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This week, Summer entertains a double shot of horror creatives!
First a chat with writer/director Eli Morgan Gesner, whose feature Condemned will be available in theaters and video on demand platforms on November 13. Eli talks about making a movie in an urban center rather than out in the middle of nowhere, and the appeal of horror stories have for he and his friends, which led to the need to make one that brought things closer to home.
Eli on Twitter: @ocularge
Eli on Instagram: @ocularge
facebook.com/condemnedthemovie
Next, a talk with storytellers and animators Greg Ansin and Mike Neel, whose YouTube series “Infinite Santa 8000” garnered such a loyal fan base that the movie they clamored for just had to be made. The guys also talk about future plans for more projects and platforms for “Infinite Santa”.
Twitter: http://www.infinitesanta.com, @InfiniteSanta
youtube.com/user/InfiniteSanta8000
Greg & Mike’s After Effects video tutorials: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLchDhpww7WpXEY3kL-ITSagIF6LJAo6lZ
http://midnightreleasing.com/infinite-santa-8000
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I’m not sure if it’s this episode you wanted our opinions about horror. Personally I’m not into horror. I don’t like seeing innocent or good people get killed and in horror movies, that happens a lot. I don’t watch much Dr.Who for the same reason. Plus I’m squeamish.
But if other people like it, all the more power to them. I hope more quality horror movies get made. I hope more quality movies of every genre gets made and we’re not fed a constant diet of bland explosion-fests. Now THAT is scary.
And that’s the thing… horror shouldn’t automatically be equated with scenarios to be squeamish about. A good horror movie should be psychological, not just a splatter-fest dreamt up by folks who never outgrew their fetish for throwing stuff up on the walls when they were 4 year olds.
You shouldn’t have to write off the entire horror genre just because you’re sensitive to blood, guts and gore being thrown around the set every 10 minutes because it’s in the script and the people who came up with the script thought that having splatter effects would make up for not having a real story to tell.
I will give a story a pass on excess gore if it is done to enhance something in the story rather than done instead of having story, or if it’s done for an intentional humorous effect (as in several of the shorts from this year’s “Tales of Halloween” film anthology). Otherwise, I will be as brutal with that movie as they were with the shallow, useless effects.
Can you tell this is one of my peeves about the decline of quality horror story telling the past 20-30 years? 🙂
Well I don’t like the psychological terror either. I tried “Welcome to Night Vale”, some of the old radio shows from my library, something by HP Lovecraft, even some short stories from an erotica collection, and I couldn’t get into any of them. It could be a different kind of dislike. I don’t like the helplessness in many of these stories and that’s a key part of horror IMHO.
Take Ghostbusters as an example. That’s not horror. After Egon, Venkman, and Stanz see a ghost and run they make some nuclear powered beam guns and go hunting for ghosts and win. You don’t see that kind of effective proactive behavior in a horror show. Compare that to Aliens where the guys and gals with the guns fight the monsters and get killed one by one. Nothing they do works for very long and the only thing you can do is try and escape with your life. That’s the kind of helplessness I don’t like. It goes along with Lovecraft’s “nothing you do matters” theme you see in his stories.
That’s my root issue with horror, the blood and gore just make it worse.