“Filmmaker Oren Peli does everything in a very subtle fashion. There’s nothing over-the-top about the movie. Oren allows the camera to guide viewers through this mental hell, leaving paranoia and fear in its wake. Oren is something of a poet with the camera and, if he were Edgar Allan Poe, this would be his equivalent of The Raven,” reports Rick Florino for Artist Direct.
Florino: Do you feel like you’re conjuring real evil with the camera? How did you approach the task of creating this darkness?
Peli: I don’t think I’m really conjuring anything, so to speak. It’s all fiction. There are a lot of people who possess a belief in the paranormal but, for the movie, it was just a camera and actors. So I don’t necessarily feel like we were conjuring anything.
Florino: The film feels extremely realistic though. There’s definitely a lot going on beyond the surface.
Peli: Yeah, much of it has to do with the actors’ amazing performances. They were so natural that you really believed they were a true couple. Even if you know it’s not real and it’s all scripted, their performances make it easy for you to forget that fact and just get into the the story and go along with it.
Florino: So it was really about giving them [Katie Featherstone and Micha Sloat] space to interact.
Peli: Exactly! We were going for a lot of realism and authenticity, so they had to play the characters very naturally and make sure that nothing they said or did felt scripted or theatrical.
Read the full interview here
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