Celebrity Picks: Johnny Macabre (Don’t Fuck In The Woods, Crepitus, Betsy)!!
Johnny Macabre is a huge horror fan. Horror is in his blood. He has a good head for horror and he is now helping indy horror filmmakers get their horror films picked up. He is the former owner/writer of The Blood Shed and now writes for Horrornews.net. He is very busy being a producer to amazing indy horror films and has gotten some big named talent attached to some films. He is also the Youtube director for Horrornews.net and a partner with the Cyfuno Ventures sales agency where he works to find distribution for indie horror films. His second producer credit, “Be My Cat: A Film For Anne”, is Romania’s first found footage horror film. areas, he also dabbles in special fx, screenwriting, comic book writing, and paranormal investigation. He’s the manager of The House of Death. He works hard. CLICK HERE to see a lot of his producer credits. Below are Johnny Macabre’s Favorite Horror Films:
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BLAIR WITCH PROJECT:
I love movies that change the landscape. Blair Witch did just that. While not the actual progenitor of the found footage style (which is one of my favorite subgenres), it did take the style into the main stream, and at the same time basically invent viral marketing. This $50k film went on to gross over $150m, one of the biggest successes in indie horror of all time. Plus I love how much of it was improv.
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DAWN OF THE DEAD:
While Night of the Living Dead was the film to create the modern day zombie, it wasn’t until Romero’s followup, Dawn of the Dead, that we really got our first look at a zombie apocalypse. To this day, this film remains the pinnacle of the zombie genre.
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EVIL DEAD:
A bunch of college kids get together to make a movie and after sweat, blood, tears, cast replacements, and several years of production it spawns the film that started the single biggest franchise in horror history. What other intellectual property in horror has seen 2 sequels, a remake, a 3 season tv series, comic books, toys, video games, and a musical stageplay?
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DOG SOLDIERS:
The greatest werewolf movie ever and the film that resulted in my obsession with military horror. When the top-trained humans go up against something they just aren’t trained to handle, both sides end up with more than they bargained for. With great characters, amazing-looking werewolves, and non-stop action, this one is tough to beat.
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HALLOWEEN:
The OG slasher film. Without Halloween there is no Jason, no Freddy, no Chucky, none of it. Halloween is what started one of the biggest subgenres in horror and brought us an icon that still holds up today. Very likely John Carpenter’s best film, possibly barring The Thing.
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FREDDY VS JASON:
Now, this is a list of my favorite horror films, not necessarily the best ones. I love slasher films. I love the idea of an interconnected slasher cinematic universe. Many slasher films drops easter eggs of existing alongside other films, but this is the only time we saw it come to fruition. After nearly two decades of preproduction, the film finally saw the light of day and gave us the faceoff between two of horror’s biggest icons. Plus it was the last time we got to see Robert Englund as Freddy.
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BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON:
Again, I love slashers and I love found footage. Combine them and through in tons of icon cameos, easter eggs, and self-referential meta commentary that puts Scream to shame, and this movie never gets old. Plus Nathan Baesel as the titular killer remind me of a demented (more demented?) Jim Carrey.
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ALIENS:
Not only the best film in the legendary franchise, but one of the greatest films ever. This film burst open the small, contained world created in the first classic, Alien, and created a larger world that showed us what the future really looked like. Plus, more military vs monster action!
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