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Ted Geoghegan (born August 10, 1979) is an American filmmaker and publicist. He grew up in Great Falls, Montana, attending private and public schools and studying film extensively. He attended the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana and attained a degree in English Education.
FilmYear2023202320192018Ted Geoghegan. Writer: Brooklyn 45. Ted Geoghegan studied English at The University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, fine-tuning his skill as a screenwriter under the tutelage of Carroll O'Connor and attaining a degree in English Education with an emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare.
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Ted Geoghegan. Writer: We Are Still Here. Ted Geoghegan studied English at The University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, fine-tuning his skill as a screenwriter under the tutelage of Carroll O'Connor and attaining a degree in English Education with an emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare.
- August 10, 1979
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The story begins in small-town Montana. As a kid, Geoghegan was obsessed with genre films. He hung out at video stores; he rented every horror flick on the shelves. Then one day he came across an unlabeled VHS tape, marked simply ‘Violent Shit.’ “It certainly lived up to its name,” he chuckles. Even better, the mysterious tape proved to be fateful:...
Over time, he and Schnaas became friends. Then came a surprise: the German asked him to help translate a script into English. “I spent months retooling this screenplay with Schnass’s wife who had really limited English,” Geoghegan recalls. “The film, Demonium, was destined to be awful—but it was the first one I ever had my name attached to…and Schn...
This continued up until 2007, when Geoghegan made his fateful move to New York City. When he first got there, he was overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all: “I realized I was a very small fish in a big pond. I wanted to make sure that I was noticed, so I started going to all these film parties.” Then one night, as he made the rounds at Magnolia P...
Geoghegan was eager to graduate from the Walmart bin. As soon as The Berlin File was written, he went on to work for Dark Sky Films, publicizing genre movies like Hatchet 3–and, simultaneously, he began writing a feature script of his own. “Like everyone else, I wanted to direct my own film,” he says. “After all, I’d been on tons of sets as a write...
Then came the hard part: directing. “Taking command of the set was definitely a steep learning curve,” he confessed. “When you see it from the sidelines as a writer-producer, you think you know what you’re getting into. But when you’re actually there and you’re the captain, everything becomes alarmingly real. I remember looking around the set on da...
Again, Geoghegan’s gamble paid off. Both We Are Still Here (2015) and Mohawk (2017) are superlative genre films–and both are unpredictably different. We Are Still Here —the film that hit #1 on the iTunes list—is a classic horror flick. In large part a heartfelt homage to Lucio Fulci’s House by the Cemetery, Geoghegan describes his first feature as ...
Geoghegan has high standards. “I don’t want to make schlock. I want to satisfy the cravings of a genre fan, because I love that stuff myself—but I also hope that everything I create is beautiful and different, that it has a message and a soul.” There’s a new horror wave taking over the genre, and Geoghegan is part of it. This isn’t just about visce...
Jul 20, 2023 · We interview horror filmmaker Ted Geoghegan, director of We Are Still Here, Mohawk, and the recently released Shudder original, Brooklyn 45.
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Jan 2, 2024 · Director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here) just premiered his latest film, Brooklyn 45, at SXSW 2023 (where I reviewed it). It follows a group of five people who gather in the direct aftermath of World War II’s conclusion and find they can’t let go of the ghosts of atrocities past.
Jun 9, 2023 · Ted Geoghegan 's chamber horror drama "Brooklyn 45" takes place one fateful night in 1945, and focuses on a small gathering of gruff veteran friends in the parlor of one Lt. Col. Clive Hockstatter ( Larry Fessenden ).
