Corey Feldman & Eugenio Mira sit down with Collider's Perri Nemiroff at Fantastic Fest 2024 to celebrate The Birthday's release, 20 years after it was made.
The Big Picture ✕ Remove Ads At this year's Fantastic Fest, movie lovers had the opportunity to catch a special anniversary screening of Corey Feldman's horror-comedy The Birthday, 20 years after its World Premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival. In fact, this marks the second time co-writer and director Eugenio Mira showed his film to the Austin, Texas crowds. The Birthday played at the first-ever Fantastic Fest before it all but disappeared.
FELDMAN: This is my first time and my first time at anything like this festival, but I'll let you answer the question. I’m Norman, by the way.FELDMAN: That's when we made our movie.FELDMAN: It's supposed to be in the ‘80s, but we're not really in the ‘80s. I always say that here at the Alamo, at Fantastic Fest, I call them active audiences. That is something that, unfortunately, we have to fight against in other realms because of thumb-scrolling and the lack of attention. But here you can see the people, the moment that the movie starts, they are locked in, and for film directors, there's nothing like it.
✕ Remove Ads What facilitated this thing to happen, culminating on meeting this incredible partner from the very beginning through years of admiration... I don’t know how to handle this with Norman because, in a way, I think that you've been Norman for 20 years. FELDMAN: Normally, I think I would say that I'm really good at spinning the dough on a pizza. They taught me how to do it the old-fashioned way, even though it’s not really New York. It's really from a small town called Brooklyn, and it's in Massachusetts, but it's not the actual Brooklyn. Anyway, I spent a lot of time in the pizzeria doing that, and I got pretty good at that. But I think the thing that came from all of this is perseverance.
✕ Remove Ads Why Did It Take 20 Years for 'The Birthday' to Release in Theaters? "It's a movie that is designed to demand attention." So you see it through to fruition. One thing that I've been especially curious about is, after it went on its initial film festival run, what happened? Why did it disappear?
MIRA: The fact that in 2024, in a world, as I said before, where the people, more often than not, are more than comfortable with sticking their eyes on their iPhones or playing with streaming platforms at home and pausing, or even worse letting it go…MIRA: It's a movie that is designed to demand attention. It's like playing a vinyl record. Eventually, you're gonna have to stand up and go to the other face of the vinyl. In this, you have two halves, as well.
"There Was a Magic" on the Set of 'The Birthday' ✕ Remove Ads This kind of builds on what you two were just expressing, and it also happens to be the question that I've been ending all of these Fantastic Fest interviews on. The first interview we did at the festival this year was for The Rule of Jenny Pen.
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