Coroner's Report: Gutterballs is set to be your next film, following Live Feed. Could you tell us a little bit about the film? How did you come up with the idea for the film?

Ryan Nicholson: Gutterballs actually came to me one day when I was out in the bowling alley with my son. He bowled a couple of gutterballs and I started calling him that, to his displeasure!! I got to thinking a bowling alley would be a good setting for a horror movie. The “midnight disco bowling” with the smoke and lasers, thumping music and the disco balls. I wanted to do a stalk and slash type of movie and thought of Intruder, where the entire setting was a grocery store and how it worked. I then thought of my favorite genre, the exploitation/revenge genre and my other favorite genre, giallo films. Why not combine them all into an 80’s homage to horror and create a balls-out gorefest, literally!

CR: Are you an avid bowler?

RN: I’m not avid, but I do bowl maybe every few months. I’m pretty good at 5 pin but I stink at 10 pin. I like the culture of bowling, the atmosphere. The sounds in a bowling alley are awesome to. Pins smashing and the rolling of the 16 lb. ball down a freshly waxed lane. It’s very surreal in some senses.

CR: Can fans expect to see the same extreme violence as you showed them with Torched and Live Feed?

RN: I actually cranked up the violence and made it very fucking sick, both sexually and physically. I really went all out with the kill scenes. I think my old school fans of Torched will be happy to see that style but in an excessive nature such as Live Feed was. There are things that I didn’t get to do with Live Feed, due to such a tight shooting schedule, but I’ve covered all the bases with Gutterballs, so EVERYTHING is shot.

CR: Where exactly does the film stand as far as stage of production? Have you started shooting yet?

RN: We just cast the film with an amazing group of actors. We’ve secured our location and are nearly done crewing up. We start filming in July for the month and should be done with post production for some festival dates in the fall. Live Feed didn’t go the festival route, which really limited its exposure. I want Gutterballs to take a higher road and see a wider audience. I want it to spread like the Black Plague.

CR: Do you plan on having Gutterballs widely distributed as Live Feed was?

RN: Yes, but even more so. I want it in EVERY video store, big box stores, and mom and pop outlets all across North America. There will be two cuts. I’ve already got it all figured out. I also want to release a “Directors Cut” of Live Feed, with scenes added that I never had the time to do and a 5.1 mix. The music and audio of Live Feed is fantastic and a 5.1 will bring it justice. The composer, Patrick Coble, is a genius and created a score that was equal parts Goblin and Rick Wakeman. We didn’t have the resources to do it at the time but we will revisit it after Gutterballs is finished. There’s a scene in the script of Live Feed that I will shoot and throw into the mix. The “dog” scene will be gory as hell as will some of the death scenes. There may even be a lengthier scene added with the guys in white that haul the bodies away to the butcher. You see them carry Linda away, now you will see what they do to her. I think it will be the “Overkill Edition”.

CR: Now I want to know about Bloodsick. What’s that all about?

RN: Killjoy of the band “Necrophagia” and I are great friends, and we’ve worked together on a few projects. Bloodsick will be the ultimate “Snuff Movie” with various torture techniques only the sick, depraved minds of Killjoy and myself could imagine. We shoot this summer as well for a late fall release, to the mind-bending music of Necrophagia of course!

CR: How did you and Killjoy come to meet?

RN: We met a few years back while he was in my hometown of Vancouver, BC Canada doing some “Ravenous” vocals and mixing the CD. We would scour old tapes looking for audio samples to throw into the songs and I became the sample guy. We became friends fast with our obsession with Italian horror and generally sick horror all around. We actually started up a band called “MorgueWagon” and recorded a still yet to be released album. With me here in Van and Killjoy in Florida, it’s tough to work together but we usually get something done once a year. This year it’s Bloodsick.

CR: Also, what’s up with Hell Hath No Fury? Why doesn’t Amazon.com credit you as a director?

RN: Hmmm, good question. I think it has to do with Brain Damage Films. They didn’t credit me on the cover, which was unfortunate, but I didn’t have anything to do with the signing of that movie. My friends at www.creepysixfilms.com sold the movie because they produced each segment, with me co-producing the final segment, Torched. I really like the score they added. My original version had a lot of killer music but getting the license for an official release would have been problematic. The death metal band from Chicago, “Macabre,” did however provide the music for the Live Feed making of called Behind the Blood, which is fucking awesome. Those guys kick ass and other than “Necrophagia,” they are the best fucking metal band around.

CR: Thanks Ryan, for taking the time to answer some of my questions and for making such sick films. I’ll be sure to get in touch with you again closer to the completion of Gutterballs.

RN: Hey thanks for keeping the Feed Live!!

For more information on Ryan and his films check him out on Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/plotdigger.