![]() ![]() “It takes time,” explains the soft-spoken Hess, after they’ve finally gotten the trajectory of the beast just right. Let’s hear it for genetically-altered life forms! But the monster, called the Outsider, beats them to it. ![]() ![]() It’s the penultimate scene in the movie, wherein Barbara Williams and Lala Sloatman (Frank Zappa’s niece, by the way) try to escape the hybrid monster by making a mad dash for a pickup truck. On a soggy June night in the dense woods of Lynn Canyon in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Hess has had martial arts expert Philip Wong, dressed in a creature outfit designed by FX man David Miller, attempt the task more than 10 times. How many times can a genetically-altered life form leap off a cabin porch and menace two screaming females? Plenty, according to Jon Hess, director of Watchers, a film based on Dean R. The only downside to the whole experience was how awful the movie turned out to be.Īnyway, here’s an edited version of the story that appeared in Fangoria #79. And I thought Watchers, published in ’87, was one of his best. It was a huge thrill to interview Koontz, one of my fave novelists ever, right up there with Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, and Stephen King. I still remember the major buzz I got when I saw my first full-colour, three-page spread in famed horror mag Fangoria back in ’88. It was for a Vancouver-shot movie called Watchers that I’d done a set-visit piece on, interviewing the director, stars, and FX artists–and later on, by phone, even author Dean Koontz himself. ![]()
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