“The intention is the Wes Craven style, where you have an opening scene and you put the audience on edge,” [Michael Shawver] says. “The challenge was how do we make this movie, which is extremely unique, the most digestible for audiences to go along for the ride? When you’re putting a movie together, you’re always walking this fine line between intrigue and confusion, and the problem was when we were testing it, we could tell that people were like, ‘Hey, this is a vampire movie, but then there’s an hour or so where you don’t see any vampires.’ People were waiting for the vampires.”

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