Does the film tread into slasher territory?
To get an audiences attention these days that’s really a big part of the marketing but it’s much more than a slasher film. When I first took on this project with [writer] Jason Kabolati, he showed me the script and we both sat down and talked through it and decided this is not your giddy happy fun slasher film. When something happens to the bad guy it’s not just a really cool effect and everybody leaves the movie theater with a smile on their face thinking they just saw a bunch of great effects, ‘That tendon looked great when the knife slashed it off!’. It’s really not the slasher film that everyone thinks it is, it’s really more of a lesson film, it’s got more of the tone of a Se7en or an Elephant than a Friday the 13th or Halloween. And I shot it in more of the style of The Shining than a Hostel or a Saw. The way I shot this, everything is visible to the audience, they know what is coming and it just increases that sense of dread. Is that what attracted you to the script, taking the
