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Kaiju After Hours

 

 

Kaiju After Hours is where you will find interviews that cover the more "out there" topics in Entertainment. It was in fact originally an off-shoot website run by TV's Dad to cover the things that TV's Colin had not enough information to work with, but has since been brought back into the fold as part of the StudioKaiju series of interviews. We figure "what the heck".

 

At any rate, we hope you enjoy these occasionally eclectic choices for interviews.

 

 












 

 

 

JOEL M. REED

 

During the early 1980s midnight cinema made a return to the screens, albeit in multiplexs, but showing films which were very "cult" oriented and in many cases quite bizarre. One of the most disturbing, yet funny films I ever saw was "Bloodsucking Freaks", a film whose sole purpose it seemed was to defy categorization, and moreso toavoid being recommnedable to most people. Without knowing what I was to see I wandered into a Soho/S &M/white-slave market/ballet/avante garde theater storyline with gruesome dismemberments, sight-gags, rampant and unflinching nudity, and a dwarf character that makes Herve Villechaize's character in "The Forbidden Zone" seem positively Republican.

To be sure the film is repulsive in many ways, and yet it has refused to completely leave me... so when the opportunity came at Cleveland's Cinema Wasteland show to ask Mr. Reed about the film I took it.

Joel is a very nice and unnassuming gentleman, and he probably does not relish being remembered for just this one film, which was actually atypical of his output. He enjoys fly-fishing and the Polish female population of Lackawanna, NY, and was very nice to discuss this film with me.

 

 

 


JOE PILATO

 

 

At the 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, PA (natch') TV's Dad met up with Joe Pilato. If you love Romero Zombie movies (and who doesn't.....) then you love a good bad guy, and they don't get more deliciously bad than Joe Pilato, who assayed the role of the power-mad military officer who menaces the lovely Lori Cardille as well as.... welll... just about everyone living and dead in the film. Joe's story goes well beyond "Day of the Dead" however, and here he tells about where he started, what he's done, where he's going, and how I almost got him to cry...


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MICHAEL BERRYMAN

Been to the movies at some point in the past twenty five years? Then there's a better than average chance you've seen the work of actor Michael Berryman. Mr. Berryman has a rare skin disorder which precludes him from growing hair or sweating, and has given him a unique appearance. But this quiet and thoughtful man who was pursuing a career as a photographer demonstrated with a solid work-ethic and a previously untapped acting ability that he would be an excellent choice for film work. He's played menacing mutants, interesting Trekian aliens, and once in a while just gets to play regular folk in the movies, and as he did with me, he will demonstrate for you his naturally tendency to nearly instantly get you past the initial visual aspect of his life and into the very fascinating character he displays. It was a privilage to be able to interview Mr. Berryman at the 2006 Eerie Horror FilmFestival.

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NETHERBEAST, INC.

 

Showcased at the aforementioned Eerie Horror Film Festival was an award winning film, "Netherbeast, Inc." which took the experience of reasl-world corporate life and made the admittedly very small leap of logic that it is inhabited in good part by vampires. And not just any vampires, but a casst of actors that any young filmmakers would give their eye-fangs for. Learn how the filmmakers did it, and more, in this two-part interview, oddly enough from the 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival (beginning to see a pattern here folks?).

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STANTON FRIEDMAN

Lest you think Horror was the only thing you were going to see on this page, we direct your attention to an ambitious, albeit mildly flawed phone interview with Stanton Friendman. Not a filmmaker, nor a TV actor, although he has been on TV numerous times and appeared in documentaries. He is the current default go-to guy in the field of UFO research.  In preparation for this interview, inspired by a red-eye flight from Las Vegas back to my native Buffalo, NY, where I watched him discussing a recent UFO incident on the Larry King Live show, I chose to read one of the many books Mr. Friedman had written on the subject. I chose "MAJIC" which details his entry into the field of UFO research as well as his exhaustive investigation into not necessarily UFOs so much as evidence the U.S. Government was running a secretive UFO oversite comittee. The book is compelling, and has formed the basis for a good deal of more rrecent UFO mythology used in moves and TV on the subject.

Whether or not you believe in UFOs, it's undeniable that the phenomenon's inability to go away rests with the foundations of this man's work.

I apologize in advance for the choppy quality of the phone interview. Our budget is minimalistic and primarily geared toward travel expenses, so we have yet tofind a way todo phone interviews in a higher quality sound. But we're working on that one. Anyhow, enjoy this conversation with Mr. Stanton Friedman, Nuclear Research scientist and UFO expert.

 

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HERSCHEL GORDON LEWIS

 

The interview that more or less clinched my desire to introduce "Kaiju After Hours" with a man who I was reading about in Fangoria magazine in my callow youth, and yet who demonstrtaed a surprising energy and vigor, H.G. Lews, hailng from the days of guerilla indentdant filmmaking Mr. Lewis turned out in the course of the 1960s an impresive number of low-budget shorts that became drive-in staples. His seminal "2000 Maniacs" is notable for the man's clever ability to get a small town of non-actors to play along with him in a truly ambitious storyline (for a film with no budget, aanyhow....).

Also, Mr. Lewis talks about his series of books on marketing and business which are his more recent loves, and in fact are just as interesting. But no matter what he does as an author, he will always be "The Godfather of Gore" to America at large.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLACK FAWN FILMS

I have a saying.... "Hate Coffee, Hate the People Who Like It even More." It doesn't make me popular, but what it DOES do is show how my head can be turned by some pretty interesting things. At the 2006 Toronto Horror Convention I passed a booth with an HD TV showing clips of a production company's movies... and I was stunned by a fascinating closeup of a cup of coffee. Maybe it was the heady black fluid's near hypnotic quality, maybe it was the energy of the crowd and the general sense of machismo wandering the halls of a horror festival, or perhaps... just perhaps... it was good quality filmmaking.

So I trekked on out to Guelph, Ontario with the StudioKaiju Producer who, truth be told, was there to make sure I made it out alive... to interview the filmmakers. And what an interview we had, too. Set in a non-descript commercial plaza along an ordinairy Guelph road in a largely unmarked office are a couple of guys who are trying toput Guelph on the map. And they're doing it with a decapitated dummy in their garage, too. Learn more about BlackFawn Films here.

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BAD FRITTERR FILMS

I was there at the 2006 Eerie Horror Film Festival when these guys from the American Northwest won triple honors at the festival for their Sasquatch movie, "Paper Dolls". A tense film built on characters and legends. We managed to briefly hook up with tolearn about their success in this post-win celebration at the show hotel's bar. Special thanks toTV's Colin for playing role-reversal and being camera-shlep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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