Interviews
Ellory Elkayem
In 2002 a big budget B-movie called Eight Legged Freaks became the surprise hit of the summer. The film marked the feature debut of Ellory Elkayem, who had cut his teeth directing a series of acclaimed short films in New Zealand, before coming to the attention of Hollywood filmmakers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin with [...]
Violet Morphine
Despite still being in her teens, Violet Morphine has enjoyed modest success as an alternative model through her work with the likes of Gore Couture, while also making appearances in short films and as a host for Scard TV. Not content with merely appearing in front of the camera, she has also earned diplomas in [...]
Dave Reda
In the summer of 2010, as he prepared to unleash his latest project Horror of Our Love: A Short Film, actor and director Dave Reda sat down with Dr. Gore’s Funhouse to discuss his love of the genre and his latest film. Reda followed on one acclaimed short film with another, My Undeadly, which has [...]
Tom Sullivan
Tom Sullivan’s career as a special effects artist and filmmaker has spanned over three decades and includes the ‘video nasty’ classic The Evil Dead. Having met Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert at Michigan State University where his wife studied, Sullivan was hired to create the FX for Raimi’s first foray into horror, a [...]
Jamie Bernadette
Illinois-born Jamie Bernadette has built up an impressive résumé in just a few years, having appeared in numerous short films, television shows, music videos and B-movies. A regular collaborator of cult filmmaker Ulli Lommel, the two have worked together on several direct-to-video titles including Absolute Evil, Night Stalker and Son of Sam. Bernadette’s more recent [...]
Pia Thrasher
Born in Bamberg, Germany and currently residing in San Diego, California, Pia Thrasher first started out as an extra during the mid-1990s, before progressing to roles in numerous B-movies and stage productions. Most recently, the horror and sci-fi enthusiast was cast as a witch in the upcoming independent fantasy The Immortal Edward Lumley. Pia Thrasher [...]
Keith Coogan
In 1991, at the height of her Married With Children fame, Christina Applegate landed her first major film role as Sue Ellen in Stephen Herek’s black comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. As the oldest of five siblings, teenager Sue Ellen is forced to lie her way into the business world in order to [...]
Ryan Nicholson
Vancouver-based filmmaker Ryan Nicholson has gained notoriety over the last few years for a string of graphic and excessive unrated horror flicks that have mixed explicit sex and violence as a tribute to the shameless exploitation films from the 1970s and ’80s. Following early efforts Tortured and Live Feed, Nicholson’s breakthrough came with the stylish [...]
Tony Riparetti
Santa Barbara native Tony Riparetti first started out with the Los Angeles-based Sue Saad and the Next, who gained minor acclaim during the heyday of New Wave, before being recruited by B-movie director Albert Pyun. This would mark the start of a successful collaboration that would result in various cult flicks such as Alien from [...]
Ed Naha
For the last three decades, Ed Naha has gained considerable acclaim as a writer for his work in motion pictures and television, as well as a critic and founder of legendary horror magazine Fangoria. His screenwriting career was launched in the mid-1980s with such cult favourites as Troll and Dolls, both for Empire Pictures, before [...]
Daniel Licht
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Licht began his career studying world music and jazz, before relocating to Los Angeles to work alongside composer Christopher Young on such blockbusters as Species and Copycat. As a composer in his own right, Licht’s early work included the sequels Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice and Hellraiser: Bloodline, whilst in [...]
Harry Bromley-Davenport
Although it had enjoyed considerable success during the 1970s as the distributor of such cult flicks as Reefer Madness and Pink Flamingos, New Line Cinema eventually turned to production in 1982 with the stylish thriller Alone in the Dark. Their second feature was a low budget British horror called Xtro, which had been developed by [...]