Other Mommy Director Rob Savage Interview: Jessica Chastain is "mind-blowingly terrifying"

Director Rob Savage joins Bloody Good Horror to discuss Other Mommy, his terrifying adaptation of Josh Malerman’s novel hitting theaters October 9th.
Savage talks about translating the book’s cosmic horror to the screen, creating scares in broad daylight, and finding new ways to keep audiences from trusting the visual language of horror. He also digs into the film’s complicated ideas about motherhood, family, and the different versions of ourselves that exist beneath the surface.
Plus, the star power and sheer terror that Jessica Chastain brings to her dual role, why they ultimately moved away from using prosthetics to distinguish her characters, and how she was able to create some of the film’s most disturbing moments using nothing but her face and body. As Savage puts it, she is the film’s “secret weapon.”
Other Mommy arrives October 9.
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00:00 Lovecraftian Horror
02:12 Horror in the Light
04:55 Corrupting Safe Spaces
07:06 The Two Faces of Mommy
09:37 Feminist Horror
10:49 Teaching Audiences Not to Trust Horror
13:05 The Table Scare
15:36 Jessica Chastain's Performance
18:02 Jessica Without CGI
19:45 Jessica's Performance Is the Secret Weapon
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