Fantastic Fest Interview: Jason Eisener on Kids vs. Aliens
Kids vs. Aliens, the new feature from Jason Eisener, receives its world premiere at Fantastic Fest this week
There's a Venn diagram: the circles say, "weird gore," "wrestling," and "kids," and at the center is Jason Eisener. "I love that," the director of Fantastic Fest selection Kids vs. Aliens said. "There's a lot of me that goes into this movie."
The new kid-friendly sci fi horror from the director of Hobo With a Shotgun and cocreator of Viceland's Dark Side of the Ring builds out on the idea of his segment for found footage anthology V/H/S/2, "Slumber Party Alien Abduction." In that chapter of the film, a bunch of kids get wiped out by a ship full of fiendish interstellar invaders without putting up much of a fight. But in Kids vs. Aliens, they target the wrong teens when they mess with young filmmaker and wrestling fan Gary (Dominic Mariche) and his big sister, Samantha (Phoebe Rex).
Before its world premiere on Friday night, Eisener talked with the Chronicle about the childhood influences and experiences that shaped the movie
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Premiering tonight at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas is Jason Eisener&#;s Kids vs. Aliens, a feature-film adaptation of his segment &#;Slumber Party Alien Abduction&#; from V/H/S/2, and while this pays off nearly a decade of waiting, the director recently teased that there are more stories to be told in this universe. With Eisener having years to dive into the world he created, this ignited a number of other ideas he could see himself pursuing, some of which are even hinted at in the new feature. Kids vs. Aliens will have its world premiere tonight at Fantastic Fest and will be available in early through RLJE Entertainment and Shudder.
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&#;That&#;s my hope. I wanted to leave some of these breadcrumbs in the film so that you can see where I have plans for them,&#; Eisener shared with when discussing future stories. &#;I definitely have a universe that I planned. There&#;s, like I said, little breadcrumbs here to tease what&#;s to come &#; This is just the beginning of the journey of that. I hope if an audience likes the movie enough, that I can get another one of these financed, because, to me, this is just one part of a much bigger story.&#;
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Opening in theaters this week is V/H/S/2, the follow up to the festival hit V/H/S, which presented a collection of POV shorts as the disturbing set of footage found in an abandoned house full of VHS tapes. The second installment brings in a new round of filmmakers, including Jason Eisener, to continue the mythology of the mysterious tape collection. Eisener got his break in the biz when his fake trailer Hobo with a Shotgun was selected to accompany the Canadian release of Grindhouse and subsequently turned into a feature-length gore fest of the same name. His contribution to V/H/S/2, “Alien Abduction Slumber Party”, carries his trademark funhouse sensibilities, but is unique for its lack of onscreen violence. V/H/S/2 also features shorts from Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto,Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale, Adam Wingard, andSimon Barrett. During the film’s press day I jumped on the phone for an interview with Eisener. He talked about joining the team forV/H/S/2, his lifelong fear of aliens, coming up with the
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Jason Eisener Talks V/H/S/2, Anthologies, Basing a Film on His Childhood Nightmares, Designing an Alien, His Use of Color, and More
Eisener is the co-creator, executive producer and director of the groundbreaking hit Vice TV documentary franchise "Dark Side of the Ring," now in its third season. Launched in , the critically-acclaimed flagship series explores untold and controversial stories of professional wrestling and quickly became the #1 rated program in the network's history, spawning spinoff series "Dark Side of the '90s," "Dark Side of Football," and "Dark Side of Comedy."
He also co-created and serves as director and executive producer on the forthcoming Vice TV docuseries "Tales from the Territories,"
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