{"id":3266,"date":"2015-11-03T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2015-11-03T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:26:27","slug":"watch-the-short-giallo-inspired-old-number-seven-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-fallon.com\/?p=3266","title":{"rendered":"Watch the short giallo inspired Old Number Seven online!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>The short OLD NUMBER SEVEN<\/strong> (read my production diary here)<\/a> started off with writer\/director Gonzalo Lopez<\/strong> and I getting inspired by way of a bottle of Jack Daniels, some early Argento movies and Maiden’s Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. We wrote the film in 2 days, we got ace DP Javier Rueda<\/strong> on board and we eventually shot the film on a shoe string budget. The film premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in 2009 to a so-so response and based off of that screening we re-cut the film (for the better). It screened at 5 more International Festivals after that and then vanished – and pretty much everybody involved was content with that. It had vanished. It was over.<\/p>\n

On a personal level; this film happened pretty much around the time where my whole life went downhill. So for me, on top of not performing as well as I had hoped, the short had a “bad times” connotation tagged to it, one that I wanted to leave behind me. Over the years though, every single time I\u2019d go to Spain, Gonzalo and I would watch the film, and all depending on the amount of beers we’d have, it was either a piece of shit or a masterpiece. Either way, we’d always fun with it – in a\u00a0Rocky Horror Picture Show kind of way!<\/p>\n

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On my last trip to Spain, we watched it yet again, and although flawed, I did recognize some very solid elements within it (the opening, the abortion, the kill, Saida’s fine performance, some of the imagery) and I convinced director Gonzalo Lopez to slap the short online and fully close the book on the film if you will.<\/p>\n

So there ya have it! You curious about OLD NUMBER SEVEN? You can watch it below! Some aspects I love, some I hate, it didn’t have the end result or life I wanted it to have… but that’s just how it goes sometimes. I’ve made peace with all of it and I now look at it fondly as it does come with its far share of good memories. I’m happy it’s now online. Cheers! JF PS: Yes Iron Maiden gave us the permission to use the opening song \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n