‘Fresh’ Writer Lauryn Kahn Answers All of Our Most Stomach-Churning Questions

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Spoilers for “Fresh” follow. Watch the film on Hulu and then come back for seconds.Where did “Fresh” come from?It came from a few different things.

It came from wanting to attempt to write a horror movie.And growing up, watching them, loving them, watching them every weekend with my best friend in elementary and middle school, and then getting too scared to watch them and having nightmares and being like, Okay, now, I can just watch the trailer and read all the spoilers but still loving the ride that a horror movie brings you on, wanting to kind of put a different genre spin, or a tone spin on it, and being inspired by this tone that’s emerged that kind of says, “It’s okay to have everything if it’s grounded and you believe these characters.” In real life, it’s funny, it’s scary.

Like, one-minute, different things are happening. So it was that challenge.Were you looking at any particular movies for inspiration?It was kind of like around the “Get Out,” “Killing Eve,” “Barry,” “Parasite,” more recently, where I was like, Whoa.

You can do all of the things, and it’s okay. It was sort of like permission to explore where there’s like real violence and real stakes and real fear, but also well-placed levity to even it out.