Monica Castillo

Where it's like, oh no, he's really feeling something else here and it's darker and it's deeper.

And like, I was okay with following down that thread.

Exactly.

Some of us actually need this.

It is not.

We're making it a thing now.

He hurts someone.

in like a shocking way.

Super big jerk.

I think you'll really be rewarded because it's also a single location, can't escape sort of like... An interesting location.

Yeah, rural sort of bucolic, almost idyllic sides of Ireland where you think this would be a great end postcard and you kind of see that in Hoka.

And then it turns out, oh, actually, isolation might be a trap.

There's also some like really interesting through lines with like the motif of like rabbits and like really creepy tchotchkes.

I was intrigued to find out that Damian McCarthy had a background as an electrician at one point.

Like he worked with his dad through there.

So there's like some really interesting trick things of like one thing causes this other thing over there that kind of almost felt Buster Keaton-esque.

It was like the ghost house kind of set up and it works.

It works here really, really well.

Yeah, I really had fun with that sort of blurring of the lines.

But I also think we needed some sort of an inciting mystery to get us to that point in the mystery where things just get deeper and deeper and involves him in a different way than when he first kind of strolls in.