had a chance to talk with screenwriter Joe Harris, who wrote the evil Tooth Fairy flick
I can’t say much about it, but it combines many of my own interests: an original take on the slasher-movie killer, drug culture, jam-band music and politics along with vicious dogs, bloodbaths and booby traps, [and combines it] into a positively outrageous mix I haven’t seen before, in our genre or any others that spring to mind.
Cool, right? I’m all about slasher films, I think the formula they use for the most part is effective every time, though some are made better than others. Crossing the traditional slasher storyline with a bunch of angles we haven’t seen before is a smart move though- look what happened when slasher crossed with smarts in SCREAM– practically jump-started the horror craze all over again. So we’ll see what Arquette can do here- I’m hopping it’s gonna blow us all away.
THE TRIPPER stars Thomas Jane, Jaime King, Lukas Haas, and Pee-Wee Herman himself, Paul Reubens (as well as an appearance by Courtney Cox-Arquette). Not your stereotypical teen slasher cast, that’s for sure. Good shit! To hear more about THE TRIPPER, including some tidbits about the killer’s cool killing methods, go ahead and click HERE.