how come?
An example is that early vampires in Balkan and Slavic lore did not often drink blood. They would strangle their victims or sodomize them and then kill them. Even if they drank blood, it was often from the chest. It was a story of passion and love. It was like, okay, okay, that sounds like a nice poetic motif.
But then I was also wondering where that folktale comes from. These people are experiencing sleep paralysis, where they are experiencing the waking nightmare of this vampire visitation. This puts pressure on his chest. So this is also based in a kind of reality, even if the piercing of the sternum with vampire teeth is ridiculous. So it was fun to figure out the kinds of things that would keep it fresh, but also feel like it could be integrated into this world.
Was much of this film made with practical effects?
I mean there's a lot of CG effects in the movie, but you try to do all the big crazy things that are usually done practically with CG. That way you can use CG to fix things and stretch things, and you're less aware of the sleight of hand because you're not looking at what looks fake, because that stuff is normally fake. Must be he is real.
I'm asking because, working at WIRED, I think about ai Very. With filmmaking, there's a lot of talk of “AI can do this, AI can do that”, but I look at your films and I don't think AI can do that. What do you also think about these things?
Guillermo del Toro states that AI's greatest achievement is to “makesemi-hypnotic screensaver” cool Beans. I believe that AI is best used to motivate humans to do more humane tasks. So that's all I have to say about that.
I know we're running out of time, but I have to ask: What demons are you going to deal with next?
teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I mean, I would love to see a Robert Eggers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Maybe I should drop that joke, because it would probably get fucked up everywhere.
I mean, you've already got SpongeBob has gotten a lot of press recently,