“I was naive about the ocean, basically. I was
pretty naive about mother nature and the hubris of a filmmaker who thinks he
can conquer the elements was foolhardy, but I was too young to know I was being
foolhardy when I demanded that we shoot the film in the Atlantic Ocean and not
in a North Hollywood tank. But had I to do it all over again I would have gone
back to the sea because it was the only way for the audience to feel that these
three men were cast adrift with a great white shark hunting them.”
Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Beach Week: Verities
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