As you may or may not have heard, David Alexander Hess, famous for his role in Last House on the left (1972), (and the amazing accompanying soundtrack he scored), along with House on the Edge of the Park, Hitch Hike, Swamp Thing, has died peacefully at the age of 75. His acting when playing a realistic villain Krug has always been extremely strong, there's something about the characters he played which were extremely scary, the sort of person you would never like to meet.
Having said that my brother and I met him at Frightfest in 2009 when he was waiting a while to get some coffee (just before the screening of Dead Snow), and in real life, he is very opposite to the characters he has played. He was a welcoming, down to earth guy who advised me to never to see filmmaking in stages or levels, in other words it doesn't matter how much money you make or how successful/famous you are or are not with your films, you are still a filmmaker. Nobody can take that away from you. I think this is smart advice, at the end of the day everyone is equal, art is subjective, a lot of people tend to jump on bandwagons rather than form their own opinion on a film. I have seen many films people consider classics only to think they are pieces of shit and vice versa. Another thing that comes to mind is that if you are making films to be rich or to be successful, you are focusing on the ends rather than the means, and in my opinion you are not a real filmmaker. Real filmmakers make films because they want to. It's as simple as that. David Hess made music because he wanted to, and he acted when he wanted to. He will always be an inspiration to Jag and I and always has been, such as when Jag chose to use Hess' music in our short film 'mUrder' in 06.
Another great horror icon has passed, but will never be forgotten.
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