Fangoria journalist Chris Alexander, hot from interviewing genre fan Nicholas Cage, Alex Proyas (‘The Crow‘ & ‘Dark City‘) and UK ‘national treasure’ Kenneth Branagh, has interviewed Carrion film director Ashley Thorpe about last years animated shorts – ‘Scayrecrow‘ and ‘The Screaming skull‘. Here is an excerpt :
“If I see another low budget indie horror film about some shmos getting stranded somewhere and running afoul of some class of homicidal skin snacking shmuck, I shall most assuredly scream and shoot holes in my home screen. Yes, yes, yes, the phrase “indie horror” is more often than not a real deal red flag to stay the eff you see kay AWAY. That’s why it is my pleasure, as both a lover of horror films that break rules and refuse to behave and gothic, stylized shockers that bow and kiss your hand before they cut your throat, to wax rapturous about Ashley Thorpe.”
“Thorpe’s visionary and reverent animated gothic melodramas SCAYRECROW and THE SCREAMING SKULL are throwbacks to a gentler age of terror, especially that of Hammer Studios, the Victorian terror machine that I live and die by and that from 1957 – 1975, pumped out the sort of swoony stiff collared horror films that, well, just aint made no more…But Englishman Ashley Thorpe aims to change all that. And he’s altering the face of fearsome animation to boot.”
“So please…if you give a rabid rats rump about the art of terror than take a few minutes, read the interview with Thorpe below and then follow his instructions to watch his little slabs of slick, stylish bloody bliss. Write me into your will later…”
– Chris Alexander, Fangoria.
This amazing introduction then leads into an in depth interview with Ashley which touches upon how he became interested in the genre, the influences, the animations and what may lie ahead. The complete article can be read here: http://www.fangoria.com/blogs/chris-alexander
Chris Alexander is a world respected genre journalist who has written for ‘Rue Morgue’ magazine, ‘Fangoria’ and recently submitted an interview with ‘Ogre’ from seminal industrial outfit ‘Skinny Puppy’ for ‘Darkside’ magazine. He also serves as Film History teacher at Toronto Film & Media College. To read all about the great man, and to check out his interviews with Nicolas Cage, Kenneth Branagh and Alex Proyas visit: www.chris-alexander.ca.
So…In the words of Chris Alexander himself – “What are you waiting for?”