It’s been a long time coming for a good werewolf movie to come out and blow us away. It must be the nature of the beast that werewolf flicks always seem to result in shit- besides classics like AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and DOG SOLDIERS, there’s more bad werewolf movies than good ones out there. Writer Ehren Kruger, the dude who wrote THE RING and THE SKELETON KEY, is hoping that his latest flick BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE is the next good werewolf flick, and had a chance to sit down and chat it up with ComingSoon about the project.
Kruger had a lot to say about the flick, which he adapted from the novel by Annette Curtis Klause, and maybe more interesting (to me at least) is his thought on PG-13 horror vs R horror. Read on for the skinny: I’ve worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they’re really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don’t need to be R-rated movies. If the mystery is interesting and solid, the hardcore genre fans will go. Then if the story doesn’t demand that, then by going for a hard-R rating, you’re excluding some people who’d see the picture otherwise. In movies like “The Ring” or “Skeleton Key” or this one, it’s really not the blood and gore, that roller coaster experience that needs to be driving the story. There’s a bit more of a traditional mystery or thriller plot that’s the real engine for the movie. I’m not averse to high stakes terror or violence in movies or in the genre, by any means. It just happens that some of my projects that have been made haven’t required that in the same way.
A werewolf movie without blood and gore… yet has BLOOD in the title. Awesome. Can’t wait. As for the whole ‘excluding’ of audiences- maybe in the theater they’re excluded, but when that shit hits DVD, everybody has the opportunity to check it out.
To check out the whole interview, which Kruger talks about what it was like executive producing BLOOD as well as writing it, go ahead and click HERE and prepare for BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (starring the top-heavy Agnes Bruckner) in theaters this Friday.
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