September 2010
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Tom DeSimone
For over forty years, Tom DeSimone has carved a career our of the B-movie and exploitation film industry. Having first gained acclaim whilst still at UCLA for his student short Wooden Lullaby, DeSimone began in the industry as a post-production supervisor during the late sixties. His first feature film as a director, Terror in the [...]
Reform School Girls
Dr. Gore’s Funhouse recently spoke to cult B-movie director Tom DeSimone about his 1986 women-in-prison classic Reform School Girls, which featured exploitation regulars Sybil Danning (Chained Heat) and and Tiffany Helm (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning). Ostensibly a spoof of the genre, which DeSimone had previously explored with Prison Girls and The [...]
Johannes Roberts
Johannes Roberts is amongst several directors who have been responsible for the revival of horror in the British film industry. Having self-funded his first feature, Sanitarium, through credit cards, he enjoyed acclaim for his ambitious project When Evil Calls, a series which was initially shot for mobile phones.
William Winckler
William Winckler is a man of many talents; director, producer, writer and all-around filmmaker.
David Cass
Over recent years, thanks to the internet, DVD and genre magazines, countless long-lost movies have been rediscovered and introduced to a new generation of fans, eager to look back on a time before they were born when the world was a very different place. Whilst the likes of Anchor Bay, Blue Underground and Code Red [...]