Profile: Douglas McKeown

Posted by Horror Grinder on October 12, 2008

Douglas McKeown: The Deadly Spawn’s Misanthropic Master. By Brian Kirst

Douglas McKeown, the writer and director of the beloved creature classic The Deadly Spawn, has always admired the authentic outsider. His inspirations include such misunderstood, significant artists as Charles Laughton(The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and James Whale(Bride of Frankenstein). “They were emotional survivors,” McKeown notes. “Laughton’s depth of pain was amazing.”

Indeed these anti-traditionalist values eventually conflicted with other parties working on the space monster oddity that became The Deadly Spawn. “They…

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