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Andy Mitton is known for The Witch in the Window (2018), The Harbinger (2022) and YellowBrickRoad (2010).
- Writer, Director, Editor
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Jan 25, 2023 · One of the best films of FrightFest ‘22, The Harbinger, is out now on VOD in the UK. To celebrate the release of his fourth feature film, I spoke to writer-director-editor-composer Andy Mitton about his chilling pandemic-set horror.
- Alasdair Macrae
Aug 3, 2022 · Andy Mitton on Covid, nightmares, infectious ideas and The Harbinger. by Jennie Kermode
Originally from Marshfield, Massachusetts and a resident of Los Angeles since 2001, Andy works in many different mediums as a writer, composer, director, and designer. His primary focuses are the rather disparate worlds of horror movies and musical theater.
- So, How Did Everything Begin For You with The Harbinger?
- Did You Shoot The Movie During The Pandemic?
- What’s It Been Like For You When Watching The Movie to Look Back at That time?
- The Harbinger Attacks Mavis and Monique in Different ways. Why Does He Do That?
- The Harbinger’s Look Is Very Creepy! How Did You Go About Creating That Look?
- What Kind of Scares Can Audiences Expect from The Harbinger?
- Why Do You Think We Horror Audiences Love The Genre So Much?
- Did Pull on Any Horror Influences When Making The Film?
- What Do You Want For Audiences to Take Away from The Movie?
In 2020 I was just another person whose plans were cancelled, like everyone else’s. There was a movie we were trying to set up for that summer and it clearly wasn’t going to happen. We were holed up with my mother, we had just sold our house and had nowhere to go. I’m a pacer. So I was pacing the floors of the basement outside of Boston and the mus...
It was shot pre-vaccinein the pandemic! Vaccines were just coming out. It was funny; my whole crew had been working the whole time, like a lot of people in film crews were but I was coming out of a bubble. It was really wild but in the end it was a lot of fun. This felt like a family and we had a really good family environment.
It’s a lot of things. What I’m seeing in audiences as I travel around and see it is that everyone brings their own personal experience. There are, I think, compartments we’ve put things in and memories that we’d rather put behind us than process. That’s been my experience. Horror in particular is a good way to process some of the stuff that we don’...
The Harbinger tries to find your particular weakness because his goal is to break you down and take your isolation and make it worse and amplify it and lean into it. So he finds whatever cracks, whatever fissures have created in your life at that time. I think with Mavis, he’s really been playing the long game with her. I think she had a bigger slo...
I’ve always been scared of the plague doctor image or anything that reminded me of it. Any beaked person is wrong [haha!]. So I started there. I knew I wanted to evolve it beyond the familiar image to make it distinct to the film. But I wasn’t quite sure how and Yong Hui Park was not only our special effects and mask person, but the hair and makeup...
Hopefully all kinds! It’s not loaded with jump scares but I am a fan of a good healthy surprise. So there are some good healthy surprises that I can attest to. I’ve sat in theatres, and there are butts leaving seats! So there are a couple of those but really, I think there’s a dread and hopefully a catharsis for the actual dread. Everyone is bringi...
Because we know we’re safe. Ultimately, somewhere in us we know we’re safe in those spaces. So we can look at anything. We can look in the dark corners and we can open the valve on something that I feel like people outside of our community are just holding on to. When I look around the horror community it’s no wonder that this is the warmest, most ...
I tend to do that work before I write. You’re always standing on the shoulders of Freddy Krueger. So you have to think about that if you’re doing dream movies, or because those are the rhythms we expect, so you have to bounce off that. Something else that got in was the documentary The Nightmare about sleep paralysis. It’s terrifying. It’s just abo...
I hope that they got what they need. I’ve seen people take different kinds of good experiences from watching this movie. I’ve seen people who had really difficult experiences, for who this was touching a lot of nerves, who really found a lot of catharsis. I think that’s there for you, if you want to go there, and if that suits your experience. The ...
Mitton is best known for cult indie horror hit YELLOWBRICKROAD and "The Gift of Nothing", a family holiday musical commissioned and produced by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Jan 25, 2023 · We interview The Harbinger director Andy Mitton about the challenges of directing during a pandemic and the creative process of his acclaimed horror film.
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