Christopher

I'd like to meet:

I'm looking to meet like minded warriors on a similar mission, The induction was your birth. We have this life, don't waste it. Don't fuck it up. Expand, transcend, and rise above your own mortal fears. Erase your inherent moralities and live for every breath. Make your mark now. Make it count. Here's the link to my current motion picture:Horror Business: Official WebsiteI have many new projects in development and i'd love find some "good machines" to work with.

Here's what some good folks have said about my work:



"[Horror Business] is a terrific flick. Christopher Garetano has completely succeeded in describing the passions, the adventures- and the misadventures- of crazy people like me who, somewhere along the way, decided they... needed to make movies. Anyone who wants to write or direct should see this film. Those who have never dreamed of being filmmakers should see it for its humor and its pure entertainment value. Two thumbs up- both of them mine because, like the others Garetano has portraited, I basically work alone."

-George A. Romero

"This disjointed look at the world of underground filmmaking may perfectly reflect the current status of our genre. All horror fans should check out this cool little doco."

-HouseofHorrors.com

"[Horror Business] is an extremely competent, thoroughly engaging film about horror movies and those who love them. It is as inspiring a movie as 'American Movie"

-Daulton Dickey, FilmThreat.com

"Sharply edited, 'Horror Business' emerges as a perceptive and revealing documentary about the enormous struggles to make creepy celluloid"

-Tony Timpone, Fangoria Magazine

"Indeed, this (Horror Business) is a good movie. In fact, it's downright refreshing. Any self proclaimed horror enthusiast worth his – or her – salt should do themselves a great service and seek this little gem out."

Rees Savidis - JoeBlo.com

"Garetano has made a thoroughly entertaining film that takes us inside the minds of five disparate horror filmmakers and shows us what they go through to make their and our dreams (or nightmares) come true."

-Elaine Lamkin -Bloody-Disgusting.com

"An excitingly visual documentary, Horror Business is an honest yet hopeful look at the no-budget end of genre filmmaking."

-Adam Barnick EINSIDERS.COM

"As soon as I heard the first line out of Mark Borchardt's mouth, I knew I was in for a rare treat & and being a horror film aficionado myself, that treat only got better as the films various filmmaker accounts unfolded."

-Bruno Derlin, VisionFest 05

"It's a definite must for all you out there that want to know what it means to be a horror filmmaker."

-Ammon Gilbert, Arrowinthehead.com

"Horror Business is a frank and revealing glimpse of what the scene is like today."

-Lee Bailes, Rumourmachine.com

"If you're an independent filmmaker, a horror fan or a third party Horror Business is a must see film!"

Wes Vance-Deadpit.com

Music:

Ennio Morricone, Jim Morrison, Mike Patton, Faith NO More, Buddy Holly, Black Sabbath, Tupac Shakur, Johnny Cash, Phil Anselmo, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Henry Rollins, GOBLIN, Rob G, Steve Moore, King Crimson, Mazzy Star, FEAR, Pink Floyd, Black Flag, Primus, Elvis Costello, Jane's Addiction, Hank Wlliams, Bad Religion, Billy Idol, The Clash, Erika Badu, Sade, Depeche Mode, Glen Danzig, The Rolling Stones, Type O Negative, Miles Davis, The Pretenders, Terry Reid (Superlungs), Rage AGAINST THE MACHINE, Jimmy Red (moove over!), Leon Redbone, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The Ramones, Misfits, Lauren Hill, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, V.O.D, Curtis "The Man" Mayfield, Les Claypool, Beck, The Kinks, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Funkadelic, and Slayer. And many more.. too many to name right now.

Movies:

The official movie poster for "Horror Business" (Painted By the great Trevor Cook) ( Horror Business: Official Website )

Here are some of my faves off the top of my head. There are so many, but these are some great movies. Pick the films you haven't seen and seek them out.

Apocalypse Now, The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver, Straw Dogs, Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy, Of Mice And Men, Midnight Express, Barakka, To Live and Die In LA, Lord of The Flies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973), Roma, La Strada, 8 & 1/2, Sling Blade, Raging Bull, A Clockwork Orange, Platoon, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Deer Hunter, Jaws, The Holy Mountain, Fight Club, El Topo, Full Metal Jacket, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Once Upon A Time in the West, The Naked Lunch, Wild At Heart, Cool Hand Luke, Un Chien Andalou, Breathless (Godard Version), Wait Until Dark, Dog Day Afternoon, Mean Streets, The Shining, Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, Reservoir Dogs, Dawn Of The Dead, Hour Of The Wolf (Bergman), The Thin Blue Line, Natural Born Killers, Oldboy, Audition, I Stand Alone, Blowout, Suburbia, Reflections of Evil (Packard!), The Boys Next Door, Blow Up, The Passenger, Last Tango In Paris, On the Watefront, Pat Garret & Billy The Kid, The Aviator, Glen Garry Glen Ross, The Toxic Avenger, Animal Factory, Touch Of Evil, Citizen Kane, The Stranger, The Trial, American Movie, The Smashing Machine, Alien, Easy Rider, Gladiator Days, Marathon Man, American History X, Do The Right Thing, The Motorcycle Diaries, Thief, Solaris (Both Versions), Don't Look Now, American Pimp, Trainspotting, Talk Radio, High Noon, Habit, The Bride OF Frankenstein, Dracula (FFC Version), Scarface, Salvador, Cinema Paradiso, Sorcerer, The Exorcist, The French Connection, Batman Begins, KIDS,From "COTTONMOUTH" (above) "The Man" dies and is blasted into oblivion. From "COTTONMOUTH" (above) An angry shape shifting ghost. From "COTTONMOUTH" (above) More angry ghosts taking their rightful revenge on "The Man."Gummo, Bully, F For Fake, The Outsiders, The Hunger, SUSPIRIA, Halloween, Blood Simple, The Final Terror, The Machinist, Blue Collar (Paul Shcrader Version), Hardcore, The Brown Bunny, The Devils Rejects, The Beyond, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Day Of The Dead, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Dreams, Nosferatu (Herzog), My Best Fiend, Cobra Verde, Fitzcarraldo. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Terror At The Opera, Satan's Playground,The Blues Brothers, The Manson Family (Jim Van Bebber), An American Werewolf In London, Wizards, Willard (Crispin Glover), Rumble Fish, Alexander (yeah that's right!!!), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Return OF The Living Dead, Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, A Fist Full Of Dollars, The Thing (Carpenter's version is the better version), Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano), Battle Royal, Tourist Trap, The Tenant, The Big Red One, Fantasia, Dog Star Man, American Pop, Strangers on a Train, Velvet Goldmine, Begotten, Rabid, Night Of The Living Dead, Death Wish, let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Gladiator, American Me, Ed Wood, The Dead Zone, Carrie, May, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, I drink Your Blood, The Driver, Videodrome, The Warriors, Sisters, Repulsion, The Night Of The Hunter, Throw Momma From The Train, Blazing Saddles, Stir Crazy, The Big Lebowski, Sin City (loved It), Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, .......

Television:

Christopher interviews Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Satan's Playground) for his abstract docudrama
"The Horror OF Dante Tomaselli"

Books:

Here's a few that i've read and would read again.....Anything by Ray Bradbury, Anything By Chuck Palaniuk, I Am Legend (Richard Mathison), Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton), Black Coffee Blues (Henry Rollins), Angry Candy (Harlan Ellison), My First Movie (Edited by Stphen Lowenstien), Heart Of Darkness (Joeseph Conrad), A Peoples History of The United States (Howard Zinn), Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer), The Call OF The Wild (Jack London), Guevera (Paco Ignacio Taibo II), Unlimited Power (Anthony Robbins), Crime And Punishment (Dostoevsky), The Death Of Ivan Illych (Leo Tolstoy), Anything By Kafka, Hell's Angel's (Hunter S. Thompson), Salems Lot, Gerald's Game, The Shining, (Stephen King), War Of The Worlds (H.G. Welles), The Thief Of Always, Books Of Blood Volume 1 (Clive Barker) Walden or Life In The Woods (Henry David Thoreau), FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL, A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), The Art Of War (Sun Tzu), The Art Of War (Machiavelli), Watership Down (Richard Adams), The Sanford Meisner Approach (Larry Silverberg), Film Technique (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Stanley Kubrick carried his writings with him on film sets!!!! this was told to me by Joe Turkell) Scorsese On Scorsese (Martin Scorsese) David Lynch (Kenneth C. Kaleta)

Heroes:

THE EARTH, SPACE, THE SUN, THE MOON, THE OCEANS.