Happy Death Day is More Than Just “Groundhog Day in a Scary Skin”

Den of Geek:Happy Death Daytells a story that has been told before in other genres.

What attracted you to telling it this way?

Well I think it very directly ties into wish fulfillment.

Is that the feeling that you and the filmmakers wanted to get across?

Anything that was different about the way this one was approached production-wise?

He kind of wanted to shoot through each day in the different locations.

What is it about his sensibility that you like and that you felt would be right with this?

Well, Ive made four movies with Chris.

I think hes an incredibly talented writer/director.

I think he has a very specific voice, which I recognized.

I can recognize his movies whether we produce them or not.

I thinkHappy Death Dayis really 95 percent Chris Landon.

Sometimes its less than that, but hes very kind of wickedly funny.

Were doing a horror comedy in television, which is where its an easier place to do it.

TheParanormal Activityseries, especially as we went along, had a lot of jokes in it.

There are a lot of jokes inInsidious.

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Blumhouse has had one hell of a year withGet OutandSplitcoming one after the other.

Oh yeah, definitely.

I think about it a lot.

Hopefully well see the fruits of that next year.

It definitely makes you think twice if youre driving and you give someone the finger or something like that.

There are a lot of things that you dont think about.

We left off in a very relevant and spooky kind of place with that one.

It did, right.

Hopefully well be around to see it.

I dont know if were gonna makePurge 5.

I dont know what were gonna do with it, but thats a good idea.

What can you tell us aboutGlass?

Ive read the script and the script is actually amazing, and he is very into it.

I cannot wait to see the movie.

Ill leave it at that.

How do you anticipate picking up the flavor and legacy of the original film?

How exciting was it to have Jamie Lee Curtis agree to return to the series?

It was great, and we had a great meeting.

We actually had a couple meetings and shes a lot of fun.

So to have her and John Carpenter executive producing the movie, we feel very lucky.

Happy Death Dayis out in theaters today (Friday, October 13).