![]() ![]() What would you say is your own fascination with past cultures? You decide to tell a story set in the present, but to link it to ancient artefacts and beliefs. We did auditioning and rehearsals for some scenes online before deciding. I made short lists out of them and had a zoom meeting with the candidates. Our casting director asked for self tapes. Was it difficult to find the right actors?įor the two leads, it was easy, since I knew them. The house is beautiful, with a spectacular entrance and with a lot of symbolic elements and full of antiques in it. We didn't find the cellar, but the corridor, and built the former. I wanted a house with a corridor, that lead to a cellar door and a cellar. This is why we tried to scout a house first in Sligo and then found it in Roscommon. Was it difficult to find the house in which you shot the film?Ī part of the financing structure relied on a fund that encourages incentive shooting in other parts of Ireland, outside Dublin and in counties that are less attractive. ![]() Yes, it's the core motif of the short film. I always wanted to get back to it.ĭoes the idea with the counting come from the short as well? I thought of some alternative endings and tried to write versions of it. The film is available on YouTube and has a lot of comments in which people wonder how the story might continue. It did well at festivals and it apparently has something special, some kind of a transgressive darkness, that worked for the audience. But the idea for the film is related to my short film Ten Steps from 2004. My brother and I took turns to go fetch them. We talked to the director about how he developed the story of his short film into a feature-length version.Ĭineuropa: Where does the idea of The Cellar come from? Are you afraid to go to the cellar?īrendan Muldowney: When I was younger I grew up in a house, we had a cellar where the coals were stored. The film is now being released on Shudder for streaming. Irish director Brendan Muldowney presented his horror-thriller The Cellar at this year's edition of SXSW and at the Fantasy Filmfest touring through several German cities. ![]()
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