Straight from the good folks at Slater Radio!!!
“We’ve got something horror fans are going to eat up, a brand new Slasher Radio exclusive interview with Sweet Revenge, Wrong Turn, and upcoming Silent Night, Deadly Night director Mike P. Nelson! Mike dives deep into Jason’s return, the making of Sweet Revenge, and gives the most detailed look yet at his upcoming Silent Night, Deadly Night reboot.” ]category News, Movie News]
Watch/Listen to the full interview here:
📺 Watch on YouTube – https://youtu.be/f1lMJ4iWdfA
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1:45 – Creature from the Black Lagoon Themed Wedding Cake
2:53 – What keeps Mike in the horror genre, The ability to tell stories in the horror genre
5:41 – Benefits and Challenges of Directing AND Writing a project, Compromises and Sacrifices of Filmmaking
11:53 – Heading the return of Jason Voorhees in Sweet Revenge; How it happened, the Fear and Impostor Syndrome of accepting the project, Blumhouse (Ryan Turek) involvement? 🤔
17:19 – Working with Jason Universe, The Barsamian’s and Sheri Conn, AND Angry Orchard
19:40 – Shooting Sweet Revenge, and having to get back to Indie Roots to film it
22:50 – Recreating the Part 7 Weedwacker Kill and actually SHOWING the kill
23:20 – Score / Music for Sweet Revenge and trying to match the Manfredini Vibes from the original films
28:22 – Directing & Writing the Wrong Turn Reboot, Fan reaction
30:50 – Reading Reviews of his own movies, Watching his own movies
36:28 – Schuyler White’s Jason Appearance/Design, Jason Universe involvement, The backlash
39:55 – His Jason’s Aggression in Sweet Revenge, Past Jason iterations in other Friday the 13th Films
42:49 – The Passionate Debates of Horror Fans that makes the genre so great
47:04 – Wanting a Feature-Length Friday the 13th Film to finish his Sweet Revenge Story, What he would like for the future of the franchise
50:09 – Teasing the story remaining of Sweet Revenge, Leaving questions being in the roots of the Friday the 13th Franchise from the beginning
52:44 – Damian Maffei calling Mike rebooting Silent Night, Deadly Night years before it happened, Mike’s horror t-shirt lore
56:33 – Thought process going into reimagining an iconic film, How it happened
59:24 – Modern Silent Night, Deadly Night, Tones & What we can expect going into his reboot,
1:03:06 – Not chasing the controversy from the original 1984 Film
1:07:18 – How to make Silent Night, Deadly Night stand out from other Christmas Horror Films
1:09:56 – Favorite Christmas Horror Movie that’s NOT named Black Christmas
