Disturbing Cinema

Disturbing Cinema: I first saw Hostel (2005) when I was ten years old, during a stay at my friend Adam's house in Bradford, England. That night, we were going to have a sleepover with two other boys, and we were discussing what to watch, and I remember Adam's mom, who was a horror aficionado, encouraging us to watch Hostel, which she had on DVD, and we were like, hell yeah! So there are four of us in the bedroom watching this film, which begins as a porno for us, and, of course, we were 10 years old, so we were all euphoric watching it, and then we were just too shocked to speak about the second part of the films torture porn. That night is something I will always remember, and it's one of my favorite films now. Every time I watch it, I'm overcome with childhood nostalgia. The question I now pose is: What horror film did you watch as a child that had an impact on you? Jana Kaderabkova:  First of all thank you for your questions. Wow! Your friend’s mom let you guys watc...

Disturbing Cinema:  Hounds of Love (2016) is based on the real-life Western Australian serial murderers David and Catherine Birnie, who were convicted and charged with murdering four people at their house in 1986 and attempted to murder a fifth. The newspapers referred to these events as the Moorhouse murders, after the Birnies' residence of 3 Moorhouse Street in Willagee, a Perth suburb. There have been numerous unsettling instances in your native nation of Australia that have been turned into great films, like The Boys, Snowtown Murders, Nitram, Wolf Creek, Animal Kingdom, and many others. I'm interested why this tale in particular spoke to you the most and compelled you to write and direct a film based on it. Ben Young:  Weirdly, despite the similarities to the real life crime, Hounds of Love is more of a work of fiction. My mum is a crime fiction writer (Felicity  Young ) and one day I was at her place and she had a whole bunch of true crime books on the table. I aske...