Building A Film Crew

Often, the biggest problem I see in most modern day films, is the inadequacy of their film crews. Production companies often settle for mediocre and cheaper crews instead of investing where it counts. I'd like to go over two crucial different things to consider when choosing your film crew.

I Saw The Devil: One of 2010s Best Films

A short film I shot using my Canon 7D, my girlfriend and Max Richter's beautiful music. All edited in Final Cut Pro.

Melancholia Trailer

Marian Dora's Cannibal: A Review

Previously posted: http://latenighthorrorhotel.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20K%20Snyder

Based on the gruesome criminal case of Armin Meiwes, Cannibal is a strange venture into the macabre world of sex, violence, and of course flesh eating. Clearly a very artistic piece, Cannibal doesn’t provide its viewers with any comedic elements nor does it force-feed you the gore. The film starts out very quietly, with little dialogue, as it follows the main character around his hometown doing his normal duties. Then, the true horror begins when our lead starts searching the Internet for consenting victims who want to be eaten.

Independent Revolution

In the 1980s a hero was born out of the toxic waste ridden cesspool known as Tromaville, New Jersey.  A hero who has no pretty smile or swashbuckling attributes, but only a hideous disfigurement and his trusty mop.  Lloyd Kaufman created “The Toxic Avenger,” because of his pure hatred for Hollywood. Hollywood had done Mr. Kaufman wrong, and he felt that a true auteur must stand out amongst the people and strike back for all that is sex and violence, and created what would eventually become a revolution.

I can't believe this exists!

After searching the lowest corners of horror filmmaking and studying the ins and outs of what truly disturbs people, I found someone who is perhaps the most controversial filmmaker of all time.

Super 8: ET is back, and he's really angry!

Transaction: An Example of Drive

While in the 35mm final project class of my film program, a friend of mine pitched a short film about a bank robbery gone awry. It rang true to films like Point Break and Inside Man but it had enough differences to separate it from the cliche of it's genre. I was asked to act in the film as one of the characters, or do the art direction if I wasn't fit for the role after auditions.