This is a mysterious game that can only be played with personal power, which comes from the knowledge of experience.It’s always nice to see a blended family on screen You might make a hundred crappy movies but as long as you can leave your ego behind and strive to evolve constantly and learn from your mistakes you will eventually start to make the right decisions which lead to magic. The only thing worth a damn is experience - without it you can’t truly understand what to do. Wingard: I started working nonstop because I just wanted to improve and explore all facets of filmmaking before I was ready to hit the big leagues. To what do you owe this too, and what advice do you have for filmmakers trying to be more productive? That’s kind of the best way to gauge how true you are being to yourself and your personal vision.įilmmaker: You seem to be in an accelerating period of production activity.
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For the first time ever I had enough money to realize a fuller vision and to finally make a movie that I would have loved to watch when I was 17. With You’re Next I set out from the get go to make a real movie in the conventional sense. I was very much exploring my style within the confines of the low budget. On both pictures I was exploring the dark sides of romantic obsession and drug addiction wrapped into a sort of alternative take on specific subgenres. Wingard: Pop Skull and A Horrible Way to Die are very much companion pieces to each other both thematically and stylistically. And what can people expect when it comes to the visual approach of You’re Next? He gives one of the best performances I’ve ever filmed.įilmmaker: How do you think you’ve evolved your work visually since Pop Skull? That film has a somewhat extreme visual and editing style, and so does A Horrible Way to Die, but in a different way. People are going to be totally blown away when they see him in You’re Next. I’ve worked with Joe a few times now and we have a psychic rapport. Wingard: It’s great they both know what a pain in the ass making a movie can be so I felt a lot of empathy from them when the scenes were getting rough. What’s it like to direct other directors? Unfortunately I like things of a certain quality these days and I would hate to rely solely on VFX to take care of gore however they have contributed a few times in You’re Next to sweeten a few shots.įilmmaker: Your new film features as actors the directors Ti West and Joe Swanberg. I wish CG blood was better so I wouldn’t even have to associate myself with it, but such is the way things are. As a matter of fact I hate everything about fake blood, the way it smells, the way it slimes around and sticks to things. I hate asking someone to do something I would never want to do. Wingard: Anyone that has to get bloody and wear appliances knows they have my sympathy. The horror world has been totally sodomized by shocking scenarios, and we decided to make ours more of a fun ride, one that doesn’t punish its audience or take itself too seriously.įilmmaker: What’s the secret to depicting intense violence without creeping out your cast and crew? Or, do you like to creep them out? When Simon and I asked that question about home invasion films we both concluded that there seemed to be too often an emphasis on simply punishing characters with pain, murder, and rape.
Wingard: I think it’s always best when approaching a specific sub-genre to imagine what do I not like about what these movies do. What sort of twists have you incorporated this time?
Your new film takes up the “family under siege in their home” genre.
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We spoke to Wingard about blood, style and directing other directors.įilmmaker: Your previous film, A Horrible Way to Die, tweaked the serial killer genre by setting it within the world of addiction and recovery, and exploring those emotional dynamics.
His latest movie reinvents the home invasion thriller. His films are mindful of genre conventions, finding ways to subvert them through unexpected characterizations that have real psychological depth. With his features Home Sick, Pop Skull and A Horrible Way to Die, Adam Wingard is carving out a reputation as one of the most imaginative and visually sophisticated directors working in modern horror. In Directors, Interviews, TIFF, TIFF FeaturesĪdam Wingard, Horror, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival 2011
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