Hey Mike! Huge fan of your work, and if I can gush for a second, that one-shot in Hill House ep. 6, HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I was practically jumping out of my seat when I first watched. Hill House may be my favorite piece of horror media. Well done, sir.
To my question, I'm curious if you've seen the film Possum directed by Mathew Holness. If so, I'd be very curious about your thoughts! You can cut the atmosphere in that movie with a knife, and how shots linger on that damned puppet, shivers. Big shoutout to the prop team on that one. The first horror film to give me nightmares in ages.
Cheers!
I absolutely loved Possum. I was so impressed with it that I started to research who made it, and was pleasantly shocked to discover it was Matthew Holness, as I was also a huge fan of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. I was amazed that those two things could come out of the same brain.
I praised Possum as loudly as I could on Twitter, which led to Matthew responding. We started writing back and forth, and then met on a zoom, and I offered him a role in The Haunting of Bly Manor. He played Miles and Flora's doomed father, the brother of Henry Thomas' character. His performance is absolutely excellent.
I'd love to find a way to support him as a director, as well, and over the years we've tried to find a project that Intrepid can produce for him. Matthew is brilliant, and Possum is exceptional.
In 2009, Matt Berry told The Front about Boosh bringing the Garth Marenghi team together! Pics 2/3 are from Noel's exhibit in 2009.
Matt: “I met Noel Fielding years ago, and he asked me to come along and do his little Boosh show, which was going on above a pub. That’s where I met Matt Holness and Richard Ayoade, then we did Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. It wasn’t a big plan, it was all just by accident really.”