Raw director Julia Ducournau on how to make a horror film as creepy as possible
(The Guardian France)

The brains behind the French cannibal film that overwhelmed Toronto audiences shares her tricks for creating menacing, hair-raising body horrorJulia Ducournau´s debut feature film, Raw, made headlines at Toronto last year when a couple of horrified audience members fainted in the cinema and an ambulance had to be called. All publicity is good publicity, but the director wasn´t thrilled.`For me, it´s really something that I could have done without,` Ducournau said in January in Paris, to tells a room full of press. Her film - which opened this week in Australia - had just screened; none of us fainted. `I saw it snowball on the internet for a week afterwards, and there´s pretty much nothing you can do about that. At one point people were talking about a movie that is not mine ... My movie´s not a shocker, it´s not a blood fest; it´s more than that.` Related: The female directors bringing new blood to horror films Related: Invade and conquer: film`s grisly return to body horror Continue reading...