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CAMP DAVID JANUARY 2010: IN HOLLYWOOD NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM

David Del Valle

The recent passing of genre writer/director Dan O’Bannon caused me to unearth my picture file on his directorial debut, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, which since its first screening has steadily built a substantial horror fan base as a classic zombie film in the tradition of the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.

BEST OF THE DECADE LISTS

Roy Frumkes

It’s never too late to sum up the previous decade. The writers of FIR choose their favorite films of the 2000s. With selections by: Roy Frumkes, Guglielmo Anthony, Bryan Layne, Max Pemberton, Glenn Andreiev, John Larkin & Mark Gross.

GRAEME WHIFLER’S BACKLASH

Franco Frassetti

Screenwriter and director Graeme Whifler and I met a few years ago at the New York City Horror Film Festival as he was screening Neighborhood Watch. This is the very film in which a person next to me fainted. Yes, it is true. The irony? The person was a special effects artist.

LARRY COHEN INTERVIEW

Bryan Layne

Although he now lives in Hollywood, you just can’t think of a Larry Cohen film without synonymously thinking of New York City. His insurgent style of filmmaking has helped to capture the best and worst of the greatest city in the world to the point where the city itself became an essential character in many of Cohen’s films…

CAMP DAVID DECEMBER 2009: BONDING WITH SISTER HYDE

David Del Valle

There is one very special woman of all the show business characters I encountered during my decades in Babylon. She became in time more like a sister to me, sharing most of my ups and downs in the process. Martine Beswick came into my life like a bolt from the blue. The signs of the Zodiac were in full swing and Jupiter aligned with Mars that night in the summer of 1978 when I blissfully walked into the Blue Parrot…

H.G.WELLS GETS THE 3D TREATMENT

David Rosler

Here’s a little overview about our making of H.G.WELLS’ THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON in 3-D. This is not to be confused with the very recently announced BBC 4 version of Wells’ tale in standard 2-D reportedly still being filmed and coming out as quickly as late spring or summer of 2010. Our H.G.WELLS’ THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON in 3D is just completed after more than two years from inception to finish.

CAMP DAVID NOVEMBER 2009: THE SILENT SCREAM OF BARBARA STEELE

David Del Valle

When Barbara Steele, {the star of quite possibly the greatest Italan Horror film ever made THE MASK OF THE DEMON (aka BLACK SUNDAY) vowed “to never crawl out of another fucking coffin again,” she would have been wise to have included attics and hidden rooms in her pronouncement…