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‘Never Let Go’ Director Alexandre Aja On The Formula Of Creating Scares And Strong Female Horror Leads

Filmmaker Alexandre Aja speaks with Deadline about making his latest isolated horror film Never Let Go

In the latest supernatural thriller from French filmmaker Alexandre Aja, Never Let Go, one mother must face the stark realities and consequences of protecting her children amongst the threats of starvation, isolation and possible death. Led by Halle Berry, the film centers around a single mother only called “Momma,” who lives in a deeply secluded cabin in the woods with her two young boys (Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins) in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic world. So when you share the same vision, it’s easy then to create and push and develop even more because not a lot of actors could pull that to be able to generate that feeling of, of course, they’re loving their kids more than anything in the world, and they will sacrifice everything to protect them, but in the same time expect that very kind of toxic, very scary aspects that she’s becoming through the movie.

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