![]() King's original tale zeroed in on two characters, a therapist and his patient haunted by an evil presence he blames for the mysterious deaths of his young children. (It came from a falling camera, while re-creating the stair shot from " Psycho.") But Savage's love affair with the genre is an emotional one too. In conversation, he ticks off his favorite auteurs - De Palma, Argento, Bava, Hitchcock - with encyclopedic knowledge, recounting how his cinematic obsessions led him to experiment with tricks and techniques, and resulted in at least one black eye. ![]() ![]() "There are taboo things that we all think and feel that we don't want to talk about, that in a horror movie you can dramatize without looking straight in the eyes," he says, sipping an old-fashioned at the aptly named Blue Room, one of his favorite Burbank bars. Why horror? Let " The Boogeyman" director Rob Savage count the ways. Hours before hopping a red-eye from Los Angeles to London to promote the biggest film of his career, one of horror’s fastest-rising filmmakers is too busy waxing ecstatic over his love of scary movies to worry about making it to the airport on time. "It is about grief," he says, and "about how scary it is to be open." (Ariel Fisher / For The Times) Director Rob Savage, dropping into the Blue Room bar in Burbank, says "The Boogeyman" is meant to do more than frighten. ![]()
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