Can Brad Anderson do it again?
Brad Anderson directs Peter Mullan on the set of Session 9
I consider Brad Anderson to be one of the finest working filmmakers in horror today. No one has a better grasp on how to truly convey fear, terror and emotion than he does, evident in his three horror/thriller features, Session 9, The Machinist and Transsiberian. His next feature is called The Vanishing on 7th Street, and while I’m deleriously excited for it, I am slightly worried, due primarily to the casting of Hayden Christensen as anything other than a stunt double.
I may be jumping the gun here. Anderson did make David Caruso tolerable in Session 9, a feat akin to convincing a birther Obama was born in the US, so there’s no reason to believe he can’t do the same with Anakin Skywalker. The presence of Leguizamo doesn’t bother me, as he can actually act when the script calls for it (he deserved a fucking Oscar for his role as Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge!), and Thandie Newton is ismply Thandie Newton.
The synopsis of the film, as per that bastion of horror journalism Bloody-Disgusting, is as follows:
In an instant, Mankind disappears and in a matter of hours four remaining survivors are drawn together to try to figure a way out of the apparent apocalypse happening around them.
Although not written by Anderson, this sort of film lends itself to his particular area of expertise: conveying fear through human emotion and fragility of human nature. To think this won’t be anything short of remarkable is to cast doubt in the wake of a man whose career has been nothing short of remarkable.
But I’ve been wrong before. The Vanishing on 7th Street begins production on October 12th in Detroit, a suitable place to film the end of the world.
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You may think Detroit is a suitable place for the end of the world, but apparently this film crew thinks its a suitable place to be extremely rude to locals. Worst crew we’ve seen through here in a while.