How did NIGHTMARE MAN become one of this year’s “8 Films to Die For”?
ROLFE KANEFSKY: That’s an interesting story. Basically, we finished the film in the summer of 2006, and we started to bring it to film festivals like Shriekfest. We screened it at Fangoria Weekend of Horrors. That was the first time ever for horror fans and websites and magazines. We took a chance and said, ‘Let the fans decide the fate of the movie.’ Luckily, everyone really embraced it, and people got behind the film. They loved Tiffany Shepis in it. We were getting great reviews, winning a lot of awards at film festivals: best picture, director, actress. We hired a producer’s rep. We thought, ‘Okay, we should be able to do a good deal with the film.’ Then we found out that there was a big glut of horror films on the market, and nobody was buying any – or paying any money for horror films at least. We were just not getting any real offers. It was getting very discouraging. The producer’s rep finally quit, saying, ‘I can’t sell it; nobody wants horror.’ I was depressed. I went down to
