We’re all very proud, over here at Undeadflick.com (and the "Rosencrantz World" in general) because when we set out to make a film about Shakespeare, Vampires and the Holy Grail, we wished we had a bazillion dollars to make it look like Coppola’s “Dracula,” Herzog’s more natural “Nosferatu” and Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” – meets “Shakespeare in Love” and a sprinkling of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.”
But we soon realized 97.4 percent of the budget was going towards other things. Like the camera and lights, for instance, and a little thing called “food.”
But when I saw Production Designer Darsi Monaco, turn cardboard, paint and styrofoam into gold and with the help of her awesome, hard working art department, bring the sets to life in a mix of vibrant antiquity and eerie, vampiric majesty – I was one thankful, joyous director.
And words cannot describe the magic worked by Costume Designer Cameron Folan , who, with help of Denise Maroney and Lisa Henessy, provided such a gorgeous wardrobe that to the untrained eye it would appear that they probably stole it from the Costume Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I still wonder…
Darsi Monaco
