Inspired by '60s soap opera Dark Shadows and George A. Romero's underrated thriller Martin, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door) ushered shot-on-video features into the mainstream with his 1991 horror-drama Kingdom of the Vampire. The gloomy tale was far from a financial or critical smash, but paved the way for a tsunami of weird, wild camcorder movies throughout the '90s, decades before Hollywood abandoned film for digital cinema.
Inspired by '60s soap opera Dark Shadows and George A. Romero's underrated thriller Martin, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door) ushered shot-on-video features into the mainstream with his 1991 horror-drama Kingdom of the Vampire. The gloomy tale was far from a financial or critical smash, but paved the way for a tsunami of weird, wild camcorder movies throughout the '90s, decades before Hollywood abandoned film for digital cinema.
Inspired by '60s soap opera Dark Shadows and George A. Romero's underrated thriller Martin, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door) ushered shot-on-video features into the mainstream with his 1991 horror-drama Kingdom of the Vampire. The gloomy tale was far from a financial or critical smash, but paved the way for a tsunami of weird, wild camcorder movies throughout the '90s, decades before Hollywood abandoned film for digital cinema.
