David DeFino is a 20+ year Entertainment Industry Professional. David has worked on Live Events, TV Shows, Music Video, and low to big budget Feature Films.
*Reposted from thetruthhunter.com A Brief History of Linda Vista Hospital Linda Vista Hospital in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles opened in 1904 as the Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital. The original building was razed in 1924, and replaced with the current structure. In 1980, the hospital changed management, and in 1989 the name […]
Another Remake I am not a fan of remakes. I do understand that they sometimes work. The Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon is far superior to the previous incantations of the story, but for the most part, I feel remakes are the direct result of a lack of imagination. Film adaptations of television shows […]
Hollywood has a problem with cult franchises. They just don’t seem to get it. I grew up watching the Japanese Godzilla movies, andI loved them. The Hollywood Godzilla movies have both been utter crap. Character Development there where only two characters in this film that had any sort of character development at all. Brian Cranstons […]
Who doesn’t love a good werewolf movie? American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Dog Soldiers, hell, even Ginger Snaps are all good werewolf movies. However, the advent of CGI has given us a plethora of bad werewolf movies… (does anyone remember American Werewolf in Paris?). 2014’s Wolves (starring Lucas Till, Stephen McHattie, and Jason Momoa) […]
Today is Friday the 13th. In 2015 we are (un)lucky enough to be graced with three Friday the 13th’s (2014 and 2016 both have only 1). And although you are not likely to encounter any hockey mask wearing psychopaths today, for many, the fear of Friday the 13th, and the number 13 is real. Fear […]
Los Angeles is a scary place filled with gang bangers, hipsters, wanna be stars and trust fund kids. Some may say that the top 5 scariest places around Los Angeles are the bars on Hollywood Blvd, or the Sunset Strip or the homeless tent cities downtown. Those places may be gut wrenching anxiety inducing bastions […]
I like vampire movies. I like history. So when I first saw the trailer for Dracula Untold, I was a bit excited. It didn’t look like the horrible, sparkly, teeny bopper vampires Hollywood had been force feeding us recently. It looked decent. The story places Luke Evans in the title character, and brings us back […]
The Glory Days of Practical Effects When I first moved to Hollywood and started working in the Special Effects Industry in 1996, there was a general rule that all effects artists judged their work by: If it looks like an effect, you failed. We strived to make things life like, and no dime was spared in […]
https://youtu.be/XO7gaZSNIBA Dario Argento’s Dracula: Looking through the Netflix instant cue, I came across Dario Argento’s Dracula. Unfourtunatly this is not a 3D version, but I still had to watch. I have been a fan of Dario Argento’s work since I first saw Deep Red as a teenager. I am also a big fan of his […]
