When I spoke to Bret McCormick, I had not seen this movie yet and wanted to know more.
B&S: You've also made some docs, like Children of Dracula, which seems ahead of its time now in shining a light on a culture some would see as aberrant. What was that process like?
BRET: We ran ads in an alternative newspaper in Dallas and one in LA and then screened through the respondents. It was a very quick production. I was very glad Joe Estevez agreed to narrate. I didn't take it very seriously at the time.
I'm so glad that Visual Vengeance has released it to streaming.
"Are you a Vampire? Vampire's victim? Have fantasies about Vampires?" That's the ad circulated in major Los Angeles and Dallas newspapers and got hundreds of responses. After all, Interview With a Vampire had come out that year.
Directed by McCormick and Christopher Romero, this has a series of people who explain how they either became fascinated by vampires or became one. Well, one lady can only make raw bacon and eat it which doesn't seem to be the kind of life that we were promised by the Hammer films, but what can you do?
One of the people who shows up in this is Tony Brownrigg, the son of S. F. Brownrigg and Libby Hall. He's acted in quite a few films and made a sequel to one of his father's films with Don't Look In the Basement 2.
There are also trailers spaced throughout that include The Twilight People, Andy Warhol's Dracula and The Velvet Vampire, which are all beyond great picks if you want some different views of how movies deal with vampirism.
In the days before basic cable becoming, well, a lot like this movie, these are the films that you'd find in the horror section of your mom and pop rental store but they may not have had a true home. Most of those shops didn't have a documentary section. I would have totally rented this and yes, made a copy of it, and made people watch it and laughed when they thought I was strange because I had memorized so many of the interviews.
B&S: You've also made some docs, like Children of Dracula, which seems ahead of its time now in shining a light on a culture some would see as aberrant. What was that process like?
BRET: We ran ads in an alternative newspaper in Dallas and one in LA and then screened through the respondents. It was a very quick production. I was very glad Joe Estevez agreed to narrate. I didn't take it very seriously at the time.
I'm so glad that Visual Vengeance has released it to streaming.
"Are you a Vampire? Vampire's victim? Have fantasies about Vampires?" That's the ad circulated in major Los Angeles and Dallas newspapers and got hundreds of responses. After all, Interview With a Vampire had come out that year.
Directed by McCormick and Christopher Romero, this has a series of people who explain how they either became fascinated by vampires or became one. Well, one lady can only make raw bacon and eat it which doesn't seem to be the kind of life that we were promised by the Hammer films, but what can you do?
One of the people who shows up in this is Tony Brownrigg, the son of S. F. Brownrigg and Libby Hall. He's acted in quite a few films and made a sequel to one of his father's films with Don't Look In the Basement 2.
There are also trailers spaced throughout that include The Twilight People, Andy Warhol's Dracula and The Velvet Vampire, which are all beyond great picks if you want some different views of how movies deal with vampirism.
In the days before basic cable becoming, well, a lot like this movie, these are the films that you'd find in the horror section of your mom and pop rental store but they may not have had a true home. Most of those shops didn't have a documentary section. I would have totally rented this and yes, made a copy of it, and made people watch it and laughed when they thought I was strange because I had memorized so many of the interviews.
