Aug 21, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 406
This week we welcome special guest - director Tyler
MacIntyre to talk to us about his latest feature
Tragedy Girls. Plus we discuss his first film
Patchwork, the finer points of being an editor in addition
to being a director... and just what draws fans to the horror
genre. And along the way, we also discuss this week's Sofa
Theater feature: Memoirs of an Invisible
Man the sometimes forgotten film directed by John
Carpenter.
And while we reminisce about some of our favorite old mom and pop
video stores, we also discuss... tax incentives, CG effects,
getting toxic waste spilled on you and getting telekinetic powers,
The Howling, Sam Raimi, They Live, in the back of a hot tub place,
half a building, the audience is going in with a certain set of
expectations, it's a very level playing field, serious and
emotional and primal, Stripes, Martin Pensa, Dead Alive, Fletch,
sophisticated horror films, a high-concept horror shell, Sam Neill,
VHS hits that I watched as a kid, and then when they do
something... I think successfully... they still don't let it be a
success, people really undervalue writing, Scream, shoddy science,
being a noir, From Beyond, that's a very destructive way to think
about art... as well as genre, 20% original, they got crazy shots
that you weren't seeing in any movie at that time, Robert
Rodríguez, the term yuppie, a taboo element, Basket Case, shooting
on a VHS camera, gateway horror, Demolition Man, Willow, George
Romero, why aren't we shooting in Canada right now, prairie town,
all the technical stuff, Tobe Hooper, film studies, Evil Dead 2 and
wanting something you're not supposed to have.
"...it's an example of people trying to pigeon hole, like
audiences, critics, the studio... trying to pigeon hole these
people into doing a certain thing."
Follow Tyler on Twitter for more info on his movies:
https://twitter.com/tmacfilm?lang=en
For more on the Louisville Film Society, go to: http://www.louisvillefilmsociety.org/