Macabre Gets Masterful: The brilliant minds behind Kane Hodder doc Part II

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Courtesy of Masterfully Macabre Entertainment

1428: Yeah the way it’s constructed is really effective. The doc reminds you why you love this guy, and then you guys show what Hodder had to go through for us to love him. How he wouldn’t have been Jason had the bad stuff never happened. It’s really great.

AB: One of the questions he got asked at the premiere, at FrightFest, was, and he had never been asked before, was if he could go back and prevent the burn from happening, would he? And Kane says obviously he didn’t enjoy what happened, but he wouldn’t be the person he is today without it. He wouldn’t have the life he has today without it. So he doesn’t think he would change it.

DDH: As he says in the film, it made him a much more empathetic person. A much more humbled man. A kinder person. Not saying he wasn’t before, but I think when you go through something like that, it’s very much a process where you grow.

I’m a cancer survivor. And now I have much more ambition than I did before. Much more drive to persevere through hard times. I mean a film career isn’t the easiest to have, you kind of need that, so I’m glad that I went through it in that way.

1428: That’s great. So the documentary is a “who’s who” of horror. There’d a lot of horror royalty in the movie. Is there anyone you wanted for the film but were unable to get? Even for something as simple as a scheduling conflict?

To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story — Courtesy of Masterfully Macabre Entertainment

DDH: There were a few that had scheduling conflicts. But pretty much everyone we asked wanted to be in it. There were a few we couldn’t get because of the scheduling and the fact that we had 39 hours of Kane footage. Plus 24 hours of other people, the movies he’s been in, and the b-roll that we shot. And actually, there were people who wanted to be in while we were in editing.

AB: Like Tony Todd is a great example of that. He was on our short list of people of people we wanted. We had him scheduled two or three time.

DDH: Yeah, it was like three times but he just got booked on gigs. He and his management communicated perfectly, but by the time his schedule matched ours, there wasn’t any time.

1428: That’s great. Tony Todd is one of the nicest guys in the industry. Such a class act. And speaking of other horror icons, are there any others you’d like to make a documentary on?

DDH: There are many people — if I have a say in it — there are many people who we’ll be approaching. Andrew and I have already talking about it. But we need to figure out exactly who it is first…

AB: Look, there are a lot of horror icons out there with amazing stories and backgrounds some people don’t know about. So we’d love to start capturing those stories in the future.

DDH: And non horror too. There are a few non horror people I’d like to approach.

1428: Yeah there are a lot of people who would be great. I just sat in on a Danny Trejo panel and his story is truly incredible. That would make a great one. His life sounds like a movie in and of itself.

AB: Yeah what’s interesting about horror is a lot of people in the genre have these interesting backstories. When you look at your average Hollywood celebrity, their story is always “yeah I struggled as an actor and then I had my big break.” Yeah, you were living in your car. Which is difficult, but it’s not abnormal for someone in that line of work. But when you look at Danny’s story or Kane’s, or even Cassandra Peterson’s, they are very different.

DDH: Like Bill Mosley went to Yale. Or that Sid Haig was in a rock band in like the ’50s and ’60s. There are so many good stories to tell.