A deep dive into the fright-filled oeuvre of the House of the Devil filmmaker.
“Larry had acted in and edited her first movie,River of Grass.
He said, ‘Why don’t you make a feature?
Brittany Snow in X.Christopher Moss/A24
I probably lied and said ‘Yes.’
So he gave us $50,000 and we madeThe Roost.”
“I met a lot great people on the movie,” West said.
Ti West on the set of X.Christopher Moss/A24
“I think probably more good came out of it than bad.
It’s just I’m embarrassed to have my name on it.”
“We’ve gotten so much credit for that,” said West.
I was like, I can’t let them get me withthat.
To make it look ’80s is just hard work.
It’s not creativity.
It’s just, tonotdo it would be me being lazy."
Every night you had weird dreams.
The phone would ring, and you’d answer, and no one would be there.
Apparently, that happens a lot.
In the Valley of Violence (2016)
West went West for this tale of murderous cowboys.
“I grew up watching Westerns,“West told EW at the time of the film’s release.
And to me, the most traditionally cinematic genre in American cinema is the Western.
Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Scott Mescudi (A.K.A.
“They rent out this farmhouse to shoot an adult film for the weekend,” says Ortega.
[The script was] the most outrageous thing I’ve ever read.”
