Maika Monroe

  • Movie News

Watcher Director Chloe Okuno and DP Benjamin Kirk Nielsen on Staging The Film’s Two Apartments

In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window led to the creation of an important cinematic subgenre: the voyeuristic thriller centered on…

2 years ago
  • Directing

A Recipe for Indie Success: The Tried-and-True Methods Behind Blake Robbins’ The Scent of Rain & Lightning

How was it possible to take a New York Times best-selling novel—spanning more than 20 years and dealing with 13…

7 years ago
  • Directing
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Scene Won’t Work? Nix the Dialogue, in Echoes of War

When my writing partner, John Chriss, and I finished writing our thriller western feature, Echoes of War, we felt really…

9 years ago
  • Acting

Flash Forward: Maika Monroe Doesn’t Spook Easily

In 2011, Maika Monroe was ready to hang up on her dreams of becoming an actor. Though she had been…

9 years ago
  • Directing

It Follows: An Interview with David Robert Mitchell on his Ingeniously Creepy Horror Film

Sure, a lot of beginning moviemakers cut their teeth on horror. It's become a calling card for directors hoping to…

9 years ago