这位导演获得了“星球大战”和“权力的游戏”艺术家,以帮助制作她的第一部恐怖电影。就是这样

在放映恐怖电影“孵化”之前on April 27.Photo: Tommy Lau / SFFilm

Hanna Bergholm doesn’t want to give up any spoilers for her first feature film, “Hatching,” but she does offer a word about the creature that emerges around the 20-minute mark.

导演决心避免使用计算r effects to realize her monster. She wanted a combination of a physical animatronic puppet and a human actor with prosthetics. So she hired Gustav Hoegen, who has provided animatronic effects for nearly all of the new“星球大战”电影和著名的化妆师Conor O’Sullivan,其长期荣誉包括“Game of Thrones,”“The Dark Knight”and“ X战警:头等舱。”

一位未知的芬兰电影制片人如何吸引好莱坞的一些沉重击球手来帮助她意识到自己的小型恐怖电影?

“我知道这确实必须是最好的人。所以我用谷歌搜索说:“谁是世界上最好的动画设计师?”roxie Theatershortly before her San Francisco International Film Festival screening in April. “Then I found (Hoegen’s) email address and I emailed him, telling him about the film, and he got excited about it and wanted to come on board. He had just finished a long ‘Star Wars’ film.”

评论:关于妈妈和女儿的芬兰寓言在“孵化”中变得恐怖

Siiri Solalinna plays a girl who wants to hatch an egg in “Hatching,” directed by Hanna Bergholm.Photo: IFC Midnight

Same drill for O’Sullivan.

But what made them sign on? Hoegen, who lives in London, said he was excited about the project immediately, and called his decision to participate a “no-brainer.”

Hoegen在一封电子邮件中告诉《纪事报》:“在看到鸟类生物的美丽艺术品之后,我的第一个反应是使这种生物成为一种动画的前景。”“这也是它在电影中所扮演的角色,以及它可能会吸引我的潜在慷慨的屏幕时间。一旦我阅读了剧本,我也了解了这部鸟生物在电影中刻画的象征意义,即Tinja内心动荡和挫败感的体现。所有这些方面使我无法理解它。”

“Hatching,” which opens in the Bay Area on Friday, May 6, revolves around a 12-year-old girl,Tinja(Siiri Solalinna),她是当地学校的体操运动员。她的霸气母亲(SophiaHeikkilä)录制和发布有关她的“幸福家庭”的视频,使她成为完美的,其中包括Tinja的不幸父亲(Jani Volanen)和弟弟(Oiva Ollila)。

有一天,Tinja找到了一只死鸟的鸡蛋,并决心将其孵化。鸡蛋越来越大,当它孵化时……好吧,再次没有破坏者。

The “perfect family”: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen and Oiva Ollila in Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching.”Photo: IFC Midnight

像许多恐怖电影一样,“孵化”确实与其他事情有关 - 在这种情况下,有着有毒的母女关系和年轻女孩遇到的压力。

伯格霍尔姆说:“对我来说,这是关于您希望如何完全接受自己的方式,以及隐藏您角色的某些感觉和某些方面的压力。”“但是你不能只是推开自己的情绪。最后,您必须面对他们成为一个整体。”

Bergholm指出,当她开始与作家Ilja Rautsi一起发展这个概念时,她本人刚刚成为母亲(她的儿子现在已经7岁了)。但是她坚持认为她不像电影中的母亲。

“Like every parent, sometimes I think I’m doing something wrong,” she said. “But in this film, what I really wanted to explore is the kind of mother-daughter relationship where the mother sees her daughter as someone who is there to fulfill her own ambitions, as a substitute for her own unfulfilled dreams. The daughter is trying to please her mother in order to get love.”

电影的另一个大方面,,,,which she completed two years ago, stems from Bergholm’s disdain for social media. She is 40 years old, which means she grew up without social media and frankly can’t see the appeal. She grudgingly created her Twitter account((@hannabergholm)in January, when the film premiered at this year’sSundance Film Festival,为了帮助宣传这部电影,她目前有87位关注者,同时又有三个追随者。

她耸了耸肩。

伯格霍尔姆说:“老实说,我总是觉得这很奇怪。”“向全世界发布有关您的私人生活和家人的信息。'噢!嗨!看看一切多么伟大。哦,我的生活有多美好!’对我来说,这真是可怕。”

Siiri Solalinna plays the daughter in Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching.”Photo: IFC Midnight

她补充说,她欣喜若狂地避免了这一点。

“我想象自己是一个孩子,我自己玩一些想象中的游戏,然后我的母亲会拍我的照片并将其发布给整个世界,每个人都看到它,它永远存在。我会被压碎。”她说。“您必须在我的私人时刻发布我的照片是什么?这很令人毛骨悚然。”

Bergholm将童年的想象力充分利用。她于2009年毕业于艺术与设计大学赫尔辛基大学(Helsinki),曾担任电影导演的艺术硕士学位,并执导了芬兰电视台(Finnish Television)以及几部短片。

伯格霍尔姆(Bergholm)最喜欢的恐怖电影是亚历杭德罗·阿玛纳巴(AlejandroAmenábar)的《其他》(The Derse)(2001),由妮可·基德曼(Nicole Kidman)主演,她也喜欢简·坎普(Jane Campion)的《钢琴》(The The Piano)(1993),其中有一些恐怖元素。詹妮弗·肯特(Jennifer Kent)的《巴巴杜克》(The Babadook)(2014年);以及朱莉娅·杜库瑙(Julia Ducournau)的《原始》(Raw)(2017)。但是她最喜欢的导演是戴维·克罗恩伯格(David Cronenberg),尤其是《育雏》(The Brood)(1979年)。她追求动画生物的愿望部分基于克罗恩伯格在电影中精通该技术的使用。

And she intends to make more horror films.

“我着迷于讲述恐惧的故事。”

“孵化”((not rated) opens Friday, May 6, at the Alamo Drafthouse, 2550 Mission St., S.F.drafthouse.com/sf;AMC Metreon, 135 Fourth St. #3000, S.F. and AMC Mercado 20, 3111 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara.amctheatres.com;和Landmark的Shattuck Cinemas,位于伯克利Shattuck Ave 2230。landmarktheatres.com

  • G.艾伦·约翰逊
    G.艾伦·约翰逊G.艾伦·约翰逊is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: ajohnson@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @BRfilmsAllen