{"id":899,"date":"2008-05-30T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T22:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/interview-brett-kelly\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T08:34:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T22:34:49","slug":"interview-brett-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/interview-brett-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Brett Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brett-kelly.jpg\" title=\"Brett Kelly pic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brett-kelly.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Kelly pic\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brett                            Kelly directs and acts in independent films                            made under the auspices of his own production company.                            Genre movies such as <em>The Bonesetter<\/em>, <em>The                            Bonesetter Returns<\/em>, <em>The Feral Man<\/em>, <em>My                            Dead Girlfriend <\/em>and <em>Kingdom of the Vampires<\/em>                            only scratch the surface of his ambition. Many more                            films are scheduled for production, with his remake                            of the 1950s B-monster &#8220;classic&#8221;, <em>Attack                            of the Giant Leeches<\/em>, due for release in 2009.                            [See the earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/03\/attack-of-the-giant-leeches\/\">Undead                            Backbrain article<\/a> for more information.]<\/p>\n<p>Kaiju                            Search-Robot Avery asked Kelly about the remake and about his ambitions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was thinking about the glut of horror                            remakes out there and I would always say;&#8221;Why don&#8217;t                            they leave the great movies alone and start remaking                            movies that could actually be improved on.&#8221; I guess                            that&#8217;s why I thought of remaking <em>Attack of the Giant                            Leeches<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The remake is loyal in many regards. It&#8217;s set in modern                            day and many of the characters are similar, we improved                            on intercharacter relations, and of course, the creatures                            are better. It&#8217;s sexier, and has many touches that fans                            of the original will dig.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/reviews\/interview-attack-kelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Kelly directs and acts in independent films made under the auspices of his own production company. Genre movies such as The Bonesetter, The Bonesetter Returns, The Feral Man, My Dead Girlfriend and Kingdom of the Vampires only scratch the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/30\/interview-brett-kelly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}