Remy – Julie Taymor
Okay, so you may not know the name. Julie Taymor is an American director of film and theater who has been doing her thing for years now. Confession time, you are all going to string me up for what I am about to say, and I am okay with that. Julie Taymor recently became well known for doing the Turn Off the Dark Spider-Man musical that bombed on Broadway – but I’m actually using that in her favor here. Hear me out before you all tell me how much I suck in the comments.
Julie Taymor also directed the screen adaptation of the classic Shakespeare revenge play, Titus. You know, the one with all the rape, incest and the throat slashing? What I often refer to as “Shakespeare’s Von Trier period.” Well, it is one of his darkest, most twisted plays, and she directed it beautifully. So what does this tell us? She did a campy Spider-Man play no one liked, and she did a sick Shakespeare adaptation that was covered in blood.
I say we give her an Evil Dead type movie. Make it gory, make it campy. Her expertise in theater would lend itself really well to that type of genre.
Also, more woman need to direct and writer horror films. They are misrepresented by the genre, and it’s time that changed.
Okay, let the fucking hate mail begin.
So what directors do you believe should make the daring jump to horror? Do you have a favorite who you think would slaughter the genre?
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