I got itchy feet like I often do and thought, "What if I could utilize what I had around me-the students-and give them the experiences of working on a low-budget film set, rather than just teaching it theoretically in the classroom. I had made a couple of ultra low-budget comedy features over the years and a number of short films and had found myself ending up teaching it, rather than doing it. The reason for doing Scrawl in the first place came out of me working as a film lecturer. Scrawl went through many different incarnations as a script before it settled on what we actually shot. Peter Hearn: It should have been, but in the end, no, it wasn’t.
So there you were intent on making a horror film. It wasn’t really until I sat down with the intention of making a horror film that I seriously fell (back) in love with the genre and the possibilities it offered me as a filmmaker. Sure I had some films that fell into that genre that I loved, but most of these were tinged with fantasy. Never forgotten.įor many years though, horror wasn’t really my go-to. I knew it wasn’t suitable for me at the time, but I vividly remember the final dawn shots of the evil racing through the woods and cabin and getting Ash, then cutting into the jolly music. My memory of this film is me sitting on the stairs looking through the bannisters whilst my brother and his mates watched. I remember watching it as a bootleg VHS that my brother’s friends brought round (this was back in the day when in the UK it was a banned "Video Nasty"). But the film that made the biggest impact, horror movie-wise, was The Evil Dead. Peter Hearn: Most of my earliest horror memories came on TV, watching Jaws and being scared of going to the toilet afterwards. Have you always had an interest in horror films? What are some great early horror memories? It’s a blast when I discover films like that and I wanted to make one of those films.
It’s one of those films that can be interpreted in lots of ways, like Phantasm, where there are multiple meanings. That’s a level of it for sure, but people that have seen it give me their own interpretations of what they’ve seen, and I like that. A mysterious girl appears, causing the boy to force himself to face the reality of what he has written, and with the help of someone from his past, he begins a battle to attempt to rewrite death. The story revolves around a boy who writes a comic book with his best friend, before finding situations depicted in the comic book coming to life. Peter Hearn: Gosh, where do I start? If I were to pitch it I would describe it as Big meets A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors by way of Phantasm and The Evil Dead. As Scrawl is just starting to make its way around the festival circuit, could you give our readers an idea of what it’s about? Thanks for taking the time to talk to Daily Dead, Peter. Daily Dead recently caught up with Peter for a chat about the film and the inspirational story behind its making.
Currently making the festival rounds, writer/director Peter Hearn’s Scrawl is a fascinating, micro-budget journey into the (dangerous) minds of a group of teenagers in England, including a pre- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Daisy Ridley.
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