Rob Savage, director of Host and The Boogeyman talks Stephen King and more in an exclusive Collider profile interview.
If there’s one thing you can be sure of after speaking to Rob Savage for an hour, it’s that the guy loves to talk about movies. Before I even hit record on our Zoom call, the horror director is recounting fond memories of getting pissed with the Irish film industry at the Fastnet festival. He asks me if I know Kate Dolan , and we both gush about her 2021 horror film, You Are Not My Mother. He’s wearing a Girls on Top Lynne Ramsay T-shirt as he raves about Parker Posey in Scream 3.
Years before Savage would become known for being a horror darling, he tried his hand at arthouse romance in his own unsettling approach. The only way I can describe his debut feature, Strings, is that it resembles what would happen if Andrea Arnold decided to make a student film. Well, that might be a stretch, as the script is more than shaky at times. I mention Arnold’s Fish Tank to him, which he adores. He also says that Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies was a major inspiration for the movie.
After Strings, Savage spent years making shorts in the UK and directing TV episodes, from Prime Video’s Soulmates to Britannia. Then, in 2020, Savage rose to prominence when he made the pandemic movie, somewhat by accident. 'Host' Kick-Started Rob Savage's Horror Career and Was Branded "Scariest Horror Movie Ever" Following Host's success, Savage and his friends who were involved in the film were inundated with offers, but they ultimately went with the horror streaming service Shudder because of the creative freedom they were willing to give. “They basically said, ‘We’ll give you the money you need, and we’ll fuck off.
To do this, he pulled from some of the best movies of all time, both in and out of the horror genre. He ensured that the actual Boogeyman had less time on screen than the Xenomorph from Alien and Bruce the shark from Jaws — two of the greatest monsters in cinema history with famously limited screentime. He also cites Lucio Fulci and Krzysztof Kieślowski as influences for The Boogeyman, and he watched Kieślowski’s Three Colours Blue with star Sophie Thatcher in preparation for the film.
While Savage was vocal at the time of the film’s premiere that this is a film to be experienced in a crowded theater, he believes that The Boogeyman could be even scarier when watched at home. “I feel like one of the reasons that so many people find Host scary is because it’s taking a domestic space,” he says. “It’s taking the safety of your home, and it’s twisting and perverting it and making an unsafe space.
Film producer Zainab Azizi recently spoke to Collider’s Perri Nemiroff about her upcoming projects with Savage. Azizi previously produced the Adam Driver vs. Dinosaur action flick 65 and the Sandra Oh-starring horror, Umma. Azizi told Nemiroff that she has three upcoming movies with Savage. One will involve actor Andrew Koji , and another will star Bill Skarsgård. “You know, it’s funny, I discovered him before he made any of his movies.
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