MODERN-DAY MASTER of horror David Bruckner – responsible for The Signal, V/H/S and The Ritual – is about to cause sleepless nights with his latest movie The Night House. But really, he’s just paying forward his own experiences. “I was just terrified of horror films as a kid,” he admits. “I don’t think that I could really handle them. My father would watch them, my mother worked nights as a nurse, so I would try to hide from the TV. I couldn’t escape the sound of the film – the ideas of whatever he was exploring were still in my head in some ways or another.”
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Bruckner has at least two that stayed with him for different reasons. “Poltergeist did a number on me when I was young. I saw that one before I was ready to,” he recalls. “Cronenberg’s The Fly reboot really, really disrupted me for a while. I couldn’t watch a Jeff Goldblum movie for about 10 years – even Jurassic Park. Just seeing Goldblum on screen made me intensely uncomfortable, I was just terrified his ear would fall off, rather casually. It scarred me in the best ways.”
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