In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to remember how to use a rotary telephone and promise to be friends till the end as we review the 2021 horror film “The Boy Behind the Door”…
Friends since kindergarten, David Charbonier and Justin Powell had been lifelong horror fans but after a script they wrote together kept getting rejected by studios and production companies, they decided to write a story that they could potentially fund themselves.
They quickly discovered that writing a movie that centered around a pair of 12 year old boys wasn’t going to be as easy as intended so a production company eventually came on board after reading a treatment of the script. The fledgling filmmakers still had a low budget and working with kids who were actually kids rather than adults posing as children, they had to work around limited hours and certain schedules due to the ages of the actors involved.
Still, the filmmakers were undeterred and while it took more time than they first expected, the production eventually got underway after finding the perfect location in Culver City, California.
The story was inspired by films such as “The Shining” as well as a love for “children in peril” movies such as “The Goonies,” except this movie felt all too real after two 12 year old boys are kidnapped but after one of them escapes, he refuses to leave his friend behind until they are both free of their abductor.
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to remember how to use a rotary telephone and promise to be friends till the end as we review the 2021 horror film “The Boy Behind the Door”…
(“The Boy Behind the Door is currently available for streaming on Shudder)
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