 Ryan
Nicholson
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Plotdigger Films is the combined effort of award-winning
artist Ryan Nicholson and his father, Dr. Roy Nicholson. Ryan's
obsession with horror movies started with Roy taking him to
the cinema at an early age to view films by directors such
as David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven.
With the early '80s home video boom, Ryan started renting
movies by other directors whose films weren't often screened
in Canadian theatres: creators such as Dario Argento, Lucio
Fulci and George A. Romero. Ryan didn't have a Super-8 camera
to play around with, so instead he chose to mess around with
clay and latex. His entry into the world of cinema was as
a monster-maker, creating the special make-up effects for
such blockbusters as Final Destination and Scary Movie.
Under the banner of Flesh and Fantasy Inc., Roy and Ryan
created creature effects and prosthetics for a variety of
movies and TV shows for nearly a decade. With Flesh and Fantasy
Inc. firmly established, a scheme to write and produce their
own movies began to hatch from the twisted psyches of the
Nicholsons. With their first script, The Dig, the two writers
created a good old-fashioned monster movie. "We make
monsters for a living," the duo said. "Why not make
one monster, the creature of all creatures, and make it for
our own production instead of someone else's?" Thus,
Plotdigger Films was born.
Though The Dig didn't enter production, Plotdigger Films
brought other projects to the fore. Starting with Torched
in 2004, a co-production with Creepy Six Films, Ryan directed
his first feature-length opus of horror. Inspired by movies
like I Spit on Your Grave and Ms.45, Torched stokes the flames
of a rape/revenge story until it sears everything and everyone
in sight. 2006 and 2008 brought us Live Feed and Gutterballs,
respectively, and several more features are either in production
or post-production at the moment! Check this site often for
updates and info on how to purchase Plotdigger Films DVDs
and merchandise.
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