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“Normally when you like horror, you like porn...”
-Ricky Greenwood
So just how much viscera should viewers expect to see, given that this is, in fact, an adult movie and there are some pretty strict guidelines in place when it comes to such things?
“Obviously you have to play with the rules [that] apply to the legal part of it, and being a big company, you have to follow stuff,” Greenwood conceded. “But after that, they let us do one part that is gory and bloody. They allowed me to do one section, because it’s a dream, so that means it doesn’t apply because it’s not in reality. So that part, we go over the top a little bit.”
Naturally, all of this calls for special effects, and Greenwood said they went the practical effects route to achieve their vision: “We create a fake body of her so we can have the skin moving, so the monster at night move under her belly. We also have the fake pussy [that] have teeth, and when it’s talking, it’s with a grip who’s moving [it]. We have the monster pop out of her chest like Alien”—that’s right, yet another big horror nod—“and blood everywhere. So everything was practical.
“I like practical more than CGI,” he professed. “For me, it’s old school and that’s what I like, even if you can tell it’s a puppet. It’s just fun.”
As to whether the movie is intended as a straight horror pic or more of a horror- comedy, Greenwood ruminated, “It’s really hard to say ... we have some moment that maybe people will laugh. The monster is pretty serious, that’s not too goofy. But like we also try to not be too serious, we have some light moment in it, so it’s not really deep drama and deep horror, it’s just a nice mix in between.”
One thing that’s for sure, meanwhile, is that mixing horror and porn isn’t always the easiest sell. “I’m very interested to see how people will receive [it],” Greenwood added. “You need to be sexually aroused, and finding a way to be sexually aroused with a pussy with teeth is, like, a weird mix.
“But I think that also, horror fan and porn fan are hand-in-hand together, so normally when you like horror, you like porn. So those people will be like, ‘Oh cool, that’s an horror movie that I love, plus I see pretty people fucking, oh my god, that’s the perfect mix for me.’
“But yeah, I’m very excited for this one. It will be a unique movie that I’m curious to see the reaction out of it.”
Feed Me releases in full on Adult Time September 19.
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