We chat with Unwelcome director (and co-writer) Jon Wright and star Douglas Booth about the fantasy folk horror film, their various genre inspirations, and more:
The folk horror genre is getting a fantasy twist with Unwelcome. The film centers on British couple Jamie and Maya who, after being attacked in a home invasion, inherit a house in rural Ireland. But as they prepare for Maya to give birth, they find themselves the target of nasty locals and an ancient force living in the nearby woods.
The recent wave of the films that are definitely horror movies, there's no question about it, and they deliver everything that you expect of the genre, so you have the thrills and spills and the blood and guts and the scares and all the things that we know are part of a horror movie, but at the same time, they had very believable performances, they had something to say about modern life, something interesting to say about how we live, about society, about what it is to be alive in the 21st...
Jon Wright: I think what Doug did, which I'm extremely proud of and grateful to him for, is the character Jamie is a coward. I don't think it's an insult to the character to say that, because I would say the same thing about myself and my co-writer, Mark Stay, that's how the film was born. But Doug really played it honestly, what it is to be frightened and what it is to be scared, and what it is to be overwhelmed by fear in a situation where your life is threatened.
But at key times, it's her that stands up and is his great protector. I have that in my relationship now, my fiance and are in this amazing relationship, I believe that she's got my back as much as I have her back, and it's an amazing feeling. I don't think that's portrayed as much in film, I love that she was the alpha in that relationship.
Douglas Booth: She's also really nice, she's just a really nice person. She's really easygoing, she's got little ego, and we worked very effortlessly together instantly. We didn't have a huge amount of time to spend together before, but on set, we were just a great team, and Jon was a very sensitive director that I think brought up the best of us.
Did you look towards any specific films for inspiration, be it for the tone or for the creation of the goblins? I think sometimes in modern movies, CG creatures, which often are amazing, sometimes in the wild, you kind of see that they don't really have the right gravity, and they're kind of bouncing around and just something instinctively tells you that they're not really there. But I think with this, you can see that they're really there.
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