Exclusive: FX Legend Steve Johnson Talks Fear Clinic – Part 1
Sean Decker
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With director Rob Hall’s Fear Clinic feature bowing on DVD and Blu-ray via Anchor Bay Entertainment on February 10, 2015, we’re pleased to kick off an exclusive three-part video interview from the set with the film’s FX maestro Steve Johnson. Read on for Part 1!
In addition to creating some of cinema’s most frightful creatures (Night of the Demons, Return of the Living Dead 3), Johnson, a genre vet and progenitor, has influenced two decades worth of FX artists via his vision. He riffs here on Fear Clinic as well as some other choice bits.
Check back for Part 2 tomorrow at the same time!
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Co-written by Hall and Aaron R. Drane and produced by Drane, Mark Johnson, and Gwen Osborne, Fear Clinic (based on the critically acclaimed and fan favorite 2009 FEARnet web series of the same name) stars Stone Sour and Slipknot lead vocalist Corey Taylor alongside Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund, Fiona Dourif (Curse of Chucky), Felisha Terrell (“Teen Wolf”), Angelina Armani (Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2), and Thomas Dekker (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”).
Synopsis:
When trauma-induced phobias begin to re-emerge in five survivors a year after their horrifying tragedy, they return to the “Fear Clinic,” hoping to find the answers they need to get cured.
Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a fear doctor who runs the clinic, uses his Fear Chamber to animate their fears in the form of terrifying hallucinations. However, the good doctor soon begins to suspect that something more sinister may be at work, something that yearns to be more than just a hallucination…
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