{"id":3160,"date":"2015-08-20T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2015-08-20T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:49:26","slug":"i-talk-the-shelter-horror-and-taking-chances-with-scifinow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"I talk The Shelter, horror and taking chances with SciFiNow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shelter-n-616x328.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shelter-n-616x328.jpg\" alt=\"Shelter-n-616x328\" width=\"616\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shelter-n-616x328.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shelter-n-616x328-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Film4 Frightfest THE SHELTER <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshelterfilm.com\/?p=309\">(get your tickets here)<\/a>. screening gets closer and closer, I&#8217;ve been doing more and more press about the film. Here&#8217;s the latest! I had a candid talk with SciFiNow (go Habs go Jonathan Hatfull); here&#8217;s an excerpt!<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve been a critic, screenwriter, actor\u2026was directing always something that you wanted to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Directing has always been my Holy Grail, if you will. I started off going to film school, and after film school I went to theatre school for three years and then graduated from that, and then entered the business mostly as an actor and as a script doctor fixing other people\u2019s scripts. Directing was always something that I wanted to do but life goes the way it goes, and when The Shelter came about I knew that was going to be the one. I would fulfill my Holy Grail. 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