4/2/2023 0 Comments Steven reederAnd that idea of a wild and out-of-control girl felt like a great, nuanced sort of shape-shifter story. It’s really meant to diminish it.Īfter I did “Knives and Skin,” which premiered here in 2019, which was a more genre-adjacent film, I thought, I’m going to do something that feels like a real proper genre film. The language around the teenage girl who has agency over her sexuality is that she’s wild and out of control. We are a culture that’s really into youth and beauty among young women, and we are also afraid of them, or we do a lot to disrupt their evolution. It’s why I keep making films about them.” But what was in their question was actually the assumption that it was awful - that a whole pack of teenage girls might as well be a pack of wolves. And my answer would be like, “It’s great. I was getting lots of questions about that experience, when people would ask how it is to work with so many teenage girls on set. So many of the films I’ve made featured sometimes one, sometimes many teenage girls. You’ve described this film as a celebration of the “girl gone wild.” Can you unpack that a bit? Reeder spoke to Variety this week in Berlin about our society’s obsession with youth and beauty, the long lineage of genre filmmaking, and why America is so scared of teenage girls. Previous works include “Night’s End,” featuring Michael Shannon, and the critically acclaimed anthology entry “V/H/S/94.” Acquired ahead of its world premiere by Shudder, “Perpetrator” is the director’s third collaboration with AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thrillers and content about the supernatural. Reeder was last in Berlin with the 2019 murder mystery “Knives and Skin,” which IFC Midnight released theatrically.
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