Rob Mahoney

I would say maybe putting aside the occasional like stop and wait to see if he shows up.

But she's leaving nothing to chance.

She's getting her traps laid.

She's there with the shotgun.

She's like, I am not.

I'm not letting anyone fuck up this chain of incineration.

There's creepy breathing in this next room.

And the dread of that filmmaking, I thought was really effective.

From the moment you see the open door,

And you get the heavy breathing and you get her trying to sneak out the front.

And just like you as an audience member are trained to every dark corner and like trying to see like, is there somebody there?

Is there a boogeyman?

Is there a normal human there?

Like pulling us into that experience is such a key part of what makes effective horror.

And like the fact that they're able to do that and do the jokes at the same time, I'm just never going to stop being impressed by that.

She somehow manages to look like someone who is running for the first time.

And that's really all you want in this kind of horror setup.

It's very quiet there too.

Anyone's running around screaming bloody murder.

Although one of the things I do love about this sequence is how like out of breath she is.