‘No One Will Save You’ Director on How to Make a Movie With Limited Dialogue and Scary Aliens — Horror Film School
variety.comWilliam Earl SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses plot points in “No One Will Save You.” Horror Film School is a new feature in which talent in front of and behind the camera share the ins and outs of creating the biggest onscreen scares. “No One Will Save You,” out Friday on Hulu, is an incredibly lean genre movie: Aliens come down and invade the house of reclusive loner Brynn Adams (Kaitlyn Dever), and she must defend her property and warn her small town that extraterrestrials are trying to assimilate.
Writer and director Brian Duffield pulls off two difficult things in his creature feature: The characters speak very little dialogue, and the aliens stalking Brynn are seen early and often — and they’re actually scary.
Duffield spoke to Variety about how he was able to make both tricky choices work. How to make a film with limited dialogue DON’T make it a gimmick Although high-profile horror features like 2016’s “Hush” and 2018’s “A Quiet Place” have limited dialogue, Duffield said it was not an intentional writing challenge, but rather the result of the story he was telling. “I had this character that I knew was a recluse,” he said. “It’s not a monologuing movie, so it stemmed out of that.
Also, with her character being alone, she needs to not have power in her house so that she doesn’t have access to information.
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