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An Interview with Carl Lindbergh, Director of Bunnyman Vengeance

by Mike Haberfelner

October 2017

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Your new movie Bunnyman Vengeance - in a few words, what is it about?

 

The adventures of Bunnyman, a nomadic serial killer, continue in the third and final film in the Bunnyman franchise. The man known as Bunnyman returns home to find his adoptive family running a haunted house attraction. The family reluctantly welcomes him home, but soon realize they cannot domesticate a wild animal.

 

What fascinated you enough about your Bunnyman to come back to the character time and again?

 

There were a couple of factors in returning to the franchise. The opportunity came up to film at a haunted house, and that wasn’t a opportunity that I wanted to turn down. A fully working haunted house dropped into you lap, at your disposal, isn’t something that just comes around every day. I also felt that I still had some creative ideas I wanted to fulfill with the franchise. I wanted to fill in Bunnyman’s backstory since that was something fans kept asking me for. I also felt I could strike a balance between horror and dark humor better.

 

Your sources of inspiration when writing Bunnyman Vengeance?

 

The most obvious inspiration would the film Forbidden Zone (1980), which you can see in the “dream sequence” of the film. The less obvious inspiration would be films like the Evil Dead franchise, Return of the Living Dead etc. where horror isn’t necessarily trying to be only scary, but it can also be fun. I’m also influenced by Tim Burton and Ridley Scott, where I try to build a world that these character inhibit.

 

With Bunnyman Vengeance you have moved away quite a bit from the slasher formula that was the basis of the original Bunnyman - why is that, and how would you put the three Bunnyman movies in relation to one another?

 

With every subsequent Bunnyman film I’ve been trying to fix (what I perceive to be) the previous film's flaws. I didn’t just want to repeat the formula each movie, but explore more of the character of Bunnyman. For example when I watch Friday the 13th, I just want to see Jason pop up on screen. So I thought, why not just move the Bunnyman films more into the narrative of Bunnyman’s journey and not the random victims he encounters. I’ve always felt Jason was the most interesting aspect of the Friday the 13th films, so I’m still mystified why they haven’t made a film just about him.

 

Do talk about Bunnyman Vengeance's approach to horror for a bit!

 

My approach with the Bunnyman franchise has always been about trying to do things unique and creative in the genre. I don’t want to make a horror film and tread the same ground countless other horror films have done before.

 

One approach was to center Bunnyman Vengeance on the perceived “antagonist” of the film. To start the film with Bunnyman killing a little kid, then alter the audience’s perception of the killer, and by the end of the film have the audience rooting for Bunnyman to kill. The other aspect was designing creative kills that I haven’t seen before. In previous films of the franchise, I’ve had the “final girl” commit suicide rather than deal with the killer, Bunnyman get on a school bus and kill a whole bunch of kids. These are things I’ve never seen happen in a horror film, and that’s always been the genesis of Bunnyman… do things others have not.

 

With this film I’ve designed a few kills that I feel are very creative. One kill sequence was all about a spider’s perspective of events. The spider is put on a girl, then the spider is scared and crawls into her mouth for safety. Eventually the girl’s head is blown off, and the spider (dazed and confused) crawls along the floor and continues about it’s day. It’s dark humor for sure, but it’s a unique perspective of a kill. A second kill I designed is only half visual, and the other half audio only. A girl is thrown into a well in a scene, and that’s the last you see of her. However that’s only half the scene, as the rest plays out only by her audible screams and her ultimate death by a tire. That was interesting to me, because that kill scene has nothing to do with what you see on the screen, but rather what the audience imagines it to be.

 

You just have to talk about your main location, and what was it like filming there? And how did you find it even?

 

I drove 4 hours to a horror convention to try and pitch/get a meeting with Jason Blum (Blumhouse Entertainment). I wasn’t able to get the meeting, and I was upset I drove that far for nothing. I wandered through the horror convention distraught, and ran across someone who just happened to own a haunted house in the same small city that I live in. We started talking and hit it off. I worked at the haunted house during the Halloween season, and then was able to film at the haunted house during the off season. It was a situation of making lemonade out of lemons… but it was also perhaps fate/destiny that when one door closes, another opens. I still feel that’s too coincidental to just happen by circumstance.

 

In regards to filming at the locations, let’s just say there was lots of black window spiders and you never wanted to brush up against the wall. There’s extras on the Blu-ray release that chronicle the shooting experience.

 

What can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at hand?

 

One aspect of my approach to this film (and my approach to filmmaking in general) is to take a very artistic approach. I believe in experimenting and exploring ideas. If a actor has a idea, we explore it. I see no harm in trying one approach, failing at it, learning and trying something new.

 

Do talk about your cast, and why exactly these people?

 

I cast the film with all African American leads. Partly to subvert the audience expectations of what a Bunnyman 3 should be like. I also cast these actors because it gets boring making movies with “random group of attractive teens” in peril. It’s been done a thousand times before, so why bother copying that formula.

 

A few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?

 

We shot for 18 days. 6 days on, 1 day off. To keep costs low we shot everything within a 30 miles radius, and I housed the cast and crew in my house. Everyone was professional on set, and worked very hard. We had one actor quit and try to blackmail the production. However he was immediately replaced and we didn’t loose a day of shooting. However part of my job as the producer is to run a calm set, so most of the cast and crew don’t even know this happened. It’s very challenging to be a producer and director on a film. I find when I’m in this situation, I don’t have a support system that would help immeasurably.

 

The $64-question of course, where can your movie be seen?

 

Bunnyman Vengeance will be released on digital 10/20 and DVD/BD on 11/21 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

 

Anything you can tell us about audience and critical reception of Bunnyman Vengeance?

 

I don’t follow the audience or critical reception of my films, so I have no idea what the response is. I do have fans reach out to me in emails, and I do hear things through them. However I don’t seek out people’s opinions of my work. Making a film is a personal creative process I go through. Once I finish the film, I’m at peace with it and I move on. It’s sort of like a break up, in that when the film is done I have closure and I just don’t want to re-open that experience that I lived through.

 

I've read it more than once that Bunnyman Vengeance is supposed to be the last Bunnyman-film - is this true and set in stone, or do you think you could be persuaded to do another Bunnyman-movie eventually?

 

I have no plans to do anymore Bunnyman films. I am completely redoing Bunnyman 1 with a new edit, new VFX, new score, and a few additional scenes. That film is known as Bunnyman: Grindhouse Edition. I revisited the film since I got the film’s rights back, and I had a opportunity to fix the problems with the film. As an artist I often wonder at what point do you realize your creative endeavor is complete? When does a painter realize his painting is done? When does a musician realize his song is complete? Perhaps I thought about this too much, and decided to endlessly tinker with the original Bunnyman film? However the film is immeasurable better for having been remade. I can actually finally tolerate watching it on screen now.

 

Making Bunnyman: Grindhouse Edition was also partly a way for me to close the Bunnyman chapter of films in my career. Of course my mind wonders if there was another Bunnyman film, what would it be like? I only see two options, 1) a higher budget production to reboot the franchise and 2) a entire Bunnyman film set in the “dream sequence” of Bunnyman Vengeance which I think would be challenging and creatively liberating.

Bunnyman: Grindhouse Edition-trailer: https://youtu.be/xT_m3Ezqmkk

 

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Anything else you're dying to mention and I have merely forgotten to ask?

 

I just wanted to thank the fans for the support. It means the world to me, and something I truly cherish. I also wanted to thank my awesome actors for going above and beyond what was asked for them. The film could not have been made without them.

 

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