FIVE & FIVE with director Johannes Grenzfurthner, director of MASKING THRESHOLD.
๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐’๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ. ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐, ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐/๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ?
That was one of the initial ideas, even before I had a story or plot points. I wanted to create a Lovecraftian film that doesn’t shoot itself in the face with dismal tentacle monsters. The most essential part of Lovecraft’s fiction is the indescribability of the cosmic doom his protagonists encounter. My film is very explicit, body-horror-wise, but not on the level of otherworldly creatures. The horror is in the protagonist’s head. You only witness his struggle to describe what he sees (or believes in seeing) and what it makes him do. But that’s how all good weird fiction toys with you.
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