Gavin Schmitt’s interviews of people in movie and television industry.
Gavin Schmitt Interviews Larry Fessenden If you want to talk about independent writers, directors, actors or producers in the horror genre today, you’re going to talk about Larry Fessenden. Inspired by the old Universal Monsters, Fessenden has run the independent film company Glass Eye Pix since 1985, with a mission of getting lower budget projects […]
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Hannah New took an indirect route to become a star. Based in England, she started modeling (which is typical enough), but then immersed herself in Spanish culture, even living in Bolivia for a while. She landed a few roles on Spanish television (a very unlikely path), and was discovered by Disney, who was casting for
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Actor Joel David More Joel David Moore was kind enough to chat with me on October 15, 2014 regarding his role in the 2014 horror film Grace: The Possession (affiliate link), where he plays a deacon named Luke. Moore is best known for portraying Owen Dittman in “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”,
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Katharine Isabelle Although not a horror fan herself, Katharine Isabelle has been dubbed a “scream queen” and has appeared in some of the genre’s more notable work of the 21st century, particularly the “Ginger Snaps” (affiliate link) trilogy and “American Mary”, as well as “Freddy vs. Jason”. She has been called a
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Zach Galligan talks Gremlins, Waxwork, Hatchet III and More I had the pleasure of interviewing Zach Galligan. The interview is below. Q: Allegedly you were cast in “Gremlins” based on your audition chemistry. Can you elaborate on that? ZG: Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Except I never actually spoke to Spielberg about why he cast
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Bob Murawski Bob Murawski is an editor who rose up from the world of the drive-in and low-budget films, Murawski went on to become the regular editor for Sam Raimi starting with “Army of Darkness” through the “Spider-Man” movies and beyond, before winning his first Oscar editing Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker”.
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Jack Hill is an incredible talent. Starting out under Roger Corman, he pioneered such exploitation genres as women in prison and blaxploitation. He launched the careers of Pam Grier and Sid Haig, as well as working with Universal Monsters alum in their later years. He is probably best known to horror fans for 1968’s “Spider
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Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are modern legends in the horror world. Melton burst on to the scene with his debut film “Feast” in 2005 and has since written for the “Saw” franchise, as well as “The Collector”, “Piranha 3DD”, and many other films that he has done behind the scenes (writers often work as
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Matt Bondurant is a successful American novelist, whose best known work is “The Wettest County in the World”. While a work of fiction, it was heavily based on the real-life Prohibition era of Franklin County, Virginia, where almost everyone was in on the moonshine business. The events are all real, though certain conversations had to
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In 2009, Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio unleashed “Cropsey” into the world. This documentary explored an urban legend (Cropsey) and a real-life case (that of killer Andre Rand) that was eerily similar in many respects. While looking at the link between true crime and urban legend, they also found some disturbing things out about history,
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