Horror Favourites – Colin MacDonald

Stitches is the chilling 6-minute short thats taking YouTube by storm and we grabbed the talented director and writer behind the  body horror for a chat about what scares him.

Stitches is the latest film from onStream Productions – writer/director Colin MacDonald and actress/special effects creator Nicole Barron, in collaboration with composer Jerry Smith. Following their award-winning short Hangail, the trio pushed themselves to make viewers’ skin crawl with an even more visceral effort.

“The thought of having thin, delicate threads holding my flesh together has always disturbed me,” shudders MacDonald. “Making Stitches allowed me to amplify that and explore the most nightmarish of scenarios.”

A young woman will stop at nothing to hold it all together in Stitches. Watch the agony unravel in the 6-minute body horror short on YouTube. onStream Production is currently in development on their next short, Hunters’ Orange. For more information, visit onStreamProductions.com.

Below Colin MacDonald the writer and director behind the body horror short Stitches tells us all about his favourite horror film:

“There are countless horror movies that I love to death, but there’s one film that embodies so much of what I cherish about the genre and it also was the film that made me think, maybe I can do that too?

I remember seeing George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead for the first time when I was 17 when I was working at Blockbuster Video and my young horror brain exploded. I’ve loved zombies since I was a little kid, but up to that point I had never seen such an epic, apocalyptic gore fest like that. I also started to realize that under all of the flesh eating and intestine ripping, a horror movie can also have something important to say, a commentary on life or society, and this is still how I approach every new film project of my own.

It was also George Romero’s punk rock approach to directing that inspired me to think I could pull that off. His raw, unpolished aesthetic, the family unit that his crew became, there was such collaboration from everyone involved. It was exactly the kind of filmmaker that I wanted to be. He made filmmaking look fun and made me realize that there’s more to horror than just the visceral, it can be intellectual too and I think Dawn of the Dead is Romero at his best.

Now I’ve seen every version of Dawn of the Dead hundreds of times since and it still brings me the same inspiration it did when I was a teen.”

STITCHES Will Make You Unravel at the Seams. Watch the full film below: