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THE FROLIC |
| directed by: |
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Jacob Cooney |
| screenwriter: |
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Jacob Cooney |
| location: |
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Culver City, CA, USA |
| official website: |
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www.wonderentertainment.com |
| contact: |
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jcooney7@hotmail.com |
| synopsis: |
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A
mysterious child killer in a mental
facility plays a game of cat and
mouse with his increasingly fearful
psychiatric counselor. |
| runtime: |
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22
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| screening: |
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Short
Program 2 [ refer
to schedule ] |
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| Dark Romance Review |
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| How
long did your project take
to create, from conception
to final completion? |
| Between conception and completion, The Frolic took about a year to finish. |
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| Where
did your inspiration come
from? |
| The Frolic is based on a short story of the same name, written by horror writer Thomas Ligotti. |
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Horror or Sci-Fi your primary
creative interest? |
| I love all genres, but horror and sci-fi have been a major interest of mine since I was a child. It all started when I watched my first classic Universal Pictures horror film with my parents when I was around 5 or 6 years old. |
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| Can
you describe a typical day
in the creative process? |
| We shot The Frolic over a six day period. A basic day during production usually called for a late afternoon call time, which then took us shooting late into the night and early morning hours. For the most part, the schedule was filled to the brim with the pages that needed to be done that day, so the cast and crew would hunker down, work hard, and have some fun. |
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| Who
do you consider to be the
greatest horror writer? |
| Thomas Ligotti, of course. |
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| Can
you recall the first horror
film that left a lasting
impression on you? |
| Thinking back, I would have to say Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." But most recently, I would say "The Descent" from Neil Marshall. That film quite honestly gave me the chills.. |
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| Who
do you consider to be the
greatest 'Master of Horror'? |
| John Carpenter. |
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| How
did you find your cast? |
| The cast of The Frolic came together relatively easily. Maury Sterling (John Doe) is a really good friend of mine, so I basically handed him the script and said "Here, you're doing this." I knew he was perfect for the role. Michael Rielly Burke (Dr. Munck) is a friend of Maury Sterling. He was introduced to me as "the guy who was Ted Bundy." We met once for coffee and talked about the movie. Shortly after, he agreed to come on the film to play Dr. David Munck. Jennifer Aspen (Leslie Munck) was a friend of the films producer, Jane Kelly Kosek, and someone I had grown up watching on TV shows like "Party of Five". Jennifer read the script and immediately sparked to it. On our first phone meeting, she basically told me she was "going to play Leslie Munck and I had no choice in the matter." This happened to agree with me, as I had wanted to work with her for a long time. |
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| What
is you most memorable moment
while making your film? |
| The most memorable moment for me would have to be sitting in front of the monitor on the first day of shooting and seeing Dr. Munck and John Doe sitting across from each other for the first time. |
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| What was the editing process like for The Frolic? |
| We went through numerous cuts of the film until we felt that the tension and timing were perfect.. |
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| Did
you shoot on film or with
digital cameras? |
| We shot The Frolic on Super 16mm film. |
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| How
many members of your cast
and crew? |
| Six
in the cast, with a crew of seventeen. |
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| If
you could choose any famous
actors to work with on future
projects, who would they
be? |
| Oh man... I am just excited to work with any actor, but if I had to name some I would have to say Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. |
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