Inside Secrets: Chuck Russell Reveals Untold Stories Behind Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx’s Iconic Film Collateral
Chuck Russell
Oh, Sinners. I was blown away by Sinners. I mean, what’s great about Sinners, the sense of place. For the first hour of the show, you don’t even know you’re necessarily in a horror film. I don’t know if I’ve got the timing exactly right. But incredible performances, great production values. Now it’s a studio big budget prediction project. A lot of times I like referring to independent films where you have to do more with less, you know, you’ve got a big budget then it better be good. But sinners was so good on every end. And I’ve never seen music used in a horror film like that. So I made the mask. That’s my favorite film. And that it’s my most original film. And we used comedy and we even use scares and CGI and dance and music was a little bit of a musical. Sinners is has a similar original feeling to me anyway, because it’s using all that great blues music or the south. And it will always was associated with the devil. It was go down to the crossroads and make a deal with the devil for your soul. And you’ll be a great musician. So they hit on some deep, deep, great cultural material there. And we’re able to incorporate music in a in horror in a way I’ve never seen. So I can’t say enough about that film.
