The remoteness added to the commitment level that everyone ended up bringing to it, because it was like summer camp. And that plan almost worked we did still end up getting kicked off a location once… The idea was that it’s such a remote area that we would be able to not have a locations manager and be able to film wherever we wanted to. We both went to school at Middlebury College in Vermont, so we were familiar with the general area, and we used Middlebury as a sort of staging ground that’s where we flew the actors into, and where we rehearsed. HOLLAND: Crazily, it was actually filmed where it’s set, in northern New Hampshire right on the border, about 15 miles from Canada. With many hurdles and near-deaths and everything else you can imagine along the way. It was never something we were going to try and sell to a studio, and miraculously, we were able to do it without ever getting notes from anyone. And from there, we built an ensemble piece that is largely about the pitfalls of ambition. We’re big fans of the uncanny-the thing that should not be there but is-so the music-as-ghost scenario became very interesting to us. So we took our sensibilities and thought, “What would scare us?” We felt a woodsy horror movie was a great idea, ‘cause we knew we could get out there and do it ourselves on a small budget. And we saw an opening we’ll go see Saw or Hostel, but we also thought there’s an audience who maybe can’t quite stomach some of what’s out there now, and might be pining, like part of us is, for the old days of story- and character-driven mindf**k horror movies. We were looking to make that transition, and we knew we wanted to do it in horror we’ve loved horror movies for a long time. We also work in postproduction-Jesse’s a graphics artist, and I’m a sound guy. The incident has passed into legend, and in the present day, an expedition heads up the trail to unravel the mystery-and its members begin to descend into madness, spurred by old songs and music mysteriously emanating from an unknown source.ĪNDY MITTON: We’d been working in theater for a long time, and we’d always intended to break into film. The debut feature by writer/directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton centers on the mystery of Friar, New Hampshire, a small town whose entire population walked into the surrounding forest one morning in 1940, never to be seen alive again. If you’re thinking of going on a pleasant hike through the woods this weekend, be sure you don’t follow the Yellowbrickroad. Editor's Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on June 3, 2011, and we're proud to share it as part of The Gingold Files.
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