days? Cory brought on Matt Grego
and between the four of us, we
had all the production and post-
production bases covered. Cory
would shoot and edit. Matt would
do sound and color. Keith would
handle the business of things, and
I would write and direct. The ap-
proach was to write something we
could do. Keith had an idea about
four people stuck in a basement.
I took that and ran with it. I knew
Keith and I would play two of the
roles and once we had Annelise
and Timothy, I could really write it
for the actors we had. The param-
eters were real and they dictated a
lot of the story. I tried to focus on
story and dialogue with minimal
effects that we knew we could do. I
felt that if the dialogue and perfor-
mances could help us tell an in-
teresting story, an audience might
stay with us. We had to spend our
time on building suspense, not
jump scares and we were going for
creepy instead of gory. The bound-
aries we created for ourselves
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