Dejan Ognjanovic
	Handle: Ghoul Age: 33 Location: Nis, Serbia Position: Reviewer With KFC Since: 02/18/05 Contact: dogstar666[nospam]@yahoo.com

LAST MODIFIED: 02/20/06

Top 5 Asian Films

1. Audition
2. Ringu
3. Oldboy
4. Kwaidan
5. Throne of Blood

Top 5 Favorite Films

1. Dead Ringers
2. Dawn of the Dead
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Fly 1986
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Favorite Director
- David Cronenberg

Favorite Actor
- Johnny Depp

Favorite Actress
- Sigourney Weaver

Favorite Band
- Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio

Favorite Books
- The Castle (Kafka) / Naked Lunch (Burroughs)

Favorite Webpage
- http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije

Likes
- Horror films and literature, EBM and dark-ambient music, travel, people with (dark) sense of humor

Dislikes
- Ignorance, malevolence, petty-mindedness, mortality

What would your dream project for a film be like? Who would produce,
direct, write and star in it? What would the film be about?

Producer: David Lynch
Director: Dejan Ognjanovic
Writer: Dejan Ognjanovic, based on his novel IN VIVO (published by Prosveta, Nis, 2003, in Serbian)
Starring: A bunch of unknown, but brave young people
Synopsis: It happens in Serbia in 1995: the war is raging in Croatia and Bosnia, but in Serbia only madness is raging. The main guy, a young man of 23, is an outsider, working in a porn video club. He tries to stay sane surounded by madness by looking for the most extreme horror and porn videos. He learns about snuff films made in Bosnia with war prisoners. He ultimately obtains a bunch of those, but by coincidence, one of the movies shows a black magic ritual performed in Kosovo 8southern Serbia) – invocation of a mysterious entity. After this film, he starts seeing this apparition in the background of any atrocity scene shown on TV… And this is just the beginning of events on a much larger scale which involve occult conspiracies, real-life slaughter and Lovecraftian horror.

Your fondest experience in going to the movies
Seeing HELLRAISER for the first time in the cinema, in 1987. My idea of what a horror film should do has been strongly influenced by the sense of awe I felt then.

Coolest thing that has ever happened to me
Getting a stipend through which I spent a full year in Berkeley, California, and had lots of fun there, and elsewhere in the USA. I also got to meet Tobe Hooper and have him sign my ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ DVD… And I had a direct, personal access to the manuscripts of H.P. Lovecraft in the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence.

Current ambition and goals
Getting an MA (my thesis is on Lovecraft), writing several more kick-ass horror novels, turning my firstborn into a film, finding the woman of my life…

Personal Web page
http://www.zmcomics.co.yu/autori/ognjanovicd/
(the English text is on the lower part of the page!)