Five Frames with The Final Girls cinematographer Elie Smolkin
The Film: The Final Girls The Cinematographer: Elie Smolkin The Tools: Shot on the Red Epic with short Angenieux zooms and Cooke S4 lenses The Plot: On the one-year anniversary of […]
Spring cinematographer and co-director Aaron Moorhead
Spring is the rarest of horror film breeds – a genre effort that would function perfectly well shorn of all its macabre elements. It’s one of the few horror […]
Five Frames with It Follows cinematographer Mike Gioulakis
I recently interviewed It Follows cinematographer Mike Gioulakis for Filmmaker Magazine – a piece you can read here – and had so much good stuff left over that I decided to […]
WolfCop writer/director Lowell Dean
When David Cronenberg’s 1975 horror film They Came From Within hit screens – partially funded with taxpayer dollars by the Canadian Film Development Corporation – a Canadian national magazine famously featured […]
Starry Eyes cinematographer Adam Bricker
(Top) A frame from Starry Eyes. (Bottom) The behind the scenes set-up needed to create that frame. Crew members pictured are, from left to right: Best Boy Electric Christopher Faulkner, […]
Bad Turn Worse cinematographer Jeff Bierman
The quote above slips out of the mouth of teenage bookworm Sue (Mackenzie Davis) in the first post-credits scene of the new Texas-set neo noir Bad Turn Worse. It’s followed by a 1990s-era […]
The One I Love cinematographer Doug Emmett
No more low budget indie films. That’s what cinematographer Doug Emmett told himself. No more $100,00 budgets. No more 15-day shooting schedules. No more choosing lenses because they’re free and […]
Haunt director Mac Carter
(Above) Director Mac Carter in front of the haunted domicile at the center of Haunt, released today on home entertainment platforms by IFC Midnight. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. […]
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