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Jonathan: We had one little screening for an audience.
Arrow: How did it go?
Jonathan: I thought it went well because nobody walked out.
Arrow: <laughs> That�s always a good thing.
Jonathan: That was my first experience. Now I don�t know, I�m not in the studio's head but I think that if they put in enough ingredients, they�ll get what they want out of it. I think that�s what they see...I hope...fuck I gotta tell ya...I�m just sitting here trying to guide the ship while it gets hit by a lot of stuff.
Arrow: So now, the movie works without the Stan Winston effects. It could work without them.
Jonathan: It's scary without them but I think this audience needs a bit more. In a movie like this, I think you need the creature to be a star too, to keep the movie going so you�re gonna have to show it.
Arrow: But then you have movies like "The Blair Witch Project" that didn�t show anything and were quite effective.
Jonathan: That�s very true too.
Arrow: I think that sometimes the studios underestimate their audiences.
Jonathan: I totally believe that too, so what I tried to do with this film is to hold back as much as possible to keep it ambiguous for the first half where you're not sure and you don�t see...it's all shadow play: was that a shadow, was it in his head, what the fuck are we looking at?
Arrow: <laughs>
Jonathan: Just keep it really ambiguous where you�re afraid because you don�t know if this guy is going to kill someone or if there's something really there. And then, when you see it, we were going for something like the first part of "Alien" where you see pieces of the creature and you don�t quite know what the pieces make and that�s kind of scary too, so you don�t know what the big things are. So what I tried to do was to hold back to eventually give the audience a payoff at the end. In the trailer, you see a whole lot of stuff at the end and I have no control on what they want to show people, but we�re trying to keep things tense and unknown, knowing that once you demystify a monster by showing it...
Arrow: It stops being scary.
Jonathan: Right. And the audience is inevitably let down. So I�m trying to hold back as much as possible.
Arrow: One last quick question...when do you think the film will be released?
Jonathan: January 31, 2003.
Arrow: Well...good luck bro!
Jonathan: Thank you, John.
Arrow: No problem.
I'd like to thank Jonathan for taking the time to talk so honestly with me. Being a budding film director myself, what he said really resonated with me. Let's all hope that the studio doesn't ruin "Tooth Fairy". The trailer I saw made it look subtle, creepy and "old school". And Jonathan if ever you're in the Montreal, Canada area...give me a holler because the drinks and the loose women are on me.
