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They were coming in with cut-off shorts and their shirt tied around their chest and theyвЂ™re posing and acting tough and it was just completely wrong. And for the most part everybody that was coming in there was coming in there with exactly what we didnвЂ™t want. It was pretty scary going into the audition process because we didnвЂ™t find anyone else that even remotely was able to get what we were going for.

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Horror audiences are so savvy that you have to take things like that serious or youвЂ™ll lose them.ДЇinding an Actress to Play Erin Adam: Sharni is the movie basically. We wanted it to look cool and iconic, but also it had to be simple and believable. Even the stuff that Adam worked on with Emma вЂ“ everything that the killers had has to have a practical purpose. The movie doesnвЂ™t go into great detail about it, but they do all have unique personalities and they are dressed suitably to bring that out and accentuate that. There are actually people under the masks. We didnвЂ™t want them to be autonomous killing machines. Adam: Even on top of that we had a really great costume designer, Emma Potter, and she and I really worked on making sure that each one of the killers вЂ“ on top of the cool masks вЂ“ had a costume that neatly defined them separate from each other. And it was hard to believe that the YouвЂ™re Next characters were sitting at home spending weeks designing their masks. AdamвЂ™s big on everything feeling real in terms of the characters. But youвЂ™re also like вЂAre these kids fashion majors in the daytime?вЂ™ We wanted something that looked cool and iconic like that but seemed real. But also you see a film like The Strangers, which I think is an amazing film, and the masks look really cool and scary. I like the idea of using the animals to illustrate that. SharniвЂ™s character turns out to be much tougher than you think. One is obviously if the movie has a theme, itвЂ™s what people are hiding on the inside. IвЂ™ve thought of something good.вЂ™ Why Animal Masks? Simon: The animal masks served two points. Simon: And it was just a cool title that no one had used before and I was like вЂSweet. And from that point on we wanted to do our own version of playing on those expectations. We wanted something that immediately sounds horror movie. Adam: ThereвЂ™s something about the phrase that sounds horror movie and thatвЂ™s what we wanted. We knew that we wanted to do something that had kind of an angry, fun element to it. But I just liked the confidence of that title. I was going through my record collection the other day and I found it and thought maybe that was where I got it from. That was always just the way it was written in the script and only later did I realise that I possibly got it from the Modest Mouse EP вЂNo OneвЂ™s First and YouвЂ™re NextвЂ™ which I own on vinyl.

When I showed it to Adam he said it was perfect. The Title Simon: That was one of those weird things вЂ“ that was always what it was called.

Simon Barrett: In a lot of these films coming out now the killers are completely insane and we thought it would be a little more interesting вЂ“ and we donвЂ™t want to give anything away вЂ“ but if we gave the movie more of a story than that. Simon and I are very story-oriented people, so it was important for us to figure out what our unique take was and what the killersвЂ™ motive was. It was done very effectively in Them and The Strangers. The killers and the plot were more-or-less based on randomness. Adam Wingard: A lot of those home invasion films in the last few years have all been motivation-less. That was the key to coming up with this story. Adam wanted to do a home invasion film, and IвЂ™ve really loved those films too, but it was kind of like вЂHow do you do that when no one is tied to a chair? Or tortured? Or threatened? Where nobody is sexually assaulted?вЂ™ All of these films were hitting those points. I think Colin Geddes of the Toronto Film Festival called them вЂMovies in which someone is tied to a chair. It felt like there were a lot of home invasion movies coming out, but that they were all doing the same thing that theyвЂ™d always been doing. But we got to see all these new genre movies coming out, and to see what people were responding to and not responding to in them. The Idea Simon Barrett: We had a film that we did together called A Horrible Way to Die, and because it had some genre elements it played at some genre film festivals.

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