Marcus Dunstan Interview: Unhuman
The coming-of-age genre gets a horror twist with Unhuman. The film centers on a group of misfit high schoolers who find their field trip ruined when a group of zombie creatures attack, leaving them to fight for survival and deal with each other.
Starring Brianne Tju (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Benjamin Wadsworth (Deadly Class) along with an ensemble of talented actors, Unhuman threads the lines between horror and comedy with aplomb.
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Ahead of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with co-writer and director Marcus Dunstan to discuss Unhuman, starting production without a final script, the chances of The Collected getting back on track and more.
Screen Rant: It's an honor to get to talk with you and Unhuman was an absolute blast. I love that it was almost like a Red Dawn-meets-zombies vibe. How did the development of this come about?
Marcus Dunstan: It was a bit of a bobsled run in the sense that we were deployed to New Orleans with kind of a story and there was a gist of a screenplay, but we were given enough autonomy to shape it once all the resources showed up. So it wasn't like having to depict a world to the letter of a concept. It was that, «Alright, well what did the theme be? What can we do with these characters? What if we added one hell of a twist at a certain juncture?» That's what I loved about it was that amount of freedom and it really reminded us of when we were working on Feast. Day to day, we were always trying to get a little more budget for that movie to add a little more, almost like building as we went. But what you could count on every day is you have these gifted actors, you had a list of stereotypes and
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