Ben Wheatley

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Demonic Director Neill Blomkamp and In the Earth Director Ben Wheatley on Humanity’s ‘Really Dangerous Path’

There was a period early in the pandemic when directors Neill Blomkamp and Ben Wheatley wondered if they might not…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

In the Earth Explores the Power of Myth in the Pandemic

Ben Wheatley used his new Sundance film In the Earth to keep himself together during the pandemic. “I was having…

3 years ago
  • Best Of

The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018

The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…

7 years ago
  • Winter 2017

Light My Fire: Free Fire’s DP on How Comprehensive Lighting Let Ben Wheatley’s Shoot-Out Flick Go Full Throttle

Free Fire marks the sixth project I’ve shot with writer-director Ben Wheatley. Our story is set in 1978 Boston, so…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Upwardly Mobile: Ben Wheatley Ascends to Bigger and Starrier Heights with High-Rise

A pantheon to morally dubious characters and the atrocities they commit, Ben Wheatley’s body of work is characterized by the…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015
  • Producing

The Evils of Franchising Your Horror Film: Should You Attempt World Domination?

To successfully establish a horror franchise is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted…

9 years ago
  • Articles - Festival Beat
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Sundance Dispatch, III: MovieMaker Catches Up with Ben Wheatley of Sightseers and Liz Garcia of The Lifeguard (Video)

This is the third and final installment in MovieMaker's coverage of the 2013 Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. In…

11 years ago