SCARED OF THE DARK
Aug 11, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: DARREN SCOTT
MODERN-DAY MASTER of horror David Bruckner – responsible for The Signal, V/H/S and The Ritual – is about to cause sleepless nights with his latest movie The Night House. But really, he’s just paying forward his own experiences.
“I was just terrified of horror films as a kid,” he admits. “I don’t think that I could really handle them. My father would watch them, my mother worked nights as a nurse, so I would try to hide from the TV. I couldn’t escape the sound of the film – the ideas of whatever he was exploring were still in my head in some ways or another.”
EAR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
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