The newest film from filmmaker Franck Khalfoun, Shudder’s Night of the Hunted, is a survival thriller not for the faint of heart. The film stars Camille Rowe as Alice, an unsuspecting woman who finds herself fighting for her life against a sniper while trapped inside a gas station convenience store in the middle of the night. Night of the Hunted is gritty and brutal, calling back to the exploitation films of the ’70s, but it still has a lot to say about society.Franck Khalfoun has directed many well-regarded horror films, including Maniac and P2. Khalfoun recently sat down with CBR for an exclusive chat where he discussed Night of the Hunted’s underlying political messages, creating a convenience store, and the film’s haunting final shot.Franck Khalfoun: Well, one of the producers came to me. There was an original Spanish movie from 2015 called Night of the Rat, or La Noche del Ratón, that one of the producers saw at a festival, and he really liked the concept. So that producer approached Glenn Freyer, who wrote the script, and then the producer approached me with the script, and we started talking about it.
The newest film from filmmaker Franck Khalfoun, Shudder‘s Night of the Hunted, is a survival thriller not for the faint of heart. The film stars Camille Rowe as Alice, an unsuspecting woman who finds herself fighting for her life against a sniper while trapped inside a gas station convenience store in the middle of the night. Night of the Hunted is gritty and brutal, calling back to the exploitation films of the ’70s, but it still has a lot to say about society.
Franck Khalfoun has directed many well-regarded horror films, including Maniac and P2. Khalfoun recently sat down with CBR for an exclusive chat where he discussed Night of the Hunted‘s underlying political messages, creating a convenience store, and the film’s haunting final shot.
Franck Khalfoun: Well, one of the producers came to me. There was an original Spanish movie from 2015 called Night of the Rat, or La Noche del Ratón, that one of the producers saw at a festival, and he really liked the concept. So that producer approached Glenn Freyer, who wrote the script, and then the producer approached me with the script, and we started talking about it.
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