John Charles Meyer at the 2011 Spooky Movie Festival at Artisphere - Photograph by Michael Parsons
With guest starring roles on CSI: NY and Southland, appearances in over forty short films including leads in love/junkie and Affliction (not to mention his multiple stage performances), it seems difficult to capture the diversity of John Charles Meyer in one paragraph. In Kenneth Cran’s horror feature The Millennium Bug, Meyer adds a hell of a performance to his repertoire as Billa Crawford, the maniacal backwoods antagonist whose comically menacing presence is overshadowed only, and quite literally, by a prehistoric creature on New Year’s Eve Y2K. Meyer was nominated for Best Actor at the New Orleans Horror Film Festival last month for the role.
The actor has escorted the film, so to speak, on a good portion of its 2011 festival circuit where both have become favorites among indie and horror fans alike. Naturally, when the film made its way to Washington, DC for the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival, I was anxious to find out what all the hype was about.
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SPOOKY MOVIE INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2011: Reviews From Halloween Heaven
October 31, 2011A FOUR DAY INDULGENCE OF ZOMBIES, SLASHERS, PSYCHOTIC DEVIANTS (AND FEW THINGS I’M NOT SURE THEY HAVE A NAME FOR YET), THE FESTIVAL BOASTS AN ECLECTIC AND TWISTED SELECTION OF HORROR FROM A BEVY OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS. AND JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN – MY REVIEWS OF THE WATERMEN, THE MILLENNIUM BUG & THE DEAD
According to the Oxford Dictionary, horror (noun) is defined as ‘an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust.’
As a lifelong genre fanatic, I share the plight of discerning horror junkies whose need for fresh material is rarely satisfied in mainstream cinema. Recently, I had about the same reaction to the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street as I did to the sticker price on a package of organic blueberries at Whole Foods; disheartened, but not shocked.
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