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Your new movie Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze - in a few words, what is it about?
It's
about two morons, who eat a wrong amount of devilishly wrong mushrooms and
forget about everything that's happened while they were tripping. Luckily
one of the two filmed the spectacle. How
did the project fall together in the first place, and who came up with the
original idea? Jim Aal [Jim Aal interview - click here]
wanted us to participate in a international movie complilation
featuring shorts around the topic of "intoxication". After some
even worse ideas than the produced one, we managed to write a story
together with Sebastian Zeglarski [Sebastian
Zeglarski interview - click here] and produced it in the short time of
just one and a half years. The original compilation is yet to come, but for
that release we also produced an English version of the movie with an
alternative cut, that you also can find on our Blu-ray Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze. Do talk about your sources of inspiration
when writing Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze! When
we wrote the script I strongly had propagandistic films like Reefer
Madness in mind, and generally all of those panic-driven horror
stories that tell us how bad psychedelics are, how substances like THC or
psyclocibin drive you crazy and ultimately commit something realy horrible. What can you tell us
about Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze's brand of humour? It's
a similar mix of humor to all of our movies: Wicked wordplay, silly
slapstick, cartoonish over-the-top splatter effects and a generally kind of
goofy situational black and red humor. Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze is pretty explicit when it comes to
violence and dismemberment - so what can you tell us about the gore
effects in Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze, and was there ever a line you refused
to cross?
The line we refused to cross was to pay even more money for even more extrem
effects than we actually did. No, since Sebastian Zeglarski was in charge
of the blood and gore effects, the man who also created gore gonzo films
like A Fucking Cruel Nightmare or the newly relaeased Violent
Obsession, we didn't have to fear any line that our SFX-department wouldn't be
willling to cross. The limiting factor in terms of gore was, as always, the
budget. What can you tell us about your overall
directorial approach to your story at hand?
The approach was splitted into two parts: The one in the forest and the one on
the couch. In the forest everything went quite close to script, but on the
couch Jim and I were basically improvising to the previously filmed
material. You've
written and directed Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze together with Sebastian Zeglarski - so
what was your collaboration like?
It was natural fun, like mostly when Sebastian and me are "working"
together. We were just kidding around and at some point we had a final
script and at some later point we had the finished film. You also appear in
front of the camera in Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze - so what can you tell us about your
character, what did you draw upon to bring him to life, and have you
written him with yourself in mind from the get-go?
The character I play in the movie is the freshly deceased "Master
W". He's a character I used for the last 20 years. He's basically a
useful idiot with a lot of crazy ideas in his mind and no fear to put
them into reality. Do
talk about the rest of your cast, and why exactly these people?
Since we needed a real star in the cast and Crippler Criss wasn't available, we
had to rely on no other than our longtime superstar Jim Aal. The young
woman with pink hair was an old friend who already had
some smaller roles in some of our movies, and she was eager to get another
chance to shine and scream for the big screen.
Afew words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?
It was colder than it looks and some actors were not so amused by all the
circumstances and hardships the shoot was asking for. The
$64-question of course, where can Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze be seen?
It can be seen everywhere where you have a TV, a Blu-ray player and a
copy of Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze, which you can get
directly from P.S.Y.C.H.O.
Productions. Anything you
can tell us about audience and critical reception of Das
Geheimnis der Teufelspilze yet? Other
than expected the overall reception of the short was overwhelmingly
positive. Some viewers even stated that it is the funniest film of ours so
far. I don't think I'd necessarily agree with that, but it's nice to see
the people having fun with our film. Any future
projects you'd like to share? Of
course there are: More than one, but of course we can only work on and
finish one at a time. There is a postapocalyptic dystopia in the pipeline
as well as a hilarious manic martial arts film, but the one I think might
be the first to get some shooting days is a film about a young man who
lost his yawn...
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to mention and I have merely forgotten to ask? No, I think I've already said too much. Thanks
for the interview!
I thank you for your interest! Gory Greetings from Silschede
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