Nope director Jordan Peele is breaking down some of the unambiguous horror elements from his film that many consider leaning more toward sci-fi thriller than some of his past projects.
But in case you weren’t entirely convinced that Nope is indeed a horror film, the movie features one scene in which a farmhouse is showered with gallons and gallons of blood. Not only that, but the people the alien creature consumes in the film die a slow death, with their collective screaming being the UFO-shaped entity’s calling card.
“Perhaps what’s most terrifying about the way our UFO abducts is that when you’re inside, it’s not an instant death. You’re in there for a while. And it’s not a good place to be,” Peele explained in a new behind-the-scenes clip.
Though there certainly is a lot of computer-generated imagery that went into making Nope, the shower of blood from the creature known as Jean Jacket’s digestive process was surprisingly done in-camera, as the new clip highlights. A lot of red dye went into a lot of gallons of water, which was subsequently processed through a practical rig that is used to simulate a rainstorm.
With Nope, Peele has delivered another crowd-pleasing piece of cinematic suspense after writing and directing the excellent Get Out in 2017 and its great follow-up, 2019’s Us. We frankly can’t wait to see what’s in store for Peele’s next project, which might even be a sequel to Nope, if his recent hint-dropping has been any indication.
In fact, there may be more to Nope than what we got in theaters. Fans have put together that a character appeared in the movie’s trailer, Michael Busch’s Nobody, who did not make it into the final cut of the film. In a recent interview, Peele did not rule out the possibility for an extended cut of Nope to get released at some point, though he said such a version of the film is far from a sure thing.
Nope is playing at a theater near you or available to rent right now on digital platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV Plus.
