
This film moved at lightning speed we had that dinner in August 2014, we finished the first draft in November and we were shooting a year ago now. They were very supportive of Mike and his ideas. Mike brought it to Trevor Macy at Intrepid, they brought it to Jason Blum and I think Blum agreed to get it going in the room. Was it easy to get the project set up at Blumhouse? So we started combining those and seeing how the ideas worked together, and by the time we got to dessert, Hush was pretty much ready to be pitched.
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I was talking about how we have all these glass doors and windows in our house, and I’m always afraid at night when I walk by that there’s going to be a masked man standing there. And we were talking about movies we’d want to make, and Mike was saying he wanted to do one without dialogue he’d always wanted to play with that. We talked about how we really enjoyed that it took a basic premise and used blindness to turn on it on its side. We were out at dinner and discussing movies we both love, and one that came up was Wait Until Dark. How did you and Flanagan come up with Hush ? It’s a breakthrough turn for Siegel, who previously had a small part in Oculus and is partners with Flanagan ( w ho discusses Hush here) in life and art. Already struggling with writer’s block, she’s forced into a fight for her life when a masked stranger billed only as The Man (John Gallagher Jr.) turns up with murderous intent ( see review here).

FANGORIA spoke exclusively to the woman behind the role as both actress and co-scripter, Kate Siegel.ĭirected and co-written by Mike Flanagan ( Absentia, Oculus), the Blumhouse/Intrepid Pictures production sees Siegel playing someone who can’t hear or speak: Maddie, an author living in an isolated house.

When the blood-chilling, pulse-quickening survival-horror film Hush premiered globally on Netflix, audiences were introduced to a powerful new horror heroine. Editor's Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on April 11, 2016, and we're proud to share it as part of The Gingold Files.
