Yule Log director Casper Kelly and cinematographer Alex Allgood

Yule Log is a crazy, surreal, comedic horror movie written and
directed by Casper Kelly and with cinematography by Alex Allgood,
made for Adult Swim and available on HBO Max. Even though it's a
month past Christmas, fire up Yule Log if you haven't seen it
already- it's bound to be one of the weirdest and most original
movies you've seen in awhile. For Yule Log, Casper and
cinematographer Alex Allgood decided to keep the camera locked off
on the fireplace logs for as long as possible, so people might
think it was just a recording of a fireplace for holiday ambiance,
before introducing more action around (and inside) the fireplace
and in the cabin, as people enter and events unfold. The movie
takes place in a cabin, but over multiple timelines that overlap
and combine different genres from comedy to horror to
Lynchian-style surrealism. Alex liked the script, and felt that
even though the movie leads with the long lockoff shot on the
fireplace that the dialog kept everything going. He only had about
three weeks to prep the movie, and they shot Yule Log in about 14
days. He enjoyed working with Casper and combining so many
different creative elements into the movie. Alex always sees
projects in terms of lighting first and camera second, so he tried
to create a cohesive look with the lighting on the film throughout
each scene, using a lot of firelight of course. Casper has always
enjoyed taking risks and seeing things that he hasn't seen before
vs. following a formula. His first job was on the low budget horror
movie Basket Case 3, and he wrote and directed another short dark
comedy spoof TV show for Adult Swim called Too Many Cooks. With his
previous experience and relationship with Adult Swim, Casper
pitched Yule Log and was paid to make it- he thinks if he had done
it as a spec script, no one would have given him money to make such
a crazy film. Casper wasn't sure the many, many ideas in Yule Log
were all going to work, but he wanted to go for it and take risks.
But everyone was on board through all the crazy twists and turns
the story takes. You can see Yule Log on HBO Max. Find Casper's
short for Adult Swim, Too Many Cooks, on YouTube. Find Casper
Kelly: Twitter & Instagram: @heycasperkelly Find Alex Allgood:
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