{"id":9511,"date":"2010-12-10T04:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2010-12-10T04:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:27:34","slug":"its-sallys-world-were-just-living-in-it-interview-with-director-jimmyo-burril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/its-sallys-world-were-just-living-in-it-interview-with-director-jimmyo-burril\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Sally\u2019s World: We\u2019re Just Living In It \u2013 Interview with Director Jimmyo Burril"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jimmyo\"<\/a>Hello Mr. Burril thanks for your time!<\/strong>
\nMy pleasure.<\/p>\n

So, the question on everyone’s mind is: Where did the idea for Chainsaw Sally come from?<\/strong>
\nSally was a horror hostess April and I created for my show Silver Scream.\u00a0 It’s a horror musical..and it’s pretty cool.\u00a0 The downside is that it’s very hard to get the right audience to come.\u00a0 So, we created Sally to help get the attention of the horror crowd\u2026 and it worked.\u00a0 Within a year Sally has far surpassed Silver Scream in every way.\u00a0 So, before you know it, a killer was born.<\/p>\n

Where did you draw your influences for Chainsaw Sally from originally?<\/strong>
\nShe 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\u2026\u00a0 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\u2026 tad mind you, of Hannibal Lecter.\u00a0 That was the recipe for Sally Diamon.<\/p>\n

What is a normal episode of “Chainsaw Sally” like?<\/strong>
\nThe 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.”\u00a0 Cheers and applause for kills and chaos was a nice surreal addition\u2026.of course my humor may be on the dark side.<\/p>\n

What is the normal budget for one episode of the show?<\/strong>
\n(Laughs) Budget?\u00a0 We had NO budget for season 1.<\/p>\n

How long have you been a filmmaker?<\/strong>
\nIt was an evolution\u2026 started with playing music on stage at the age of 13.\u00a0 Then moved to theater at 20\u2026 started writing my own shows for stage at 24\u2026 wrote 4 musicals with my one time partner, James M. Taylor for a few years\u2026 then in 2001, tried making a movie of Silver Scream.\u00a0 I dug it, and here we are.<\/p>\n

What directors or actors, if any, have influenced your method and style?<\/strong>
\nClint Eastwood, Tarantino, John Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Mel Brooks\u2026 many others both for what to do and what not to do. Season 2 is VERY influenced by DEADWOOD.<\/p>\n

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?<\/strong>
\nI am a family man.\u00a0 I love having my kids and wife, and sister\u2026and friends with me.\u00a0 We have an agreement, that when we are on set, we are director \/ cast\/ crew\u2026 and we try not to bring theater home.\u00a0 So far, it’s no effort at all.\u00a0 We have a good time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some families have game night, we make horror movies.\u00a0 Just a regular, average, red blooded American family\u2026. with a Daddy who thinks up weird shit, and a Mommy who chases people around with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

So… Troma. How happy are you and what does this mean for Sally and the gang?<\/strong>
\nI was a Troma fan from when I discovered them by accident in the 80s.\u00a0 I think Troma and Sally are a good match, and I think we can help each other move forward and prosper.\u00a0 That’s the bottom line.<\/p>\n

What other projects are you working on at the moment that would be of interest to your fans?<\/strong>
\nWell, Season 2 is now in production.\u00a0 After this we are shooting a film called Bad Kitty, which is a vampire \/ mob movie with a beautiful quartet of\u00a0 powerful women who fight back against crazy odds.\u00a0 (Yes\u2026all of my movies revolve around powerful women. I must have a fetish, or something.)<\/p>\n

What’s down the road for Chainsaw Sally and friends?<\/strong>
\nSeason two has new cast members including Gunnar Hansen, Ed Neal, and Herschell Gordon Lewis, among others.\u00a0 We are also excited about our largest budget EVER for season 2.\u00a0\u00a0 Small by Hollywood standards I imagine, but enough for us to do pretty much what ever we want\u2026 nothing holding us back.<\/p>\n

Do you have any advice for aspiring filmmakers looking to start their own show or movie?<\/strong>
\nIf you don’t love it, don’t do it, and if you do love it, don’t stop.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your time Mr. Burril!<\/strong>
\nThank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 It’s a horror musical..and it’s pretty cool.\u00a0 The downside is that it’s very hard to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[285,477,501,502],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-directing","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-indie-filmmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}