Ti West is Ready to Explore Space and Tackle Werewolves

Ti West follows his slow-burn horror film, House of the Devil, with what many will also call . . . a slow-burn horror film.  Maybe that’s just how he likes his horror?  Yet, in actuality, The Innkeepers is a much more complex story than the more straight forward tense night of terror that the doomed babysitter stumbles upon in House.  The Innkeepers functions as both a classic ghost story and an extremely funny allegory about how both humans and ghosts can be “stuck” in a dead-end hotel.  As the initial poster states: A ghost story for the minimum wage.  A fitting tagline for a horror film with heart.  Our review of the film from Fantastic Fest 2011 will be up soon.  While we wait for the film to get released on VOD (Dec. 3) and in a limited run in theaters (Feb. 2012), you can read all about Ti West’s thoughts on horror films, the film-making process, his past films, and upcoming projects.  The full interview with the detail-minded director can be found on Movies.com. It is a very comprehensive look at a director who immerses himself in his films.  Since West is someone who has been on many people’s radars as of late, many of you might be interested in these upcoming projects.  Aside from a short in the upcoming ABC’s of Death and the recently announced V/H/S, West talks about a couple of intriguing films.

I have three finished scripts, those are two of them and they’re both set up with producers and companies that I like. Side Effect (a sci-fi movie that was mentioned in the question)– I don’t need a ton of money to do it, and we’ve gotten offers lower than what I want, but I’m sticking to it because I don’t want to have the conversation three quarters of the way through the process where they go, “Why aren’t there more shots of the spaceship?” and I go, “Do you want to know why? It’s because you gave us less money.”

So I’m being adamant about that because I know there are things I would like to be doing on these previous films that I couldn’t. I don’t want to do a space movie where we don’t have close ups because we couldn’t afford to do it. I mean, it’s not Star Wars, but I do want to have a couple exterior shots of a spaceship. And then it’s the same thing where people go, “Well, are you going to do CGI or are you going to do miniatures?” And I don’t really care. Do I like miniatures more personally? Sure. But sh*tty miniatures are not better than good CGI. I’ve got to figure out what we can do best and that’s just a budget thing.

And then the werewolf movie is a little bit bigger than that and it’s set up at a company that I really, really like a lot, and I would love to make that movie right away. It’s a comedy, but it’s a serious movie.

 

Although many might consider him the current king of slow-burn horror, Ti West likes to think of each of his films differently.  Earlier in the interview he says this about his previous films and gives us hints about the style of the upcoming ones.

The science fiction movie that I may be doing next is about a woman. It’s probably going to have some long shots of her doing things, so now they’re just going to say it’s House of the Devil in space, I guess. It’s not, but it is, I suppose? And then the werewolf movie that I wrote is funny, so maybe it’s The Innkeepers again because it’s funny? I don’t know. I think they’re all different.

I can’t wait to see what this young director has up his sleeve.  More importantly, I can’t wait to have a funny and creepy experience with The Innkeepers in a theater next February.

Source: Movies.com