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Is that why you didn't go down the Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer route? Bright: "Yeah. And Henry was fictitious - loosely based on false confessions. I'm giving just what I know about Ted Bundy and nothing else. The only thing I faked was him making his girlfriend pretend she was dead. The purpose of that was that you could get to see the perversion which otherwise couldn't be portrayed. I couldn't show somebody f**king a maggotty corpse." Surely that would have alerted her to his sheer insanity? Bright: "Oh yeah. She had every reason to think he was a psycho, but she was such a terrible drunk she couldn't see it. He's killing people, he's in jail, he's accused, and all she could say was, 'Do you have another girlfriend?'. She was a f**king moron!" One of the strangest things about your Bundy flick is its inappropriate music. Bright (surprised): "Really?!" For instance, the Christmas music during the murder at the ski resort. Bright: "Well, he trashed Christmas! This was going on while everybody was living their lives. The murder itself was disgusting. It was Christmas and I wanted to tie the murder with the settings." The music throughout is generally upbeat... Bright: "I thought that made it more horrible! It's just my aesthetic - I try to go from comic to tragedy to hideous to dirty, all at the same time." You're clearly a freaky kinda guy. Freeway had its downright bizarre moments. Bright: "I approach my scripts like novels, so they don't necessarily follow the standard format. I'm not trying to be funny, or whatever, so people end up saying that they don't know whether one of my movies was supposed to be a horror, a comedy or a romance. And I don't either..." Why are you unhappy with 'Freeway II: Confessions Of A Trick Baby'? Bright: "Making it was a hideous nightmare! When we got there, we were told the budget had been halved. We had a non-union crew that had to be hired within 30 miles of Vancouver. The guy who did all the DT work for Jadorowsky wanted to work with me, but no: I had to work with somebody in Vancouver. The crew were either on heroin or calling up Child Services saying we were killing children because they didn't wanna work that day. It was just hideous - a nightmare unlike anything I've ever experienced. We were embattled and contemptuous of everyone." How was the allegedly 'difficult' Vincent Gallo? Bright: "He was wonderful. Natasha Lyonne was great, too. But Maria Celedonio wouldn't learn her lines! I never experienced anything like that before in my life. I wanted to kill her." Are you happy for 'Bundy' to be seen as a slasher movie? Bright: "Well it is - it's the thinking man's slasher film. I mean, it's a horror movie. So that's okay - I just don't want anyone to think I was being dishonest. I did it with a pure heart and never tried to manipulate the audience." Some horror fans may see Tom Savini's name on the credits and expect wall-to-wall gore... Bright: "They might, but they shouldn't. I'm not into that. Having said that, if people get shot in my films it really looks like they've been shot. They don't just drop. Once they get shot in my movies, they're going to the emergency room to have their veins rebuilt! My violence, for some reason, gets censored. Steven Seagal can shove a piece of glass into somebody's neck - no problem - but I get censored all the time." Give us an example. Bright: "In 'Freeway', they said too many bullets went into Kiefer Sutherland. Every violent scene I've ever done has been censored in one way or another... except for Ted Bundy!" Oh, the irony. So are you bracing yourself for abuse from the general public with this one? Bright: "Oh, I don't know. Some people are gonna hate it. It seems like people either think it's cool, or they hate it a lot. They hate me, too. If you please everybody, you're doing something wrong. And anybody who goes to a movie with the title Ted Bundy should know that it's not a walk in the park..." Ted Bundy is reviewed here. [Features Menu] [Home] © Copyright Slasherama 2002-present |