In an interview with Digital Trends, director NeilLaBute and actress Gia Crovatin talk about their post MeToo Dracula horror film, HouseofDarkness.
By now, everyone knows the story: boy meets girl, girl agrees to marry boy, boy ventures off to a faraway land and encounters the lord of the vampires, boy realizes girl is in trouble, and … well, you know the rest. The story of Dracula has been told on the big screen many times since it was first published in 1897 with filmmakers as varied, as F.W. Murnau, Mel Brooks, and Francis Ford Coppola taking a stab at the tale.
Also, I’ve always liked chamber pieces. I’ve done a lot of theatre and film, so House of Darkness felt more controlled and smaller than other things. It fit right in with the work I had done previously, and it felt like it was the right time to do it. House of Darkness harks back to the Hammer horror films of the 1960s and yet still has the LaButian touch. How did you maintain that balance and what kind of research, if any, did you do to successfully create your own horror film?
In terms of how I make my own horror film, sometimes you pull back on what people might expect. For example, in a scene from House, there should be a jump scare there, but instead, I cut and don’t make a jump scare out of it. It’s just a moment; there’s no real terror there. I emphasized the anticipation of horror rather than traditional scares.
House of Darkness feels less like a horror movie to me than a psychological thriller. To me, I can see the direct lineage from this movie to some of Neil’s earlier work like In the Company of Men. They are exactly the same except there’s just more blood. The pain and the human cruelty is what links those two films.
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