Thanks in large part to the stellar one-two punch of You’re Next and The Guest, writer-director Adam Wingard quickly established himself as a bankable genre filmmaker who harbored the ability to unsettle audiences with thrilling visuals and sharp, intelligent scripts.
That continued with a foray into the realm of mainstream horror for the recent Blair Witch sequel – a sequel that was paraded around as The Woods for the longest time – but with Death Note, Wingard is circling back to the type of jet-black material that helped put him on the map in the first place.
Setting up shop at Netflix, the director spoke to Collider about the creative agency that the platform tends to afford, along with his own personal experience with the anime genre. Perhaps above all else, the one thing that ought to please fans of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s morbid Japanese manga is that,...
That continued with a foray into the realm of mainstream horror for the recent Blair Witch sequel – a sequel that was paraded around as The Woods for the longest time – but with Death Note, Wingard is circling back to the type of jet-black material that helped put him on the map in the first place.
Setting up shop at Netflix, the director spoke to Collider about the creative agency that the platform tends to afford, along with his own personal experience with the anime genre. Perhaps above all else, the one thing that ought to please fans of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s morbid Japanese manga is that,...
- 9/16/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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