Fright Night Horror

Ahead of the UK premiere of SECRET SANTA at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow 2018, director Adam Marcus tells us about his obsession with Christmas Eve, being inspired by Orson Wells and why family is the real ‘monster’. Q: Over the past few years we’ve seen a lot more seasonal based shockers than ever before. Why is the Christmas Holiday period so ripe for horror? I’m not sure.  Maybe, because it’s the “Happiest Time of the Year”, it’s ripe for the picking when it comes to our genre’s ironic sense of humour.  I think there is a cynicism that’s kind of permeating everything.  Nothing is as it seems.  No one can be trusted.  So, perhaps these films are playing into people’s cynical fear, and that’s the cause for the trend.  If you can’t trust your government, or your neighbours who might vote for that government, why trust the “Happy” Holidays? Q: You take a typical fraught family get-together and take it to limit. Was that the basic idea, the be...

Ahead of the UK premiere of SECRET SANTA at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow 2018, director Adam Marcus tells us about his obsession with Christmas Eve, being inspired by Orson Wells and why family is the real ‘monster’. Q: Over the past few years we’ve seen a lot more seasonal based shockers than ever before. Why is the Christmas Holiday period so ripe for horror? I’m not sure.  Maybe, because it’s the “Happiest Time of the Year”, it’s ripe for the picking when it comes to our genre’s ironic sense of humour.  I think there is a cynicism that’s kind of permeating everything.  Nothing is as it seems.  No one can be trusted.  So, perhaps these films are playing into people’s cynical fear, and that’s the cause for the trend.  If you can’t trust your government, or your neighbours who might vote for that government, why trust the “Happy” Holidays? Q: You take a typical fraught family get-together and take it to limit. Was that the basic idea, the be...

Ahead of the UK premiere of SECRET SANTA at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow 2018, director Adam Marcus tells us about his obsession with Christmas Eve, being inspired by Orson Wells and why family is the real ‘monster’. Q: Over the past few years we’ve seen a lot more seasonal based shockers than ever before. Why is the Christmas Holiday period so ripe for horror? I’m not sure.  Maybe, because it’s the “Happiest Time of the Year”, it’s ripe for the picking when it comes to our genre’s ironic sense of humour.  I think there is a cynicism that’s kind of permeating everything.  Nothing is as it seems.  No one can be trusted.  So, perhaps these films are playing into people’s cynical fear, and that’s the cause for the trend.  If you can’t trust your government, or your neighbours who might vote for that government, why trust the “Happy” Holidays? Q: You take a typical fraught family get-together and take it to limit. Was that the basic idea, the beginning of ...

Ahead of the UK premiere of SECRET SANTA at Horror Channel FrightFest Glasgow 2018, director Adam Marcus tells us about his obsession with Christmas Eve, being inspired by Orson Wells and why family is the real ‘monster’. Q: Over the past few years we’ve seen a lot more seasonal based shockers than ever before. Why is the Christmas Holiday period so ripe for horror? I’m not sure.  Maybe, because it’s the “Happiest Time of the Year”, it’s ripe for the picking when it comes to our genre’s ironic sense of humour.  I think there is a cynicism that’s kind of permeating everything.  Nothing is as it seems.  No one can be trusted.  So, perhaps these films are playing into people’s cynical fear, and that’s the cause for the trend.  If you can’t trust your government, or your neighbours who might vote for that government, why trust the “Happy” Holidays? Q: You take a typical fraught family get-together and take it to limit. Was that the basic idea, the beginning of ...