeeny and Scott Swan.
Deer Woman, directed by John Landis. It will star Brian Benben. Written by
John Landis and his son, Max Landis.
Dreams in the Witch House, to be directed by Stuart Gordon, is adapted from
the H.P. Lovecraft classic about the dreaded Necronomicon, where a man finds
hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the
legends of black magic.
Incident On and Off A Mountain Road, directed by Don Coscarelli. Adapted screenplay
by Coscarelli and Stephen Romano from a Joe R. Lansdale short story.
Jenifer, directed by Dario
Argento. It will star Stephen Weber and is based on a comic book by Bruce Jones
and Bernie Wrightson (which was adapted by Weber himself).
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