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Despite having parents that both were filmmakers, Max McLachlan was not interested in the industry growing up. Instead, living on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia, he spent his time surfing. When he was a teenager, he and his brother began taking videos of each other surfing on a small handy-cam, and McLachlan discovered he had an innate talent looking through the lens of a camera. He began to make more movies in his spare time, making stop-motion animation with toys, meticulously moving each figurine frame-by-frame to achieve a linear story. By the time he was 18, he knew that this wasn’t a hobby anymore, but a passion he could not shake. Now, McLachlan is far from that boy filming his toys in his room and is an in-demand cinematographer and Steadicam operator in Australia and abroad. He has worked alongside some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars from the celebrity coaches on The Voice Australia to Murray Cook, part of the iconic children’s phenomenon ...

If you love Horror films you know the importance of the unobvious; you relish in the music, the scenery, and all the factors which indicate something is about to occur and you may not see it. Setting the tone for the eventual payoff that frightens you is more often than not the result of the mood that is created rather than a barrage of frightening images. In fact, if a Horror film gives away too much early on you may lose interest. Dong Lei served as production designer for the award-winning film Emily . Recognized at film festivals in Houston, Hollywood, and others, Emily excited fans of the Horror genre across the US and beyond. The film is a terrifying look at revenge and the supernatural. The tale revolves around a woman who dies during child birth due to her lover’s absence and her restless spirit’s insistence on taking revenge from beyond the grave. As lead production designer, Lei was in charge of the design and creation of each of the film’s sets, an especially important rol...

A Grim Trilogy by Jennifer Reinfried #amwriting #horror Today our guest is author  Jennifer Reinfried for her book series ‘ A Grim Trilogy ‘.  Jennifer is an avid reader, loves gaming, comics, zombies, and playing bass. We have conducted an interview with her about her books in ‘A Grim Trilogy’: 1. Eventually, did one of your lead female characters (as you had aspired before the start of writing this story) become who you had wanted to create? What has changed? Definitely. In the first couple of drafts, the character Emma started out as more of a love interest, even though she was one of the criminals trying to take the city’s superhero down. For a long time, I considered her to be kind of on the side, which definitely reflected in the writing. Betas said they had a difficult time connecting with her. After a suggestion of a new beta, I gave Emma a different history, one readers could sympathize more. Once that was added into Grim Ambition, h...

Scott Frazelle has been working in the entertainment industry for ten years, working on set of feature films and commercials. He has been building custom mechanical props for most of that time. He has a degree in screenwriting from the University of Southern California, a school known to produce influential writers. Currently, he is attempting to crowdfund the budget for an independent horror film Moggy Creatures . We have conducted an interview with him. What makes your film so unique? Moggy Creatures is a throwback to classic creature-features, where a monster is an actual character and driving force of the story. The movie also features live hairless cats, and mutated versions of them. We'll be using Practical FX, meaning the monsters, the mutated cats, will be actual creatures with the actors in the scenes, not computer-generated and added later. Many people love cats, what are you views about making a horror film about mutant cats? It's BECAUSE people lo...

Trent Duncan is an independent Filmmaker and Military Veteran, serving 5 yrs in the US Navy. He creates Epic Horror Battles of all your favorite old school horror characters such as Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Ghostface, etc. Called Fan Films. We have conducted an interview with him. When were you first inspired to create 'Epic Horror Battles' with the old school horror characters? Back in 2011 my friend and now co-producer, Cheyenne Autumn Hess, wore his authentic looking Jason Voorhees costume to act in a fan film with another local filmmaker. Nothing much came of the film, but it gave me an idea. I knew I could create great movies, so why not try fan films. So, we shot Jason vs Leatherface  , which quickly gained over one million views on YouTube . After that, we started making more. Amongst Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Ghostface, who is your favorite old school horror character? My favorite wou...