‘Strange Darling’ Director J.T. Mollner Explains Those Shocking Twists, Toying With the Audience and That Wild Ending
variety.comWilliam Earl administrator SPOILER ALERT:This article contains spoilers for “Strange Darling,” now playing in theaters.
Seriously — there are some great twists in this movie. Go check it out first and then come back to read this! J.T. Mollner is earning raves for his new thriller “Strange Darling.” However, the writer-director didn’t even feel the need to make a movie unless he could do something unique. “There are so many great horror films that are better than anything I could ever make because they’re just so perfect, that I felt like unless we could find a different angle and turn things inside out, there’s no reason to do it,” he says. “I was excited because it seemed like, ‘Oh, this is a way to play with people’s expectations and assumptions.'” Luckily, Mollner wrote a sexy and shocking script for “Strange Darling,” where the strength lies in manipulating stereotypes audiences have seen in scores of movies before.
A beautiful woman covered in blood running from a man with a gun? It must be a predator chasing down his prey. Indelible images like that are artfully woven throughout the film, but this nonlinear feature does its best to keep things off-kilter.
The plot unfolds during the one-night stand of two characters known as only The Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) and The Demon (Kyle Gallner).
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