In an interview with Digital Trends, TheVisitor's JustinPLange discusses his collaboration with Finn Jones and shares why he loves to direct horror films.
In the last four years, Justin P. Lange has directed three horror films: The Dark, a zombie story about abuse and trauma; The Seventh Day, an exorcism saga where a veteran clergyman teams up with a rookie priest to fight demon; and his latest film, The Visitor, a psychological thriller about a man searching for answers about a strange doppelgänger. You would think Lange is comfortable watching horror. Yet, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Lange is terrified of horror films.
So then I had to devise a new story where I was like E.T. and I would sleep with this little hole. [Signals hole in front of face] Sometimes I think like, “Oh, I wasn’t really built for horror films because I’m afraid of everything, and every five seconds, I think I’m going to die.” But then I’m like, “Maybe I was perfectly built for horror films because I’m afraid of everything.” [Laughs] I don’t know.
Then, I got into my final directing class at Columbia Graduate Film School. At the time, I took myself very, very seriously. I was trying to do a European aesthetic, static camera, people just walking around talking. I came into that class, and my teacher had asked to watch all our stuff, and he said, “You know whatever this thing is that you’re doing, blow it up. Do the furthest thing for this next exercise. Do the furthest thing from what you would do.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m still terrified of horror films. But, at the same time, I love making them. It’s so active as a director and playful and manipulative. It’s just the most fun. I’ve sort of found my way into this genre, and I’m really grateful for it because, for some reason, it allows me to express myself in a way.
Yeah, sure. It was something I was really, really interested in doing. I have been for a while. I really consider myself more of a director than a writer. But, I am a writer. I enjoy writing. When I’m looking at projects as a director, what I find exciting is I read a script and I’m like, “I would never have written this.” I don’t want to be limited to only things that exist in my brain. I mean that’s not what’s fun about film.
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