Director James Wan Explains How MALIGNANT Is the Horror Version of FROZEN
Director James Wan's new movie Malignant is one hell of a crazy-ass film! It’s an insanely unique horror film that’s unlike any other film that he has made. I personally loved the hell out of it, but it’s definitely not for everyone. Wan took some really big swings with this movie and I had a blast watching it!
During a recent interview with ComicBook, Wan discussed the film and explained how it is basically the horror version of Disney’s Frozen. I would have never compared the movie to Frozen after seeing it, but now that Wan has offered an explanation, yeah… it’s totally there!
Some spoilers follow, so proceed with caution. Wan shares:
"Well, it felt like it was the most natural one, given the theme of the movie, given the subject matter of the film. Here you have a story about Madison with her own blood relation, her own blood sibling, which has Gabriel, who turns out to be a horrible person. But yet her adopted sister, not blood relation in any way, is actually the one that she has the most connection with. That is the one that is the most loving. And I felt like that was such a cool story to come at it from that perspective."
Wan also explained that the co-creator of the film's story, Ingrid Bisu, wanted the movie to be a love story between the two sisters:
"And for Ingrid, she loves the idea of telling a love story, but it's not a romantic story between the two leads. It's a love story between the two sisters. And I love that. I haven't quite seen that in a horror movie at least to this degree. And it's funny that we jokingly refer to it as, it's like the horror version of Frozen. It's like Anna and [Elsa]. But it really is like the horror version of Frozen. It's sisterly love, it's sisterly bond. And one of the many themes that the film deal with is the idea that can you be close to the people that you don't necessarily share blood relation with? And what we want to kind of say in this film is it's possible.
“Madison travels the whole movie, basically, to find that sort of blood connection, that lost kin. And when she finally finds it, she goes, 'Oh, the person that I love the most has been right in front of me the whole time. And she's always been by my side, she's always been with me.' And we just felt like that was something that was important for the film."
Malignant stars Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy), Maddie Hasson (Mr. Mercedes), George Young (Containment), Michole Briana White (Dead to Me), Jacqueline McKenzie (Palm Beach), Jake Abel (Supernatural), and Ingrid Bisu (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It).
If you haven’t seen Malignant yet and you want to watch something unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, go see it!