“THE ZOMBIE GUIDE TO LIFE”: WHY, MAN, THEY DID MAKE LOVE TO THIS EMPLOYMENT! Second section of current short fiction. I really meant to get all the pieces on the chessboard in this section, but it didn’t happen, so one crucial character is still waiting to be introduced. Anyway, here is more of writer/director Stephen Cantwell and actor Billy Sealey reflecting on the movie that made their names.

“This–audiences are really sophisticated, nowadays,” Stephen said. “They can pick up with only a few visual clues on something like a dream sequence or a flashback. We really exploited that here. Audiences now are really wired for film–they have this huge, like, library of cuts and scenes and genre conventions, that they probably don’t even realize they have, but we as directors can call on them really easily and show them things in abbreviation and they’ll get it. Like with this movie, in some ways it follows the horror genre really blatantly–you’ll see, at the end, when the reveals start happening, you’ll see a lot of it is very standard. Because those tricks work. They’re scary. But then the reveals kind of twist around on themselves and the genre gets disrupted, broken up. Turned against itself.”

New scene. Story so far.