Filmmaking Articles by Matt McAllister

Jim Groom: Killer Goats, Zombie Bikers & the Saga of Room 36
After an early career in post-production Jim Groom’s first feature-length directing stint was the low budget horror-comedy Revenge of Billy the Kid in 1992. This sick little tale about a half-man/half-goat creature going on a killing spree in the...

In the Shadow of the Wolf
“Of course it’s controversial,” Eduardo Noriega shrugs. “It’s really difficult. And I don’t think the film wanted to give solutions. But it wanted to at least propose questions – just invite people to...

Park Chan-wook: Revenge is Sweet
Park Chan-wook, the softly-spoken figure behind such deranged Korean classics as Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, has little doubt as to why revenge stories are so popular with moviegoers. "Revenge is a desire that everybody has but nobody can...