The main thing is that every horror film I’ve ever seen influenced the movie in one way or another. So it really is about the genre. But as a child of the ’80s, you know, the films of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi were definitely foremost in my mind when I made this movie.

It’s hard to remember he’s the same man who was lying on the floor of a filthy flat in Britain getting the unsexiest oral pleasuring on film from Australian actress Kerry Fox in 2001’s Intimacy, but soon after, Rylance hightailed it back to the world of theatre.

Since 1993, when he commanded attention with the darkly funny and disturbing Bad Boy Bubby, the Dutch-born filmmaker has visited a variety of onscreen worlds that put most Hollywood directors to shame with their lack of vision.