Upcoming 92%-Rated Horror Has a Major Reference to This 1997 Supernatural Show
Both are pretty much high school-coded.
Summary:
- It has been no secret for quite a long time that modern movies don’t hide their sources of inspiration that usually turn out to be the same genre’s classic, and this has been once again confirmed by an exciting upcoming horror’s director.
- Though the inspiration can hardly be direct, one of the movie’s scenes was heavily influenced by the 1997 supernatural drama show’s episode.
- As the director revealed, they felt like they’d shared a specific experience with the film’s main character, and this feeling has a lot to do with their favorite shows.
What was done many years ago may find its way back to the modern cinema, and brand new movies and shows drawing their inspiration from the cult classic don’t cease to prove it.
With all numerous and versatile horror films hitting cinemas every month, it doesn’t come as a surprise that literally all of them borrowed something very peculiar from other thrilling, yet successful stories.
It’s not exactly the case of Jane Schoenbrun’s upcoming A24 horror-thriller I Saw The TV Glow, there’s something in there that actually derives from the 1997 cult supernatural drama. You still may not notice it though.
Speaking to IndieWire ahead of the movie’s theatrical release, Schoenbrun revealed that the storyline of the upcoming thriller’s main character Owen was partially inspired by Buffy the Vampire Slayer ’s season 6 episode called Once More With Feeling.
In there, the famous supernatural show finds its characters under a spell when they have to express their real feelings via songs that, unlike in many other TV shows, were written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer from scratch and thus were pretty clear about what each character was going through at that moment.
In this regard, according to Schoenbrun, they got to realize that I Saw The TV Glow’s Owen had the same experience with his favorite show The Pink Opaque as the director with Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s musical episode.
Schoenbrun then clarified that, while rewatching that moment, they, just like Owen in the movie, felt some kind of pain, but a different sort of this pain that came because, as they put it, “I still loved it, and I still thought it was amazing, and I knew it by heart, but I hadn’t seen it in a while”.
The director then compared themselves to Owen saying that for both of them those were definitely the most precious moments spent with their favorite characters that surely meant a lot for Schoenbrun and her Owen’s personal growth.
All the intrigued moviegoers will be able to find the director’s words in their movie’s context when I Saw The TV Glow hits the cinemas on May 3.
Source: IndieWire