by Jonathin Knight
Since I was 5 I've been deeply in love with horror movies. I remember sitting on the floor in front of a TV watching some program end and the next one starting. Lightening struck over a big ugly house as the camera crept up to it and inside of it before heading into a crypt. A ghastly man rose out of his coffin and screamed as slime oozed down on the screen and finally the title appeared: TALES FROM THE CRYPT.
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UNEARTHING METAL NOIR
by Tony Masiello
Hello my name is Tony Masiello and I am the webmaster at
www.sovhorror.com. In 2011 I started working on a documentary about the
rise of shot on video horror movies of the 80's and beyond. These movies
were highly influential to me as a kid and convinced me that with a
little bit of money, some friends and a lot of heart I could make my own
movies too. Soon after this discovery I started making my own horror
shorts and pseudo trailers with my friends and eventually decided to go
to school to pursue a career in the film industry.
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AN SOV MANIFESTO
by Matt Watts
by Matt Watts
Differing sub genres of film are a slippery slope to fall down. For
example, saying you are a fan of “horror movies” is a pretty broad
statement. To some folks, horror begins and ends with the Universal
classics. Others would think of sixties Roger Corman or William Castle
type thrillers. A good majority of horror fans would think of the
seventies and eighties explosion of slasher flicks. And somewhere
waaaaaay at the bottom of that slippery genre slope, rest the
enthusiastic fanatics of SOV horror.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE DRACULINA EMPIRE
by Tim Ritter
by Tim Ritter
It
had to have been sometime in 1987 when I was introduced to Hugh
Gallagher by Donald Farmer. I had just finished shooting KILLING SPREE
and Hugh had an upstart horror ‘zine called DRACULINA that wanted to
interview me about TRUTH OR DARE and KILLING SPREE, my two 16mm horror
flicks that came from the mid-80’s and went direct to VHS. Hugh sent me a
copy of DRACULINA # 6 and I definitely wanted to be a part of what he
was creating! Here was coverage of the kind of movies I loved (and
aspired to make!) and the people that made them---past, present, and
future! I YEARNED to be a part of this new magic kingdom!
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GENESIS OF DONALD FARMER’S CANNIBAL HOOKERS
by Tim Ritter
The
summer of 1986 saw the release of my biggest direct-to-video feature
film to date, TRUTH OR DARE?- A CRITICAL MADNESS. The movie received an
onslaught of publicity in both the national and local [South Florida]
scene, where I grew up. At the time, I was just eighteen years old and
the press seemed fascinated that a “kid” of seventeen had made a
$200,000.00-plus splatter movie that was shot in his Florida hometown
that was now being distributed around the globe by the time he had
turned eighteen. It was an angle they played up everywhere, from CNN to
THE PALM BEACH POST. I recall one article in particular running in THE
PALM BEACH POST titled TEEN PUTS SCREAMS ON VIDEO SCREEN, and a lot of
local folks wanting to collaborate or get into the business of
moviemaking contacted me.
