"Bedknobs and Witch Apocalypse": An Interview with "Salem" Mastermind, Adam Simon
Rob: Adam, can you hear me?
Adam: I can, really well. But expect when you play this back, it's going to be like "The Exorcist". You might hear animals howling and strange sounds. (Laughs)
Rob:(Laughs hard)
Adam: I am going to be speaking in Latin, quite possibly.
Rob: (Laughs) Let's hope so. I might add some horrible echoes myself, so we'll have a nice little satanic jamboree going on there.
Adam: (Laughs hard)
Rob: So, Adam, thank you for sitting down with me to finally do this. Okay,to me, you are one of the best writers in the genre. In regards to that, was this something that you have been doing since you were a kid, and if so, what type of things did you write about then?
Adam: You know, yes and no. I think with the kind of stuff that we love, the genre stuff; the horror, the science fiction, fantasy, nobody writes like that and makes a start by loving it. And the people who do, you can tell right away that they're bullshit. (Laughs) Their stuff actually sucks! I get people like that all of the time. They're like, "I know so many people that love horror movies, I want to write one." Then you ask them, "Have you actually seen one", and they go, "Well...no. But I want to write one!" You know? So, I think anyone in my generation who is lucky enough to be able to do this stuff, they have to have devoured every horror movie, every story, horror comic book, and also fantasy and science fiction also. But, of course horror was always the "life's blood" for me. And, in that time, the pre-video seventies, movies were always what it was about, well, comic books too, but especially horror movies, and seeking them out on television and dreaming of making them. Which at the time, seemed like a crazy dream. In the post Youtube world, everyone can film anywhere and walk around with equipment in their pocket, you know? So I was one of the classic geeks of my generation with the Super 8, little 8 millimeter projectors, and 8 millimeter editing systems, and
I followed through on that by going to college, going to film school, and I was kind of one of the last of an older method. I got