Paired with a Pocket 4K and buckets of fake blood, filmmaker Lesley Hennen invokes the Unholy Trinity: anxiety, fear, and laughing out loud. Is horror comedy the best of the genre? Think American Werewolf in London and Evil Dead II or Shaun of the Dead. They all have terrifying situations like being eaten in the moors at night, unleashing hell on earth, and losing all your best vinyl in the zombie apocalypse. And odds are, we’ll be watching these movies for decades to come, while the plethora of their serious horror counterparts fade into obscurity. Why? There’s something much more valuable about horror that brings comedy—if you can pull it off! For filmmaker Lesley Hennen, it all started with the feeling you get when you make a room full of people laugh. (And that started in the first grade for her.) After a few years in a soul-sucking 9-to-5, Hennen discovered screenwriting, and eventually, her voice. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 29 October, 2021