less than iconic.
2) WHAT HORROR CLASSIC (OR
NON-CLASSIC) THAT HAS NOT YET
BEEN REMADE WOULD YOU LIKE
TO SEE UPGRADED FOR MODERN
AUDIENCES?
I'd personally like to see Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED get a big budget HELLBOY-esque facelift. And I
have somewhat lofty dreams of being the director
who gets to update it. Granted, I'd need to get studio
backing and establish more screen cred to even
get Clive's permission to redo it.
3) JONATHAN FRID OR THAVER DAVID?
the Fridster.
4) NAME ONE HORROR MOVIE
YOU NEED TO SEE THAT
HAS SO FAR ELUDED YOU
Off the top of my head; I've never
seen the BASKET CASE sequels.
also, Wes Craven's SHOCKER ('89)
5)
FAVORITE FILM DIRECTOR
MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED
WITH HORROR
Cronenberg.
6) INGRID PITT OR BARBARA STEELE?
Barbara Steele.
7) FAVORITE 50'S SCI-FI / HORROR CREATURE
Those spinal cord & brain monsters
from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE!!
8) FAVORITE / BEST SEQUEL
TO AN ESTABLISHED
HORROR CLASSIC
Cameron's ALIENS (1986)
is immaculate.
9) NAME A SEQUEL IN A HORROR SERIES WHICH CLEARLY
SIGNALED THAT THE
ONCE-VITAL FRANCHISE
HAD RUN OUT OF GAS
FINAL DESTINATION 3
was a letdown to me.. even if i do
love the intro part
10) JOHN CARRADINE OR LON CHANEY JR?
Lon Chaney Jr.
11) WHAT WAS THE LAST
HORROR MOVIE YOU SAW
IN A THEATER? ON DVD
OR BLU-RAY?
Theater: Kevin Smith's RED STATE
At home on dvd:
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
12) BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE
FIEND / MONSTER
Guilala from X FROM OUTER SPACE!
Adorable and hilarious
13) FAVORITE MARIO BAVA?
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
14) FAVORITE HORROR ACTOR OR ACTRESS
Christopher Lee.
15) NAME A GREAT HORROR DIRECTOR'S LEAST EFFECTIVE
MOVIE
not a fan of Carpenter's
VAMPIRES ('98)
16) GRAYSON HALL OR JOAN BENNETT?
My Joanie.
17) WHEN DID YOU REALIZE THAT YOU WERE A FAN OF
THE HORROR GENRE?
& IF YOU'RE NOT, WHEN DID YOU
REALIZE YOU WEREN'T?
In 6th grade I became obsessed with
Romero's DEAD trilogy. Especially DAY
OF THE DEAD (1985). The whole survival
horror scenario & general bleakness of those
films captivated me.
18) FAVORITE BERT I. GORDON
(MR. B.I.G.) MOVIE?
THE FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)
19) NAME AN OBSCURE
HORROR FAVORITE THAT
YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE
KNEW ABOUT
This creepy Aussie movie
called CELIA ('89).
20) HUMAN CENTIPEDE-- YES OR NO?
Yes to the first one.. I can't vouch for the 2nd though.
The first one is a genuine oddity and deserves
its cult status
21) AND WHILE WE'RE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IS THERE A
HORROR FILM YOU CAN
THINK OF THAT YOU FELT
"WENT TOO FAR"?
I feel the graphic depictions of rape in I SPIT ON YOUR
GRAVE (1978) and A SERBIAN FILM (2009) go too far.
Especially the latter. I don't know where the line is for
me, but those two films cross it..
NAME A FILM THAT IS TECHNICALLY
OUTSIDE OF THE HORROR GENRE
THAT YOU MIGHT STILL FEEL
COMFORTABLE DESCRIBING
AS A HORROR
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
23) LARA PARKER OR KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT?
Lara!
24) IF YOU'RE A HORROR FAN AT SOME POINT IN YOUR PAST YOUR
DAD, GRANDMOTHER, TEACHER
OR SOME OTHER DISGUSTED FIGURE
OF AUTHORITY PROBABLY WAGGED
HER/HIS FINGER AT YOU AND SAID,
"WHY DO YOU INSIST ON READING
/WATCHING ALL THIS MORBID
MONSTER/HORROR JUNK?" HOW
DID YOU REPLY? AND IF THAT REPLY
FELL SHORT SOMEHOW, HOW WOULD
YOU HAVE LIKED TO HAVE REPLIED?
My mother was the one who was always trying to
shield me from horror and would get mad when I was
always watching them as a teenager. Due to her
protective nature+ all the memories she has of me not
being able to sleepas a child because I was scared.
"You're filling your mind with all that violence and
scary images!" to which I only replied something like
"It's not that scary.".. Now I wish I had said "Some of
these movies have great resilient characters & are
causing me to think long & hard about philosophical
questions!" And "they're preparing me for the
nightmare of adult life!"
NAME THE CRITIC OR WEB
SITE YOU MOST ENJOY
READING ON THE SUBJECT
OF THE HORROR GENRE
Scott Weinberg has exposed me to many
horror movies! Plus he writes about them
with infectious passion.
26) MOST FRIGHTENING IMAGE YOU'VE EVER TAKEN
AWAY FROM A HORROR MOVIE
Those human shaped burn marks on the
walls in PULSE (2001)..
They cry Hiroshima 💔
27) YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY
ASSOCIATED WITH WATCHING
A HORROR MOVIE
Watching DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) for the first time
with my dad in middle school! We had to drive all the
way to a Best Buy in Plano to get the only copy they
had in stock. My dad had fond memories of seeing it
during it's original release and he had got me super
stoked to see it. I already loved NIGHT OF THE
LIVING DEAD (1968) at that point but he knew I
would like the 2nd one even more for its more modern
setting & action tropes. DAWN did not disappoint!
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT/SIGNIFICANT HORROR
MOVIE OF THE PAST 20 YEARS
(1992-2012)? WHY?
28 DAYS LATER (2002) for the technical innovation
of being shot digital and also for the way it visualized
pandemic & civil unrest. It took all of Romero's pet
themes & updated them perfectly to the age of
terrorism. It felt like I was watching a visceral
documentary about the collapse of society and not just
another big studio movie. Almost as revolutionary as
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) must have
been in its day.
DR. PHIBES CURSE
(FROM EITHER FILM)
The locusts!
30) YOU ARE PROGRAMMING AN ALL-NIGHT HALLOWEEN HORROR-THON
FOR YOUR FAVORITE OLD MOVIE
PLACE. WHAT FIVE MOVIES MAKE
UP YOUR SCHEDULE?
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
THE ASPHYX (1972)
AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)
TREMORS (1990)
& DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001)
