-
All Things Restoration, Preservation & Exploitation - The Vinegar Syndrome Interview
Upstart cult DVD and Blu-ray label Vinegar Syndrome is set to launch 2013 in grand style with their inaugural release, The Lost Films Of H.G. Lewis in less than one month's time, so it made perfect sense for R!S!P!'s Ian Jane to have a talk with VS's John Lyons to get some background information on the genesis of the label and some insight into the other releases they have on deck for the coming months.
R!S!P! - So let's start with a little background information... -
Forced To Speak! An Interview With Action Movie Superstar Gary Daniels
Gary Daniels is a name that should be well known to anyone with an interest in action movies of all kinds. Having lent his talents to projects as varied as American Streetfighter to The Expendables, Gary was kind enough to take the time out of his schedule to talk to Rock! Shock! Pop's Ian Jane about his life, his training, his career and his latest movie, Forced To Fight, in which he co-stars with the great Peter Weller. So without further ado...
R!S!P!... -
Rock! Shock! Pop! Interviews Director Paco Plaza
Filmmaker Pazo Plaza has made a pretty serious name for himself in his native Spain and the success of the [REC] films have brought him to attention on the international and horror film circuits as well. With the release of [REC] Genesis now under way, Mr. Plaza was kind enough to take time out of his schedule to conduct an email interview with Rock! Shock! Pop! editor Ian Jane. So without further ado...
IJ: Let's start with a bit of background information. How did y... -
Blood, Breasts, Beasts And British Cinema: An Interview With Cult Film Director Norman J. Warren
Horror and exploitation fans around the world know the name Norman J. Warren - a mainstay of the British film industry, Warren has had a prolific and fascinating career and was kind enough to alllow R!S!P!'s Ian Jane to pick his brain about his life in cinema. The results are as follows...
IJ - When did you first realize you wanted to make movies for a living, was there a certain film you saw that lit that spark? NW - I've always found it difficul... -
An R!S!P! Exclusive Interview With Walter Olsen Of Scorpion Releasing!
Howdy movie fans!
Walter Olsen, the man behind Scorpion Releasing, was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to talk to Rock! Shock! Pop! about his past, present and future in the home video business, the companies that he has worked for in the past and his current efforts at Scorpion. So without further ado…
Ian Jane - At one point you worked as Media Blasters' acquisitions person - what was that like? What were your accomplishments,... -
Keeping Up With The Ghostkeeper - An Interview With Filmmaker Jim Makichuk
With the recent Code Red DVD release of the cult classic Canadian horror Ghostkeeper film now upon us, it seemed like a good time for we here at Rock! Shock! Pop! to pick the brain of the man who made it, filmmaker Jim Makichuk. Mr. Makichuk was kind enough to take the time to conduct an interview with Ian Jane about his work in the film industry and about some interesting projects he has currently got in the works - and he was even kind enough to supply us with some great black and white behind... -
Highways, Hash And Hardcore: An Interview With Bruce McDonald
Bruce McDonald is one of the coolest filmmakers to come from the Great White North in the last twenty years or so. With a filmography as varied and eclectic as you could imagine, he's done everything from documentaries to road movies to horror films to televised teen soap operas and back again and managed to maintain an impressive level of quality and originality with his work. With one of his more recent films, Trigger, hitting DVD this month, Bruce was cool enough to talk to ... -
Katarina Speaks! An Interview With Wrestling Star And Horror Hostess Katarina Leigh Waters
Katarina Leigh Waters is a pretty busy lady, what with her wrestling career on the rise and all that, so when the opportunity came to pick her brain about her work with Scorpion Releasing on the new Katarina's Nightmare Theater line of horror DVD releases, we here at Rock! Shock! Pop! HQ knew we couldn't pass up that opportunity. With two releases out so far (at the time of this writing cult slasher Final Exam and the Joan Collins/evil midget movie The Devil Within Her have... -
Cocked And Loaded: An Interview with Tommy Pistol
The world of pornography has changed a lot in the last three years or so. Call it alt. porn, call it punk porn, it really doesn't matter. The fact is, there's a sort of grass roots thing going on with smaller and more interesting independent studios crawling out of the woodwork and one of the more interesting (and fun) is Burning Angel. Founded by Joanna Angel, who has since signed with VCA and hit the big time, these crazy kids from NYC started as an internet only deal until things took off and... -
An Interview With Filmmaker Mark Savage
-
Created by:
Ian Jane
An Interview With Filmmaker Mark Savage
You can tell that Australian moviemaker Mark Savage is a man with something to say. With the recent Subversive Cinema release of Savage Sinema From Down Under, a fantastic retrospective look at Savage's two decade plus career that includes an amazing selection of supplements and rare super 8 films, we figured now was as good as time as any to pick his brain a little bit. Here are the results...
IJ - How did you get your start as a filmmaker and what kind of training/education helped... -
Created by:
There are no articles in this category.
Please log in to your account to view your subscribed posts.
-
by Ian Jane
Interview by Horace Cordier and Ian Jane.
The Rods, who have recently released their latest album Brotherhood Of Metal, have been around since the early eighties and are rightly considered American heavy metal royalty at this point in their career. Drummer Carl Canedy was cool enough to answer a few questions about the band's past, present and future as well as a few unique side projects he's been involved with over the years.
So without further...06-15-2019, 09:39 PM -
by Ian JaneWhen it come to low budget filmmaking, Bill Rebane really has done it all: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, cameraman - you name it, Bill's done it. Responsible for cult classics like Monster-A-Go-Go, The Giant Spider Invasion and the infamous Blood Harvest, Bill was gracious enough to talk to R!S!P! about his work. Rock! Shock! Pop! - How did you get your start in the film business and what kind of training did you have before you started directing? Bill...
02-22-2018, 01:13 PM -
by Ian Jane
Stephen Biro has been the one man wrecking crew behind Unearthed Films, quietly and sometimes not so quietly releasing a slew of cult classics, gore films and underground oddities for well over a decade now. He was kind enough to take some time out of an increasingly busy schedule to talk about releases past, present and future as well as his thoughts on the industry and more. So without further ado…
Rock! Shock! Pop! - Before you started Unearthed Films, you...11-20-2017, 09:03 PM -
by Ian Jane
Last month Dynamite Comics unleashed the first issue of their new monthly series GWAR: Orgasmageddon. Rock! Shock! Pop! was lucky enough to get to pick the brain of series writer Matt Miner about his work on this series and other indie comics projects. So without further ado…
Last month Dynamite Comics unleashed the first issue of their new monthly series GWAR: Orgasmageddon. Rock! Shock! Pop! was lucky enough to get to pick the brain of series co-writer Matt Miner...07-06-2017, 11:25 AM -
by Ian Jane
The Jesters Of Destiny recently put out their first album in decades, and it's pretty killer stuff (we reviewed it here in case you missed it). We here at R!S!P! (mainly Horace Cordier with some help from yours truly) were given the opportunity to interview bass/vocals man Bruce Duff and guitar man Ray Violet about getting back together, the new album and other Jesters related stuff! So without further ado… Rock! Shock! PoP! - How did you guys initially hook up with Bri...04-19-2017, 07:38 PM -
by Ian Jane
In celebration of the new Severin Films Blu-ray release of his debut feature film, Dark Waters, filmmaker Mariano Baino was on hand in New York City to answer questions about the making of the picture and the new Blu-ray release. Though time was limited, Mr. Baino was kind enough to answer a few questions for us, which you can see in the video below.
...04-12-2017, 03:03 PM