Have some fun with it.' It turned out to be a ton of fun. We were like, 'Well, if we're going to do it, let's be in it. We basically got the go, and we were shooting about a week later. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin: We talked about casting the roles, but it was such a short schedule. Were you always planning on starring in this as well? We knew it was a smart group of filmmakers who were tackling it in a smart and experimental way, and that really set the stage for what our approach was going to be. Given that, and what we desired to do with found footage, we knew that people were trying to fix some of the problems they had with that style, and answering the questions that they didn't think were answered in some of the other found footage movies they had seen. We knew that Joe Swanberg was using the Skype camera, and we knew that Ti West was using the honeymoon home video look. Tyler Gillett: For a style like this, found footage, it's funny that the only information we had about the other people's shorts was how they were using the style, and how that influenced the story we were going to tell. We did what we had to do, and it was really fun to show up and watch everybody else's shorts, the way they pieced them together, and the order they put them in too. We didn't see any other footage, we didn't know what anyone else was doing. When this came together, you obviously knew that other filmmakers were involved, but did you know anything about their stories? Or was everything compartmentalized?Ĭhad Villella: We saw the cut of everybody's shorts at the final sound check. That was a really fun opportunity for us, to take this idea that was originally conceived as more comedy than horror, and give it an appropriate balance between the two. Then, of course, with the other filmmakers who were involved, we thought there was a real opportunity to make it funny but also really, really dark and haunting. Tyler Gillett: It didn't take much exploring of what Brad's sensibilities are, as far as the genre goes. It was a story we had kicking around in some form, more like the wocka-wocka version of what happens. It was our favorite and his favorite, and it just took on a whole new life, in the found footage world and the story we were telling. When (producer) Brad Miska came to us to be involved with V/H/S, we pitched him four or five ideas, and that was one of them. I believe it was called The Halloween Party, really, really breaking the bounds of title imagination. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin: We had thrown around a version of that for awhile. When you were first approached for this, was this an idea you already had for something else? I'm always curious about how these anthologies come together. I recently had the chance to speak with these talented multi-hyphenates over the phone. and get much more than they bargained for. Their segment of V/H/S entitled 10/31/98, which they wrote, directed, edited, shot, and starred in, follows a group of friends who think they're going to a Halloween party. They make their feature debut with V/H/S, after making a popular series of viral videos through their YouTube channel, which has over 60 million views. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Chad Villella, and Justin Martinez). One of those filmmakers is actually of a quartet of young directors known as Radio Silence (a.k.a. The horror anthology V/H/S is comprised of six short films made by a host of celebrated directors.
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