Cabin fever The apocalypse comes knocking in master of thrills M. Night Shyamalan’s trope-twisting horror. Cinematographer Lowell A. Meyer, who shares a DP credit with Jarin Blaschke, reveals how he helped craft the film’s spine-chilling visuals. The haunted-cabin-in-the-woods cliché gets an M. Night Shyamalan-style makeover in Knock at the Cabin. The prolific writer-director’s gripping 15th … Read more
VAMPIRIC VENGEANCE Pablo Larraín’s latest film borrows from film and folklore history to reimagine Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet as a blood-sucking vampire. Ed Lachman ASC was enlisted to help Chilean director Pablo Larraín exact his revenge on Pinochet, using El Conde to metaphorise the eternal damage Pinochet inflicted on multiple generations of Chilean people … Read more
Tangled web Lensing the eight-legged invasion of a Paris banlieue was an exciting first feature project for cinematographer Alexandre Jamin. The closing film of Venice Critics Week, Vermines unites two long-time collaborators: cinematographer Alexandre Jamin and director Sébastien Vaniček. Jamin tells us about the film’s innovative use of colour, choosing the perfect lenses for the … Read more
Spine-tingling visuals Anastas Michos ASC GSC reteamed with director David Prior to shoot the Emmy-nominated episode “The Autopsy” for Guillermo del Toro’s anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities. In this version of Michael Shea’s short story, adapted with the help of screenwriter David S. Goyer, a small-town sheriff (Glynn Turman) is investigating a tragic mining explosion. One … Read more
WILD CHILD Queen of genre filmmaking Jennifer Reeder’s new horror about a supernaturally transformed teenager, lensed by Sevdije Kastrati, oozes with feist and feminism. The ‘troubled teen’, one of the most riffed-on coming-of-age stories, is captured in a bloody new light in Perpetrator, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale. Director Jennifer Reeder’s oeuvre has swayed … Read more
FOLK FRIGHTS Hamish Doyne-Ditmas makes a bold debut as a feature film cinematographer in Jon Wright’s Unwelcome, which recalls classic B-movie horrors. Hamish Doyne-Ditmas ACO GBCT was a keen horror film fan from an early age. When he was nine years old, he phoned the BBC to ask if they would rerun Salem’s Lot (1979), … Read more
Risky business Cinematographer Nikita Kuzmenko reunites with film school collaborator Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk after a decade to lens eerie folk thriller Pamfir. Deep in the Carpathians, we meet the eponymous Pamfir (Oleksandr Yatsentyuk), who has just returned home to Ukraine to celebrate the Malanka Festival with his family. However, after his son’s misguided attempt to stop … Read more
Fright night Cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz is tasked with bringing Ghostface to New York City in slasher favourite Scream‘s latest outing. After a decade-long hiatus, slasher fans were in for a thrill with the announcement of a fifth instalment of the Scream franchise, released in 2022. Breathing down its neck comes Scream VI, lensed (like its … Read more