Filmmaker Eddie Alcazar On Creating The Weeknd’s Surreal ‘Red Terror’—”An Experience That Pushes Boundaries”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Weeknd is depicted as a curious toddler by filmmaker Eddie Alcazar (Divinity, The Vandal) in the new stop-motion short film Red Terror, an accompaniment to the song of the same name off his latest album release Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The video can be viewed below. Alcazar created the nightmarish fantasy film concept following a conversation with the multi-Grammy Award-winning singer and actor who requested that “a boy in a haunted forest” be the story’s focal point.
From idea to concept to final product took Alcazar about three to four months to complete. “The creative freedom and time I had working with Abel allowed us to dive deep into raw themes and bold techniques.
By blending live action, stop motion, and VFX, we’ve crafted something truly unique—an experience that pushes boundaries while staying rooted in raw emotion,” Alcazar told Deadline on Saturday following the project’s drop.
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