Everyone at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival is mad about genre (right?). For our new interview series Faces of Imagine, our special guests, crew members and volunteers tell us all about the fantastic fiction they love.
This time: filmmaker Jasper ten Hoor, whose short Paspocalypse (which he made with his partner in crime Ivan Hidayat) was selected for Nieuw Nederlands Peil this year.
Hi Jasper! Why do you love fantastic fiction?
‘I love fantastic fiction because it gets more batshit insane than any other genre.’
Why did you become a genre filmmaker?
‘I saw Bad Taste by Peter Jackson and thought: these guys are having so much fun, I also want to have this much fun and make a movie that’s so insane.’
What’s your favourite genre?
‘Horror, because there’s nothing more fun than scaring the sh*t out of people, and being in a room full of people who are scared. The sounds they make…it’s just fantastic.’
What’s your favourite scary movie?
‘It changes everyday, but right now it’s Nightmare on Elm Street III. It has it all: humour, scares, a great villain, great human characters, the whole deal. In ninety minutes, which is important.’
In which fantasy world would you like to live?
‘That’s not a simple question. I would like to live in Neil Breen’s work, I guess. Because then you get to actually meet Neil Breen.’
What’s your favourite movie character?
‘I already said Neil Breen, can’t use him again. So I’ll go with The Grand High Witch from The Witches, played by Angelica Huston. Because she scared the hell out of me as a kid, and actually still does.’
Which fantastic gadget would you like to have, and what would you do with it?
‘I would like to have that memory wipe-machine from Men in Black. I’d use it on myself so I can watch all the movies I’ve seen again, for the first time.’
What are you going to watch at Imagine this year?
‘I’m looking forward to seeing my own film Paspocalypse on the big screen, but I’m also really looking forward to Oddity. I saw Damian McCarthy’s previous film Caveat and, well, who doesn’t want to see what that man does next?’
Foto: Joao Costa
