Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

Adam David Pitman

My name is Adam Pitman and I grew up in a Whitefish, Montana. I am good at surrounding myself with positive and motivated people; my friends are some of the best dudes on Earth. I went to Los Angeles to be an actor and found that path far too difficult so I began making films with a couple of my closest friends. We made a feature, “Roulette”, for $500 over the course of a year and it won an award and gained a cult following. My buddies and I decided to form a company, BadFritter Films, LLC in 2006. “Roulette” gained us private investors who funded a six figure budget for our next feature “Paper Dolls.” “Paper Dolls” turned out amazing and we are currently shopping it in the film market. We have been in six festivals already and won four awards. It’s been an exciting, action-packed Hollywood adventure for us and we hope to continue it at full speed.

List published works/accomplishements:

“Roulette”, “Paper Dolls”-- Best Actor, Best Director (Eerie Horror Films Festival)

List website: www.badfritterfilms.com

How can we contact you? Prayer

In your own words, define Withersin.

Cool dudes exuding coolness on paper.

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

Wishfully, the strong man. That way I’d be ripped and probably pull in the babes.

What is your greatest non-literary influence?

I don’t know if this counts—but it’s my biggest influence ever!

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky film)

Describe your most irrational fear.

Planes, Death

How about your most guilty pleasure?

B-horror movies, Processed Cheese

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

A toss up between “Hansel and Gretel” and “Jack and the Beanstalk”.

That’s some scary shit…

Do you eat meat?

Yep.

What were the skies like when you were young?

Big, blue and endless. They seem that way when I’m in Montana.

Name your favorite garden tool.

Garden shears

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

Yellow, Lawn Mowing Co. (Tonto and the Lawn Ranger), Dishwashing at The Whitefish times

Favorite:  Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.

Roald Dahl, Dean Koontz; Requiem for a Dream; Death Cab For Cutie;

“Fraud in the 80’s” by Mates of State (right now)

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” – Milton Berle

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

Multi-grain

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

It’s the weirdest and probably most disturbing! These kids in Ohio? Or some Eastern town, saw that their hot classmate died in a motorcycle accident so the three of them went to the graveyard to dig her up and sleep with her. I don’t know who’s bright idea that was, but they all got caught as they were digging her grave up.

Why horror?

It’s the best genre. It creates the strongest emotion—fear. People jump, they laugh, they cry, they squeak and squeal. As a filmmaker, it is so satisfying to hear the audience physically react to your film and it’s so much fun to watch them. I like that we are making them feel these emotions and hopefully invading their pleasant dreams. J

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“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”

You have 112 words. Go.

Gary had a brain injury as a teenager that took away his short-term memory.

Gary often got very hungry on these long road trips across the country which led him to sample his cargo-- every time, the same disastrous result.

Finally, to remind himself and as a warning to others, he stenciled the words, “INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD” onto his sewage refuse truck.

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