Hello, my name is Justin the Kloon. I'm here today with Will Slawn.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And this month, it's Shocktober.

Oh!

That was Frankenstein's monster. Oh, I'm taking it off.

I thought that was something else.

And this week we're talking about writer, director, special effects, maestro, Brian Paulin.

Yeah, this is an episode, another, and a long line of episodes where I feel like we're breaking new ground a little bit because this is a filmmaker who's been working for over 30 years and he's known

among fans of shot on video horror movies but I haven't seen a lot of critical discourse,

haven't seen a lot of podcasts. He's a well-kept secret, I think. Now, this is one of those examples

of a filmmaker that because of what I was interested when I was really getting into cinema,

I assume everybody knows, oh, Brian Paul, of course, like, you know, bone sickness, unearthed films,

put it out on DVD. We all know that filmography, right? This was almost exactly the conversation

we had last week where you were like, I want to do Brian Paul, and surely you've heard of

at dawn they sleep, because Saturn's score put it out. And I stared at Justin Blankly. Had no idea who this was. I was a little mainstream. I know. But so Brian Paulin, I don't know where I heard about him. Maybe probably on like the zombie keeper forums or something like that. But this was a long time ago. Like when you were really young. Yeah, so I remember probably renting from suspect video in Toronto, bone sickness. Okay. And like watching it and being like, what is this? This is wild. Because Brian Paulin, like, he started making movies in the 90s. And he was doing stuff, like even zombie stuff before it became really popular. And he's been making movies. I remember, like, looking up and seeing that he's still making movies to this day. So I assume that there was, you know, some system of success or even money that were allowed. That he was making profit. And with that profit, he would make the next movie. Incorrect, based on all the interviews that I've read that he's done. So he's a Massachusetts-based filmmaker. That's it. That's right. In 1990 with his friend Rich George, who is his bestie, his collaborator on all sorts of stuff. Yeah, still works with him on everything. Basically his, you know, partnering crime. In 1990, together they founded morbid visions, which is

their, maybe production company is too big a word. Their label. Their label, basically. Their

moturn media. Exactly. And Paulin was a huge fan of horror movies. He loved especially gory

horror movies. This would have been at the time that like Fangoria magazine was huge. And Tom Savini,

the special effects artist who did all the gore effects on Dawn of the Dead and the Friday

the 13th movies, he'd become sort of an alt celebrity. Oh yeah. So if you're reading Fangoria,

like Tom Savini is basically your god. And he did a like makeup effects tutorial thing that you could send out for and

brian paulin got that and that you know based on interviews that i've read with bryan it just kind of like

okay i can do this now i can go out and i can do these gore effects and he spent years like just as a

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