Written by Leigh Whannell
A well-crafted horror film.
"...that was one of the things we really wanted to give Insidious. We wanted a lot of the scare sequences to play really silent. But, what I like to do with the soundtrack is set you on edge with a really loud, sort of like, atonal scratchy violin score, mixing with some really weird piano bangs and take that away and all of a sudden, you’re like, “What just happened there?” And then you’re following a character through a house and it’s just dead silent. Right? (Excitedly) Then, when you smash something in there, it really gets you and, um, one of my favorite (sequences) in the movie, without giving anything away, is when the alarm in the house goes off. Piercing alarm that goes off. Then, when he switches it off, it’s just (barely audible for effect) dead silent. You know? And I find it is that [juxtaposition] between loud and then silent is what sets you on edge. Horror filmmaking, it doesn’t get the kind of recognition, I, I feel like it (deserves) because there’s a lot of craft involved and it’s not just about someone jumping out with a knife or whatever and then the music goes all crazy and nuts, right? And your actors [are] screaming away. It’s not just about that. I think, to create a genuine, creepy, suspenseful movie, takes a lot of craft and that’s why I really admire what Alejandro Amenabar did with The Others and I really admire what (M. Night) Shyamalan did with The Sixth Sense. Those are both movies that are very controlled."
- James Wan interviewed by Ron Messer on 4/11/11
No comments:
Post a Comment