Osgood Perkins, the horror director, shares insights during a stroll through the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, a serene but paradoxical setting. Known for being an active burial ground and cultural hotspot for music and film, Perkins reflects on personal connections to the site shaped by celebrity and heritage while casually discussing how he and his son sometimes visit grave sites. This juxtaposition of life and death, public figure and personal experience, reveals his complex relationship with Hollywood's legacy amid a vibrant, lively environment.
Perkins mentions bringing his son to the similarly starry Pierce Brothers Memorial Park in Westwood to kill time while his wife was at an appointment nearby.
It isn't until we're ambling past Mickey Rooney's crypt, which is adorned with a picture of its resident, that it occurs to me there are other reasons why Hollywood Forever Cemetery might feel like a ghoulish meeting place to Perkins.
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