Horror with a Real-Life Message

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The director Sophia Takal is working on a remake of “Black Christmas,” an early slasher flick from Canada, in which sorority girls are picked off by a gruesome killer. Takal brought a very 2019 sensibility to the remake, reflecting on the ongoing struggle of the MeToo movement. “You can never feel like you’ve beaten misogyny. . . . In this movie the women are never given a rest, they always have to keep fighting.” Her producer, Jason Blum, of Blumhouse Productions, talks with David Remnick about the success of horror movies with a political or social message, like Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” And the humor writer Colin Nissan combines four scary plots into “The Scariest Story Ever Told.”

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0:00.0	All right, snow and car and lights.
0:19.5	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:22.1	So let's keep rolling. Are you still rolling?
0:24.0	Still rolling? Lots of snow, please.
0:25.3	All right, guys, let's cut.
0:29.6	It looks great. It looks really beautiful.
0:31.1	All right, guys, let's shoot.
0:33.2	We're starting out today on a movie set, a huge soundstage near the waterfront in Brooklyn,
0:38.6	where a young director named Sophia Takal is working.
0:42.4	She's finishing up shooting her biggest project today.
0:46.0	And we're going to go, wait, Kat, we're going to go back to inside the car.
0:49.5	Inside the car on Riley.
0:51.4	Kit, are you loving this window?
0:53.1	Yes, we love the window.
0:55.0	All right, guys, very quiet.
0:58.0	Cell phone is still off, please.
1:00.0	Anybody on set?
1:01.0	Make sure your cell phone is off.
1:03.0	And rolling sound.
1:06.0	T'Kall and her crew are working on a movie coming out in just a few months.
1:09.0	It's a slasher film, actually. She's one of a cohort of young filmmakers who are changing the genre, basing horror
1:15.7	plots on some very contemporary issues. Black Christmas is a remake of a 1970s Canadian horror film
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