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Robert Hall: What's BUGging me..

Friday, May 08, 2009 04:51 AM Robert Hall Robert Hall's ALMOST HUMAN
ChromeSkull gets love from Rob...It's been a while since my last blog as I have been (happily) swimming in the wake of LAID TO REST promotion. I'm really honored that FANGORIA is presenting a double feature this Saturday, May 9th of LAID TO REST and my first film LIGHTNING BUG. It's been so long since I've seen the latter and things have changed so much that I'm excited to watch it with a crowd again. But this weekends' affair has got me thinking about movies large and small and how they get fed to the hungry masses at hand. A simple question keeps coming to mind:

Are the BEST films the ones that play in big multiplexes on 2500 screens before going to DVD? Certainly the most "successful" films fit that bill, but really? The BEST films? Everyone you meet when they discover you have a film coming out will invariably ask you if it's going to come out in the theater. When you say "no" they get that look like "Oh...then it can't be good". Is the "best" music played on terrestrial radio top 40?
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ROBERT HALL'S ALMOST HUMAN - Full Circle

Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:05 AM Robert Hall Robert Hall's ALMOST HUMAN
FANGORIA #282Full circle.

You hear that a lot, but what does it mean? I can only speak for myself, and as I flip through old photos trying to de-clutter my life I found some gems that I wanted to share.

In Tony's touching Elegy in the current issue 282 of FANGORIA, he talks about that first meeting between he and I in 1989 at the FANGORIA'S WEEKEND OF HORRORS in Detroit (my first con) where we took that infamous photo. I almost shared that pic today but I know Tony doesn't like his 80's shirt and frankly, I am making a dumb expression. :) As you can see below, my shirt isn't much better as my hero Kane Hodder mock strangles me as I gleefully wear my very first self sculpted and applied makeup. I was soooooo proud of my blistery face that I had made out of slip latex that I ran up to KNB honcho Greg Nicotero and tried to scare him! He apparently wasn't scared and I walked away bloody and embarrassed.
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ROBERT HALL'S ALMOST HUMAN- Everyone's A Critic

Monday, April 06, 2009 02:22 AM Robert Hall Robert Hall's ALMOST HUMAN

 

FANGORIA 282These days, literally every kid with a laptop and a domain name can become a force on the Internet for viable, searched out, Twittered, blogged and book-faced information. A pro-blogger can write and upload a review of your film on his smart phone in the middle of a Jonas Brothers concert for millions of people to read in a flash. I love technology.

I always enjoy reading “reviews” of the films I direct and do FX for, just to see what folks are thinking. With the imminent release of LAID TO REST I find myself Googling it daily (pathetic I know) and finding little gems on obscure horror sites, YouTube, various blogs and what not. We’ve been extremely lucky with the reviews thus far… the horror crowd is really digging the film, so much so that it scares me. It was a little bitty film and people are saying that the movie has “the best kills” in years… wow. That’s a lot to live up to.

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Blog: ROBERT HALL'S ALMOST HUMAN

Wednesday, April 01, 2009 06:56 PM Robert Hall Robert Hall's ALMOST HUMAN
Order LAID TO RESTFANGORIA.COM is proud to welcome a new blog from writer, director, and special effects master Robert Hall. In the last decade Robert has become one of the most sought after and prolific special effects makeup artists in Hollywood. Hall and his studio, Almost Human, have been responsible for creating some of the most horrifying and photorealistic Effects work ever produced in film and television. In addition to his extensive F/X resume, Robert is also a talented writer and director, whose latest effort LAID TO REST in currently in select theaters now.

Robert begins his blog with a bit of reminiscing as he takes a break from his bloody work on the set of THE CRAZIES remake...

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