Hollywood Interviews
Visegrad Film Forum 2026 Interview: Shane Mahan on In-Camera Creatures, Director-Driven Design, Workshop Craft
Shane Mahan, creature designer, practical effects supervisor and co-founder of Legacy Effects, offers a rare inside view of contemporary creature effects practice.
Watch GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE Video Interview: Director Gore Verbinski
It was exciting enough to see the new Gore Verbinski film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, months ahead of time at Fantastic Fest 2025. But I was shocked to hear I’d actually scored a face-to-face interview. It underscored for...
WHISTLE Interview: Director Corin Hardy and Screenwriter Owen Egerton
The crowd at Fantastic Fest last year found Whistle a more than worthy festival closer. True, the film follows the tried-and-true formula of kids in a group fucking around and finding out. But man, does Whistle have fun finding out....
Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations
A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and...
Creature Feature Preacher Interview: Genre Legend Chuck Russell Talks WITCHBOARD
Chuck Russell is a genre legend. He wrote the screenplay for Dreamscape (1984). He co-wrote and directed A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), which redeemed the Nightmare franchise after the critical drubbing of A Nightmare on...
THE RITUAL Interview: Director David Midell Leads Me Through the Horror
Hello! It’s Dave Canfield, your Creature Feature Preacher here with another conversation. Director David Midell has made a hell of a debut. His first feature, The Ritual, not only stars Al Pacino but the always ascendant Dan Stevens. The pair...
LAST BREATH Interview: Director Alex Parkinson Talks World Building Under the Sea
Based on a real-life incident in 2012, Last Breath details the desperate attempt to rescue a diver trapped hundreds of feet underwater in the North Sea. This is the first fiction feature for director Alex Parkinson, who began his career...
LOVE HURTS Interview: Director Jonathan Eusebio Talks Designing Action, Working With Actors, Balance Between Violence and Humor
A mild-mannered Milwaukee realtor finds himself in the middle of a drug war in Love Hurts, an action comedy starring Ke Huy Quan, Ariana deBose, and Daniel Wu. It's the debut feature by director Jonathan Eusebio, a longtime stunt choreographer...
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME Interview: Sheryl Lee Returns
Sheryl Lee returns to the scene of the crime, attending an anniversary screening of David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' at the site of its 1992 hometown premiere.
Locarno 2024 Interview: Hollywood Legend Ben Burtt on Inventing Ewok Language, Finding E.T., NASA Documentaries
Ben Burtt, legendary sound designer, reflects on his iconic work on 'Star Wars,' shares behind-the-scenes stories of creating alien languages, and reveals the unexpected challenges of working with NASA and Steven Spielberg.
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SILENT NIGHT Interview: Joel Kinnaman Chats With us About John Woo's Silent Action Film
On the eve of the release of John Woo’s near-silent action film, Silent Night, this Friday we were keen on grabbing a few minutes this week to talk with his star, Joel Kinnaman. Let it be known that I...
Interview: Bruce Campbell Might Be the Hardest Working Actor in Hollywood
Bruce Campbell is that rare breed of actor who has the looks of a classic matinee idol but the soul of a character actor. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has conquered every genre you can...
Exclusive MIDNIGHT MASS Video Interview: Star Kate Siegel on the New Mike Flanagan Netflix Miniseries
Actress Kate Siegel has collaborated with director Mike Flanagan for almost a decade now. She appeared in the 2013 Blumhouse-produced Oculus, a terrific supernatural and psychological horror film about the breakdown of a family and the trauma that lingers on...
DEMONIC Interview: Neill Blomkamp On Combining Science Fiction With Supernatural Horror
The first contact in District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s powerful first feature film, turns out to be different than we might anticipate. The aliens stranded on a spaceship on the skyline of Johannesburg, South Africa, are malnourished, dirty, and without direction....
Interview: Zoë Bell On Directing, Tarantino's Plan To Retire And HAYMAKER
It's been 20 years since New Zealand’s Zoë Bell arrived in Los Angeles, California, trying to take her stunt double career to another level. Originally from Waiheke Island in New Zealand, Bell enjoyed physical activity from a very young age,...
Interview: Alex Winter Talks ZAPPA
For all the rockumentaries and musical biopics that have been flooding our screens since the new millenium deemed the past ripe for exploitation, one stone left curiously unturned has been that of rock & roll avant savant, Frank Zappa. Among...
LEAP OF FAITH Interview: Alexandre O. Philippe Talks THE EXORCIST And William Friedkin
The legacy of The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, is truly immense. For example, the most popular horror saga of our times, which started with The Conjuring, owes it everything. However, the impact of the 1973 film goes beyond the...
CREEPSHOW Interview: Greg Nicotero on Reviving the Iconic Horror Anthology As a Series
Greg Nicotero is a living legend of the horror genre. I mean, his first credit is the masterpiece Day of the Dead, in which he assisted special makeup effects artist Tom Savini under the direction of the man who certainly...
BEASTIE BOYS STORY Interview: Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys Ad-Rock, Mike D Talk the Movie and Their Lives
When first learning of the existence of a Beastie Boys story brought to us by Spike Jonze, their most prolific music video director, next to MCA’s Swiss filmmaker uncle, Nathanial Hörnblowér, there was little expectation it would look much like...
HEATHERS Interview: Michael Lehmann On The 30th Anniversary Of His Black Comedy And Why Donald Trump Ruined Satire
Life in high school can be rough, as social distinction is pretty much inevitable. In Heathers, the protagonist Veronica (one of Winona Ryder’s first roles) is trying to get along with the most powerful clique at her high school in...
