Interview:
Graham Skipper,
star/writer/director,
"The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine"
Inspired by the Charles Dicken novella “A Christmas Carol,” Austin-based star/writer/director Graham Skipper’s The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine explores love, death, and desolation in a post-apocalyptic world. The last person on Earth, Skipper’s Wozzek lives an isolated existence in a cabin in the woods, in hiding from the extraterrestrial creatures that has wiped out the rest of humanity. Wozzek remains so distraught by his wife Nellie’s death four years earlier that he builds a machine that allows him to bring Nellie back from the afterlife each and every night. But Nellie cannot speak, is barely able to move, and returns to whence she came as night turns to day. His goal is to complete the machine so he can finally fully bring Nellie back to life. But his efforts are interrupted by the arrival of The Deleterian, one of the creatures that has reduced the human population to one. Christina Bennett Lind plays Nellie and Paul Guyet voices The Deleterian. Guyet’s wife Christina Bryant designed and constructed the film’s Deleterian puppet. The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine is now available for digital/on-demand viewing. Austin-based multi-hyphenate Graham Skipper previously wrote and directed the sci-fi horror films Sequence Break and Space Clown. As an actor, the Fort Worth-born Skipper originated the role of Herbert West in Stuart Gordon’s 2011 stage production of Re-Animator: The Musical. He has since appeared in the films Suitable Flesh, Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge, The Leech, VFW, Psychopaths, Beyond the Gates, Carnage Park, Dementia, and director Joe Begos’ Almost Human, The Mind’s Eye, Bliss, and Christmas Bloody Christmas. In 2022, Skipper published the compendium “Godzilla: The Ultimate illustrated Guide.” Aired: Dec. 18, 2024. Web site: http://www.grahamskipper.com/ |
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