“I want there to be any surprise or confusion when they see these Go-Go boys in the club.
But Blumhouse told him, “No, no, no, you should make it more sexy, make it more gay.”Įven with Blumhouse’s full support, Carter Smith was adamant that they write the nudity clearly in the script. It can’t be - quote-unquote - too gay, because they’re going to probably ask me to tone it down,” said Thoroddsen. “When I started writing, I was very self-conscious about, ‘Oh, I can’t have too much, it can’t be too explicit. He had no such reservations about showing male nudity in the film, of which there is plenty to satisfy horror fans of the gay persuasion. Meanwhile, a killer in a leather dog mask is slowly picking off the friends one by one.Įventually, he realized casting out actors was best for the project, and leaned into the idea. When they arrive at a gorgeous vacation house outside of Palm Springs, hand-lettered cards await them, announcing the game is afoot. Thereafter, they can do whatever they want with the person until 6 am, regardless of their relationship status. The rules state that it can’t be someone in the group, and it has to be consensual. “Midnight Kiss” takes its name from a game the friends play every New Year’s - each member of the group has to find a stranger in a club to kiss at midnight. “It isn’t something we brought to them and they hem-hawed about, and were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know, blah, blah, blah.’ This is something that they actively wanted, which was kind of exciting.” “I think that says a lot right there,” Smith added. Quentin Tarantino's Last Movie: 18 Unmade Projects That Could Be His Final Filmģ0 Disturbing Foreign Films to Watch, from Gaspar Noé to Takashi Miike
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“Once Carter was on board, they kind of give us a little bit of free reign to play within those parameters.” They kind of let me just do my thing,” Thoroddsen told IndieWire during a recent phone interview. “They were very open to kind of different interpretations of what that meant.