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Robert Stark talks to Director Matthew David Wilder about Dog Eat Dog & Upcoming Projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to returning guest Matthew David Wilder for a written interview.

Matthew David Wilder has worked as a screenwriter, writing for some of America’s most well known directors including Oliver Stone and Paul Schrader. He’s also directed a number of independent films.

Topics:

Matthew’s background, growing up in a trailer park in Des Plaines, Illinois, studying theatre at Yale, and his mentor Peter Sellars
Matthew’s first major project writing for Clive Barker’s The History of the Devil
Matthew’s work with Oliver Stone on a film about the war on terror right after 9/11 which was never released
The film Dog Eat Dog, staring Nicolas Cage, written by Matthew, directed by Paul Schrader, which was released last fall, and was Matthew’s first major Hollywood project
The process of transforming the crime novel by Edward Bunker into a film
Reviews of the Dog Eat Dog, by The Guardian and Anne Thompson
Matthew’s film Your Name Here, which is a surreal dramatic fantasy biopic loosely based on the life of Philip K. Dick
How to effectively take the audience out of their comfort zone as a director
Matthew’s upcoming film REGARDING THE CASE OF JOAN OF ARC, with Taryn Manning playing Joan of Arc as an alt-right, Christian fundamentalist terrorist put on trial in a Guatanamo Bay-like setting
Matthew’s upcoming film Morning Has Broken

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Robert Stark chatters with actor Nicholas Vince

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Nicholas Vince (photo by Adam Turner) montage by Andrew Tong

Robert Stark, co-host Pilleater, and J.G. Michael talk to Nicholas Vince. Nicholas Vince played The Chatterer Cenobite in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellraiser II) and Kinski in Barker’s Nightbreed. He is Patron of the London Horror Festival 2016 and was awarded the London Horror Society Award at the Unrestricted View Horror Festival 2016 for Outstanding Contribution to UK Independent Horror. He wrote and directed The  The Night Whispered, and wrote What Monsters Do and Other People’s Darkness.He hosts the popular YouTube show Chattering With Nicholas Vince where he interviews independent film makers, writers and artists

Topics:

Intro Song: Opening to the Night Whispered by Patrick E. Fagan
How Nicholas Vince met Clive Barker, his role as Chatterer
The 30th anniversary of Hellraiser
The film set of Hellraiser, The Chatterer costume, the dreaded fish-hook scene
Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, Horror movies, the budget of Hellraiser
The The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The villains of Hellraiser, Hellraiser as a love story, Whether the cenobites are evil or “just doing their jobs”
Piercing Fans International Quarterly, John Norman and Gor, Terry Pratchett
The effectiveness of psychological torture in horror
The Wire Twins in Hellraiser: Inferno, which Robert Stark found the most disturbing
Hostel, Human Centipede, the creativity of horror films compared to “gore porn”
Nightbreed, the monsters as good guys, and Hellbound,
What Monsters Do, Vince Nicholas Vince as a comic writer, Fear magazine
Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Sam Keith, Simon Bisley, Brendan McCarthy, Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins
Whether the cenobites will make a cameo in Robert Stark’s upcoming novel, “Bad artist imitate, Great artist steal!”
The therapeutic power of writing
Illustrator John Bolton, who Nicholas Vince has worked with, and Robert Stark’s paintings of Vintage Piccadilly CircusRaymond Revuebar and Madame Jojo’s in London’s Soho where Nicholas Vince used to work
The English science-fiction and comic scene, 2000AD, Brian Aldiss
Tales of the Crypt: The Vault of Horror comic series
Horror short stories, M.R. James
Tank Girl
The impact of WWI and II on Europe, and the influence of war on the arts
Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, and Clive Barker on Open to Question in 1987, where he addressed moral concerns over Hellraiser


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Robert Stark interviews filmmaker Christopher Moonlight

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Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview Christopher Moonlight. Moonlight is a film director and artist. He latest film is The Quantum Terror. Check out his WebsiteArt Magazine, and YouTube

Topics:

Moonlight’s interest in the horror and sci-fi film genres
The Quantum Terror, crazy monsters, H.P Lovecraft
Puppets in movies, unique story plots, avant-garde films
The film Labyrinth
Movie settings, horror in film, movie monsters
Character’s in Moonlight’s movies
Horror films set in Labyrinth’s including, I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, Kingdom Come, and The Cutting Room
Moonlight’s theory of the Science-fiction genre
Found footage, Clive Barker, Hellraiser, Alejandro Jodorowsky
H.R Giger, The foundation of Art
Girl in the Window
Emily Bloom
Grindhouse films
Chris’s inspiration from Ray Bradbury, and his work on the documentary Live Forever: The Ray Bradbury Odyssey
Moonlight Art Magazine, Goth culture, comics
Technology, art theory, film innovation, creativity
Hollywood’s demands for films
Moonlight’s cultural influences ranging from Salvador Dali to Tangerine Dream
VHS Tapes, film aesthetics, Folk-Horror


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Robert Stark interviews Director Matthew David Wilder

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Robert Stark and Alex von Goldstein talk to Director and Screenwriter Matthew David Wilder

Topics include:

Matthew’s background, growing up in a trailer park in Des Plaines, Illinois,  studying theatre at Yale, and his mentor Peter Sellars
Matthew’s first major project was writing for Clive Barker’s The History of the Devil
Matthew’s work with Oliver Stone on a film about the war on terror right after 9/11 which was never released
The film Dog Eat Dog, staring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, written by Matthew, directed by Paul Schrader, which will be released to theatres next month
Matthew directed, and wrote Your Name Here, staring Bill Pullman, which is a surreal dramatic fantasy biopic loosely based on the life of Philip K. Dick
Director Paul Schrader, how he inspired Matthew as a screenwriter, and his concept of the monocular film, which is one protagonist alone against the world
The notion of God’s lonely man, and how Matthew wrote a one act play in college by that name
Film noir, the aesthetic, the story of fate hanging over the characters, and the Neo-noir genre
Matthew’s interest in combining genres, rather than sticking with one particular one
Brett Easton Ellis praises Matthew in his interview with Paul Schrader
Matthew’s upcoming film Morning Has Broken, about a young runaway girl who moves in with a seemingly harmless, elderly, Academy Award-winning songwriter, staring Lydia Hearst and Peter Bogdanovich
Matthew’s point as a filmmaker, that what influences you is not the most obvious
The importance of breaking taboos, and taking the audience out of their comfort zone
The upcoming film, the Looking Glass, written by Matthew, staring Nicolas Cage, about a couple who buy a desert motel where they find out that strange, mysterious events occur
The film is inspired by a story of a motel owner who watched guest have sex through peep holes, and David Lynch’s film Lost Highway
Mid-century Roadside Architecture and Vintage Vegas
Matthew’s political views, how he identifies with the left on the hard issues, but is critical of the micro-issues and political correctness
Alex’s point that troll culture is a form of critiquing society, and how that’s lacking in Hollywood today
True Detective
LA culture, vapid conversations in coffee shops, obnoxious roidheads, and capturing LA in film
Matthew’s experiences directed a play at CalArts, and his observations of young actors wanting the celebrity status more than valuing the content of the work
The shortened attention span and how it effects our culture
Alex’s point that there is no longer a mainstream culture, and people have the freedom to find their own creative niches


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