“Creating this character who’s lost between parents and doesn’t really have anyone to reach out to and as a result, their imagination might go wild to get attention as they were sort of accusing her of.

“To me, that just made a lot more sense,” Nixey said of making the protagonist a young person reeling from their parents’ separation. Lovecraft, whose writings have influenced del Toro’s own work. The lavish estate is located in Providence, Rhode Island - most likely a nod to H.P. In the remake, Sally comes to live at the gothic-inspired Blackwood Manor, which her recently-divorced father, Alex (Guy Pearce), is fixing up with his new girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes). ‘You’ve gotta stop and pay attention!’ I was very happy to access all those feelings of frustration, rage, and how unjust it was that kids aren’t listened to.” “We, like that child, know that it’s real and we’re feeling.

‘It was only a dream.’ ‘You’re making it up.’ ‘See? There’s nothing here. When they brush you off or come up with some empty, cliched reassurance. “The most infuriating thing for a kid is when adults don’t take them seriously if something is the matter.

Only the audience would believe her, thus ramping up the drama. As a result, it made a lot more sense for her claims of the fantastical to be disregarded by other characters (think Andy Barclay in Child’s Play). Robbins and del Toro updated the source material by turning Sally into a little girl (eventually played by Bailee Madison), who is preyed upon by the tiny monsters.

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