Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

I have a strong art-history background.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.