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When it comes to the upcoming movie from horror director Eli Roth Talks Knock Knock inspiration and how he wanted to make the film a “modern Fatal Attraction.”
CelebNMuisc247.com has some highlights from a recent interview about the upcoming Keanu Reeves horror movie that hits VOD on October 8th, 2015.
When Eli was by asked Collider about what sparked the idea for Knock Knock, he replied:
“The inspiration is a film that Colleen Camp was in called Death Game. That was a very little seen film that got released overseas but kind of fell into obscurity in the US and was never really released. We wanted to do kind of an updated version. I really wanted to do a film like a modern Fatal Attraction that felt like something that was a tense psychosexual thriller, like the old films that [Roman] Polanski used to make or Paul Verhoeven, but we just felt like the story and the setup were so good that we could do an amazing update of it. And it all happened really fast from sitting down with Nicolas Lopez and Guillermo Amoedo and writing the screenplay to getting the financing to getting Keanu Reeves on board, I think maybe a week or two before we started shooting. It’s just one of those films that came together really, really quickly…
…But I felt the themes of the film were so relevant. I wanted to do an updated version where you’re talking about the evil forces that we let into our life. My other films, Cabin Fever, Hostel and The Green Inferno, I refer to them as my travel trilogy because they’re kids that go out of their way to go to the far ends of the earth for various reasons. Like, in Cabin Fever it’s the party and being irresponsible for the last time, in Hostel they’re looking for sexual adventures they couldn’t find in America, and in Green Inferno it’s to save the Amazon, and I wanted to show the dangers of what happens when you let that evil into your own home. And also to show the generational difference between how people in their 40s think versus people in their late teens or early 20s using social media, this idea that before an affair was something that was a private thing that happened, but now if someone really wanted to, they could completely destroy your life in any number of ways. And Keanu was a perfect casting choice because we’re so used to seeing him save the world and be the one in charge and it’s really fun to watch these girls just lead him along and lead him in this game of cat and mouse where they’re always one chess move ahead of him and he really plays right into their hands.”
To read the FULL interview with Collider about the upcoming movie Knock Knock, click here…
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