Cory J. 
Udler: Losing Our Religion with Incest Death Squad’s Visionary Supreme. By Brian Kirst
Warning: If you read this interview you are going to be introduced to one of the coolest, low budget film making dudes currently infesting society with his brilliant madness! So, with that in mind, strap yourselves down, imbibe those nasty psychedelics and prepare to meet Cory Udler – director and writer of the innocently titled, charmingly created, Incest Death Squad (featuring the legendary Lloyd Kaufman). Skillfully combining sick humor, subtle drama and grunt worthy horror, Incest Death Squad thankfully signals just the beginning for the genial Udler. While busily preparing his follow-up feature, Udler recently took a moment out from taming vampire baiting school girls to answer some decidedly demented questions for Horror Society below. (Hey, folks, those pills kicked in yet?!)
Brian: So, Cory, who were your first artistic influences – a blood spurting clown at your tenth birthday party – Toxie winning the babes over with his green slick charms – the neighborhood homeless amputee who could play ‘Greensleeves’ with his cheek muscles?
Cory: I hope you realize you have just given me the inspiration for my next 3 projects. Especially with the amputee who can play Greensleeves. I have all my limbs and I can’t do that. My first real film influence came from Jonathan Ross’ “Incredibly Strange Film Show”, there were only a handful of episodes, but basically for those who don’t know about it, it was an hour long documentary style show about weird dudes who made weird movies-John Waters, Ted V Mikels, Ray Dennis Steckler, Russ Meyer on and on. They would show clips from these insane films and then spend time with the filmmakers. The one that stuck out was Ted’s. He’s playing an accordion, has a ventriloquist dummy that he’s carrying on conversations with, his white handlebar mustache and huge boar’s tusk around his neck. Top that off with his film titles “Astro Zombies”, “Corpse Grinders” and “Blood Orgy of the She Devils” I was hooked. So, 12 years old I’m not playing sports or doing whatever 12 year olds are supposed to be doing, I’m seeking out the entire Ted V Mikels and John Waters’ film catalogs. Toss Motley Crue and Howard Stern in the mix and let the dementia fester.
Brian: Dude, I just love tossing some Crue! (But then my back always hurts in the morning!) So — Were there any news items or particular incidents that led you to create the religious crazies at the center of Incest Death Squad?
Cory: I hate organized religion. I hate holier than thou whack jobs who think that everything that happens to them, good or bad, is because of some invisible man in the sky. I think that’s the most weak minded way to live. But, whatever, if it gets you through the day who am I to judge. Really what I cannot stand are people who use God and Jesus and religion and the FEAR that religion breeds in order to further their own agendas. When I was growing up it was Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, the biggest hypocrites in the world. But, it never changes, I mean look at Ted Haggard. Biggest piece of shit on earth. How much money did he make off of his lies? I love it when that comes crashing down. So that’s really where the religion angle came from with Incest Death Squad, the manipulation of Amber from Jeb with his holy this and Jesus that. I wrote the script around the time that Bush was starting to really show his demented colors, too, with his whole “evil doers” and doing this and that “in the name of God”, like the little prick had a pipeline to God. He made this country a bunch of uptight fear mongers with his whole religious angle and his nonsense and look where we are today. Broke and afraid that we’re going to hell. I’ve always been broke and always known I would probably wind up in hell, so I’m ok with it.
Brian: And you’ll have the whole of Horror Society to keep you company, as well! – So, what’s worse than an Incest Death Squad – A Nun Colony Massacre – A Sightless Child Bloodbath?
Cory: Wow, that’s a loaded question. If I say a nun colony massacre that just plays into the fact that I’m going to hell, but a sightless child bloodbath? That just seems really unfortunate. I’m going to go with the sightless child bloodbath, only because I think a massacre of nuns could look really cool.
Brian: Spoken like a good Catholic School boy – gone seriously wrong, of course! – If you could create the perfect role for the crazed deviousness that is Lloyd Kaufman, what would it be?
Cory: The one thing that people don’t realize is that Lloyd is a pretty good actor. But it’s dipshits like me that stick him in films and make him rant and rave about “dead hookers”. I have seen some of the unfortunate things that Lloyd has had to act in, so I would cast him in something grand. I would love to make Lloyd a misunderstood recluse in a small town, who lives in a tattered shack, works doing odd jobs for people, and is ostracized from the community. Maybe the local kids pin something on him he didn’t do, and it’s up to him to show the world that he’s just misunderstood. Sounds a little after school special, but I really would love to see Lloyd do something totally out of what he’s been cast as. I think he’d be amazing. Or, I’d love to see him as a demented truck driving, serial killing maniac who gets hired by an underground mafia ring to disband a snuff film/Asian corpse bride racket.
Brian: Dude, have you been peering into my mom’s wet dreams or what?!? — No budget limitations – No MPA – What sick fantasies would you conjure up?
Cory: An incredible bloodbath in a strip club, featuring every single hot porn chick (and dude) in the industry today. I’d have Tom Savini do all of the effects. I’d have a renegade band of bikers slaughter everyone in a strip club and have sex with the various severed parts, only to have the body parts come back to life and tear them to shreds. Someone’s going to steal that, I just know it.
Brian: But, we’ll hunt ‘em down, though, Cory, we will hunt them down!!! – Lastly – Any words of advice (IE: Never trust the small town chick who quotes Jesus and Hustler fantasies at the same time) or future projects that you’d like to tell us about? And thanks – this has been better than rolling around in hay, naked and bloody, any night of the week!
Cory: (laughs.) Currently, I’m trying to find some money to make Incest Death Squad 2 in the spring. It looks like I’ll be working with Anthony Colliano (12/24) this winter on his next project and I’ll probably wind up in LA working on Charles Band’s “Gingerdead Man 3” in some capacity. So, if anyone reading has like some dough, and just wants to give it to me in exchange for an executive producer credit on IDS2, that would be tall of you. I don’t want anyone who wants to work on the film, or be creative on it, just someone to give me some money so I can do what I want. That seems logical. And my only advice is “to thine own self be true”, even if you’re completely demented and warped. And thanks to you, Brian, and to Mitch and everyone at HorrorSociety.com and to everyone who has supported the film, I cannot express how much that means to me. And if we stay on this great path IDS has provided, I promise, IDS2 will be much darker, much sicker and way more savage than 1. So buy many copies!!
