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page in Asbury Park Press Section X the
Friday before the Garden State film
Festival |
Featuring
stories on, or interviews with, Warren F.
Disbrow.
John
Russo did various important creative jobs back
in 1967 while working with George Romero on the
original classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,
including co-writing the script with Romero.
Since NIGHT he has made other horror movies and
comedies as well as providing scripts for
terrific movies like RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
(1985) and he co-produced the Tom Savini remake
of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in the 90's. Movies
he wrote and directed personally include HEART
STOPPER, a vampire film based on his published
novel, and MIDNIGHT, financed by my friend Sam
Sherman and his Independent-International
Pictures. When not making movies he teaches and
is a prolific writer of horror novels. Over the
years John Russo has been very supportive of my
goals and even arranged a distributor to release
INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD. That deal fell
through because of my actions (I rewrote the
contract into something more fair and honest
which pissed off the distributor), but Russo
kept helping, printing interviews with me in his
magazine and lumping me in with a bunch of very
famous horror writer-directors in his book SCARE
TACTICS. I'm on page 25. Whenever we see each
other - usually at horror conventions - its
always very nice. I like him alot as a person
and respect him as a filmmaker and writer. John
Russo even offered me a job working with him on
a CBS show on the life and career of make-up
genius Dick Smith, who did THE EXORCIST, LITTLE
BIG MAN, SCANNERS, GODFATHER and HOUSE OF DARK
SHADOWS among many other big movies. As my actor
friend Ruben Santiago would say, John A Russo is
good people! And it was nice of him to
include me in the who's who of great directors
in his book SCARE TACTICS.
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| Who
would have thought? INVASION FOR FLESH
AND BLOOD being used to teach journalism
students! |
As
I go along I come across things involving my
movies by accident. I found this on Ebay. Years
after it was used in courses to teach college
students the proper way to review a movie, I
found this book that used a reprint from the
rave review INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD got by
Joe Bob Briggs in the New York Times! Skimming
through it gave me some insight into how future
journalists were being trained to handle
reveiwing the arts. Let's just say that
"critic" I guess is short for
"criticism" which isn't a positive
mind-set. There are some excellent, honest,
valuable critics out there who honestly do a
professional job of accessing the positives and
negatives of whatever art form they are
reviewing. HOWEVER, there are loads of hacks
too, who approach their jobs unprofessionally,
and just try to think of clever ways to put a
work of art down while building their own
worthless selves up.
Reality check
folks. A critic is just a guy or girl at a
computer, no different from you or me, who has
artificial power based on the fact that their
ideas get printed up and mass produced, or
spoken over the TV set or radios. The
"medium" tends to create the illusion
that whomever is on it or in it is higher up on
the food chain than the rest of us. It's smoke
and mirrors. They are exactly like you and me.
Their opinion is not more important than your
opinion or mine, it just looks so because their
opinion has a media medium to express it
through. I've had good, honest reviews of my
movies, and I've had reviews done by guys or
girls unfit for their jobs as critics. The best
thing is always to see for yourself and form
your own opinion. You can form your own opinion,
can't you? I'm sure you aren't so devoid of
intelligence you need to be told what to see by
others as if their opinion is more valuable
their your own. Of course, if you prefer to be a
sheep....
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