Amulet Filmmakers Reveal the Secrets of Blood Effects: You Blow Into a Tube
56Sundance is always a great place to find wildly impressive feature directorial debuts and this year, one of my favorites of the bunch was Romola Garai’s Amulet. The movie stars Alex Secareanu as Tomaz, a homeless ex-soldier struggling to get back on his feet after a traumatic experience. Hope comes in the form of a nun (Imelda Staunton) who introduces Tomaz to Magda (Carla Juri), a woman living with her ailing mother. If Tomaz agrees to help Magda fix up their home, he can live there free of charge. It sounds like a wonderful arrangement but trust me when I tell you, there’s a lot more going on in that house than you could ever imagine.
It was a real treat having Garai, Secareanu and Juri at the Collider Studio at the Kia Supper Suite in Park City. We talked about Garai making her feature directorial debut with Amulet, the largely female crew, the heavy nature of the story and the challenges of filming it out of sequence, the extreme amount of stew Secareanu had to consume during the shoot, what it took to nail their blood effects, and more. You can catch it all in this video interview!
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