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‘Witchboard’ Director Chuck Russell On His Return To Horror: “It’s Got To Be Scary — But We Have To Care About The Characters” – Fantasia Festival
‘Witchboard’ director Chuck Russell on his return to horror: “It’s got to be scary – but we have to care about the Characters” – Fantasia Festival
But, more than that, Witchboard marks Russell’s return to the genre that introduced him in the late ’80s, initially with 1987’s A Nightmare onElm Street 3: Dream Warriors and then, a year later with his seriously gory take on camp ‘50s B-movie The Blob(tagline: “Terror has no shape!”). Based very loosely (as in, not really very much at all) on Kevin Tenney’s 1986 VHS hit of the same name, Witchboard stars Madison Iseman as Emily, a recovering drug addict who, with her fiancé Christian (Aaron Dominguez) and their group of friends, is about to open a new organic café in the French Quarter of New Orleans. But though it may, initially, seem a little old-fashioned in today’s market — where it will jostle for attention with more self-aware genre pieces like MaXXXine, Oddity and, at a very generous push, Longlegs — Witchboard has refreshing purity to it.
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