INTERVIEW - CASEY TEBO - INDIE HORROR DIRECTOR - BLACK FRIDAY

 

A salute to everyone reading this interview. The principal aim of this blog is provide valuable information at those newbies filmmakers out there, you know, filmmakers that haven't shot any movie yet because they feel trapped in doubts about concepts or practical tricks about something or they feel mentally blocked crafting their movie story. So, what they need are the testimonies from other more experienced filmmakers, who started out like them, from zero, or maybe some didn't commence from zero but have suffered they same doubts they are suffering now, all this with practical question regarding the moviemaking backgrounds, how to do certain things, advice about specific matters, no abstract issues but real matters.

Having said that, I've had the fortune to have talked with many indie filmmakers, there are  some who have been more open to share their thought than others but in overall all have been really helpful giving out advice and sharing their experiences, the setbacks faced and the most important how they solved them out. I've exposed the previous speech because I had the tremendous pleasure to talk with the talented and bright director CASEY TEBO. I have to say that he has been one of the most expressful directors I've ever talked before and knowing the level he usually moves around I am more than honoured. We talked about his latest work, the comedy - horror BLACK FRIDAY. The film was starred by Bruce Campbell, Devon sawa, Ivana Baquero, Ryan Lee, Stephen Peck and Michael Jai White. You can imagine the level the movie has, I mean, a dazzling cast. The movie was released on VOD and limited theaters in 2021 and had its DVD and Bluray release in January 2022, you can check here.

Casey is from Massachusetts and as he said himself, the curiousity for filmmaking was born thanks to a scene from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, from that particula scene a world begun for him. Casey explained to us in a clear way how he approaches the creation of a movie, gave us really worthy advice and tips when shooting a scene and plenty more things. So, please, eager newbie filmmaker, scroll down and read this great interview with massive advice for you.

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INTERVIEW - TIMOTHY COVELL / CHRISTINA BEHNKE - INDIE HORROR FILMMAKERS - BLOOD CONSCIOUS

A salute to everyone reading this interview. Today's interviewees are a couple f indie filmmakers who decided to embark into the sinuous, mysterious, sometimes bleak, but always interesting and gratifying world of making a feature film, and they are TIMOTHY COVELL and CHRISTINA BEHNKE, this year was premiered their first feature film called BLOOD CONSCIOUS. TIMOTHY as the director and writer and CHRISTINA as the producer, they together brought in a riveting horror film about a brother, sister and her fiancé are planning to spend some time at their parent's lakeside cottage, but when arrived to the cottage they find their parents and neighbours haven been murdered, the killer reached them out but he claims he had to kill them because they were demons, is it true or not? This movie is "What happens after a typically horror movie ends". The movie had the THEATRICAL, DIGITAL and VOD release on August 20, 2021 and the DVD release on September 28, 2021 distributed by Dark Sky Films.

TIMOTHY and CHRISTINA were open to discuss and talk about the hard journey they had making the movie  and watch it "on screen" finally, I tried to take the opportunity and ask about everything in terms of making of and emotions flourish during the movie making, the setbacks, the way the destroyed their obstacles and how others indie filmmakers can read their experiences and take in out of the advice.

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INTERVIEW - KOHL GLASS - INDIE HORROR DIRECTOR - BABYSITTER MUST DIE

A salute to everyone reading this interview. A couple months ago I was able to chat with KOHL GLASS, a talented director from Mesa, Arizona. On june 21 of this year was released on VOD paltforms his latest movie: BABYSITTER MUST DIE, distributed by Blue Fox Entertainment. A horror-thriller movie that has pinches of comedy in it. The story centers on a babysitter that must to defend the family hired her from some cultists, but she's not just any babysitter, she is the babysitter the cultists need to kill to succeed in their plans, but soon they find things won't go as easy as they planned before. The movie has received praise from critics and audience, for example www.heavenofhorror.com wrote: "...it reminded me quite a lot of movies like Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse or Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Both are movies I really love so this is a huge compliment.".

KOHL told us about why chose filmmaking as a life thing, the ins and outs during the shooting of his film, anecdote and advice for all those newbie filmmakers out there tryng to figure out how to make their first movie. Come out! Scrowl down and read a worthy interview.

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