What advice can you give to aspiring horror film directors?
Don't take the easy way out and think that you have to make yet another slasher flick with stupid kids that get naked and die. If you have some dark, weird, crazy idea then go for it. With the technology available today, you can bring life to any sick fantasies that you dream up. All it takes is imagination, dedication, and perserverance. Hell, if you live in or near Texas - I'll come help you put your crazy horror script up on the screen.
What future projects are in the works?
Jason Stewart (Closet Space's writer) and I are prepping a script for Closet Space 2 right now. We're trying to have a first draft done by January 2007, and my plan is to use the spring and summer of 2007 for pre-production, and then go into production this time next year. I also have a couple of other things I've written on the backburner (a zombie script and a ghost/haunted house thing), and I'm working on a pitch for a relatively high-profile franchise. That last one may be a pipe dream, but you never know. Plus, I'm having fun writing it. All the material is horror (or at least horror-related), of course.
What question have you been dying to be asked, but no one has asked it? And what's your answer?
Q:"Mr. House, this is Bob Shaye at New Line. Would you be willing to make the new Nightmare sequel?"
A:"F*%k yeah."
Thanks Mel for spending time with us. Make sure to go to the Closet Space Myspace for the latest news on why walk-in closets can be very dangerous!
Article comments
1 - gonzo marx
awesome Interview with some great insights inside the mind of a horror-Image maker...
/golfclap
thanks again fro sharing something great with us all, Illoz
now, if we could get him up here to Maine, i got some real horror shyte that could make video tape spontaneously combust in a burst of brimstone...
but i digress
Excelsior?
2 - ILoz Zoc
Thanks Gonzo. And I'd pay good money to see that type of shyte.
3 - Mel House
Hell, I'll go to Maine to make some tape combust.
4 - gonzo marx
heh..no need to come all the way up here, i'm extremely flattered by the mere Thought
but if ya would like Stories that tingle... sure, i know ya got yer post-production and then fun promotion stuff to keep ya busy...
pop me an e-mail by underscore between first and last names at the hotmail place
if Iloz gives ya the thumbs up, then all's kool by lil ole me...
i look forward to the film when released, and am scoping the blog you set up
Excelsior?
5 - Iloz Zoc
You indie guys, always working...
Just don't stay out too late.