***Warning spoilers ahead! *** Jasmine Hyde is extraordinary as Gemma, the central character in the terrific new British thriller The Unseen. She and her husband have lost their young son, an only child, and as they struggle to come to terms with their loss she starts intermittently losing her sight – and we experience these attacks… Interview With Jasmine Hyde – Gemma In The Unseen Read More
Interview With Simon Cotton – Paul In The Unseen
***Warning spoilers ahead! *** Paul, Simon Cotton’s character in The Unseen, can best be described as “handsome but creepy”. As soon as I saw him I suffered a bout of JustCantPutMyFingerOnIt-itis, and my creep radar went wild. But thanks to Simon’s performance I did struggle for much of the film as to whether I was… Interview With Simon Cotton – Paul In The Unseen Read More
Interview With Richard Flood – Will In The Unseen
Richard Flood plays Will in new British thriller The Unseen. He’s lost his son, and now has to deal with his wife Gemma intermittently losing her sight, and their new friend Paul, who is muscling in on their grief. Will’s own coping mechanisms aren’t working – he starts hearing their dead son Joel in their home, but is it psychological or something more… Interview With Richard Flood – Will In The Unseen Read More
Is Horror Reanimating? Is IT It? Q&A With Shudder’s Colin Geddes
“I like to break the genre down into films that are terror-based (rooted in reality, such as serial killers, slashers, crime) in which the outcome is predictable in the sense that it’s bound by the rules of physics; and horror, which is uncanny or supernatural, and not rooted in any firm rules of our world.”… Is Horror Reanimating? Is IT It? Q&A With Shudder’s Colin Geddes Read More
New York’s Stunt World – Training, Hustling… Oscars?
I spent four EXHAUSTING hours in a comfy chair in Breakfall Studios’ Manhattan gym, watching superfit stunt performers training: backflips, cartwheels, throwing themselves to the ground and practicing disarming each other with prop weapons. Everyone was lovely and if I ever need to be thrown out of a window, or have a bottle smashed over… New York’s Stunt World – Training, Hustling… Oscars? Read More
Ilyana Eberhardt – stuntwoman
“Stunt coordinators are so creative – they are given new things and they just have to figure it out for themselves how to make it work… and still find a safe way to do it.” Ilyana Eberhardt, 24 1, What was your first experience performing a stunt on screen and what other shows have you… Ilyana Eberhardt – stuntwoman Read More
Jared Blake DiCroce – stuntman, director, producer
“We try to hide our faces just so we can be recycled and work again!” Jared B DiCroce, 34 1, How did you get into stunt performing? I had a long journey. I started as an actor, I’ve been in SAG (Screen Actors Guild) for years. I worked on The Sopranos and I did a… Jared Blake DiCroce – stuntman, director, producer Read More
Noah Schultz – stuntman
“You’d never want to lie in this industry because it could kill you” Noah Schultz, 35 1, I hear you were in Baby Driver? I loved that film! What were you doing? Yes I doubled for Academy Award winning musician Paul Williams (Rainbow Connection) who was playing The Butcher, so it was the warehouse scene where… Noah Schultz – stuntman Read More
And Breathe… Paul Mackie Takes Us Through The Making Of Collaborative Indie Film Breathe Easy
“I felt straight from the off that the only way to get people involved and invested in the film was to give them a sense of ownership of it… give them as much freedom as possible to do their thing” Paul Mackie Breathe Easy is a full length feature film made collaboratively by 20 directors in… And Breathe… Paul Mackie Takes Us Through The Making Of Collaborative Indie Film Breathe Easy Read More
Interview With Director Stephen Nagel from Breathe Easy
“Everyone involved was super-passionate and interested in making something amazing. And we did it!” Stephen Nagel Stephen Nagel directed the Cape Town segment of the collaborative film Breathe Easy. The movie follows different people from various cultures and countries as the world is faced with a possible apocalypse, as toxic clouds of unknown origin drift across the sky. In Stephen’s… Interview With Director Stephen Nagel from Breathe Easy Read More
Interview With Actress Zoe Cunningham From Breathe Easy
British actress Zoe Cunningham plays Nicola Johnson in collaborative indie film Breathe Easy. Nicola works for LDN Network, and though she starts off as the calm voice of authority, hand-holding us Brits through the unfolding apocalypse, soon she’s slightly cracking up, in a tiara (which reminds me, I really need to sort out my own end of days outfit. No need to let standards… Interview With Actress Zoe Cunningham From Breathe Easy Read More
Crowdfund, Collaborate, Never Stint On Catering: Indie Filmmaker Richard Rowntree
“Necessity really is the mother of invention, and people found ways to achieve things that you wouldn’t believe if you knew what their budgets were” Richard Rowntree is a British indie film director who, yes, started watching horror films FAR too young. But he’s put that early cinematic exposure to the darker side of life to very good use – Dogged,… Crowdfund, Collaborate, Never Stint On Catering: Indie Filmmaker Richard Rowntree Read More