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JIMMYO BURRIL
Director, Writer, Actor,
Musician
Hello
Mr. Burril thanks for your time!
My pleasure.
So, the question on
everyone's mind is: Where did the idea for
Chainsaw Sally come from?
Sally was a horror hostess
April and I created for my show Silver
Scream. It's a horror musical..and it's
pretty cool. The downside is that it's very
hard to get the right audience to come. So,
we created Sally to help get the attention
of the horror crowd… and it worked. Within
a year Sally has far surpassed Silver Scream
in every way. So, before you know it, a
killer was born. |
Where did you
draw your influences for Chainsaw Sally from
originally?
She is named after Marilyn Burns'
character from the original TCM, Sally Hardesty. It
also just has a great ring to it, like Mustang
Sally, Long Tall Sally… After the name was there,
April and I took a little Tank Girl, a little
Elvira, a little Freddy, a lot of Leatherface, and a
tad… tad mind you, of Hannibal Lecter. That was the
recipe for Sally Diamon.
What is a
normal episode of "Chainsaw Sally" like?
The idea was that it was like an
episode of the Partridge Family, only at the end of
the episode, instead of a song, there was a murder.
I also was a huge fan of Married With Children,
which had the BEST studio Audience, so I gave the
fans the option to hear that with our "Slash-Com."
Cheers and applause for kills and chaos was a nice
surreal addition….of course my humor may be on the
dark side.
What is the normal
budget for one episode of the show?
(Laughs) Budget? We had
NO budget for season 1.
How long have you been
in to filmmaking?
It was an evolution…
started with playing music on stage at the age of
13. Then moved to theater at 20… started writing my
own shows for stage at 24… wrote 4 musicals with my
one time partner, James M. Taylor for a few years…
then in 2001, tried making a movie of Silver
Scream. I dug it, and here we are.
What directors or
actors, if any, have influenced your method and
style?
Clint Eastwood,
Tarantino, John Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Mel
Brooks… many others both for what to do and what not
to do. Season 2 is VERY influenced by DEADWOOD.
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Like a lot
of indie directors, you've incorporated
family in to your productions. What's it
like working with family and who have
you brought aboard to work with you?
I am a
family man. I love having my kids and
wife, and sister…and friends with me.
We have an agreement, that when we are
on set, we are director / cast/ crew…
and we try not to bring theater home.
So far, it's no effort at all. We have
a good time. Some families have game
night, we make horror movies. Just a
regular, average, red blooded American
family…. with a Daddy who thinks up
weird shit, and a Mommy who chases
people around with a chainsaw.
So...
Troma. How happy are you and what does
this mean for Sally and the gang?
I was a
Troma fan from when I discovered them by
accident in the 80s. I think Troma and
Sally are a good match, and I think we
can help each other move forward and
prosper. That's the bottom line.
What
other projects are you working on at the
moment that would be of interest to your
fans?
Well, Season
2 is now in production. After this we
are shooting a film called Bad Kitty,
which is a vampire / mob movie with a
beautiful quartet of powerful women who
fight back against crazy odds. (Yes…all
of my movies revolve around powerful
women. I must have a fetish, or
something.) |
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What's down the road for
Chainsaw Sally and friends?
Season two has new cast
members including Gunnar Hansen, Ed Neal, and
Herschell Gordon Lewis, among others. We are also
excited about our largest budget EVER for season
2. Small by Hollywood standards I imagine, but
enough for us to do pretty much what ever we want…
nothing holding us back.
Do you have any advice
for aspiring filmmakers looking to start their own
show or movie?
If you don't love it,
don't do it, and if you do love it, don't stop.
Thanks for your time Mr.
Burril!
Thank you!
April Monique
Burril aka Chainsaw Sally >>
