For the Rackaracka fans in YouTube, the appearance of Australian twins Danny and Michael Philipo was not necessarily a surprise-they were making videos together since childhood, and their work online has earned them millions of followers. The films were the next logical step.
Nevertheless, what was surprising was the intense and intense tone of their book and directing them for the first time, 2023 Talk to me. For a first film, especially from the duo known more for comedy, satirical simulation and movement more than straight terror, Talk to me It is an amazing and amazing horror story. It has become an important success and the highest horror movie in the A24 ever, ensuring that the filter will return to the big screen soon, and that horror fans will see their release in the second year, and they are looking for signs that their first movie was a coincidence. But follow -up, Return itAnother winner – a dark horror story in the same extent, focusing again on young people and demonic possession, despite radically different ways, intensively guaranteed to make even the mails flow a little on their chairs.
Pepper Return it and Talk to me At the same time, jumping back and forth between projects in the textual programming stage. As a result, two films say creators in the same world, but not in any clear ways.
“It is something that happens naturally when you write different projects (at the same time),” Danny Philipo told Polygon in an interview. “The tie is not even on the screen. I know how the films are related together, and how they are in the same universe (…) but there is no real evidence that you can see in the movie to refer to it.”
Return it He focuses on completely different characters-in the first place, Andy (Billy Parat), 17, and his younger sister (Sura Wong). Piper has a very limited frankness, Andy is used to accompany and protect its places – including unwanted protection to be shown by lying about the unpleasant things he sees. On its part, Piper depends on Andy and trusts him, but he also hates him and describes his assumptions that she cannot do things themselves.
They end up in the reservation of former social worker Laura (WaterSally Hawkins), which immediately shows a clear bias towards Piper, and lack of attention to contempt for Andy. The most anxious is the other child in Laura’s house, Oliver (Yunnan and Rin Phillips), a younger boy who pulls his deep, disturbed behavior Return it Away from home drama and to great terror.
How to follow a great success?
Pepper says that making the second horror movie was not easier than making Talk to me. “It is very strange,” says Danny. “It always seems that you start from scratch, the same fears and nuances there.
Michael says they have more time and flexibility Return it. “Talk to me It was a five -week shooting, and we wanted to shoot longer … It was running and replacing, Talk to me. So we had eight weeks in this, but somehow we were always late. “
He says that many of the film’s delays were linked to the weather, which plays a major role in it Return itMood story: “(There was) logistical things you don’t even think of – when you shoot on a site with large open windows, and” well, you are supposed to rain outside, but they are a blue sky, and you should wait. It is one of these things – “What can we shoot?” So far I understand why people use things like a blue screen. “
However, the Philippine is again committed to the practical effects greatly in Return itGraphic horror sequences, and they say they have two make -up teams and artificial limbs working in the movie, who liked to pressure each other.
“I enjoyed fun in the group,” says Danny, as it was just pushing them a little, saying: “Hey, you see what (the other team) is doing there?”
Michael: “This artificial boy looks very good, Larry!”
Danny: “Yes, what is it for you Will you look? He is for you This will be good? All of them appear to be vibrant – it was fun to be on a group. I liked the presence of both teams there to focus on specific things. All their work was very incredible – you could not compare them next to each other. We are only in awe of everything they did. “
Protect children from their own offers
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Return it Many young actors, who are going through some stomach events, are the victims-or the perpetrators-from severe violence. But the Palestinian says that the tone of the group was amazingly light.
Michael says: “There are nurses for safety, and all of these precautions are to care for (children), and to bring them to a certain head of the heavier scenes, then help to get them out of it and then get rid of them,” Michael says. “There is even exercises with the drama coach for the viewer’s exit – you put yourself in this mentality to photograph this sequence, but then (the coach helps the actors) to get out of it. But the most violent viewer, and the most bloody scenes – do not even need it, because it is just fun.”
Danny: “Everyone laughs while doing this. You keep her fun in her position as much as you can. Their parents were there – Jonah, who plays the role of Oliver, both of them from his parents, and so they were there to help care for this and find performance, and help him too.”
With both the younger representatives and their older representatives, Philippous asked actors to spend time together in nature, improvisation, building relationships, and creating the background together until their interactions feel nature.
Michael says: “For the sake of the relationship between the brothers between Andre and Bieber, we used to take them, for example, football games in Australia as a brother and sister, and would direct them, so we were failing them, and allowing him to help her,” Michael says. “All these things were always very useful. Sora had a little concern about singing or dancing in front of the camera, and it was only about trying to get rid of these nerves, so I remember that they went to the Karawki pub, such as Andy and People.
Likewise, Hokinz Laura has a long -term relationship with another social worker, Wendy (Sally Ann Abton). Although they do not spend much time together on the screen, their history is an important part of the procedure when they meet again.
Danny says: “We knew that there should be a feeling of friendship and history between them, and for the actors to come on a day and only do (their scenes together), you will not be able to feel that.” Philippous solution was the day of interconnection exercises. He says: “We have traveled all day in the car, with each of them in the nature, which gave them different claims, allowing them to make different conversations, and we recorded everything.” “It is just the most wonderful things.”
Who knew that Sally Hawkins was scary?
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With regard to working with Hawkins, Danny describes her as “the most incredible, collaborative and beautiful experience” – but she also says she was intense in her role “there were moments when we were afraid to get close to Sally. So In it. “
Before throwing it in this role, the pepper was not sure that the actress who often coincides with being sober, writing, and quiet in her roles, will respond well to his excessive and vibrant characters.
“There were people at first they were like them,” Danny says.
Michael: “Well, I also thought that.”
Danny: “Yes,” will we be too much for her or something like that? “But we got to the side of a house on the fire.”
Michael: “She put her whole soul. She was Livelihood That character. It was amazing to see, as well as horrifying“
“We adore it to death,” says Danny. “I kept all the scenario notes, everything. I loved how she lived and breathed the character – all these different scenes collapsed, and she had all these different references and these large volumes full of notes on the scenario, notes on the character, and notes on her history. I kept them all, and I will always cherish it.”
Satan dictionary by talking to me and returning it
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Another thing that Danny was hanging on is his own collection of writing about the traditions of Satan science that links Return it and Talk to meYou will contact the planned continuation Speak 2 to me also. He says Lore may never be published – but he is not ready to exclude her.
“This is the whole thing is a continuous work,” he says. “We are writing a lot of different things, and you find places to put things while you are building that bookcase as you write. So I don’t want to say no, because in the future, it may be amazing to be able to connect things together on the screen.”
Michael: “But there are worlds for each of the films, and their own factors.”
Danny: “There are different gates in the super.”
Michael: “There are all these things that are outside the movie – whether or not they were seen, I don’t know.”
A lot of posterior science and devil’s science in Return it It comes from a series of popular VHS tapes, with delicious shots in large short shots at different points in the movie.
“He was So “It is difficult not to (put more of these shots in the movie). There are many amazing ritual things that we called, as I was like,” Oh, come on, we need to get more VHS (in Tahrir). a lot From those terrifying terrifying shots. We loved it a lot, and we shoot it. “
While VHS footage is a different to the supernatural way from Talk to meThe hand of creeping plaster, and Return it It has a radically different angle on diabolical possession, the two films still feel like a validable aspect of the same invisible spiritual plane. While Michael and Danny Philipo continue to explore horror, Danny believes that they will continue to tell stories that are loosely connected to the same continuity: “It seems that all the films we are working on may be present in this type of world, and I would like to say. It is fun to have your own world.”
Return it It arrives to theaters on May 30.