Your Independent Movie Guide
Interviews
By | September 2002
TK
Where did you get the idea for Friday? The idea grew out of notions of what scares us when we're kids, the basic things. When you think there's someone...
Why is that actors in these types of movies, however effective they are, they just seem to vanish? You never see them again. People in the industry...
Long before Jason, Camp Crystal Lake and teen horror became part of our film vocabulary, Sean S. Cunningham had already made a series of weird and shocking...
Cronenberg's latest film, "eXistenZ," is the first screenplay that the director has authored since the twisted cult classic "Videodrome" in 1983. It is...
The tag of "independent" filmmaker has become more a name brand in recent years than anything truly meaningful. Alex Cox, the director of such legendary...
Born in 1962, Teri Weigel started life as an average girl growing up in Deerfield Beach, Florida. She says her childhood was "fairy-tale like. I grew up...
As the years went on, Weigel got less and less work from Playboy and eventually the phone stopped ringing. "Christy (Hefner, daughter of publisher and...
Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, Rocket Man Cory McAbee redefined the rock n' roll musical with his feature writing and directing debut The...
What inspiration led you to some of the bizarre sequences like the interstellar dance contest or the restroom hoedown? Those are the most rugged dance...
You initially began your career as a songwriter and musician, so what drew you to filmmaking? I've always been a painter. Not always a good one, but...
