‘Witchboard’ Director Chuck Russell On His Return To Horror: “It’s Got To Be Scary — But We Have To Care About The Characters” – Fantasia Festival
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: When we speak, Chuck Russell is in LA, getting ready for the world premiere of his new film Witchboard.
It will be a homecoming in more ways than one; first, since — although it takes place in New Orleans — his supernatural horror was largely shot in Montreal, home to the Fantasia Festival, which is hosting the screening.
But, more than that, Witchboard marks Russell’s return to the genre that introduced him in the late ’80s, initially with 1987’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and then, a year later with his seriously gory take on camp ‘50s B-movie The Blob (tagline: “Terror has no shape!”).
Based very loosely (as in, not really very much at all) on Kevin Tenney’s 1986 VHS hit of the same name, Witchboard stars Madison Iseman as Emily, a recovering drug addict who, with her fiancé Christian (Aaron Dominguez) and their group of friends, is about to open a new organic café in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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