Director Oz Perkins became obsessed with glam-rock band T. Rex and brought their vibe to his hit horror movie starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer
, opens not with a quote from the Bible or anything so mundane. Instead, the livid-red title card reads, “Well you’re slim and you’re weak/You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you/You’re dirty, sweet, and you’re my girl” — lyrics from“Think of it like playing a piano: If the left hand is playing the plot, the right hand is playing the soul,” director. “The right hand is playing the spirit. The right hand is playing the art, the mystery, the wonder, the curiosity, the beauty, the glamor.
When he heard “Bang a Gong” — specifically the lyrics that appear at the beginning of the movie — he locked in. As those who have seen the film will know, it echoes a Bible verse that plays a big role in the plot, which wanders into the realm of Devil worship: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
“It just became this weird synergetic thing that I leaned into,” Perkins says. “It was the perfect blend of Biblical, demonic poetry and glam rock.” When he brought it all to Cage, the actor locked in immediately. “I said to him, ‘Look, Nick, I don’t know what this means to you. But I think it’s T. Rex.’ I didn’t even know what that sentence was. The music is T. Rex? That guy is T. Rex? I wasn’t sure what I meant by it,” Perkins says.
From there, the vibe of T. Rex and the ill-fated Marc Bolan — who died in a car crash in 1977 — took on a major role in the film. “It just ended up making sense that I would make into this glam guy who had sort of had his life disrupted in the Seventies,” Perkins says. “He just wanted to be a glam-rock guy. He maybe plays a guitar kind of badly in his mom’s basement. And one day, his life changed, and he had to go to work for the Devil.
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