I fired some questions at Strippers Vs Werewolves star Simon Phillips.
Can you recommend any decent gentlemen clubs? I imagine to visited a couple, for research?
Stringfellow’s, Angels, The Windmill, Heaven… WAIT! HEAVEN?! That’s a gay club which I wondered into a few times by accident… I say a few times because I had to make sure… you don’t believe me do you? Dam.
So, what is the film about and tell me about your character, Sinclair?
Strippers vs Werewolves is basically a Boys VS Girls film… and true to life the girls always come out on top. A bunch of werewolves take umbrage with strippers who accidently kill a werewolf whilst giving him a private dance (well if you’re gonna die, then that’s the way I guess). My character is kinda a vampire and werewolf hunter, like Van Helsing – only less cool… infact a total geek. But I happen to the love interest to one of the strippers… yes my life is that awesome.
How did this film happen?
Jonathan Sothcott came up with the idea about 2 years ago on a drunken night out that we were having at another one of our film premieres, now perhaps it should have stayed a drunken idea – but you know what guys are like when they get an idea in their head! And here we are with an outrageous film that was loads of fun to make.
So what appealed to you in this film? What made you want to be involved?
Are you kidding? It’s called Strippers Vs Werewolves… they had me at ‘strippers’.
What was it like working with Freddy Kruger?!
He was awesome. I grew up with him scaring the bejesus out of me as a child, but he was very friendly and was fantastic as the Alpha Wolf.
What do you think was your favourite scene to shoot?
I think my favorite scene was with Lucy Pinder and Sabine as vampires about to kill me, whilst trying to take a phone call from my very pissed off girlfriend was great fun, and directed by Martin Kemp – so that was a very nice day and scene turned out really well.
Were there any parts that stuck out for you?
I very much enjoy the Robert Englund/Billy Murray jail scene as they seemed to get on very well together, and it really showed in the performances. I also enjoyed the Franklin character (played by Nick Nevern) – he’s a very good actor but always underrated.
I’m always interested to find what films/music you are you saw or heard while making the film?
We were stuck in a strip club for three weeks in Croydon, so I mainly heard stripping music and only saw posters of Naked women for a fortnight… it sounds awesome, but actually it seemed less sexy after the 10th day… I was happy to get out of that place… you could smell the seedy sweat of guys that had been in there before!
What’s your future looking like?
Really busy at the moment, which is very good. We have 6 films coming out over the next 6 months; White Collar Hooligan (with Ricci Harnett and Billy Murray), Airborne (With Mark ‘Luke Skywalker’ Hamill), The Hooligan Wars (Nick Nevern and Glen Murphy), Riot (Which was my directorial debut), UFO (with Jean Claude Van Damme) and of course Strippers Vs Werewolves… people are either gonna love me or start saying ‘who the hell is this guy and where did he come from!’…. but it’s good to be busy!
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Andrei Yanshkov 23rd April 2012
Strippers and werewolves are the perfect combination for me in this kind of movies. loved your article and enjoyed reading it, keep on going friend.
J Sothcott 23rd April 2012
What they’re actually going to say is “‘who the hell is this short tubby guy who can’t act and where did he come from?”
Danny Lenihan 23rd April 2012
I think you’ll find that Mr Sothcott had absolutely nothing to do with authoring this film, since Pat Higgins wrote it two years before it was even presented to him.
And to take credit for someone else’s work is disgraceful, plaegeristic and, basically theft.
Neth 24th April 2012
That’s funny, I distinctly remember the screenwriter of this project telling me all about it on the beach at the Cannes Film Festival. In May 2008. Which was four years ago. Not two.
cp 24th April 2012
If you read the interview without prejudging it seems pretty clear that he means the idea of THEM MAKING IT came from Sothcott 2 years ago or whatever – not that Phillips, Sothcott or anyone other than Pat Higgins had the idea of the concept or wrote the script. So chill out huh guys?
Neth 24th April 2012
CP – then that’s making a decision, not coming up with an idea. I decided to have toast instead of cereal for breakfast, but I’m not about to lay claim to the concept of heated bread. Credit where it’s due, etc.
Nonetheless, excited to see the end result. Bring on the strippers. And werewolves. But mostly the strippers.
Danny Lenihan 24th April 2012
Maybe I missed something, but here is what you wrote:
“Jonathan Sothcott came up with the idea about 2 years ago on a drunken night out that we were having at another one of our film premieres, now perhaps it should have stayed a drunken idea – but you know what guys are like when they get an idea in their head! ”
Not only that, but neither Pat, nor Jonathon Glendening (The Director) have been invited to the Leicester Square Premier.
I’d say there’s something distinctly wrong with the world, wouldn’t you?
Bmax 24th April 2012
these guys are crooks plain and simple. They exist in their own little world where the likes of the untalented Simon Phillips and friends Billy Murray, Martin Kemp and associates and their girl friends appear in every single film. All of their films get appalling reviews but they seem to make their money by ripping off everyone else who works on their films.
BMurE 25th April 2012
Yes you do. How about some hard-hitting questions, and not the sort of promotional puff they get in Hey U Guys?