PromoteHorror.com interviews Found Footage 3D director Steven Degennaro

Found Footage 3D is one of the most celebrated horror films of the year. It has been screening at festivals and special showings throughout the country to much acclaim. Our friend over at PromoteHorror.com recently had the chance to interview its director (and writer) Steven Degennaro.

It is a great interview and Steven (whom we also had a chance to meet at a recent screening) is a great guy who loves the genre. So we thought it would be cool to help spread the word on it and feature the interview on our site as well. So here it goes:

“Found Footage 3D” is about a group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN a found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage. It’s a well written unique film that combines humor and true horror along with found footage and 3D. We got a chance to learn more about the film from the director and writer Steven DeGennaro before a special screening of the film presented by Popcorn Frights…

PH: Of all the different genres of horror, why decide to jump into found footage?

Steven: I realized that no one had yet done for found footage what Scream did for slashers back in the 90s, and it really felt like it was time. I wanted to make something that made fun of all the conventions and clichés that bad found footage movies haven fallen into, while at the same time showed how effective the style can be when done right.

PH: The Blair Witch Project is referenced in the movie, but are there any other found footage movies you had in mind while making this film?

Steven: There are all sorts of references to all sorts of movies sprinkled throughout the film, starting with literally the first frame and ending with the last. Some of them will be obvious to most horror fans. Some of them may never be noticed by anyone but me. But there are a lot of ways in which the film is structured as a sort of meta found footage movie that draws from a giant basket of found footage influences, both good and bad. I won’t say what they are, because discovering them is half the fun.

To read the rest of this interview, head over to Promotehorror.com by clicking HERE