film is scary enough, and Famega’s performance is very wonderful. ——The
"Hollywood Reporter"
film did not pretend to deeply reinvent the ghosts, monsters, or exorcism elements of the horror film. But even the old elements can be very entertaining.
——The Wrap
"Calling the Soul" can make your hair stand upright and scream endlessly.
——Bloody Disgusting
behind the scenes production of a
long waiting
film adapted from a real story, written by novelist Andrea Perron. This story happened on the Warren family farm. The story sounds pretty clichéd, but when the four words "real people and real things" are put on the whole time, everything is different. In fact, as early as 20 years ago, the film’s producer Tony De Rosa-Gullender got a tape of Perron’s interview with the Warren family. At that time, the Warren family bought the house-of course, when they bought the house, they didn't know it was haunted. Back then, Tony dubbed all the tapes Perron provided, and always wanted to put this story on the screen. At the end of the tape, Tony said: "If we can't put this story on the screen, I really can't imagine what else we can do." In the same year, Tony negotiated with Warren and finalized the movie. However, this plan was repeatedly delayed.
After Tony studied the entire tape, he began to write the script. For fourteen years, he has been looking for opportunities to put this movie on the screen. But most of the time, he returned without success. In 2009, Tony brought in producer Peter Safran, and the two brought in two new screenwriters to revise the script. The revised script was successfully sold to Xinxian Film Company. Although the film was bought by the new line at the end of 2009, it was not until 2011 that it finally started shooting. For this day, Tony waited for more than twenty years.
New Horror
In the first half of 2011, James Wynn got the script for this movie. As a new director in the horror world who filmed the "Chain Saw" series and "Latent", James Wynn admired this story very much. He feels that this movie just allows him to make an adjustment in the image style. He said: "At that time, I just finished filming "Latent" and got this script. After I watched it, I thought, oh my god, such a cool script is too rare. Of course, after filming so many After the horror film, I don’t really want to shoot another supernatural, haunted or exorcism story. But the idea of directing a film adapted from a real story is still very exciting. A real story, Real characters, real events, all of which led me to pick up the guide of "Calling the Soul". "
In fact, after so many years of turbulence and rewriting, the story of the film has not much to do with the story of the Warrens. Up. However, the Warren family still have a great interest in the film, they often come to the crew to explore the class. The filming went smoothly, and it took 38 days to complete the filming. Talking about the film’s image style, James Wyn said: "The style of this movie is not the same as my previous movies. In this movie I used a very traditional horror film style to make it look like It is the same as a movie from the 1970s. In terms of music, my choice is also very traditional, using the standard music of horror movies. What I want to do is shoot a traditional and classic horror movie."
Highlights
·Film Adaptation From the novel "True Story: House of Darkness and House of Light" by Andra Perun.
·The original name of the film is not called "The Conjuring" (The Conjuring), but "The Warren Files" (The Warren Files).
·Director James Wynn filmed the entire film in chronological order.
·In order to shoot this film, the crew built a small piece of wood around the house.
· Before the filming started, Farmega and Wilson traveled to Connecticut together and visited Ms. Lorraine Warren, the prototype of the heroine in the story.
·The Warren family lived in this "haunted" house for nearly ten years. During the filming of the film, the Warren family also came to the crew to visit the crew.
·The two screenwriters are brothers, and their families have participated in the filming of this film. Among them, Chad Hayes's son is a PA in the set. A prop in the film is a note with "miss me?" He wrote it. He wrote a total of 21, and James chose one of them in the end.
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