It’s a thing that can rot your entire house and destroy your whole life. Building out this mythological and supernatural creature led to the monster as this embodiment of grief, an incarnate foe that takes the pain of that experience and metastasizes it.
“My way into it was to dive deeper, starting from the psychological reality of what these characters are dealing with and ultimately what the horror represents beyond just a scary monster. “When the script came to me, Scott and Bryan had created a set of circumstances that fills out the short story into a film,” Heyman says.
Mark Heyman (“Black Swan”) came on board to further finesse the script, working closely with Savage to expand the storyline and create additional characters. “Once we figured out that inception point, it was a little easier.”īeck and Woods laid out the roadmap for the story and wrote the earliest drafts, but by the time the movie got a green light, they were in pre-production on “65,” which they were also directing. “That’s the inciting incident, the stain that is left on this house and this family’s life,” adds Beck.
