{"id":2059,"date":"2020-11-01T04:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T04:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jplarroque.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2022-03-28T04:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T04:08:45","slug":"why-i-made-a-covid-19-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/why-i-made-a-covid-19-horror-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Made a COVID-19 Horror Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronut Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7IpHmervLZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Coronut is lo-fi, campy horror at it&#8217;s finest, but are the circumstances in which it was made too grim to show on camera?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Republican propaganda.&#8221;<\/p><cite>A critic.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;You could have caused a super-spreader event.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Another Critic<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really too soon to be making jokes like that.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Critic #3<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe so, but my vision for Coronut wasn&#8217;t really any of those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronut\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4No7jFTauo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, Coronut is more Ed Wood than F.W. Murneau, but I didn&#8217;t go into the project with camp in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coronut is an expression of my anxieties documented during a family vacation we took during the first lockdown phase of COVID-19 in 2020. It&#8217;s a carnival grotesque, if you will, inspired by The Blair Witch Project, Agatha Christie&#8217;s And Then There Were None, and Albert Camus&#8217; The Plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was terrified of meeting friends at an Air B&amp;B in Colorado, but human nature is what it is. My wife and I were feeling isolated from three months of quarantining and decided to take the risk to relax over the long Memorial Day weekend. To deal with my nerves I hit record on my phone and pretended we were in a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Say what you will about the film, I&#8217;m most proud that I recorded all the dramatic scenes in one take (I&#8217;m sure it shows). Most of my friends who appeared in the movie didn&#8217;t know they were in it until well after the camera was rolling. For the most part, everyone was a good sport about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been a tough year. There has been plenty to adapt to, death flickers in and out of our lives, at a distance and then up close. I frequently worry about the wellbeing of our world generally and my family specifically. Working on Coronut has provided some catharsis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronut is an expression of my anxieties documented during a family vacation we took during the first lockdown phase of COVID-19 in 2020. 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