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An Interview with Sam Mason-Bell, Director of Millennial Killer

by Mike Haberfelner

April 2020

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Your new movie Millennial Killer - in a few words, what is it about?

 

Millennial Killer is about a deluded estate agent luring young millennials to their deaths.

 

Is any of Millennial Killer based on an actual house hunt of yours, and/or what were your worst house-hunting experiences?

 

I have lived in some places where estate agents can be pretty dubious, but not so much the hunt, more 3 months in and the flat starts to fall apart, or pretty much every neighbour turns out to be a drug dealer who happens to be a DJ!

 

(Other) sources of inspiration when writing Millennial Killer?

 

Martin W Payne the producer had a property and wondered if we could create a story within a few days. So I thought you could do a slasher but with the final girl being stuck in the repetition of seeing the kills, and an antagonist who is very much a product of right wing propaganda.

 

To what extent can you actually identify with Millennial Killer's title character, a man who's no longer in tune with today's youth?

 

The interesting thing is how an audience takes to it, some audiences find him scary, some find him funny. We set out to make an entertaining character who is completely deluded... don't get me wrong, some agree and maybe identify with him, but personally I think he's not a character to be liked!

 

Do talk about Millennial Killer's approach to horror!

 

To me there is the nastiness of repetition of knowing what's going to happen, seeing each character with their hopes and dreams being ripped away. One victim being stuck in that loop unsure why she has been chosen to witness it.

 

At least to me, Millennial Killer also has a comedic side to it - would you at all agree, and if so, could you talk about your movie's brand of humour for a bit?

 

Personally I wanted to make an entertaining horror film, and like all slashers you need to find some of the characters annoying so you connect more to the final girl. But also the film was improvised with actors I know that can work with comedy especially Simon Berry, who I'd worked with on a comedy show called Right Here Right Now for the last 3 years. I also knew Simon could deliver comedy and horror from Toxic Schlock.

 

A few words about the flat Millennial Killer was filmed at, and what was it like filming there?

 

It was a lovely flat, and as you saw furniture-less! We stayed on location for 2 days shooting about 70% of the film and then came back 2 months later for 2 days of extra shooting. It was incredibly hectic in regards to having people floating in and out, but we had set ourselves that challenge. Most of the cast being close friends, we had a fun time getting out of Portsmouth being dedicated to this film.

 

What can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at hand?

 

Setting out to make an entertaining horror film that uses improv we wanted to explore different lighting using giallo styles. We played with lighting to give the nightmarish vibe of the master bedroom. Seeing as each room is plain and regular, the master room needed to be built up to be something hellish. We also like traditional slashers and wanted to give you enough of an archetypal background to each millennial's motives to why they wanted to move into the flat. Although you spend time with the killer himself, there is no mystique to him, he is just the killer. This point we really wanted to make clear with the story he tells of the old lady, he creates a real vivd image of stereotypes before declaring he read it in the paper breaking any real empathic connection. We had a lot of fun shooting that section, Jackson Bachelor our DOP directed it and I was the DOP for the scene, which was added during post production.

 

Do talk about your key cast, and why exactly these people?

 

Simon Berry has been a good friend for the last 13 years and a key player in most of Trash Arts films, and although he was not the original choice he jumped in and made the role iconic. I am beyond grateful that he is the Millennial Killer. Alice Mulholland brought so much character and empathy to Naomi, the only really likeable character, she makes that believable, and if anything brings some heart to the film. The rest of the cast I had mostly worked with before and was glad they were up for being victims, knowing again they give enough dimension to each millennial.

 

A few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?

 

It was intense getting it together but I am so happy we kept coming back to it with more ideas to make it stronger, and a dedicated cast and crew. Especially Simon agreeing to have the hideous hair cut for so long!

 

The $64-question of course, where can Millennial Killer be seen?

 

Millennial Killer is released via Dark Side Releasing on April 28 th on their website.

 

Anything you can tell us about audience and critical reception of Millennial Killer yet?

 

The audience response has been great, people being shocked and laughing a lot, especially with the estate agent. The reviews have been great, but they see the film as much darker than I see it, I see it a lot lighter than some stuff I've made!

 

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Sticking with serial killers, Millennial Killer is like the killer with the big plan that makes no sense but he's driven to enact it, the next serial killer film we are in post production with is Decline. Decline's main character is the outsider who is violently killing the vulnerable, because he cant recognise his own mistakes. Ryan Carter is the lead in it and he is amazing, so I'm pretty excited to get that out to festivals later this year.

 

Your/your movie's website, social media, whatever else?

 

You can check out what Trash Arts are up to on Facebook: trashartuk - or check our YouTube channel trashartsportsmouth.

 

Thanks for the interview!

 

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