‘Chuck Steel’ Director Mike Mort on How He Made His ’80s-Inspired, Stop-Motion Animated Action/Horror/Comedy [Fantasia Film Festival Interview]
Posted on Thursday, August 16th, 2018 by Steven Prokopy
“It’s not 1985 anymore; it’s 1986,” explains one of the many characters voiced by British writer/director Michael (Mike) Mort in his first feature-length stop-motion animation work Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires, the follow-up of sorts to his 2013 Chuck Steel short, Raging Balls of Steel Justice. Like the short, this film is a send-up of 1980s American action movies like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. But with Trampires, Mort adds a bevy of tributes to horror films of the decade as well, including very funny and graphic shouts out to the Evil Dead trilogy and John Carpenter’s The Thing, among others.
