INTERVIEW w/ Dana Adam Shapiro. CRUSH Double Feature SMASH. Hidden secondary theme? Fast action against intentionally slow drama. Making an audience excited about something foreign to them. The forbidden questions. Grounding your audience. Tugging at the heart strings – the easy way and the hard way. How Murderball was made. Journalism. Shooting low budget. Technical specifics on cameras, mics, lights, etc. Planning vs luck. Managing an unexpected ending. Highway survival horror. Crafting a set. The truck. The man behind the truck. The official “show the monster” movement. Death curse. When content outside a movie makes you feel a different way about it. Hamster style. Campy Dialogue. Exploitation.
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Murderball
Released: July 22, 2005
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Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Writer: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Starring: Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Joe Bishop, Andy COhn
A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Monster Man
Released: March 11, 2005
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Director: Michael Davis
Writer: Michael Davis
Starring: Alice Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks, Michael Bailey Smith
Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.
