MONSTERS
All in a
Days Work
MONSTERS
(syndicated, October 1988 - 1990) -- season 1, episode ? --
"All in a Days Work" With second billing in this
four person, half-hour horror/drama, James Morrison plays a
student studying pagan magical practices whose ignorant dabbling
manifests an evil twin.
"Ive got a doppleganger, a double. Maybe everyone
does, but mine has manifested itself.... The first few times it
was at Grand Central. Id be getting off a train. Id
be walking toward the stairs. It would be getting on another
train -- my double. Id be staring at myself. He always
waits for me to see it -- staring at me.... Now its
gotten bolder. It goes places that I go. I went into the deli
around the corner yesterday, he smiled and said back so
soon, did you forget something? I hadnt been there in
a week. Last night it was in my apartment. I dont know what
to do. I think its trying to take over my life."
In the hands of a good witch (Adrienne Barbeau) whose specialty
is love potions, Stephen Rose loses his intrusive, relentless
doppleganger and finds real love -- along with her curious young
son and a demonic housekeeper.
Emmy-winning
independent filmmaker and director of this installment, Allen
Coulter, says the biggest challenge when directing a MONSTERS
episode is to deliver the unexpected. "What I try to do is
bring some sort of deadpan humor and irony. I dont think
thats usually expected in this sort of programming.
"Ive also tried to cast these shows as close to
feature-style casting as I could, and then direct in a way that
the performances are really low-key, as opposed to
over-the-top." Coulter feels this low-key approach maximizes
the horrific aspects because "the supernatural seems more
natural. It becomes more plausible because I underplay it."
Interview by David Everitt for Fangoria
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