“ ‘You literally have to take out all the scenes with Sally and the creatures,’ which, of course, you’re not gonna do.”Īs a result, the target audience, young adults/teenagers, was never reached and the release was a modest critical success, but a financial disappointment. “We had always filmed this thing like it was gonna be PG-13,” he said, recounting a battle with the MPAA, which, at the time, granted an immediate R to any project that depicted violence against children. This ending is a departure from the ‘73 iteration, but there are still plenty of nods to the original, be it in bits of dialogue or recreated visuals and scenes. Kim, whom Sally comes to see as a motherly figure, intervenes at the last minute, saving the girl, but getting dragged into the dark pit instead.
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Ok, so spoiler time for a 10-year-old movie: the creatures need to replenish their ranks and since Sally sets them free from the bolted up ash pit, they attempt to drag her back into the netherworld to become one of them. There’s really something far more engaging to me in old architecture, in old settings, and stuff that actually has life and has a history.” “I’m not sure why I’m not really that interested in modern times or what’s happening now. But I always establish and set everything I do in the past sort of a fantastical version of the past,” Nixey added. I draw monsters, I drew them before, I draw them now. The constant presence of rain (“we did wet-downs everywhere we were outside,” Nixey said) drove home the old ghost story vibe Nixey was aiming for. As time goes on and the creatures become bolder in their attempts to capture Sally, the house turns into a domicile of terror, casting eerie shadows. For instance, the interior of the manor is very warm and inviting (at least at the beginning), while the outside world is very cold. Setting up the house and grounds around it as another character in the story was equally as important to Nixey, who leaned on the inclinations that would serve del Toro well on Crimson Peak a few years later. finding that right tone and pitch and creepiness because there certainly is a creepiness to it.” When you hear whispering, it’s like, ‘Oh, what’s going on?’ You’re leaning into danger. “There’s a child-like, fairy tale quality of things whispering,” he said. Finding the right level of effective murmuring was a process of “trial and error,” according to Nixey. Keeping the monsters’ spine-tingling penchant for whispering among themselves and to their victims was just the icing on the horror cake. The tooth fairy thing was new, but the whispering was not. Indeed, del Toro also used the idea of ravenous, flesh-eating tooth fairies in Hellboy II. “I have to tell you that you’re reminding me now that he used to talk about the tooth fairy a lot, long before this movie. It’s always one of those things - if you’re characters believe it, then your audience should believe it.” “Because he does create a backstory as fantastical as the backstory is, it becomes believable because it’s so rich. “That was all there from the very beginning, which always gives a real richness to his movies,” Nixey said. The creatures from the ‘73 version are on par with The Twilight Zone’s infamous plane-wrecking gremlin in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Thanks to his drawing skills, Nixey played an active role in designing the movie’s pint-sized antagonists. “It really explains a lot as to what Guillermo had in mind, to bring this guy’s mentality onto Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Robbins explained. So it all just rolled out from there,” Nixey said. At that time, he was really pushing to help first-time directors get their first time gig. “He saw the short and really got a lot from it in terms of visuals and storytelling and imagination and that kind of thing. The Keyfiend’s steampunk-ish design, movements, and sound design are highly reminiscent of Johan Kraus in del Toro’s 2008 Hellboy sequel: The Golden Army. While watching the short, it’s easy to see why Nixey got the Don’t Be Afraid job. With the screenplay completed, del Toro set out to find a director and landed on Nixey, who got the gig thanks to his short film, “Latchkey’s Lament.” The atmospheric project tells the story of a nefarious being - The Keyfiend - that steals and consumes house keys.
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