Ehren Kruger Interview

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Dread Central has constructed an interview with Ehren Kruger. Kruger worked on the third Scream film and also did the screenplay for The Ring. He did a very good job of catching the element and atmosphere that Hideo Nakata had in the film. Recently he has written a script for the sequel The Ring 2. But currently he wrote a script for a little suspense horror film, Skeleton Key. Here is what he had to say about that movie.

The Skeleton Key is a mysterious Southern Gothic creep-out. Itâ€™s hard to describe in a short summary, but it belongs to the category of horror movies like Don't Look Now or Rosemary's Baby where ideas, suspense and dread are the driving factors. Itâ€™s set in and around modern-day New Orleans. Kate Hudson plays a live-in nurse hired by an elderly woman (Gena Rowlands) to care for her dying husband (John Hurt) in a foreboding plantation mansion in the Louisiana bayous. Intrigued by the coupleâ€™s secretive ways and their rambling house, Kate explores the mansion and discovers that the skeleton key sheâ€™s been given opens all the doors in the house except one. Her efforts to discover what lies behind it spiral her into the middle of a terrifying mystery.

In many respects, the story has the form and trappings of a ghost story, but it plays out (we hope) like no ghost story youâ€™ve ever seen. Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant have the other significant roles and Iain Softley is directing. Weâ€™ve got about another month of principal photography to go.

To read the rest of the interview go here.

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