Sundance ’11 Interview: ‘Vampire’ Director Iwai Shunji

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on February 01, 2011 @ 5:58pm
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Debuting at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s Vampire (review), a film about a young schoolteacher (Kevin Zegers) who develops a taste for human blood and seeks out suicidal women in online chat rooms in order to quench his unconventional thirst. B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen recently chatted via email with Shunji about the low-key movie, which veers away from the usual cinematic vampire clichés to give viewers a de-romanticized perspective on the bloodsucker sub-genre. See inside for the full interview.
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Sundance ’11 Interview: ‘The Silent House’ Team Chris Kentis & Laura Lau!

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on January 26, 2011 @ 3:54pm
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Just barely sliding into Sundance this year is the Laura Lau/Chris Kentis horror flick The Silent House (review), a last-minute addition that follows a young woman’s night of terror as she travels with her father and uncle to the family’s isolated summer home and comes to discover they’re not alone. Lau and Kentis, the husband-and-wife duo behind 2004 hit Open Water, based the story on the recent Uruguayan film La casa muda, duplicating that movie’s amazing – though not unprecedented – feat of being filmed entirely in one continuous take. B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen recently got on the phone with the couple to discuss the project’s astonishingly quick journey to the screen, the formidable challenge of shooting it all in one go, and working with star Elizabeth Olsen (the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley). See inside for the full interview.

Sundance ’11 Interview: Lucky McKee Talks ‘The Woman’

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on January 25, 2011 @ 4:03pm
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Amazingly, it’s been nearly ten years since director Lucky McKee first made a name for himself with the quirky character-based horror film May, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival way back in 2002. McKee’s latest project is The Woman, a sequel to the 2009 Andrew van den Houten-directed cannibal horror movie that was based on the book of the same title by cult novelist Jack Ketchum. Adapted from a recent follow-up novel written by McKee and Ketchum in a to-die-for-collaboration, The Woman premieres at Sundance next week and looks poised to rattle our collective cages in its story of “disturbed family man” Christopher Cleek (Sean Bridgers) who captures the last surviving member of the cannibal clan and in the process endangers the lives of himself and his family. McKee recently took time out for an interview with B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen to talk about the project, including reuniting with Bettis, what it was like teaming up with renowned “splatter punk” novelist Ketchum, and whether the nerve-wracking Sundance experience ever gets any easier. See inside for the full interview.
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Sundance ’11 Interview: Jason Eisener on His Grindhouse-Inspired ‘Hobo With a Shotgun’!

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on January 24, 2011 @ 4:26am
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For those who enjoyed director Jason Eisener’s award-winning faux-trailer Hobo with a Shotgun, not to mention his later blood-drenched short film “Treevenge”, you can thank your lucky stars because the feature-length version of Hobo – starring Rutger Hauer, no less! – will be coming soon to a theater or cable box near you, courtesy of genre distributor Magnet Releasing. B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen recently got on the phone with the Nova Scotia-based director to get his thoughts on the Sundance-premiering project’s unlikely rise, including what it was like to work with screen legend Rutger Hauer, how much gore we can expect in the film (answer: tons), and his ’70s and ’80s filmmaking inspirations. See inside for the full interview.
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Sundance ’11 Interview: ‘Catechism Cataclysm’ Director Todd Rohal

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Posted by Chris Eggertsen on January 23, 2011 @ 6:29pm
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One of the films premiering in the genre-friendly Park City at Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival this year is directorTodd Rohal’s Catechism Cataclysm, a quirky buddy comedy/horror flick/absurd mash-up that tells the story of an “eccentric young priest” (Steve Little) and his ex-rock star childhood friend (Robert Longstreet) who embark on an ill-fated canoeing trip. B-D reporter Chris Eggertsen recently got on the phone with Rohal to discuss the hard-to-pin-down film, which according to the director was partially inspired (tonally, at least) by both Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (!) See inside for the full interview.
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