Interview with Anthony DiBlasi on Adapting Clive Barker’s Dread, Axe Murder Challenges, and His Close Ties to Horror
Ahead of Dread airing on NYX UK, director Anthony DiBlasi reflects on adapting Clive Barker’s psychological horror story for the screen. He discusses the challenges of staying true to the source material, the technical difficulties of filming intense scenes, and his close working relationship with Barker. What drew you to this particular Clive Barker story, and how did you go about adapting it for film? I was drawn to it because it was Clive’s only non-supernatural story that he’d written up until that point… maybe even his only one now. I was very close to the age of these characters when I adapted it. I knew their voice and what they were going through. It was most important to me that I remained as faithful to the source material as possible. I had to expand it, of course, but I wanted to make sure his themes remained constant throughout the adaptation. The film relies on psychological horror rather than traditional jump scares. How did you go about creating that tension throughout...