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Aaron B. Koontz is an American producer, writer and director. He is the founder and CEO of Paper Street Pictures, a film production company in Austin, Texas. [1] He is also a producer behind The Pale Door, the Scare Package franchise, and Shelby Oaks, from YouTuber Chris Stuckmann.
Aaron B. Koontz was born in Indiana, USA. Aaron B. is a producer and director, known for The Pale Door (2020), Scare Package (2019) and Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge (2022).
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Jul 9, 2021 · Aaron B. Koontz on the set of Old Man. Indie filmmaking is all about downtime between occasional shoots. So when Aaron Koontz, co-founder of Austin/L.A. production house Paper Street...
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- A Scare Package Sequel About Horror Sequels Themselves
- Scare Package and The Death of Gatekeeping
The first Scare Package seemed to focus on '70s and '80s cinema and the many tropes in the horror genre at that time (to the extent that its initial title was simply Tropes), using a constantly evolving framing device to comment on the surrounding action. In a certain sense, Scare Package II is more direct — its framing device is essentially a paro...
Horror is a unique genre in many ways. Practically no other genre has so many sequels (and anthology films), not to mention so many meta-comedies deconstructing its own tropes. For Koontz, these things seem to be tied together. Films like Cabin in the Woods, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, or Scream exist as a response to the genre itself and its overemp...
This is not to say that Koontz condescends to horror sequels in any way. "There's something really fun about what those horror sequels were, and I think those tropes just become their own thing," explained Koontz. "I was exposed to horror via horror sequels. I didn't watch the original Friday the 13th first. I didn't watch the original Nightmare on...
While Koontz is always busy producing films (along with directing his own, like the excellent Camera Obscura), he obviously has a lot of love for Scare Package. Part of that love stems from the fact that the movies influence people to seek out the films which are being referenced; culture is a virus that way, with art and entertainment becoming con...
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3,922 Followers, 858 Following, 420 Posts - Aaron B. Koontz (@aaronbkoontz) on Instagram: "SCARE PACKAGE 1 & 2, PALE DOOR | ARTIFICE GIRL, SHELBY OAKS, BLOOD RELATIVES, TRIM SEASON, OLD MAN, REVEALER + @paperstreetpictures @jointhebloodoath".
Dec 23, 2022 · CB : Congratulations on the launch of Scare Package II. Very exciting. ABK : I'm very nervous because it's about to come out, you know, we make a lot of movies. But this is the one that is honestly the hardest to make, and takes the most time and need to put the most effort in and I'm even putt
