Tom Holland
Wildside Cinema: Let’s talk a bit about your decision to get into the movie industry. What made you want to try your hand at directing?
Tom Holland: Too few of the films were as good as the scripts. I began to feel that way. Ego, I suppose. I had one that was a train wreck. It was called Scream for Help, and I decided I had to protect my work. I began writing spec scripts. Fright Night was one of them. I was able to use my success as a write to leverage myself into directing.
WC: Which films would you say were your favorites growing up?
TH: I think it’s generational. Anything late sixties into Continue reading »
Ted V. Mikels
Wildside Cinema: You’ve had a long, varied filmmaking career. How did you get started making low budget films in the early sixties?
Ted V. Mikels: Actually, I started shooting movie film on a Keystone camera in 1949. I spent almost all of the nineteen-fifties making my first movies, like Dream Man, A Tall Tale, Yellow Roses, Fool’s Prosperity, Compelled and a number of others with 16mm Bolexes. Then in 1959, I wrote and started filming in 35mm, my first theatrical feature movie Strike Me Deadly. Only obsession with making movies got me started.
WC: How do you feel about the seemingly Continue reading »
Uwe Boll
Wildside Cinema: The last time we talked, for a magazine interview in 2007, you were preparing for Seed. It’s great to talk with you again. Since Seed how has the filmmaking business treating you?
Uwe Boll: I was very busy with tons of movies, personal movies written by me, like Darfur, Rampage and Stoic mixed with genre movies like BloodRayne 2 & 3 and Far Cry.
WC: As the internet grows, it would appear that the amount of online film “critics” does as well. How do you cope with all the negativity that comes your way? Certainly Continue reading »
Herschel Gordon Lewis
Wildside Cinema: How did you get your start in low budget filmmaking?
Herschel Gordon Lewis: I had been the television director at an advertising agency in Chicago. We shot some commercials at a small and impoverished film studio, whose owner was looking for a partner. I bought a half interest, Eventually I realized that commercials alone meant a proletarian income, and, having 35mm motion picture equipment, the thought of producing features became more and more appetizing.
WC: You’ve been referred to as “The Godfather of Continue reading »
Photo courtesy of Federico Riva
This interview was conducted around the end of 2009 for the unpublished Wildside Cinema film review guide FilmBrawl. We’d like to thank Mr. Lombardo Radice for the great privilege of interviewing him as well as the grace and intelligence he put into his responses.
Wildside Cinema: Do you have any opinions as to why the Italian horror industry disappeared?
Giovanni Lombardo Radice: Lack of money, due to the general economic crisis in Italy and the increasing importance of TV productions. There have been less and less movies produced just for the theaters circuit and more Continue reading »
Mike Mendez (Above, Right)
WC = Wildside Cinema / MM = Mike Mendez
WC: How did you get your first start in filmmaking and how did you come to make your first film, Killers?
MM: I was making movies since I was a child. We were the first on the block to ha have a VHS camera. I would make movies with my toys, which evolved into making movies with Continue reading »
Fabrice Du Welz (Above, Left)
Wildside Cinema: When did you get your start in filmmaking?
Fabrice Du Welz: Quite soon. As far I can remember, I always wanted to make films. I was – I’m still – deeply in love with films. I started to make short films with a Super 8 camera, at the same time I studied theater at school, but in my mind, it was obvious that I’d make movies.
WC: What was the inspiration for Calvaire and how do you feel about the finished film? Continue reading »
John Borowski (Above)
WC = Wildside Cinema / JB = John Borowski
WC: Thanks for taking the time off work from your new film. I understand it’s about a true sadist—one that many people will never have heard about, yet has a fascinating story, and who uttered some great final words moments before his execution: Carl Panzram.
JB: I don’t want to burst your bubble just yet, but let me state that when it comes to serial killers, there are many urban legends such as Albert Fish Continue reading »
Doug Bradley (Above)
WC = Wildside Cinema / DB = Doug Bradley
WC: What inspired you to become an actor?
DB: No one thing, I don’t think. It was always there, as far back as I can remember, without any specific ambition. I was always in awe of the process of acting, whether in the theater or on screen. Then you kind of arrive at a point where you think ‘Oh, I think this is what I’m going to do.”
WC: As an actor do you prefer motion pictures or theater better? Continue reading »
