Cool article on my films and books in the new issue of Fangoria Magazine #358.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
For more information on the new issue go to:Â http://www.fangoria.com/new/first-look-cover-contents-for-the-kevin-smith-edited-fangoria-348/
Archive for the ‘Film’ Category
BAD MOON Blu Ray signing event at Dark Delicacies bookstore in Burbank on Tuesday July 19th at 7:00 PM.
Friday, July 15th, 2016
I’ll be doing a BAD MOON Blu Ray signing with star Michael Pare, special makeup effects designer Steve Johnson, and composer Daniel Licht at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank this Tuesday, July 19th at 7:00 PM.
The address is 3512 W Magnolia Blvd. Burbank CA 91505.  Stop by and visit.
Thanks, as always, to Del and Sue Howison!
My latest novel WHITE KNUCKLE is a road thriller about truckers, so here’s a list of my top five truck movies on FlickAttack.
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Guest List: Eric Red’s Top 5 Truck Movies
Eric Red, author of the new truck-thriller novel White Knuckle , has written such vehicular-minded movies as Near Dark , The Hitcher and Cohen and Tate (the last of which he also directed). Now he takes the wheel of Flick Attack’s first-ever Guest List!
Big rigs, the tractor-trailer 18-wheelers we see rolling along the American highways, belong in movies. There’s something bigger-than-life about the huge, rumbling, mythic diesels driven by those modern day cowboys, The Men Behind the Wheel. It was a lifelong fascination with these giant trucks and the colorful world of truckers that inspired my new high-octane thriller novel, White Knuckle, a mystery tale about an FBI agent on a cross-country hunt for a prolific serial killer/interstate truck driver. It’s surprising more films aren’t made about the epic world of the long hauler, but several truck movies have delivered on the exciting cinematic dimensions of big rigs. Here are my personal top-five favorites:
1. Duel (1971)
The mac daddy of all truck movies. A businessman four-wheeler overtakes a big rig on the highway in his car and, for the rest of the film, the menacing truck tries to kill him. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this ultimate present-tense thriller has no subplot, has no character backstory and we never even really see the truck driver. It’s a pure linear exercise in vehicular cat-and-mouse ratcheting suspense, with the scariest tractor-trailer 18-wheeler in movies — more animal than machine.
2. The Wages of Fear (1953)
The genius of this French thriller, about four truckers in South America on a suicide mission driving two truckloads of volatile explosive nitroglycerin through the jungle, is that it’s a vehicular action movie that moves at 5 mph. That’s about as fast as the heroes drive, because one bump and they get blown up. Honorable mention to William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, the 1977 muscular Hollywood remake, with its astonishing sequence of a nitro truck crossing a collapsing rope bridge during a hurricane rainstorm.
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Excellent review of the new Blu Ray release of BAD MOON, my Warner Bros. werewolf movie, on The Digital Bits.
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
“Bad Moon is going to become one of a lot of people’s favorite werewolf movies, no doubt about it. With strong direction, excellent special effects, and a straight-forward story, it’s certainly a welcome breath of fresh air. And Scream Factory’s release of the film is definitely one of their best. Highly recommended.” - Tim Salmons.
Read the full review at: http://bit.ly/29r3uGG
The BAD MOON Blu Ray from Shout Factory is available on Amazon.com at: http://amzn.to/29xNzZ3
Check out my YouTube channel to see selected scenes and uncut sequences from my films, along with behind-the-scenes docs and other cool stuff.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
Follow the link:Â https://www.youtube.com/user/johnryder12000/videos
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Check out my guest blog about researching horror on Samhain Publishing author Brian Moreland’s Dark Lucidity website.
Saturday, August 16th, 2014
“What does research matter in horror?
You’d think doing research as an author would be less important for a horror novel than other literary genres, because monsters and the supernatural aren’t real—or at least some think so. But in my opinion, the more realistic the everyday details, technology, ordinance, hardware, professional behavior, and science, the more the reader believes what’s going on, increasing their involvement in the story. Even though the reader knows a horror story is unreal, I believe the greater the verisimilitude, that on an unconscious level people believe what is happening just a little bit more—and it’s that much more scary. It all comes down to suspension of disbelief…”
To read the rest of my guest blog, go to Brian’s site at http://bit.ly/1sLFV0E.
My Bigfoot movie, NO MAN’S RIDGE, is on track for production in Wyoming summer 2014.
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
More to come…
My website just got a major overhaul and is now live.
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
Check it out at www.ericred.com.
Creature concept design for my planned Bigfoot film, NO MAN’S RIDGE.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
Monster design by John Gallagher.
View the NO MAN’S RIDGE sizzle reel at http://www.joblo.com/videos/movie-trailers/no-mans–ridge-trailer
NO MAN’S RIDGE sizzle reel.
Saturday, September 14th, 2013
Check out the trailer created by John Vulich and myself for an upcoming film project. Â This sizzle reel was assembled from existing footage: Â http://www.joblo.com/videos/movie-trailers/no-mans–ridge-trailer