This felt unique to us, as there aren’t many other examples of this in horror. Once we saw the mask directions, we all responded most to a blank white face with no eyes. It was a little hard to commit without seeing the material.

We liked the idea of a hood, but didn’t want it to be too “medieval,” and concluded that we’d try gold accents. ‘It’s a Wonderful Knife’ Credit: Shudder The Mask is Keyįrancis Lafleche did concept artwork to explore our references and provided us with different combinations. Instead, we settled on having built-up shoulders that could give his body a similar shape to wings, but not impede the performer’s movement overall. Gordon and costume designer Matea Pasarić, we narrowed down the elements we liked, discovering quickly that a costume with literal wings was completely impractical. Working closely with production designer Tiana P. The description in the script is that he’s dressed head-to-toe in white-so I pulled a lot of references, from vintage angel tree-toppers to video game characters, to get across my thoughts on what The Angel could be. Similar to something like Ghostface from Scream, rather than a large-and-hulking slasher like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhes. IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE Official Trailer (2023) Finding Inspirationīased on the stunt sequences in the script we knew we wanted a lean-and-agile slasher. Now here we are, three Halloween movies later, and slashers are riding high again! This is why I was excited to team with scribe Michael Kennedy to see if we could create a new classic villain for the holiday horror comedy, IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE. Happy Death Day broke out that fall, and before you know it they came rushing back into fashion. However, the screenings were rowdy, the critics dug it, and you could tell people were hungry for a return. When my sophomore directorial feature TRAGEDY GIRLS hit SXSW in 2017, slasher movies were on the outs.

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