i just found an interview with joe dante

director of the previously mentioned showtime's master of horror episode, homecoming

found it on king of zembla via buzzflash

"Anyway, when I introduced the film at the Turin Festival, I told them it was a horror story because all the main characters were Republicans"

Friday, December 02, 2005
Interview With the Maestro
Many years ago, during an especially misspent portion of our misspent youth, we emerged in a state of lycanthropic bliss from the Brooklyn theatre where we had just seen The Howling and thought to ourselves: That Joe Dante! Now there's a guy we wouldn't mind hanging out with over a couple of double Manhattans. In the intervening decades Mr. Dante went on to make such witty, entertaining, and sneakily subversive films as Gremlins (parts I and II), Explorers, Matinee, The Second Civil War, and Small Soldiers -- while we, as you know, assumed the throne of a distant northern land and all the niggling responsibilities that go along with it, and were forced to set our boyish dream of boozing with Dante aside.But the story does not end there! On the eve of the premiere of his remarkable "dissident-zombie" film, "Homecoming" (on Showtime's Masters of Horror series -- 10 PM EST/PST tonight, 10:30 tomorrow), Mr. Dante finally consented to meet us for that long-delayed conversation, and we are pleased to report that we found him every bit as amiable, gracious, engaging, and brainy as his splendid body of work had led us to imagine. That is, once the liquor loosened him up:

KoZ: We were quite thrilled when we discovered that you had left a comment here not long ago. Apart from King of Zembla, are there any blogs you read on a regular basis?DANTE: Well, yeah, pretty much all the usual suspects--but y'know you can't visit all the blogs you'd like to, there just isn't time. And each blog you do visit has its own list of recommended blogs! So I hit the ten or so I've gotten to know, and if there's time I go to more. Always good to check out the Opposition, too, to see what lies they're supporting/disseminating/defending.KoZ: We ask because “Homecoming” seems deliberately conceived as a Blogger’s Delight, touching upon a vast number of left-wing talking points from WMD lies to VA benefit cuts to election irregularities in Ohio and Florida. (We half-expected Kurt Rand to meet his fate in a kitchen sink.) Are there any additional hot-button issues you would like to have addressed, if you’d had more time?..........................