Robert Cosnahan (PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!)

If you are going to give your film the title of PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!, then you had better deliver. There had better be psycho hillbillies. And a cabin. And there damn well better be a massacre. Well, Robert Cosnahan's short film does not disappoint. Hitting all the key horror film expectations with joyous gory zeal and surprises to boot, it's a crowd pleasing homage to any film that ever sent a bunch of smug oversexed young people into a place with unfriendly locals.

What's more fun to direct: gory death scenes or hot chicks mud wrestling? Everyone was cold, wet and, of course, muddy during the filming of the mud wrestling scene. At one point, the matte box flew off the camera and struck one of the actresses (Angela Schnaible playing 'Gillian') close to her eye. I jumped into the mud to help her. Thank God she was OK! If she had gone blind in one eye because of such a silly scene, I would never have been able to forgive myself. I walked around the rest of the day with soggy shoes as a result. However, I love a good challenge. The gory death scenes were great fun, but I must say the mud wrestling scene was the most fun scene to direct because it was the toughest to shoot.

Do you have the Skull & Bones tattoo? No, but I have a Snake & Skulls tattoo...

Edgar Allen Poe IV and Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) are both in the film. Were H.P. Lovecraft III and Macauley Culkin (The Good Son) not available? Even if they were available (which I know they weren't... because I checked) I wouldn't have cast anyone but the brilliant actors that are in this film. I was somehow blessed with the best actors in the entire world. By the way, Patty McCormack is the sweetest woman I've ever met. Patty told me she would happily drive two hours back to location for a second shooting day just so I could get a B-roll shot of her FOOT! Now that's a dedicated actor.

What will happen in the feature-length sequel to PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!?

That will be up to my awesome writers/producers Doug Howell and Wendy Wegner. However, I know for certain the feature will contain a steamy shower scene at the beginning of the film where a semi-nude Sophie is shown being kidnapped for her initiation into the Ivy League secret society. I actually shot this scene for the short film but ended up cutting it in the editing room because of production issues.