Got a pair of interviews with Dante Tomaselli to point you towards this morning. Always good to hear the man weighing in on his projects and filmmaking in general.
Interview #1 comes from ToxicShock.tv:
TS: What do you think makes a scary movie scary?
Dante: I like when a horror movie is totally unpredictable. Something like Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now”. I think it’s that sense of impending doom that makes a movie scary. There’s got to be mounting terror…a build-up and then some kind of pay-off. But I think the real terror is in the build-up. I like to put a giant emphasis on mood and sound design when I’m creating my films. I want it to be a trance-like experience.
Click here to read the rest of the interview. Then we’ll move on to chat #2 which is brought to us by AdamBarnick.com:
AB: Do you make these films to address what scares you? Are the fears addressed in the films your own? Or are you simply comfortable in these darker, abstract worlds?
Dante: Well, I am comfortable in darker, abstract worlds, definitely, but the truth is my films are my therapy. I’m trying to make friends with my demons by confronting them. Obviously, I have a lot of problems (laughs).
For more on that chat, jump on over here. And finally, the Official Site for THE OCEAN, while pretty bare at the moment, has opened.
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