Hot & Horrifying: The First Ladies Of Horror (11)
NVF Films Interview with Reyna Young Hey babe! Long time no see! been keeping busy? Too busy it seems! I need a vacation… LOL I see you have been working hard on the Women In Horror documentary. I watched a clip from it and loved it. How long has it taken to put it together? Well so far it’s token awhile but I’m about an hour done with it and just filming my hosting scenes right now and getting the final little glitches worked out. It looks great and I cannot wait for all the wonderful ladies to see it. I hope they’ll like it. There has been some real challenges. I’m focusing basically on the independent scene of females in the genre so when people ask me who’s in it and they don’t know any of the names they ask me why I would even put women people don’t know about in the documentary. I say “They are the future of Horror.” A lot of these ladies have been around for awhile and if no one knows who they are, well they are going to by the end of the doc! The clip I watched had some great stars; April Burril, Michelle Tomlinson, Sarah Brock. How many ladies ended up in there? I believe around 35 women. Each woman has answered about two questions and some more. I tried to fit in as much as I could and picked out the best answers. They were all good and of course anything missing will be on the special features. I couldn’t fit all the questions on the main dvd so they will be on disc 2. I just want to make a Documentary that people will love. I get all these weir negative comments about it and it’s like “you can’t please everyone” I know that, I’m not hear to please everyone. I just want to do what I love….. Here is one for fun. If you could put together the ultimate cast for a slasher film, who would be your picks for the leads? The final girl? The...killer? WOW! good question…. Well I would have to have all females because that would be cool. My leads would have to be Brooke Lewis and Elske McCain, the killer would be me, the final girl would be Dai Green! It would have to be a weird fairy tale type of a story… Speaking of casting, when you are preparing to cast a film, what do you look for in the person? For example; really creepy-looking guy for the killer, or, a nice-looking guy for the killer to throw the viewer off course, make for a surprise ending? And yes, I know that sounds cliched, but, hey, I liked the 80s! Well I always like to pair up the characters when I do auditions. Yes sometimes I do type cast when I know for sure the person is right for the part but the person needs to really reach out to me through their acting to be cast in my films. If I have a good gut feeling I go with it. If I don’t then you’re an extra. I normally go with feeling, I’m never wrong or at least I think I’m not. Now a days I haven’t done any casting calls I use people I know who are experienced and who I daydream about in my scenes. Sometimes I do daydream the person acting the part in one of my scenes and then I call them up and see if they want to be in a movie…. I’m weird…. Here is one out of simple curiosity; What do you find is the best mixture for fake blood? I have heard of SO MANY recipes; chocolate milk, red food coloring, blue food coloring, ketchup, Karo syrup. Well you came to the right place! The secret is and read closely, Dark Kyro syrup, red food coloring dye, and some Hershey’s chocolate syrup. I find it to be the way I want it every time. It does taste gross with Dark Kyro Syrup though. I did about 20 takes one time spitting it out of my mouth and we didn’t even use the scene. I think they were just torturing me. As a screenwriter, do you find it more productive to share writing credits? At times, a writing ''team'' can come up with great stuff. Example: West and Popko's RetarDead. I haven’t had a co-writer yet, I mean I get greedy with my writing and I want everything to be a certain way. One day I’m sure I’ll get over it but for now I don’t want to share. I love Rick and Dan they rock! They are inspirations and very talented and funny and I love their films. I have had the pleasure of interviewing them on my show. If I team up with anyone they will really have to have patience with me. LOl Got anything exciting going right now? Well right now I am throwing a Zombie prom in S.F in October. The Last Doorway Show is coming along great, I now have a Miss Misery fan club. I just hit 50 episodes. YAY!!! Getting ready after Halloween to start for year three in A Nightmare To Remember Film festival in S.F. Finishing up the doc and getting ready to shoot five more short films and a feature film based on my short film “Out Of Print” Also I just self published three books. Two Poetry books and one about Independent Film Making. I’m doing a bunch of Magazine articles, photo shoots and was just interviewed on Television twice. I am now labeled as “The Queen of Horror In the San Francisco bay area.” Any last words of wisdom before you leave us? I am sure some of the aspiring filmmakers out there would appreciate some advice from you. Yes! Don’t give up on your dreams. No matter how beaten down you get by people, just remember you only live once and do everything you can now with no regrets. If you want to make a movie, make one, you want to Direct, Direct one. Don’t let anyone stop you or tell you, you can’t. Believe in yourself no matter what….. NVF Films Interview with Zoe Chlanda Greetings, Zoe. Been keeping busy? Greetings David! 2008 & 2009 have been incredibly busy! I love it! I have several films in post production and am rehearsing for an upcoming shoot in the new year. Life's good! I see you are taking part in the remake of Don't Look In the Basement. Do you think it is going to rival the original? A lot of these remakes are so lame these days. I agree with you , and think a lot of recent remakes lack the excitement of the originals . On that note , the reason I agreed to do th is piece is because I have absolute faith in Alan Rowe Kelly as a director . He has a way of always bringing something new and different to the genre overall . It won't be any different in this case. The original is amazing , and w e hope to honor that film with our remake. If we weren't confident we could do so, we'd do another project. We are excited, inspired, and driven to make this piece. Once I read Alan's script , I knew that he was making it his own, so to speak - a remake that will delight audiences, those that have seen the original and those who are new to the story. A remake that pays homage but also brings something new to the screen . It will be brilliant. Sounds great. And...I see you were in Alan Rowe Kelly's I'll Bury You Tomorrow as well! Busy little beaver, aren't we? How did you did you find working with Alan? I hear he is a great guy. I love working with Alan. He's an actor's director. It has everything to do with him not only directing , but acting himself. He's been on every side of this business, which gives him an insight into the mind of the actor, as well as the rest of the crew. He also connects well with people in general . He likes sharing stories about prepping for a role, etc. He wants to hear your thoughts on your character. He is genuinely interested in his cast and crew . When you have good communication with your director it makes the process that much nicer. It is a pleasure working with Alan Rowe Kelly. How about The Blood Shed? I bet that film was a riot to work on! {Laughs}. It was! The Bullions sure know how to throw a party! I had worked with a few of the cast members before, and knew it would be a lot of fun to make. The energy and atmosphere on the set was great, and the story gave us a lot of room to act crazy on set (which carried on off camera). I see you originally started out in dance, ballet. Why the drastic turn around in career choices? I don't think of it as too drastic, actually. For me, dancing is telling a story or conveying an emotion or a state of being using your physicality. Acting does that , but also calls upon your voice. I liked the idea of being able to practice my art until the day I died. A dancing career has a time limit. It can only go as long as your body can keep up with the demanding physical challenges. At least that is true for ballet, and that was my passion. I'll never get too old to act. Your acting career grows and changes with you. It's always new and fresh. The challenges never stop coming, unless you'd like them too. I love what I do and want to do it for as long as I choose. I can't resist this one; what was your initial reaction to reading he script for I'll Bury You Tomorrow? {Laughs}. This is one sick movie! But I was thrilled!! I knew that if I did my job correctly it would be the most rewarding role I had, at the time, taken on. I also knew that if I f'd it up, well, I would never live it down. Before this I was cast as the girl next door, the girlfriend, the wife, the young mom, blah, blah, blah...This was the most exciting, challenging, and interesting role that I had been offered. Yes, I was nervous! But more so I was psyched. I was going to give this film everything I had. At the time, I felt that I did , and I stand by that even now. I am very proud of the work I did in I'll Bury You Tomorrow. It is my favorite movie. Was it fun cuddling with...er...corpses? It sounds lovely. Stock up on air freshener! Seriously, its a movie and meant to entertain, nothing more. Unfortunately, as sometimes is the case, life imitates art. Check this out!! http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/51265142.html Any amusing anecdotes to share with us? On-set bloopers or practical jokes? Well, there is one scene where I'm chasing after someone in the woods with an ax. It wasn't a "stunt" ax. It was real!! At the time neither myself or Alan or anyone on the set, didn't think too much about that. INSANE!! Can you imagine what could of become of me if I tripped?! That would have been a real life horror show! We now laugh, and are a lot more safe on set of course! I have that ax, Alan gifted it to me. I love it. What's this about working with Bart Mastronardi? That definitely sounds interesting. Bart is fantastic! I hope to work with him again in the future! He is a hard worker and a visionary artist. Most recently we worked together on his feature Vindication. He has a way of making everything look beautiful, even horror. What's on the horizon for Zoe right now? I'm free Saturday night! {Laughs}. I'm shooting with film maker/actor extraordinaire Susie Adrienson in the the new year. .! The film is titled Cynthia's Revenge. Its going to be AWESOME!!! Any time you're in town (NYC) give me a ring, I'd love to meet you in person Wish I could! Any last words before you leave us? I am blessed to be doing what I love! I want to thank everyone for their continuing supporting. David, thank you for getting in touch with me. I love talking about my career! Ha ha! I look forward to talking again in the future! NVF Films Interview with Tara Cardinal Hey babe! Long time, no see. How have you been? Hey David. I've been good. Doing some pro-style wrestling, did a little tour of Hawaii, shot a few films - the usual. I wanted to start off by saying thank you for showing up at my Queens of Scream book signing! Wish I could have been there! Was it a lot of fun? It was a lot of fun. I got to meet Bianca and got re-acquainted with DeeDee. I'd met DeeDee at Fangoria,but was actually so sick that day I don't remember it. George Perez, the comic book artist surprised me. He was in town from Orlando. I met him in Chicago earlier this year when I was promoting my super hero "Heroine!" AND Dark Delicacies invited me back to do a signing of Delivery, which they had in stock already. Growing up in the mid-west, - in Indiana - I bet you never pictured yourself being where you are today, did you? Was your home town a good venue for an aspiring actress? Oh, David, that was ALL I pictured. I used to go out and play in the corn fields, and bounce my one red ball against the big blue silo and dream of nothing more than being a glamorous actress, doing kissing scenes and fight scenes. And actually, yes, it was a great little place to get started. I started doing plays at 11 years old, and my first play was televised live. During the FIRST, televised show, one one of the techies missed an audio cue, and I saved the day by adding some lines for myself. I later learned that was "improv". My best friend Seana told me years later that she started booking all the leads when I moved away. You are such a versatile actress, too. Your performance in Delivery as opposed to the ones in your ''darker'' roles was like the difference between night and day. Is it hard to change ''personality formats'' on cue? Thank you. I pride myself on being very versatile, but it is hard for me. I shot scenes from Geniusand the Rescuersback to back. In GeniusI play the worlds greatest, and most insane fragile opera singer, and in the Rescuers,I play a the operative head of a renegade rescue team. And both were lead roles. I couldn't remember how to walk, my tonal inflections, my motivations - I just couldn't do the two roles at once without a lot of directing. Right now, my preference is towards the darker characters. I taped into a darker place with RedReaper, and Terminal Descent, and I'm comfortable there for right now. Although, I'm collaborating with one of my previous directors on a piece where I play a girl with multiple personalities. We'll see just how versatile I really am when we shoot that! I see you have appeared in Shakespearian stage plays as well. I bet that is a big change from films, isn't it? It's a HUGE change. But I LOVE doing plays. In film, it can take two or three years - longer for some indy stuff to come out. I have no idea if anyone is going to actually Like Red Reaper, or Terminal Descent, neither of which are out, as of this interview. But with plays , the audience reacts immediately. There's no wait. Sometimes they even talk to you while you're still performing. Although the audience for Shakespeare isn't what it used to be. When I first moved to LA, I started with one of the top acting teachers here. They ushered me into the advanced class without an audition because of my resume, and for my first acting scene my partner backed out at the last minute. So I did a monologue from As you like it. And the rest of the class, and even the instructor looked completely blank. And then the instructor told me he had no idea what I'd just said - and worse, he didn't know if *I* knew what I'd just said. What I learned from that, is you can't take your film technique to the theatre - especially with Shakespeare. Having appeared in big budget as well as low budget films, would you say there is a big difference in the general atmosphere? Are low budget films more laid back? This is a delicate subject. Depending on what and where, I'd say the cast is more laid back on a big budget set. Generally the lower you go, the more diva you get. Some of the newbie actors who've never worked a big budget set, or never produced, have unrealistic ideas of how things work. There are general rules. The camera never waits for actors, actors wait for camera. Your call time could be 8am, but you don't get in front of the camera until 2:30pm. That's normal. Here in LA, we bring books, make friends, raid craft services (if it's a big budget set - on low budgets you don't want to eat the production budget - that's just rude). And on bigger budget sets, the crew is more laid back because they get paid more to take longer. On indy projects people are there for the love of it, which is nice. If I could work on nothing but indy projects with highly experienced cast and crew who were all doing it for the love of the job, that's what I would do. Whats this ''Scream Queens Uncut'' all about? SQU is a new talk show staring Devanny Pinn and myself. It's styled similar to the View, but from the perspective of Scream Queens. We have general interest topics, current events, special guests, and a little talent segment. See, as an actress, but especially as a Scream Queen, everything about my life is different from rest of the population. Can you imagine what it's like to come home to your boyfriend after doing a love scene with a male model? How he reacts? Most guys aren't secure enough to handle that. And certainly not the ones I dated. Or meeting someone on the street. I never know if someone is talking to me because they like me, think I'm pretty and want to get in my pants, or trying to further their career. And better still, traumatic situations. I've spent most of my acting career covered in blood, in a fight, wielding a weapon, or training for it. That carries over big time to the real world. I've had to think about things in preparation for roles that most people never have to. And it's that perspective that we bring to the talk show. The world from our point of view. Just out of curiosity, who is your favorite Scream Queen? How about favorite horror film? Sarah Michelle Gellar. She definitely paved the way for actresses like me, small and brutal, to take on monsters I love a lot of horror films, but my favorites have TONS of action, and lots of monsters. Not just one, but truck loads of them! More to kill. What's on the horizon for Tara right now? I'm signed on to do a thriller, the Final Girl Trilogyand the "split personality" role. I did a reality pilot as a mud wrestler that's being shopped around LA right now, so if that gets picked up I'll be touring the world mud wrestling - but not for long, because I would rather be acting doing reality TV! Any last words before you leave us? Thanks for having me back David! Any time! NVF Films Interview with Cyndi Crotts
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