Hey guys, I dunno if anyone here remembers or not, but some time ago I used to post at the old vault forum and had a webseries running based on The Director which had a bit of a cult following. There were lots of imitators and rip-off artists, but this friends is the one and only! I did Series 1, and now I'm working on Series 2, which will be the finale of the character. Since Horror Nights is going on, I figured I'd post the old episodes so people can catch up, and then see the new one I'll be posting on Oct. 30th for Halloween!
(Note: I dont know why the site wont allow the videos to be displayed down there at the bottom, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to fix it, so the links will have to suffice, sorry!)
Synopsis:
Paulo Ravinski was an up-and-coming filmmaker overseas in his native country of Bratislava. At an early age he fell in love with the old Hollywood films of the 30's and 40's, even learning english by watching films like Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo, which inspired him to become a filmmaker. At age 19 he got his big break, when a film Producer named Bob Ferguson from Universal Studios saw one of his films at a festival, in which a woman's eye was slashed with a razor. Believing Paulo to be a true master of his craft, he enlisted the young man to come back to America and make the ultimate horror film... Soon though, they realized their mistake. Paulo's cast and crew slowly began to dwindle down, and as filming went on, the crew either refused to go back, or simply didnt show up at all. Upon investigation, the studio saw the dailies from Paulo's film, and were highly disturbed. They couldnt prove it, but suspected that he had been torturing his cast to get true reactions out of them. Needless to say he was fired, but before he could be thrown out, Paulo vanished into the Backlot of the studio. Soon after, rumors began to abound about a creepy man lingering around the backlot with a camera, hiding among the feux houses and buildings...
It was soon after that, that the first two actors disappeared. Following that, tapes began to arrive...
“The Director: First Cut” (1)
Later, footage from a "behind the scenes" featurette that Paulo had also been shooting for the film was sent in.
“An Interview With a Director” (2)