Taneli Mustonen & Aleksi Hyvärinen Interview: The Twin
Shudder's new horror movie The Twin is directed by Tanelia Mustonen and written by both Mustonen and Aleksi Hyvärinen. The Twin follows Rachel (Teresa Palmer) and Anthony (Steven Cree) as they move to the countryside with their son Elliot (Tristan Ruggeri) after the tragic death of his twin brother Nathan.
Soon, the idyllic escape turns terrifying as Rachel becomes increasingly convinced that Elliot's twin brother Nathan is reaching out from beyond the grave. A paranoia-laced psychodrama, The Twin devolves into a horrifying story about grief and ghosts.
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Screen Rant sat down with Hyvärinen and Mustonen to talk about The Twin. The creatives behind the Shudder film discussed how their own experiences as parents influenced the film, the interesting story behind The Twin's origins, and how the ending is both bleak and hopeful.
Screen Rant: Grief as a conduit for horror is such an interesting topic, and it's easy to think of movies like Hereditary that also deal with it. What drew you both to tell this story specifically?
Aleksi Hyvärinen: Obviously, both of us are parents. And when we kind of came up with this idea, we were fresher parents a few years ago. The background to coming up with the idea has to do with our previous horror film Lake Bodom, which is a Finnish language slasher we did a few years back. That kind of ended up traveling outside of Finland and going to South by Southwest and a lot of festivals, and was bought by Shudder.
It was a wonderful experience, and we got invited to this wonderful festival in South Korea, the biggest Asian genre film festival. The precondition to get there was not only to have Lake Bodom screen there, but also to bring a new idea. I
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