“I haven’t seen this film I’m about to mention in a couple of years though I’d like to watch it again because I remember it did have an impact on me, but The Others.” They stick with you, not because of something that jumps out at you… though that’s fun and everything but it’s more like the psychology inherent in the plot and the deeper levels of poetry that was speaking thru the filmmaking.”īrandon reflects on some more recent cinematic experiences that have managed to capture this feeling. They don’t make films like this anymore, there’s so much sort of…I still love horror films… sci-fi films… but very rarely do you get ones that kind of haunt you in the ways that films from that era do. That one really disturbed me from a young age but then, saw it again as a young adult and then as someone in my 30s and then now in my 40s. Roughly speaking the halfway point of my life… I’m blown away by this film.”īoyd continues, “Another one was Rosemary’s Baby. I’ve seen it now at four different iterations of my life. Then I watched it again in my 30s and I’ve watched it again now in my 40s and it’s become one of my favorite films because of the kind of impact that it had. I remember seeing it again in my 20s and being struck that it was still disturbing but then I started to hone in on the acting and the shots and the general sort of filmmaking of it.
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I was terrified to walk down hallways, you know what I mean? I was looking over my shoulder and peaking into dark rooms expecting there to be people dressed as furries, performing fellatio on bartenders and I don’t know, that movie really messed me up. I remember seeing that way too young and it absolutely f*&#ing destroyed me. There’s quite a few that were my original, highly influential films, you know the ones that kinda like, if I was heading in a certain direction they knocked me off in another direction. We were allowed a weekly ritual of renting a movie or two,” Boyd tells us.
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We had no television reception and no cable, but we had a TV and we had a VCR. “ I grew up here in Los Angeles but I grew up kind of like, in a rural part of LA in the Santa Monica mountains. One of Brandon’s new singles Pocket Knife, from the forthcoming solo album Echoes and Cocoons, due out March 2022, tells of his real-life A Nightmare on Elm Street 3-like abilities to control his dream demons with an antique pocket knife he keeps underneath his pillow.īloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew spent some time with Brandon to talk about growing up in the aisles of video stores, The Evil Dead, Victorian seances and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-obsessed guitar god Buckethead, among many other things. In 2013 he curated an exhibit of spectacular hand-painted horror movie posters from Ghana. His debut art show in 2008 was inspired by a fascination with spirit photography. Aside from the fact that his multi-platinum band Incubus shares its name with an ancient demon, it might not seem so glaringly obvious thru the band’s catalog of some of the biggest modern rock hits of the past two decades. Horror, paranormal and the occult seem to be themes that weave in and out of the work of Brandon Boyd, visual artist, best-selling author, and singer.
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