Leigh Whannell & Mirrah Foulkes

Leigh Whannell & Mirrah Foulkes

Dying Breed (2008) dir. Jody Dwyer

crying myself to sleep tonight thinking about how amanda was in rehab by the time she and john met. how we’re given no reason to assume that she wasn’t there of her own volition & trying to take steps to get better, even she did relapse by the time she asked cecil to steal from the clinic for her. how jill knows and cares about her enough to remark on her progress to her husband. how john chooses amanda for the trap specifically because jill described her as a “lost soul.” how amanda greets jill warmly when john introduces them post-trap. how she genuinely seems eager to show jill that it worked, that she’s getting better. how she wants to prove herself to, in her eyes, the only two people to ever care about her recovery. how when they meet again, they don’t say anything to each other. how they interact awkwardly & silently. how jill used to worry about amanda & her telling john about it led to amanda being tortured…how amanda wanted to get better but john used her frustration with the recovery process to isolate her from the only person who genuinely wanted to help her. how they weren’t friends before, but they’re strangers now.

"How do you write such realistic dialogue-" I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.

Last minute adjustments…

RE-ANIMATOR (1985) dir. Stuart Gordon