Jeff Fisher

by Jeff Fisher With Paul Wesley and Kaley Cuoco on the set of KILLER MOVIE Sometimes your first feature film gets born out of the most challenging circumstances. For me, it was February in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 17 degrees below zero. No cell service. No internet. Just me, my dog, howling wind, and an endless parade of locals telling me horrific accidental death stories. This is how my first feature "Killer Movie" came to be. THE SCRIPTED DREAM Even though my short films were a romantic...

Jessica Tuck, Larry Poindexter, Laura Leighton and Chris Jacobs in ANGELS, BABY! by Jeff Fisher Let me tell you about the time I put a musical on my credit cards, almost had to shoot the finale topless, cast Sydney from "Melrose Place," gave my mom her big showbiz moment, and somehow lived to tell the tale. This is the story of "Angels, Baby!" - the short film that taught me there's no such thing as short film jail. WHEN ONE RISK LEADS TO ANOTHER I had just made my first short film, a...

Mr. Scorsese and Freddie Francis on the set of CAPE FEAR by Jeff Fisher The year was 1991, and I was about to get the education of a lifetime—though I had no idea it would come from a Yiddish word my grandmother used to say. FROM CRAFT SERVICE TO CAPE FEAR My first real production job in South Florida was doing Craft Service on an American Playhouse show called THE SUNSET GANG—three short stories about people in their golden years. Great cast: Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Uta Hagen, and others....