For Ben Wheatley’s experimental, low-budget ‘midnight movie’, DoP Nick Gillespie incorporated a mix of formats, DIY effects, and back projection techniques to evoke classic cinema.
After adapting psychological thriller Rebecca for Netflix in 2020 and steering the $130m budget of CGI fish-fest Meg 2: The Trench into a $400m worldwide gross revenue, cult Director Ben Wheatley has gone back to his roots with a lo-fi experimental feature.
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