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| title: |
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NIGHT
OF THE LEBEN TOD |
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Eric
Forsberg |
| screenplay |
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Eric
Forsberg |
| location: |
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Los
Angeles, California, USA |
| official
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audience.withoutabox.com/films/leben_tod |
| synopsis: |
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Pregnant
& frightened, Anais is not allowed
to leave the specialized hospital
where her husband Peter has a
medical internship with his uncle,
a man with a serum that can resurrect
the dead. But things go terribly
wrong & the ghouls take over the
hospital.(Possible Q & A after
the film) |
| runtime: |
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98
min. |
| screening: |
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Film
Program 10 [
refer
to schedule ] |
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Dark Romance Review |
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Eric
Forsberg is a very sick,
very funny man, as his zombie
gore-fest Night of the Leben
Tod amply proves.
Mixing ingredients taken
from the recipes of The
Brain That Wouldn't Die,
Reanimator and of course
Night of the Living Dead,
Forsberg proves again that
excess is the way to success
when there's a mad German
scientist with a run-down
medical clinic for him to
perform his "experiments"
in.
The cast of Night of the
Leben Tod is very entertaining,
particularly Louis Graham
as the mad doctor Schreklich,
Deirdre Lyons as his strangely
sexy zombie-wife, Lola Forsberg
as the most memorable zombie
child since Night of the
Living Dead, and Joey Jalalian
who plays her character
straight and serves as the
one sane person around whom
chaos is unleashed.. |
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| How long did your project take to create, from conception to final completion? |
| Fourteen months. |
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| Where did your inspiration come from? |
| When I was a kid I was fascinated with Ghouls. Zombies are mindless brain eaters and Vampires are supernatural beings with special powers: there are lots of films about both of them. But ghouls are actually real people, brought back from the dead, aware of themselves, in pain, terribly angry and famished for living human tissue to take away the pain. I wanted to create a new type of Ghoul called a Leben Tod (Leben means life in German and Tod means Death). This is the film that introduces them to the world. |
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| Is Horror or Sci-Fi your primary creative interest? |
| When I was a in High School I made dozens of super 8 mm horror movies. In even earlier years I would stay up evey Friday and Saturday night, all night to watch Attack of The Mushroom People and The Thing... any horror movie on. In college my work focus turned to drama, fantasy and occult thriller. After that I worked as a writer and director for the stage with a focus on fantasy epics and comedy revue (I directed a dozen revues for The Second City in Chicago). When I came to Los Angeles I worked in many fields and genres before I landed back in horror and science fiction. Now my focus is the unusual, the bizzare, the unsettling and the terrifying. This lands me smack dab in the middle of sci fi horror and occult terror films and I love it. But I still have a few off beat comedies brewing out there.
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| Can you describe a typical day in the process of creating your film? |
| It is a labor of creative birth. Somethines it takes me a month or two of thinking and taking notes, sometimes it is only a few days. But when the moment comes to write I usually sit at my computer or my tablet day and noght, writing as fast as my hands can move. My wife says that I channel my scripts. They just explode out of me and I write what my mind sees. At least that was the way is was with this script and many others. Some scripts are more painful and slow in coming, it is almost agony to sew their various chunks together. The channeling method yields better and more fun scripts. |
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| Who do you consider to be the greatest horror writer? |
| Clive Barker. |
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| Can you recall the first horror film that left a lasting impression on you? |
| King Kong. I was three or four and I had nightmeres about it. But I also loved the creature. Since then I have always prefered horrors where I felt sympathy for the monster or the villian. |
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| Who do you consider to be the greatest 'Master of Horror'? |
| John Carpenter. |
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| How many participants comprised your crew? |
| We had a max of 12 on the crew. |
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| How many castmembers? |
| Our biggest day was 22 including extras, but we had 16 in the core cast. |
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| How did you find your cast? |
| Open Auditions through on-line casting services. |
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| Did you re-edit your film after the first cut? |
| There was an editors cut, a directors cut and a final cut. |
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| Did you shoot on film or with digital cameras? |
| We shot with the Canon XL H1 |
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| If you could choose any famous actors to work with on future projects, who would they be? |
| My comedy writing partner and I penned a great script called NEIGHBOR OF THE BEAST about a regular guy finding the horn of the apocolypse and becoming the anti-christ. We wrote if for STEVE CARELL because I directed him in Chicago, but then he became to famous to get to. I would love to work with CLIVE OWEN, SEAN CONNERY, and GWYNETH PALTROW. I wrote a park in CROAK for VING RHAMES and I really like where GEORGE CLOONEY has landed. The list goes on. But for my next horror film, UDO KIER please. |
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