Even with works of the genre terror quite acclaimed in the curriculum, the director David F. Sanberg (“Annabelle 2”, “when the lights go out”) said in an exclusive interview with CNN that “Until Dawn” It’s one of the scariest movies you’ve ever made. The work debuts in theaters on Thursday (24).
The film is based on a homonymous game released in 2015, in which players bump into a survival narrative amid an environment surrounded by elements of terror. All user choices may have other consequences later in history.
Game characters may have different destinations depending on the player’s decision, which also implies different ways of dying. This aspect will be passed to the movie which, according to director, is Different from the game with new characters, but which serves as a “Expansion” of history .
“It was a very rewarding movie of watching with the audience, because they are so expressive and involved in the movie and thinking ‘what the hell is that,” Sanberg told CNN . “It is certainly the most intense horror movie and one of the scariest I’ve ever done, because it kind of overcomes with each death,” he added.
In the movie, Sanberg plays with the concept of “Time Loop”, a concept that brings a scenario where a certain period of time repeats continually, as if stuck in a cycle. A similar production that illustrates the technique is “Death gives you congratulations” (2017).
Such a resource allowed the director to explore different ways to kill his characters, and thus, according to him to bring various premises of the terror genre to innovate and continue scaring and terrorizing the public.
“Before I did ‘Until Dawn’ I thought about what would be a perfect terror project. Would it be Slasher? Or supernatural?” Commented the filmmaker.
“Making this movie was like a dream that came true because in the end I was able to put all these different horror genres in a movie that is full of monsters, blood, practical effects, makeup, with elements of a gore and slasher, with also the supernatural,” he added. “It’s a big mix.”
“Until Dawn” is starring the actors Maia Mitchell, Belmont Cameli, Peter Stormare, Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-Young Yoo and Odessa A’zizion .
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This content was originally published in director of “Until Dawn” about the movie: “Of the scariest I have ever done” on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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