How we made Welsh horror The Feast: “I was trying to craft something specifically not English”
How we made Welsh horror The Feast: “I was trying to craft something specifically not English”
Director Lee Haven Jones discusses the challenges of making his culturally specific Welsh-language horror The Feast.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16891767
Gwledd/The Feast (2021) got the number one slot in the best folk horror movies of the 2020s listicle but there isn't a post on it, so here is one from 2022.
Where did the inspiration for this project come from?
I’ve worked with screenwriter Roger Williams quite a bit on a number of television projects, and we’re both passionate about horror. We were also passionate about creating a piece of horror cinema in the Welsh language, with the ambition of having it travel the world. We decided to delve into the long history of Welsh literature, which is inherently horrific in many ways, and use that as a springboard to tell a story about contemporary Wales, weaving in the global theme of climate crisis.
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Now that the film is about to be unleashed on the world, what are your hopes for it and the Welsh industry at large?
I have big hopes for our little film. I would love it if it were to kickstart some kind of industry in the Welsh language. There’s absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t have a thriving film industry. But it seems to me that we need to be pragmatic in establishing the kind of brand that we sell to the world, and it’s about identifying what we do really well. Our culture, our literary heritage is full of these brilliant, fantastical stories. I think that’s a really good base for us to start from. There is no reason why Wales can’t be as renowned for horror as somewhere like South Korea.
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