How do you describe the Booth Brothers? Hmmm, well, let’s just say, “The Brothers Grimm told fairy tales and it scared kids. The Brothers Booth tell real ghost stories, and it scares everybody.” These amazingly accomplished brothers, Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth, are filmmakers, paranormal investigators, speakers, and all around great guys who have their own look and a true stand-out presence in the world of the paranormal. Their films include “Death Tunnel,” “Children of the Grave,” and their most recent, “Soul Catcher: Trail of Tears.” Learn all about them at www.boothbrothers.blogspot.com and www.spookedtv.com. We asked. They answered. Thanks guys!
1) OK, so who was born first?
BB: We were born in a creepy old asylum-looking hospital in Yorkshire, England, Phil is one hour older, poor mum...
2) How did each of you become interested in the paranormal? Did you both have experiences in the past that served as the catalyst for your interest?
BB: The step beyond was when we experienced actual paranormal activity on set, while shooting Sony Pictures' Death Tunnel. While filming on the third floor of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, suddenly the room went ice cold just for a moment, and then the cold moved through me, and then it just left. What was really chilling was discovering a slight icy film on the lens afterwards; no one could explain what happened. Then later in the shoot I saw what appeared to be a little girl running through the hall ahead of me - it was holographic in nature but very real! So this, as well as meeting the real patients of the sanatorium, opened up the door to "real horror" yet with a heart!
3) Do you both consider yourselves believers, skeptics, or somewhere in between?
BB: Yes and No! I wouldn't say we are ghost hunters per se; we are more like epic filmmakers capturing the supernatural. 'Children of the Grave' started with a photo that was sent to us. It was a picture of the top of a dark hillside with dead trees. In between these trees were shadows, shadows of what seemed to resemble twelve or so small children about three-foot tall. They had an imp-like look to them; almost like something disfigured out of 'The Hills Have Eyes'. I (Chris) remember saying, "If this picture is fucking real, then we are going down there to try and capture this on film". Three months and a lot of research later, we were there, walking six miles down broken roads to the place they call "Zombie Road". The locals actually nicknamed the road due to the murders that happened there back in the day. That is where we caught them, this nest of shadow children. It blew our bloody minds, so that picture was quite real, very real indeed! We got a lot of serious thermal evidence that day! 'Children of the Grave' winner of 'Best Paranormal Documentary 2008' by Haunted America Tours.
4) How has your image helped or harmed your paranormal interests?
BB: I think it has helped , we are kind of the Guns and Roses of the paranormal! The field is open to everyone, ghosts don't judge.
5) Do you think the public’s fascination with paranormal “celebrities” harms or helps the field of study?
BB: I think it degrades the subject matter,
6) They say family should never work together. How do you manage to do it so well?
BB: We can hit each other without being sued! lol... Phil is the eyes and I (Chris) am the ears to this madness.
7) May we have a glimpse of what is in store for you guys in 2010?
BB: We have some film projects in the works which may go into pre-production next year. It takes a big chunk of your life doing a film, our creativity moves far too fast sometimes to lock down. Our current television production deal supports as many new ideas and shows we can pop out as long as they are crafted within the Booth Brothers epic style.
Well, we get a lot more respectively from our current style of "Epic Reality" than the cliché "horror movie" so to speak. With these there are no typical format, they are scary because they are "Real People, Real Stories & Real Fear"! We get to scare people, then deeply move them, hopefully with a message from the afterlife and one for us internally as well. We would not be able to do that with a studio horror film. But we have had some pretty interesting offers, so we'll see which way the wind blows.
8) Where do you see paranormal research heading as we begin a new decade?
BB: SUPERNATURAL!!! THE TRUTH!!!