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The success of the horror genre in film is based more on credible characters that interest audiences than on generic formulas or stories, said US director Scott Derrickson in an interview with EFE during the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico.
“To make a horror movie, it’s important that audiences take an interest in the characters, not wanting them to put themselves in real danger, really fearing something bad will happen to a certain character, or wanting them to escape. Of danger. The more you play with hope and fear, the more terrifying the movie will be. “
Derrickson showed his new movie the black phone in the charity gala section of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, where it began its promotional tour before its theatrical release on Thursday 23 June.
Ethan Hawke is “The Raptor” in Derrickson’s film. IPU photo
The American, who led the first of Strange Doctorgave a speech to students and professionals from the film industry in Mexico.
His new film tells the story of a masked killer, nicknamed “The Raptor”, who kidnaps Finney, a 13-year-old boy, in a solitary basement. The boy tries to escape from his captor with the help of mysterious calls from previous victims through a broken black phone on the basement wall.
American actor Ethan Hawke gives life to “El Raptor”, the character who wears a mask created by the director and who is the icon of the film. Derrickson claims he chose Hawke because he considered him “one of the best actors in the world” and because he knew he would make the character his own.
Benedict Cumberbatch in “Doctor Strange” (2016), directed by Derrickson. Clarin photographic archive
“My job was to create a terrifying and iconic mask with different pieces, a character that Ethan could create and innovate and I thought he could take the mask and create such a big and so charming character whether he wore it or not,” expressed.
Horror film director likes it The Exorcism of Emily Rose He claimed there was little collaboration between Hawke and Mason Thames, the guy who plays Finney, to promote nervousness in the scenes between the two.
“The Exorcism of Emily Rose”, his film that surprised her in 2005. Photo Archivo Clarín
“I wanted him to be really nervous about suddenly finding himself in front of one of the great actors, and since I had never done a movie before, it was great because they really interacted in the scenes, I can feel in every take that Mason was being. really seeing and hearing Ethan and that Ethan was doing it with him, “he explained.
His most personal film
In addition to the suspenseful story, the film delves into Finney’s personal life in the midst of a dysfunctional family in the state of Colorado, with no mother and an alcoholic father making him an easy target for bullying.
This was stated by the manager the black phone It is his “most personal” film as it saves many of his childhood experiences and memories in a small Colorado town, to create a more familiar atmosphere for the story from the eponymous book by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill. .
“When I got to the story, I realized I had to create the story of Finney’s house and the relationship with his friends, the other victims, his school and all of that. That’s why I drew on my experiences, my memories of growing up in the 60s and trying to capture that feeling in that place, the bullying I experienced and the guys I knew and the violence in the neighborhood I lived in, that’s all. there, “He said.
Source: EFE Agency
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