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Gina Consolo(philips)
16 August, 2006
Philips, 26, was a native from Miami, Florida before she moved to Los Angeles. As a kid, Philips says she grew up on horror films. " I'm a horror movie fanatic. My dad made me watch them when I was really, really young. I just grew up on them. I always loved them and I loved getting scared. Not a lot scares me. I won't even read [the scripts for] some of the horror movies that I love going to see and I think they're really fun movies, but, they just weren't that old school horror to me." In "Jeepers Creepers," Philips plays Trish, who, along with her brother Darry, drive down a stretch of country road, only to recall an old story of a couple that disappeared twenty years earlier. When they stumble upon an old church, a strange figure spots them and chases them down the road. Trish and Darry find themselves near an old pipe and climb in when they see an injured boy.
To their horror, they are led to several mutilated bodies on the walls, and something more terrifying than they ever imagined is out to get them. Sounds like the traditional horror films you saw as a kid? Gina thinks so. "I read [the script], the first 20 pages, and I immediately went "Oh my God, this is the scariest thing I've ever read, it's so like the kind of horror movies I grew up with, my dad would be so proud!" It had the feeling of an old-school horror movie to me. Once I met with [Director] Victor [Salva] and talked to him about his ideas, his thoughts, I realized that was the direction he was going in. I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers." Philips believes that "Jeepers Creepers" meets the conditions of what any good horror film should be. "Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie. All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie. I think suspense is a big thing. In this movie, that's one of the things I love cause there's so much suspense. That's what makes it fun." Posted by admin at 09:32 PM | View: (192) 
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