The gory horror spoof from the star of Balls of Fury
Dan Fogler is a funny guy, something most people who’ve seen Balls of Fury or Fanboys would probably already know, but he might also be the last person one might think to tackle the horror genre for his directorial debut, being that he’s never appeared in a horror movie as an actor himself. That being said, Hysterical Psycho, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Midnight section last weekend, is a spoof on the famous horror cliché of a group of people stranded in a cabin in the woods and being slaughtered one at a time.
To make the movie, Fogler and members of his theater troupe Stage 13 piled into a Winnebago, and traveled up to Maine where they shot the movie on a shoe-string budget, mostly in black and white, reviving many of the horror movie stereotypes that we all know far too well. The results are a very clever, semi-serious but mostly-for-laughs version of the kind of midnight movie Herschel Gordon Lewis might have made if he tempered the excess of gore with deliberate humor (rather than the awkward and disturbing laughs he was good at). Besides directing, Fogler also narrates the film as an animated version of Alfred Hitchcock, sort of a precursor to how Fogler might play the famous filmmaker in his younger days in the upcoming biopic Number 13.
ShockTillYouDrop.com caught up with Fogler the day after the laugh-filled world premiere for his movie, but in case you missed it, there are three more screenings of Hysterical Psycho, one tonight, Tuesday April 28, and then two more midnight shows on Friday and Saturday nights, May 1 and 2. Check the Official Guide for more information.
Look for more interviews from the Tribeca Film Festival over on ComingSoon.net. Thanks to the Direct TV Tribeca Press Center for lending us the space for this interview.
Source: Edward Douglas
