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SXSW 2011: Interview with ‘Animal Control’ Director Kire Paputts

Last week we published a preview of Animal Control, a short film playing at SXSW this March. Intrigued by this eerie, nocturnal film, I shot some questions over to the director, Toronto resident Kire Paputts. I was lucky enough to get back answers that reflected the mood of film itself: often tormented, a little disgusting, …

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Andrew Garfield on Spider-Man

In a recent interview, by the Hollywood Reporter’s Jay A. Fernandez, about playing Tommy in Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, the new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, comments on how he feels taking on the role of the web slinging hero. “I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call …

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‘Planet Terror’ vs. ‘Death Proof’

With Grindhouse, directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino made a movie in the grand tradition of Umberto Lenzi and John Carpenter. Masquerading as a double bill, the homage of ’60s- and ’70s-era drive-in flicks stitched into one shambling feature also included four goofball “Coming Attractions” for nonexistent B-movies. This Frankenstein monster runs just over the …

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The Very Best Of The Found Footage Genre Part 1

Two decades before The Blair Witch Project, the 1980 Italian exploitation film Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, broke traditional cinematic conventions while creating major controversy following its release. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentarians who journey deep into the jungle to film indigenous tribes. Two months later, …

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A conversation with Gerard Johnson the writer/director of the British serial killer film Tony.

A conversation with Gerard Johnson By Nick Martin Movies about serial killers have an odd niche in our cultural lexicon. A sub-genre that was first embraced by cult filmists now walks a fine line between obscurity and mainstream. Films such as Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs and David Fincher’s Se7en seem to strike an …

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Interview: George A. Romero

George A. Romero knows what scares you. He also knows what your insides look like, and since 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, he’s been putting both on display in what’s now an epic six film zombie series. The first three films in the hexalogy, widely regarded as classics of the horror genre, were released …

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Fantasia Film Festival 2009 Director Lee Demarbre and David Hess talk Smash Cut

Smash Cut, about a B-movie director who begins killing people to improve the realism of his special effects, is the type of film that gives cult film fans fever dreams, full of porn stars and blood spatter and everything else that Pat Robertson thinks causes hurricanes. Starring adult film actress Sasha Grey, Last House on …

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