September 24, 2005

Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, Secaucus, NJ, September 24th, 2005 at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands

Come 5:15pm, there was a panel for FANGORIA TV!!! It was hosted by the wacky Prof. Griffin (who made the rounds and interviewed some of the guests), rocker Dee Snider, actress Debbie Rochon, and company president Tom DeFeo. They announced that while they still work out a cable deal, FANGORIA TV will launch via the world wide web next month. Keep your eyes pealed on the Fango website for details!

Straight from the Project Greenlight series, it’s the Feast panel with Diane Goldner, John Gulager, Clu Gulager and Judah Friedlander. Jason Alvino wants to chime in personally for this one, so here we go: “I don’t care what you think you know about Project Greenlight, Feast, or John Gulager. I don’t give a flying fig what those hyper-jealous fanboys and armchair directors think they could have done better, why they should have won instead, why John should NOT have won, or if they think Project Greenlight is a rigged, fixed, tax write off. I’ll say this: I was lucky enough to spend some time with John, Clu and Diane. I was lucky enough to see Sage Stallone’s “Vic” (which John shot). It was humbling to sit just a few inches away from the legendary actor Clu Gulager and his family, while we watched one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking works of film I’ll ever see. But I’ll be damned if they weren’t the sweetest, most “real” people we met all weekend. I watched the trailer to Feast with a whole convention full of other people too. Quite simply, Feast is going to rock. Hard. If it’s even 1/10th the movie it looks to be from the trailer and from talking to John, I think we’re gonna have another contemporary classic in the vein of From Dusk Till Dawn or Evil Dead 2! Bold statement, I know…but John Gulager is going to become a force of nature in the coming years. His visual style is simply brilliant and his talent is woefully overlooked because of asinine preconceptions. Give John a few years and let him make the movies he wants to make, the way he wants to make them and mark my words he’ll have the title “Academy Award Winner” before his name. If by some snowballs chance in Hell Feast isn’t the ass-kicker I know it’s going to be… well, I’ll eat my hat. I mean it, I’ll eat my hat right here on ICONS OF FRIGHT for all to see. John also mentioned there was the possibility of him directing the adaptation of the video game The Suffering, but he wasn’t very confident it was going to pan out. Personally, fuck that shit John! You are too good to make movies outta video games, and deserve much better. Save that horseshit for Uwe Boll, I say.”

*All photos by Robert V. Galluzzo and property of Icons Of Fright.com