Jack Attack (2013)

Anecdotes

Jack Attack is a 2013 American short holiday horror film about a babysitter, her charge Jack, and parasitic pumpkins, written and directed by Bryan Norton and Antonio Padovan, who were also responsible, respectively, for special make-up and mechanical effects, and set design. The short was selected by more than a hundred festivals internationally and won more than thirty awards, and was selected for two anthology films in the US: Seven Hells (2014), and All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015).

Production

Bryan Norton had been Antonio Padovan's directing teacher at the New York Film Academy, where Padovan directed his first two short films, Socks and Cakes and his student thesis, Perry St.. Norton was now the Academy's Chairperson. They decided to use Norton's access to equipment and crew to their advantage. Padovan said: "We've always talked about making a movie based in the West Village in fall ... Because it photographs very well".

Norton and Padovan were admirers of Helen Rogers' work in V/H/S; the segment "The Sick Thing" led them to reconceive Jack Attack's lead role. Originally, the central characters were imagined as a mother and son, with the former part to be cast with an age-appropriate genre favorite, as Norton explained:It was going to be written for someone I grew up with as a horror fan ...

Jack Attack was filmed on location in the West Village and on a soundstage at Rollin Studios in Brooklyn.

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