I'm very pleased to share with you the first of three guest blogs coming this week in support of "The Last Exorcism," which hits theaters this Friday. In today's post, producer Eli Roth charts the development of the film, from his signing on as a producer to its eventual pickup by Lionsgate. Look out for another blog tomorrow from director Daniel Stamm and a second one from Eli on Friday, to go along with our planned Twitterview that day, which starts at 11:30am eastern. And that's that. Take it away, Eli!
by Eli Roth
I've always loved exorcism movies, ever since "The Exorcist" traumatized me at the ripe age of 6. I saw that film and literally could not fall asleep for two years without believing the devil was going to possess me. My parents would argue that we were Jewish and that we didn't believe in that stuff, but...
by Eli Roth
I've always loved exorcism movies, ever since "The Exorcist" traumatized me at the ripe age of 6. I saw that film and literally could not fall asleep for two years without believing the devil was going to possess me. My parents would argue that we were Jewish and that we didn't believe in that stuff, but...
- 8/25/2010
- by MTV Movies Team
- MTV Movies Blog
With Friday's release of The Last Exorcism (review here) right around the corner, we thought we'd do something special for you to celebrate the movie's release. We're good like that so get ready to dig on a special guest blog right here, right now, with director Daniel Stamm!
"My love affair with shooting scripted films in the documentary format started in 2004 when cinematographer Zoltan Honti, editor Shilpa Sahi and I graduated from the American Film Institute. I had met them at a party the first day of school, and we had worked on every project together since – including my wedding where Zoltan was my best man and for which Shilpa got ordained to performed the ceremony. We wanted to make a film together again asap, and we wanted it to be our first feature. The problem was that film school had completely bankrupted us which leads to a very common...
"My love affair with shooting scripted films in the documentary format started in 2004 when cinematographer Zoltan Honti, editor Shilpa Sahi and I graduated from the American Film Institute. I had met them at a party the first day of school, and we had worked on every project together since – including my wedding where Zoltan was my best man and for which Shilpa got ordained to performed the ceremony. We wanted to make a film together again asap, and we wanted it to be our first feature. The problem was that film school had completely bankrupted us which leads to a very common...
- 8/24/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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