Archive for the ‘ghost’ Category
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Watch the YouTube video at: https://bit.ly/3po8uAX
Posted in 100 Feet, Arrow In The Head, Bigfoot Films, Bigfoot Movies, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, FBI, Film, IDW, It Waits Below, Jackson Hole, JoBlo.com, Kensington Books, Pinnacle Books, SST Publications, The Joe Noose Westerns, Uncategorized, Wyoming, action, action books, action films, action movies, action novels, alamo draft house, alamo drafthouse, audiobooks, bad moon, bigfoot, blu ray, blue steel, book trailer, bounty hunter, branded, comics, containment, cowboy, cowboys, crime, crime books, crime fiction, crime novels, dark delicacies, eric red, famous monsters of filmland, fangoria, festivals, ghost, gore, graphic novels, gunfighter, gunfighters, hanging fire, horror, horror books, horror fiction, horror films, horror movies, horror novels, international thriller writers, joe noose western, john gallagher, kindle, lycanthrope, monster, mystery, mystery books, mystery fiction, mystery films, mystery movies, mystery novels, near dark, no man's ridge, noose, novels, paul fry, planet awards, posse, procedural, road thriller, salvage, samhain publishing, savage types, science fiction, science fiction films, science fiction movies, scifi, scifi films, scifi movies, scream factory, scream magazine, screenwriting, serial killer, serial killer books, serial killer novels, shout factory, space, splatter, splatter movies, starburst magazine, steam train, the crimson trail, the guns of santa sangre, the hitcher, the men who walk like wolves, the red corner, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, thriller books, thriller films, thriller movies, thriller novels, trucker, vampires, weird west, werewolf, werewolf films, werewolf movies, werewolf western, werewolves, western, western books, western fiction, western films, western movies, western novels, white knuckle, zombies, zombies-in-space | Comments Off
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Watch  selected scenes from my movies, original uncut sequences, exclusive making of behind-the-scenes documentaries, book trailers, and lots more fun stuff!  Check it out at:
https://youtube.com/user/johnryder12000
Posted in 100 Feet, Arrow In The Head, Bigfoot Films, Bigfoot Movies, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, FBI, Film, It Waits Below, Jackson Hole, JoBlo.com, Kensington Books, Pinnacle Books, SST Publications, The Joe Noose Westerns, Uncategorized, action, action books, action films, action movies, action novels, alamo draft house, alamo drafthouse, alien, audiobooks, bad moon, bigfoot, blog, blu ray, blue steel, book trailer, bounty hunter, branded, comics, containment, cowboy, cowboys, crime, crime books, crime fiction, crime novels, dark delicacies, dark fantasy, eric red, erotic, erotica, fantasy, freaks, ghost, gore, graphic novels, gunfighter, gunfighters, hanging fire, horror, horror books, horror fiction, horror films, horror movies, horror novels, international thriller writers, interview, joe noose western, john gallagher, kindle, mystery, mystery books, mystery fiction, mystery films, mystery movies, mystery novels, near dark, no man's ridge, noose, novels, paul fry, posse, procedural, road thriller, salvage, savage types, science fiction, science fiction films, science fiction movies, scifi, scifi films, scifi movies, scream factory, scream magazine, screenwriting, serial killer, serial killer books, serial killer novels, shout factory, sideshow, sizzle reel, space, splatter, splatter movies, steam train, the claws of rio muerto, the crimson trail, the guns of santa sangre, the hitcher, the men who walk like wolves, the red corner, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, thriller books, thriller films, thriller movies, thriller novels, traveling carnival, trucker | Comments Off
Monday, July 6th, 2020
Huge thanks to Arrow in the Head at JoBlo.com for a terrific tribute video article on my ghost movie 100 FEET. This is the best piece anybody has ever done on the film. Informative, fast-paced and full of great stuff about the flick, it is must viewing for fans of my work and horror fans in general.
https://bit.ly/3f6JucO
During this period of everybody locked down in our homes sharing anxieties of isolation and dread, audiences can personally relate to 100 FEET in a way they couldn’t before, making the movie more frightening than ever. We’re all in lockdown inside our homes just like the movie’s heroine Marnie played by Famke Janssen but her problems are worse than yours since she’s shut in with the violent ghost of her dead husband who doesn’t believe in social distancing. The suffocating claustrophobia of Famke’s situation in the movie is so identifiable to us these days, viewing 100 FEET now may be unbearably intense for some of you, get in your head and give you nightmares. You have been warned.
100 FEET is my personal favorite of the films I’ve made and my best job as a director. It’s easy to frighten people with gore and jump scares but true skill in suspense lies in the creation of tension without any of that. It’s about manipulating audience expectations so just when they think something is about to happen, it doesn’t and when they least expect it, it does. 100 FEET is basically an entire movie with a woman alone in a house with a ghost. The ghost is almost never seen, and when ghost attacks are always terrifying and unexpected. This is a very Hitchcockian film of elevated suspense.
This movie got made during the trend of torture porn horror films so I wanted to go completely in the other direction and scare the hell of the audience without relying on kills or gory violence like everyone else was doing. And it worked. 100 FEET keeps you on the edge of your seat for ninety minutes and there is only one kill in the entire movie! What interested me making 100 FEET was using classic techniques of point of view and visual subliminal suggestion to generate tension and lead you around by the nose rather than hit you in the face.
As a director, it was a wonderful challenge. If you’ve seen 100 FEET before watch it again because you’ll get more out of seeing the film now than you did then. If you haven’t seen it, I would definitely not recommend watching it alone locked down in your house late at night.
Or maybe I would.
Posted in 100 Feet, Arrow In The Head, Film, JoBlo.com, Uncategorized, action, action films, action movies, blu ray, eric red, ghost, horror, horror films, horror movies, monster, mystery, mystery films, mystery movies, thriller, thriller films, thriller movies | Comments Off
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
We talk about my new novel THE WOLVES OF EL DIABLO, western and horror books and films, and lots of other fun stuff: http://bit.ly/2upNDC2
Posted in 100 Feet, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, Film, It Waits Below, JoBlo.com, SST Publications, Wyoming, action, bad moon, blog, blu ray, buzzard, cemetery dance, colorblind, dark delicacies, dark discoveries magazine, dark fantasy, do not disturb, eric red, erotic, fantasy, ghost, gunfighters, horror, horror films, horror movies, in the mix, interview, john gallagher, kindle, little nasties, monster, mystery, mystery books, near dark, novels, paul fry, podcast, procedural, radio show, road thriller, science fiction, screenwriting, serial killer, short story, shroud magazine, space, steam train, strange fruit, submarine, the buzzard, the claws of rio muerto, the guns of santa sangre, the men who walk like wolves, the red corner, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, thriller books, traveling carnival, trucker, undersea, vampires, website, weird tales magazine, weird west, werewolf, werewolf western, western, white knuckle | Comments Off
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
“Eric Red is a filmmaker who understands efficient storytelling. He knows how to set a scene, how to develop a premise and characters using the sparse language of cinema. His films (Body Parts, Cohen and Tate) are lean, efficient, and almost always expertly plotted. With 100 Feet, Red took a crack at the ghost story, and in doing so addressed a nagging question that has plagued the haunted-house genre since its inception: “Why don’t these people just pack up and leave?â€.
Marnie, the protagonist in 100 Feet, is under house-arrest, having murdered her abusive ex-husband in self defense. She can’t leave. Locked inside the dwelling she once shared with her former spouse, Marnie realizes that the vengeful spirit of her dead husband is still roaming the halls, fully intent on making her life a living hell. 100 Feet is a modest, intimate film that takes place entirely within one environment, and Red makes the most of his limited setting.
Every nook and cranny is explored, utilized to create a sense of menace: a dark basement, crawlspaces, a garbage disposal unit. Red’s picture is also notable for being one of the most violent haunting films in recent years. This is one seriously pissed-off spirit, possessing supernatural strength but dishing out very man-like beatings. The violence has a brutal, nasty edge, unusual for this particular sub-genre.
Acting is uniformly excellent, but the film belongs to Famke Janssen, as Marnie. Because of the close personal relationship Marnie once shared with her ethereal tormentor, the haunting here has an added layer of emotional resonance; Red’s script offers his lead plenty to work with, and she admirably rises to the challenge.
Both vulnerable and tough-as-nails, Marnie is a compelling, perfectly realized horror heroine. It’s no classic (there are a few instances of wonky CGI), but 100 Feet is a solid little ghost movie that deserves your attention.”
Read more:Â http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/10-totally-awesome-2000s-horror-movies-you-shouldnt-miss/#ixzz4aI7MvhT3
#100Feet #EricRed #FamkeJanssen #BobbyCannavale #EdWestwick#JohnFallon #JoBloCom #Horror #HorrorFilms #HorrorMovies #Ghost#GhostMovies #ShotOnFilm
Posted in 100 Feet, Film, JoBlo.com, blu ray, eric red, ghost, horror, horror films, horror movies, mystery | Comments Off