Indie filmmaker Phil Messerer (pictured) recently chatted with Fango about his directorial debut, the vampire opus Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1. A far cry from the teen-skewing, similarly titled TV series hitting the airwaves this fall, it’s the harrowing tale of the lengths a family will go to stay together. Offering none of the romanticism that has plagued this subgenre in recent years (in the likes of Twilight et al.), the film presents vampirism as something of a disease for which blood is the only effective medicine, and has won awards at numerous festivals.
“I grew up in a New York ghetto, and the local theater only showed horror and martial arts flicks,” Messerer tells us, reflecting on his influences. “My mom and I always went to the horror shows. So from the earliest age, I was on a steady diet of B-movies. My mother died about 10 years ago,...
“I grew up in a New York ghetto, and the local theater only showed horror and martial arts flicks,” Messerer tells us, reflecting on his influences. “My mom and I always went to the horror shows. So from the earliest age, I was on a steady diet of B-movies. My mother died about 10 years ago,...
- 7/14/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Logan DeSisto)
- Fangoria
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